Example sentences of "[vb pp] to be [adj] or [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Had expected to be sore or tired from the previous day but I felt great and was never tired , no sore muscles or any blisters on the entire trip . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | It is designed to operate as a ‘ check list ’ of all information which is considered to be desirable or necessary for the successful execution of the Request and its prompt return to the requesting authority . |
| 5 | Whether the snail is destined to be right- or left-handed ( Figure 5 ) can be predicted very early in its embryology , from the third division after the union of its parental gametes . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In adjudicating , a meaning is attributed to a rule of law which can not be said to be correct or incorrect . |
| 8 | When a bank note can be exchanged for gold on demand at a bank it is said to be convertible or redeemable . |
| 9 | They are said to be yellow or mottled brown in colour , often with seaweed-like manes . |
| 10 | Some change is certainly necessary , but by itself can not be said to be sufficient or specific . |
| 11 | But other concerns seem to centre around whether animals might properly be said to be happy or free from worry' , not in the sense of being healthy and free from pain but rather with the human paradigm in mind . |
| 12 | Is saying , ‘ Oh , I 'm so tired ’ natural tiredness-behaviour for us , in spite of the fact that ‘ I 'm tired ’ , unlike yawning , even pretence yawning , can be said to be true or false ? |
| 13 | Although it is a consonantal loss , it is not said to be ugly or careless in England generally . |
| 14 | Consider the extent to which the approach can be said to be atomistic or holistic , bottom-up or top-down . |
| 15 | Of course , no matter how explicit these conventional procedures are or how scrupulously they are used , some cases will arise , as the sample cases showed , when the instructions will be seen to be unclear or incomplete . |
| 16 | The traditional division , whereby the advice worker advises clients and the manager does everything else , was not always thought to be efficient or fair . |
| 17 | On the ground , international observers will draw attention to any restoration work thought to be unsuitable or harmful . |
| 18 | Towns , which have been more intensively studied and for which there is generally more documentary and cartographic information , were thought to be organic or haphazard creations until recently . |
| 19 | Identification with the community is even consistent with hostility to its laws , if those are thought to be oppressive or unfair . |
| 20 | More than one lost his head as a consequence of making what were alleged to be seditious or treacherous statements in the House of Commons . |
| 21 | The problems of life-histories and oral history are fairly self-evident : they can not be shown to be representative or valid . |
| 22 | That can not be judged to be fair or equitable . ’ |
| 23 | A medical history , electrocardiograph , blood pressure , and standard laboratory findings were obtained before the experiment and were found to be negative or normal Haematocrit was also obtained 24 hours after the experiment . |
| 24 | But under the 1965 Act once the plaintiff is found to be intentional or reckless within the meaning of the subsection , the amount of the reduction rests solely on the extent to which the harm is caused by the plaintiff 's act . |
| 25 | Some visitors may have proved to be undesirable or objectionable , or perhaps have left without paying their bill , and therefore it is essential that this type of guest be blacklisted for future reference . |
| 26 | Unfortunately jumping to conclusions as a practice has a poor track record since , so frequently , they are proved to be inadequate or wrong . |
| 27 | Its excellent PR and the enthusiasm of the press might simply have set it up for a great fall if the use of its powers had proved to be weak or ineffective . |
| 28 | Search unemployment can be seen as part of the annual turnover of the job market — firms rid themselves of workers who have proved to be unproductive or unsatisfactory in some way , and workers quit jobs which have failed to meet their expectations or which were intended only as stop-gaps in the first place . |
| 29 | For example , the choice of a passive rather than an active is influenced both by whether the things referred to are animate or inanimate and by what the basic theme of the speaker 's current discourse currently is ( Harris , 1977 ; 1978 ) . |
| 30 | This process is not intended to be dangerous or impossible , or to require the help of experts . |