Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | It frightens me to think that not only are we so vulnerable to these monsters but also that we are constantly blamed for being provocative or careless . |
| 2 | You no longer want to be marginal or difficult ? |
| 3 | If the ‘ upper class ’ is generally reckoned to be marginal or vestigial and the two principal classes are seen as ‘ middle ’ and ‘ working ’ then it is clear that the British ‘ class system ’ of popular ideology is not equivalent to a ruling class/dominated class dichotomy . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ I was just trying to be hard or something . |
| 5 | For them , classic clothes no longer have to be fussy or stuffy — an increasing number of British men want classic style , but wo n't give up the comfortable feel of the designer clothes they got used to in the Eighties . |
| 6 | Fuel tanks thus need to be huge or range is limited . |
| 7 | The government did not have to concern itself with the balance of payments ( which was always expected to be favourable or self-adjusting ) , free trade meant that there was no need for elaborate connections with industry , the level of employment had to be left to the supply and demand for labour , and all that the government should do was elementary regulation in the interests of those sections of the community unable to defend themselves . |
| 8 | During the last decade or so a wide range of what were once considered to be mundane or esoteric problems concerning the English countryside have been thrust to the forefront of public attention by the apparently sudden and widespread increase in anxiety about ‘ the environment ’ . |
| 9 | The traditional division , whereby the advice worker advises clients and the manager does everything else , was not always thought to be efficient or fair . |
| 10 | Private space where people have some resources , is smart and well cared for , but the public spaces always seem to be mucky or breaking down . |
| 11 | We discussed in Report 11 the way this can be taken to excess by those teachers who couch the majority of their utterances in the form of questions , even when statements or instructions are more appropriate , and how such questioning can then become further debased by being low-level or closed . |
| 12 | ( Perhaps for the cost of a few ‘ rescue ’ digs , in fact , which by their random nature all too often tend to be repetitive or fragmentary in their findings and which further our understanding of the past less than would the establishment of evidence confirming prehistoric alignment practices . ) |
| 13 | The thing about the Neighbourhood Watch is that everyone in the area is a member whether they really want to be one or not to be honest . |
| 14 | In the Grundrisse manuscript of 1857–8 , Marx discussed social development in greater detail , on the basis of a wider historical knowledge which is no longer confined to Europe ; it is in this work that the concept of ‘ Asiatic society ’ is introduced , and as Hobsbawm ( 1964 , p. 32 ) remarked there now seem to be three or four alternative routes out of the primitive communal system : the oriental , the ancient , the Germanic ( or more broadly , feudal ) , and less clearly articulated , the Slavonic . |
| 15 | You simply have to be 18 or over , and living in the United Kingdom . |
| 16 | The medical profession have long since ceased to be shocked or surprised at the wide variety of objects which continue to be extracted from the vagina . |
| 17 | He then dealt with those who were late and those who were late would then appear to be six or seven minutes late because of these other preliminaries . |
| 18 | Aggregate supply is either assumed to be time-trended or represented in some other naive fashion . |
| 19 | We would add that to suggest giving equal status to what is currently thought to be feminine or masculine is to ignore the way in which one is defined by the other . |
| 20 | Hamlets and farmsteads within the parishes of these villages were generally not documented before the twelfth or thirteenth centuries and were therefore assumed to be secondary or daughter settlements created as the population expanded , more land was cleared and farmed , and new settlements were needed . |
| 21 | The risk is that the procedure could possibly self-incriminate a firm if , for instance , it marked a document which subsequently proved to be fraudulent or defective and which at the time gave no rise for any audit comments . |
| 22 | Is she actually trying to be disagreeable or is she merely unhappy ? ’ |
| 23 | This is very important if a UK business is to ensure that it is not charged VAT at the standard rate on the supply of these goods where the customer 's VAT number subsequently proves to be false or otherwise incorrect . |