Example sentences of "[coord] [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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | I must get away or I 'll be trapped here for life . |
| 5 | But I 'd better not keep on like this or I 'll be accused of queering Mr Karlinsky 's pitch . |
| 6 | It was no place to row ashore , or I would be killed on the rocks . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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' . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | In that year the editor is to be found wondering " whether the fate of " English Studies " will not eventually be smothered in a kind of woolly and impenetrable fog of wordiness that few or none will be bothered to penetrate " . |
| 19 | But you MUST fix somewhere to stay before you arrive or you may be bounced back under their vagrancy laws . |
| 20 | Or you may be referred to a dietitian . |
| 21 | Or you might be invited to a party , start to feel uncomfortable and have the courage to comply when your inner voice tells you to go , knowing that your guide will keep you safe from harm . |
| 22 | Do n't get excited or you might be thumped , intellectually at least . |
| 23 | or you might be tempted to put if it 's just one , one to ten or something , you might be tempted to put the wrong number in |
| 24 | You might be locked up for a long time , or you might be given a fine , which is taken out of your weekly allowance . |
| 25 | ‘ Kip quiet or you 'll be sent to prison and fed on bread and wayter . |
| 26 | He says you have to be devoted or you 'll be kicked out ! |
| 27 | ‘ No more questions or you 'll be punished . ’ |
| 28 | Or you 'll be seen by an auxiliary ? |
| 29 | ‘ You behave or you 'll be locked up . |
| 30 | ‘ Do n't underestimate this club , or you 'll be left with egg on your face . |