Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb mod] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all other areas it either was not an issue or nothing could be arranged . |
| 2 | He knew this was something that had been happening slowly for a long time , something that had to happen or he was lost , but it was such a brittle structure they were building , one word would topple it , shatter it , one word would be enough to jerk them back into that ordinary daylight where nothing could be changed or righted , nothing could unravel . |
| 3 | In The Possessed , the conspirators have enticed their victim to a dark remote spot where nothing will be seen or heard , and have done the deed and tied two heavy stones to the body so that it is sure to sink , and have carried it to a pond and thrown it in : then , ‘ With extraordinary carelessness ’ they overlook that cap which has no doubt fallen off in the struggle , and which the police will soon find . |
| 4 | Where nothing will be flushed . |
| 5 | I would phone twice a day , and , of course , I would leave you a complete itinerary where I could be reached if you needed me . ’ |
| 6 | Feeling deliciously convalescent , I pottered about in pyjamas , weak yet fortified by the knowledge that I was in a sympathetic house where I could be waited on , and had no appointments of any kind . |
| 7 | Shame on me for this is the first issue of SR I 've ever read ( Nov ) , but I hope it will not be the last , for may I say , I think I may have at last found a space where I can be heard — most women 's magazines shun the type of letter I submit — not cosy enough for their letters pages , I suspect . |
| 8 | I 'll give you a number where I can be reached in any emergency . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ As well I know , ’ he said , ‘ or I might be tempted to thrash that cur beside you until he is senseless for what I hear that he has been saying about London of me and mine . |
| 10 | ‘ For God 's sake , lie still , or I might be tempted to forget I do n't respect you and take what we both want ! ’ he ordered tersely . |
| 11 | I must get away or I 'll be trapped here for life . |
| 12 | But I 'd better not keep on like this or I 'll be accused of queering Mr Karlinsky 's pitch . |
| 13 | It was no place to row ashore , or I would be killed on the rocks . |
| 14 | I resolved to assert my authority from the beginning , or I would be trampled underfoot by even this most junior member of the Goreng clan . |
| 15 | Well I have to go now or I shall be roped in for the sacrifice and I do n't like getting my hands dirty . |
| 16 | Bransby Cooper says that ‘ I have sometimes suffered from the Professor 's love of cold air ; for if ever he could manage at his parties to have a window left open unperceived , he was delighted ; and many a time when I have dined with him I have said ‘ Pray , Mr Coleman , have your ventilators shut or I shall be blown out of the room ’ , at which he laughed and had the direction of the current changed by stealth so as to apply the breeze upon some other visitor less sensitive than myself' . |
| 17 | Either Hess will name me — which God forbid he should be stupid enough to do — or I will be contacted in the normal run of things . |
| 18 | For , to take it that the property of being red-haired is known reliably but that there is no solid evidence for its owner ( in the same way for example as in ( 78 ) where her must be covered by the caveat without solid evidence : ( 78 ) he tried to imagine her ) seems as near to self-contradictory as makes no difference . |
| 19 | The function of the leave requirement is not spelled out in Order 53 , but it is designed to weed out cases which have no real chance of success or which might be called ‘ frivolous ’ or ‘ vexatious ’ in the sense of being brought not out of a genuine interest in the outcome but for some ulterior motive such as to make things difficult for a government agency . |
| 20 | Turning to the use of fuels for IC vehicles which do not use up vital oil reserves or which may be used when oil is no longer available , the use of hydrogen has been suggested as one of the answers to future transport fuel needs . |
| 21 | Information can be gathered by means of a questionnaire which new adherents are either invited to fill in themselves , or which can be completed in an interview by one of the church leaders . |
| 22 | Secure ground floor windows first and any window which ca n't be seen from the street or which can be reached from a drainpipe or flat roof . |
| 23 | These take the curriculum and re-present it in ‘ bite-sized pieces ’ , usually in courses of between 20 and 30 hours , which may be put together for an award like GCSE or which can be taken as free-standing units . |
| 24 | But he expresses this by saying that we ‘ can proceed no farther by reasoning than to things which must be exposed again to experience or which can be evidenced by means of some appearance ’ ; and this seems to suggest something new . |
| 25 | Findings which are replicated throughout a number of countries , or which can be shown to vary under specified conditions , become much more powerful since ‘ an explanatory theory of industrial relations can not be based upon the narrow range of industrial relations processes observable in one , or even a few , countries ’ ( Walker , 1967 , p. 108 ) . |
| 26 | She had lied to him because she wished to evade the unpleasant truth of her life as a rich heiress , to try to make a new life free of old ties and old mistakes , where she would be loved as McAllister , who had nothing . |
| 27 | For the present , then , the vital need is to do everything possible to secure a safe retirement of XH558 , where she will be cared for as well as she has been since becoming the VDF display aircraft . |
| 28 | She is due to fly to London today , where she will be met by her children Dominic , 22 , Tammy , 19 , and Cathy , nine , of Chichester , Hants . |
| 29 | The woman would then be taken to a certified hospital for medical examination , where she could be detained for up to three months . |
| 30 | She needed to go back to London , to her own flat , where she could be surrounded by familiar possessions and be near to her family . |