Example sentences of "[pron] were [adv] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides myself there were three other passengers , but they all disembarked at Rarotonga , and after that , for the three days at sea before we reached Koraloona , Robins and I were more or less on our own . |
| 2 | Slowly , however , the Romans had to learn to govern Celts , and this became an even more pressing responsibility when Spain was organized in two provinces in 197 B.C. For three centuries the Romans were steadily engaged — among their multifarious commitments — in annexing territories which were partially or totally Celtic until they came to control the greater part of the Celtic-speaking world . |
| 3 | and Ph.D ) completed courses each year which were mainly or exclusively concerned with Language and Education . |
| 4 | Or that there are Gospels other than those in the New Testament , which were more or less arbitrarily excluded from the canon by councils composed of eminently mortal , eminently fallible men . |
| 5 | Even for a woman , if she were sturdily or athletically built . ’ |
| 6 | They were either bought in by Don Bennett himself , and there were very few of those that got through my fine mesh , or those who were somehow or other forced on us by agencies over which we had no control . |
| 7 | Booz , Allen & Hamilton was forced to close down its executive search division in 1980 , when serious problems surfaced as a result of trying to carry on a recruiting business whilst at the same time having 3000 management consultancy clients on their books , who were more or less off-limits from the point of view of providing candidates for headhunting . |
| 8 | The real fraud was committed by the appointing officers , who were inadvertently or , worse , deliberately subverting the publicly declared equal opportunities policy of their health authority or trust . |
| 9 | In both cases people who were directly or indirectly implicated in racial harassment were asked to reflect on their actions and attitudes by an outsider who did not share their views ; moreover , as a researcher I was concerned to elicit evidence about racist assumptions or practices which as an educator I was also concerned to challenge . |
| 10 | And again we talked last week about the use of colour in photographs in brochures and things , if you like , to reinforce the sunshine element when you 're sat in the snow in the winter watching Wish You Were Here or one of the holiday programmes . |
| 11 | Well again er I would say conditions were were terrible as far as I was concerned , er a as far as tea breaks and what have you were concerned , you did n't have any what we would call official tea breaks , you simply took your chances and made a cup of tea and hid behind a bulkhead or whatever to drink this , er if you got caught by the foreman or the manager or somebody , then you were more or less bagged on the spot . |
| 12 | I used to roam all just round the country , round this area , which was all fields at that time and when you got at top , top of you were more or less in the country . |
| 13 | Erm so you can see actually from this fact find , from the planning the future document , there are , there was , there is a particular interest to you erm are you , are you quite happy with the figures er sorry was it erm was it that you were more or less interested in ? |
| 14 | Oh going back to the apprenticeship you were more or less left as you stood because I I thought that journeymen were very what 's the word very er they were only too willing to let you know what was going on and when you think about it you can see why . |
| 15 | Aye so of course As I say er i i we were more or less grew up with it . |
| 16 | And er take a couple of steps away from the corner you could n't see your a thing , so we were more or less stuck where we where . |
| 17 | bit here and I thought god that so I thought right I 'm gon na change places in that seat but your father 's sitting on , alright , I said go in that back seat , just behind us there were there or I said or I 'm just coming to sit where you are , I said I ca n't do four hours sitting like this , I mean I 'd have been boss eyed before I got , well I was I , I , all say look at that cloud |
| 18 | Their miraculous transformation from a persecuted minority into a privileged élite , soon to become a dominant majority , was not an experience for which they were intellectually or spiritually well prepared . |
| 19 | By their words and conduct in the shop , including their production of the goods and signing of the receipts , they were expressly or impliedly incriminating themselves . |
| 20 | New labour relations are being introduced in industries where they were technologically or politically unthinkable a decade ago . |
| 21 | by no means all of the old sport s were abandoned , but they were more or less confined either to the margins of community life or to the remoter parts of the nation . |
| 22 | Meanwhile the 11 + began to be criticized not only because it divided children up absurdly young into different categories , within which they were more or less trapped , but also because it was intrinsically inequitable . |
| 23 | " When they were out of a ship they were more or less in a state of intoxication , during which time they were in the society of the very lowest description that could be found . |
| 24 | For instance we had no place to keep our er records , we had er minute books er we used to receive minutes from the management for example , after our monthly meeting with them , er and they were more or less dictated by the er personnel department , who were present at the meeting . |
| 25 | Ingard shares were still quoted on the Stock Exchange , and we had evidence that they were more or less worthless . |
| 26 | In part these various proposals reflected the circumstances of the areas concerned , whether they were densely or sparsely populated for instance ; but in part they represented the different emphasis in the proposals on the objectives being pursued . |
| 27 | She had a step-son and a wife , but we do n't quite know whether they were there or not . |
| 28 | Them were more or less joined on you know . |
| 29 | It were more or less open tides the high tides used to come over and down here , it all used . |