Example sentences of "[conj] be [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the weaknesses of most African economies is an absence of large-scale entrepreneurs running manufacturing businesses , whether they have emerged from the informal sector or been trained by the corporate sector . |
| 2 | Many shops were boarded up , their owners having perished in the war or at the hands of the Komitehs , or been bankrupted by the collapsed economy . |
| 3 | Mary had fallen or been pushed into an open fire , more than once . |
| 4 | Rack renting of this marginal land , bitterly attacked by reformers but never remedied , was the greatest single cause of hardship to those who had not sunk or been born into the vast reservoir of casual labour . |
| 5 | To summarise , many partnerships appear to have focused or been focused on the immediate and not necessarily the important . |
| 6 | If you lack this insight or are looking for a new direction , then Baker can help ( see Recommended reading at the end of this chapter ) . |
| 7 | Four issues stand out as being of crucial importance : how many distinct ‘ modes of production ’ are there ; in what order do these modes of production succeed each other and how is their sequence to be explained ; what forms of society necessarily correspond with , arise from , or are determined by the different modes of production ; and lastly , what are the forms of state , or political systems , that are characteristic of , or produced by , different economic structures and forms of society ? |
| 8 | Whether these values represent the upper extreme of normality or are related to the underlying colonic disease , long term medication , or other factors is not clear . |
| 9 | If , however , both loans and deposits are indexed , or are expressed in a foreign currency , the banks are equally protected . |
| 10 | The stoves either fit directly onto the cartridge or are fed through a short hose with a control valve . |
| 11 | An air pollution control strategy refers to the master plan adopted by a country , or sometimes a group of countries ( e.g. the European Community ) , to tackle air pollution problems and to ensure that air pollution concentrations are reduced or are maintained below a specific or general level that is deemed acceptable . |
| 12 | The enclaves of very large dogwhelks around Porlock Weir in the Severn Estuary , between Swanage and Kimmeridge on the Dorset coast and at some sites in the west of Scotland are sublittoral or are confined to the extreme lower shore . |
| 13 | The defendants contend that their contractual right to indemnity costs entitles them to recover or retain all costs actually incurred save only those that are incurred otherwise than bona fide or are incurred for an improper motive . |
| 14 | Where partners sue or are sued in a firm name , the partners shall on demand in writing by any other party , forthwith deliver , and file a statement , of the names and places of residence of all the persons who were partners when the cause of action arose ( Ord 5 , r 9(2) ) . |
| 15 | The more difficult question to answer is whether these leptokurtic distributions arise because futures price changes ( or returns ) are normally distributed , but the variance changes over time , thus supporting the mixture-of-distributions hypothesis , or are drawn from a stable Pareto distribution . |
| 16 | For a start ‘ Standard rate food charges are payable on a continuous basis by people in Marital Categories 3 , 4 or 5 when they are occupying single accommodation , and also by personnel who are in receipt of Special Messing Allowance , Retail Messing Allowance or are accommodated under the Approved Board and Lodging Scheme . |
| 17 | Some families choose particular village locations because multiple-car ownership eases their problems of accessibility ; others make the choice or are constrained to a particular area for economic reasons even though the ownership of just one car may cause difficulties for some members of the family ; yet other households may be constrained even to particular houses in particular locations . |
| 18 | The report and accounts are sent to all shareholders and loan stock holders of the Company , but only the holders of ordinary shares in the Company are entitled to attend or be represented at the above meeting . |
| 19 | Parties can he set indoors or outdoors — or be split between the two . |
| 20 | If not accounted for they could contaminate a specimen under study or be mistaken as an important signal of something happening within the experimental investigation , whereas they are actually part of the ‘ noise ’ — the ‘ background ’ . |
| 21 | In this context an assignment may be considered " terminated " , because it can not affect or be affected by the other process , and is free to terminate at any time . |
| 22 | An SPR may either be generated by a user entirely within LIFESPAN or be received from an external client in paper form and subsequently transcribed into LIFESPAN . |
| 23 | An SPR may either be generated by a user entirely within LIFESPAN ( a Magnetic SPR ) or be received from an external client on a paper form and subsequently transcribed into LIFESPAN ( a Paper SPR ) . |
| 24 | norways coach egil ‘ drillo ’ olsen today speak up on our international players who are not in their first teams : ‘ come home or be wrecked from the national team ’ ( and thus no USA'94 ) ( this in one of the tabloids over here ) — the players mentioned are |
| 25 | ‘ Ministers should not prejudice the outcome of proposals yet to be made , or be influenced by a half-baked Monopolies and Mergers Commission report about a tiny acquisition . ’ |
| 26 | In such circumstances , one or more persons may be appointed to sue or be sued in a representative capacity as having a common interest with all other persons ( Ord 5 , r 5(1) ) . |
| 27 | However , traditionally , it was generally believed that , as a consequence of the wording of ss. 141 and 142 , once landlords assigned their reversionary interest they could only sue or be sued by the original tenant . |
| 28 | Readers can hardly remain passive consumers , or be seduced by the covert ideologies , of a text they have literally had to piece together , page by page , for themselves . |
| 29 | The doctrine , which may be concerned with national liberation , the emancipation of a class , the emancipation of women or some other general aim which is felt to be important by large numbers of people , has also to include or be founded upon a social theory which can elucidate the principal issues , clarify the objectives and ways of attaining them , and outline alternative forms of society . |
| 30 | in so far as this order purports to have any extraterritorial effect , no person shall be affected thereby or concerned with the terms thereof until it shall be declared enforceable or be enforced by a foreign court and then it shall only affect them to the extent of such declaration or enforcement unless they are : |