Example sentences of "[be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Note that the three gates constituting the oscillator itself need not be exclusive-OR types — you can use any cmos inverter . |
| 2 | ( 3 ) that in any year there should be where possible an equal number of Major and Minor awards |
| 3 | There should be where possible only one and not more than two interviews for the purposes of evaluation , and the interview should not be too long . |
| 4 | We used to go on Lord Street and he used to be where they sold luscious cakes . |
| 5 | Nevertheless Stavrogin does contemplate suicide , and the notebook entry ‘ to be or not to be ’ bears the date 16 August , so it belongs to the summer when the ‘ tendentious ’ political story gets tugged back into great-sinner orbit , growing physically and imaginatively larger and more formidable all the time . |
| 6 | So the novel frees Stavrogin from ‘ to be or not to be ’ and all other trammels of the notebooks , and transfers them to Kirillov . |
| 7 | Commodities : AFBD problem : to be or not to be |
| 8 | By 1982 we had swept up all but a handful of awkward items whose inhabitants , for varying reasons , did n't want to be or could n't be ‘ nationalised ’ — which was very untidy and inconvenient of them . |
| 9 | You have to be amazed how young and silly they could be or how solemn with foreboding . |
| 10 | The first was The Country House : To Be or Not To Be , produced with Kit Martin . |
| 11 | But the job of lifting the standards of people employed , giving them proper training , and paying a wage which breaks dependence on overtime and lifts morale : this together must far exceed the costs of the technology , and it is n't by any means clear what the bill will be or where the money will come from . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ I only have a few thousand invested , but it is very worrying when you can not get your money back , and there is no way of knowing how long it might be or how much I will get back . ’ |
| 13 | To suggest that it could be or has been ‘ proved ’ by archaeologists is to do the story a great disservice . |
| 14 | ‘ To be or not to be — ’ ’ |
| 15 | Science fiction thus illustrates a principle of all drama : it is a confrontation between normality and abnormality , security and insecurity , known and unknown , to be or not to be ! |
| 16 | For instance , what the Harlequins are doing with Troy Coker at the moment may be legal but it bears no relation to what the law should be or to what it should be seen to be . |
| 17 | Large geographical areas have thus been classified as being ‘ less favoured ‘ and individual farmers qualify for supplementary assistance no matter what their financial position may be or the number of farms which they own . |
| 18 | In 1985 the management of Somerset Probation Service was faced with the fact that nearly one in three of the offenders supervised in their area were either known to be or suspected of misusing alcohol ( Singer , 1985 ) . |
| 19 | If the school is already well on the way to successful marketing then relationships with parents as a group and on an individual basis will be or good quality and it will be fairly straightforward to contact people directly to ask them to undertake specific responsibilities . |
| 20 | That is : ‘ To be or not to be ’ . |
| 21 | And interest in watching Commons TV declined over time ; the numbers who said they would be or were ‘ very interested ’ in watching dropped from 24% before televising started to 10% after three months , with a corresponding rise in those who said they were ‘ not at all interested ’ from 18% to 30% . |
| 22 | Although there still exists the notion that administration should be or is apolitical and merely a neutral tool of the government , this is palpably not so in practically all states , industrialised or less developed or ‘ socialist ’ . |
| 23 | I sat up , and tried to see what this might be or mean , and saw the door of my chamber slowly open and he , the stranger , came striding in , dry now , with black curly hair and a dangerous smiling face . |
| 24 | It was all of these things and more , whether Morrissey intended it to be or not . |
| 25 | We just had to be or my centenary Open was going to be short-lived indeed ! |
| 26 | She had never learned to read , either , and on the very rare occasions she received a letter Christine was called in to read it to her , Miss Miggs being careful to explain that her eyes were n't as good as they used to be or that she could n't find her glasses . |
| 27 | TO BE OR NOT TO BE |
| 28 | Just because it is so common that it is regarded as ‘ normal ’ to expect chronic ill health with advancing years does that mean that it is the way things have to be or , indeed , should be ? |
| 29 | Another interesting finding is that many of these patients have worked in the medical field ; they are particularly likely to be or have been nurses ( Simpson 1975 ) . |
| 30 | For in those matters which are beyond the reach of absolute knowledge , it is within the province of man 's own responsibility to decide what , for the time being , can be or can not be accepted as truth , and , as there can be a Created God , so can that God be the product of created truth . |