Example sentences of "[adv] be [noun pl] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | RARELY are mothers or fathers shown participating in a wide variety of domestic chores not only the ones traditional for their sex ; |
| 2 | The conversion into owner-farmers of those who had hitherto been tenants or agricultural labourers provided many for the first time with genuine prospects of making a decent living , unburdened by debts , high rents or heavy taxes . |
| 3 | At a stroke , we might almost say , political ideas which had only been aspirations or dreams in the minds of philosophers or popular radicals , were placed on the agenda of real politics , not only in France or even Europe , but globally . |
| 4 | Should they be seen as the overall enforcers of the regulations , or should they merely be ombudsmen or watchdogs that only act on customer complaints ? |
| 5 | Stone floor panels dating from 883–612BC , uncovered in the Assyrian royal palaces at Nimrud , Balawat and Nineveh , contain patterns that are generally accepted as carpet designs ; thee are also a number of reliefs and carvings showing men carrying what can only be tapestries or rugs . |
| 6 | The model being offered here suggests that far from merely being tools or means , they to a large extent constitute our stances in and towards the world ; in this sense , they lie across the base of the pyramid in Figure 2.1 . |
| 7 | In small businesses such key persons will usually be owners or directors . |
| 8 | Like Bakhtin , Lecercle manages these moves without sinking into the quagmire of Marxism ; language may be a structure " erected on the unstable basis of contradiction and strife " ( p. 187 ) , but it is not a game in which there will ever be winners or losers — it will just go on being what it uncontrollably is , for it speaks us as much as we it . |
| 9 | It addresses this issue by looking at a large body of empirical evidence , specifically at examples of the relations between adjectives and other words in their phrases or sentences ( these other words by no means always being nouns or noun phrases ) . |
| 10 | In any event Damian would probably be volenti or the court could apply the maxim ex turpi causa . |
| 11 | This denial is so certain that other people close to the sufferer may even come to doubt their own certainty that there really are problems or they may even come to doubt their own sanity . |
| 12 | So I have to say that though I at this moment very close to this in the smallest county of England I have also had experience in three other major counties in mainland England er and I have found the same experience the difficulty of finding people who will even be councillors or magistrates , let alone these other jobs that the er that the er Home Secretary seeks to find . |
| 13 | These unlicensed patches make unwarranted claims of therapeutic efficacy and imply that they are comparable with licensed products in all but price , yet they either are placebos or deliver nicotine in amounts unlikely to relieve withdrawal significantly . |
| 14 | Right , word full stop word Erm right , press return a few times then choose centering button and table , insert table , and now we 're going to have a table whe where I thought we could have a number and it can either be times or divide by something and then the answer , so we want how many columns ? |
| 15 | ‘ Good ’ on such a formal account is wholly undefinable a priori because , to adopt Moore 's reasoning , moral propositions would otherwise be tautologies or self-contradictions . |
| 16 | ‘ Yes , I 'm sorry too , we could have made a good team , in business at least , though I realize we could never be friends or anything of that sort , but I 'm convinced it could have worked . |