Example sentences of "[conj] [be] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The carnage endured in the last 20 years or so has mainly arisen not from what we from the mainland have done and/or been alleged to do , but from the conflict brought about by ineradicable sectarian fears and ambitions . |
| 2 | The large number of Cabinet ministers who have resigned or been dismissed have not been a focus for dissent . |
| 3 | Never had he surrendered , or been asked to surrender , his independence of action . |
| 4 | None of the ministers responsible for defence issues had spoken or been asked to speak by Pavlov . |
| 5 | This astonishing success , considering the size of his forces and the difficulty of much of the terrain over which he fought , only succeeded in outraging Alfonso , who seems to have believed — or been persuaded to believe — that El Cid intended to set up a rival kingdom in Valencia . |
| 6 | You will understand that you will be required in the execution of any agreement for the purchase and sale of the company to acknowledge that you have not relied on or been induced to enter into such agreement by any representation or warranty other than expressly set forth in such agreement subject to such limitations and restrictions as may be specified therein . |
| 7 | Anyone who 's ever treasured their pain , tried to prolong it , toyed with exacerbating it or been driven to dwell on inside it long after recovery was an option , preferring the company of ghosts to the dreamlessness of everyday sociability — that person understands poignancy . |
| 8 | ( 3 ) A requirement under this section to provide a specimen of blood or urine can only be made at a police station or at a hospital ; and it can not be made at a police station unless — ( a ) the constable making the requirement has reasonable cause to believe that for medical reasons a specimen of breath can not be provided or should not be required , or ( b ) at the time the requirement is made a device or a reliable device of the type mentioned in subsection ( 1 ) ( a ) above is not available at the police station or it is then for any other reason not practicable to use such a device there , or ( c ) the suspected offence is one under section 4 of this Act and the constable making the requirement has been advised by a medical practitioner that the condition of the person required to provide the specimen might be due to some drug ; but may then be made notwithstanding that the person required to provide the specimen has already provided or been required to provide two specimens of breath . |
| 9 | For Opposition Members to suggest otherwise shows that they have either not understood the Bill or are trying to bolster a weak case with irrelevant scares . |
| 10 | Let us leave aside , for the moment , the practical difficulties which stand or are believed to stand in the way of direct democracy . |
| 11 | ‘ Those services which normally refer clients to us are not doing so because the local authority concerned does not have a contract with Roma or are struggling to sort out their assessment procedures , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Many of their pees are much less visible because they are cares trapped at home or are struggling to make ends meet . |
| 13 | If you are intransigent , or are determined to stick to the letter of your contract come what may , you could be in for a rude awakening . |
| 14 | I propose , then , to look at how sex differences in language reflect , or are said to reflect , the natures or roles or statuses of women and men . |
| 15 | This section has reviewed the main texts which assert ( or are said to assert ) the importance of the testator 's intention in trusts . |
| 16 | Any of these may need to be present or indicated when students process discourse or are asked to produce it . |
| 17 | In foreign-language learning students expect , or are led to expect , certain achievements . |
| 18 | Fifteen years later another official described the way an experienced litigant tutored witnesses : ‘ He examines , cross-examines , corrects , and directs those in their parts who are to appear in the real court and give their testimony regarding what they know , or are to pretend to know , on the day of the trial ’ . |
| 19 | Terms are constants or are constructed using function symbols . |
| 20 | The Budget Planner ( pages 120–25 ) may help you to work out whether the various luxuries and plans of which nearly all of us dream could be affordable or are destined to remain as fantasies . |
| 21 | But it also covers all arrestable offences which have ( or are likely to have or are intended to have ) certain consequences like , among other things , ‘ serious harm to the security of the State or to public order ’ , ‘ serious interference with the administration of justice ’ , ‘ substantial financial gain to any person ’ , and ‘ serious financial loss to any person ’ . |
| 22 | In the years when this inexplicable phenomenon occurs — and it usually happens around Christmas , and so is known by the local fishermen as El Niño — the plankton suddenly vanish , the fish die and the birds fly away or are left to starve and rot . |
| 23 | Two volunteers ( A and B ) are blindfolded , or are trusted to keep their eyes shut . |
| 24 | The dredgings are put in the bottoms of furrows or are used to fill in ponds . |
| 25 | For similar reasons other EC countries , including Belgium , France and Italy , have also requested a temporary exemption or are expected to do so . |
| 26 | Surely , then , it is perverse and inexplicable behaviour on the part of so many English speakers to take words ( like adult or person ) that are not inherently misleading , or are meant to improve linguistic precision , and deliberately make them misleading and imprecise . |
| 27 | The existence string should be used to provide a brief reason why the module names are being reserved and to give an indication of what the modules contain at present or are meant to contain in the future . |
| 28 | ‘ Or are driven to hang themselves from fear and despair ? |
| 29 | And you 'll certainly do better at subjects you enjoy , rather than those you feel you ought to do or are required to do . |
| 30 | It is true that many people cling to office , or are permitted to do so , and it is often that barnacle-like permanence which gives committees and boards a sense of dull sameness and an unwillingness to reform . |