Example sentences of "[adv] be or " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not that good , cos it 's either Final Fight you have to be or you can only pick out of and or it 's Final Fight guy where you can only be or Guy . |
| 2 | Consequently , more time can be spent by the clearinghouse personnel on the sophisticated and time-consuming enquiries which require information and material that has not been or can not be conveniently added to the database , an those which are of an advisory nature . |
| 3 | In the third place , it still is or may be a condition of the validity of a voluntary dealing by the wife for the advantage of her husband that she really obtained an adequate understanding of the actual nature and consequences of the transaction . |
| 4 | This word universal is never the name of anything existent in nature , nor of any idea or phantasm found in the mind [ my italics ] , but always the name of some word or name ; so that when a living creature , a stone , a spirit , or any other thing , is said to be universal , it is not to be understood that any man , stone etc. , ever was or can be universal , but only that the words , living creature , stone , etc. , are universal names , that is , names common to many things ; and the conceptions answering them in the mind are the images and phantasms of several living creatures or other things . |
| 5 | When ‘ man ’ , ‘ stone ’ , or ‘ living creature ’ is said to be ‘ universal ’ , we are not to understand that ‘ man , stone ’ , etc. ever was or can be universal , but only that these words , ‘ living creature ’ , ‘ stone ’ , etc. , are universal names , that is , names common to many things . |
| 6 | ( Common sense reminds us that given the distribution of women in employment in Edinburgh , most of the mothers probably were or had been employed in some form of domestic service or in the clothing industry ; but in what proportions ? ) |
| 7 | For the purposes of 4 above the settlor shall not be deemed to have divested himself absolutely of any property if that property or any income therefrom or any property directly or indirectly representing the proceeds of or the income from that property or any income therefrom is or will , or may , become payable to or applicable for the benefit of the settlor or the wife or husband of the settlor in any circumstances whatsoever ( TA 1988 , s685(1) ) . |
| 8 | To pay all rates taxes assessments charges and outgoings which now are or may at any time hereafter be imposed assessed or charged upon the premises whether payable by the owner or occupier thereof |
| 9 | 1 Use of pipes The right to the free and uninterrupted passage and running of water sewage gas electricity telephone and other services or supplies from and to other parts of the Centre or any Adjoining Property in and through the Pipes which now are or may during the Term be in under or over the Premises This is a standard reservation and the tenant may wish to ascertain at the outset just exactly which are the pipes at the commencement of the term that will be the subject of this right . |
| 10 | I asked , wondering if it really was or if his memory had become glamorized . |
| 11 | Nothing he ever wrote came near to conveying to the reader the way the moor really was or the way he felt about it . |
| 12 | You either are or you 're not . |
| 13 | No counsellor can assume that ‘ good ’ relationships either are or have been the norm within the family , and idealistic pictures of family life as a reciprocally loving , mutually committed and concerned relationship should be abandoned . |
| 14 | You either are or you are n't . |
| 15 | we 've got to act fairly quickly so can we decide in principle whether we 're going to do this or not and let them know that we either are or we are n't . |
| 16 | In other words , they bowled them out for 83 , Extras top-scoring with 21 ; since most of the team either were or would be Test players , that feeling of contentment must have seemed well justified . |
| 17 | For Cindy Hill , things either were or were not . |
| 18 | He has now ordered 13 type 23 frigates , four of which either were or are under construction at Swan Hunter on Tyneside . |
| 19 | It is similarly tempting to think of the colour image as hovering in the background , somehow anticipated by the mind ; but this is a metaphor , for the image either is or is not in consciousness . |
| 20 | One might distinguish three kinds of policy areas in which a country either is or is not sovereign . |
| 21 | When thinking how to act , I am in the world of common sense where something either is or is not , and where it is a matter of course that I can be in touch with it through highly subjective impressions . |
| 22 | One either is or is not legally entitled to an American passport , or to benefit from a will ; difficulties , if any , crop up in satisfying the qualification . |
| 23 | It either is or it ai n't . |
| 24 | Federal Bureau of Investigation , right , where is or where do , the F B I work ? |