Example sentences of "or be [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the weaknesses of most African economies is an absence of large-scale entrepreneurs running manufacturing businesses , whether they have emerged from the informal sector or been trained by the corporate sector . |
| 2 | Many shops were boarded up , their owners having perished in the war or at the hands of the Komitehs , or been bankrupted by the collapsed economy . |
| 3 | Rack renting of this marginal land , bitterly attacked by reformers but never remedied , was the greatest single cause of hardship to those who had not sunk or been born into the vast reservoir of casual labour . |
| 4 | To summarise , many partnerships appear to have focused or been focused on the immediate and not necessarily the important . |
| 5 | Four issues stand out as being of crucial importance : how many distinct ‘ modes of production ’ are there ; in what order do these modes of production succeed each other and how is their sequence to be explained ; what forms of society necessarily correspond with , arise from , or are determined by the different modes of production ; and lastly , what are the forms of state , or political systems , that are characteristic of , or produced by , different economic structures and forms of society ? |
| 6 | Whether these values represent the upper extreme of normality or are related to the underlying colonic disease , long term medication , or other factors is not clear . |
| 7 | The enclaves of very large dogwhelks around Porlock Weir in the Severn Estuary , between Swanage and Kimmeridge on the Dorset coast and at some sites in the west of Scotland are sublittoral or are confined to the extreme lower shore . |
| 8 | For a start ‘ Standard rate food charges are payable on a continuous basis by people in Marital Categories 3 , 4 or 5 when they are occupying single accommodation , and also by personnel who are in receipt of Special Messing Allowance , Retail Messing Allowance or are accommodated under the Approved Board and Lodging Scheme . |
| 9 | The report and accounts are sent to all shareholders and loan stock holders of the Company , but only the holders of ordinary shares in the Company are entitled to attend or be represented at the above meeting . |
| 10 | Parties can he set indoors or outdoors — or be split between the two . |
| 11 | In this context an assignment may be considered " terminated " , because it can not affect or be affected by the other process , and is free to terminate at any time . |
| 12 | norways coach egil ‘ drillo ’ olsen today speak up on our international players who are not in their first teams : ‘ come home or be wrecked from the national team ’ ( and thus no USA'94 ) ( this in one of the tabloids over here ) — the players mentioned are |
| 13 | However , traditionally , it was generally believed that , as a consequence of the wording of ss. 141 and 142 , once landlords assigned their reversionary interest they could only sue or be sued by the original tenant . |
| 14 | Readers can hardly remain passive consumers , or be seduced by the covert ideologies , of a text they have literally had to piece together , page by page , for themselves . |
| 15 | Such companies may receive back the piece-parts for internal assembly or be supplied with the completed article . |
| 16 | But three in every four Vietnamese-Americans arrived or were born in the past decade . |
| 17 | During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries many villages were industrialized in the sense that the majority of their inhabitants worked as nailmakers or weavers , for example , or at some other ancient hand-craft or were employed in the new mills , ironworks , quarries and coalmines which had transformed so many parts of the English countryside . |
| 18 | The cattle were either ‘ walked ’ down to the marshes direct from market or were brought to the nearest point by train : today they are transported by motor-lorries , and in recent years a rough road has been built right across the marshes to enable lorries to have direct access . |
| 19 | An estimated 2,000,000 people either fled or were evacuated from the coastal regions in advance of the hurricane . |
| 20 | To nine patients out of ten she was the first hospital sister with whom they had been confronted , and the great majority , when they walked , were pushed , or were carried for the first time through the double doors of our main entrance , were very apprehensive and trying to hide the fact . |
| 21 | Needless to say this led to several incidents because the cattle came direct from farms and were not accustomed to being in pens or being handled by the general public . |
| 22 | Then there is this subsequent experience which follows receiving or being filled with the Holy Spirit . |
| 23 | Consequently it either accumulates in the trench or is scraped off the downgoing plate and forms wedges of sediment on the inner ( arc side ) of the trench . |
| 24 | The NI has always been sceptical about the value of government-to-government overseas aid , which too easily finds its way into the pockets of an elite or is wasted on the wrong kind of project . |
| 25 | All along the Baltic region brick building began early , owing to the lack of stone materials , but such work has mostly been altered later , in the Middle Ages , or was destroyed in the Second World War . |
| 26 | However by 1941 , almost the entire membership had either found war work or was employed in the surviving Edinburgh printing offices , and by then only 2 members were listed as out of work . |