Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] be [adv] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the file is small , the cylinder index may be partly or entirely held in main storage , as explained earlier in this chapter ( see p. 228 ) . |
| 2 | Thus , the first payment should be on or after the date on which the Deed of Covenant is signed . |
| 3 | Performance and reward imperatives may be more or less related . |
| 4 | Le Page and Tabouret-Keller write : As the individual speaks he [ sic ] is seen as always using language with reference to the inner models of the universe he has constructed for himself ; he projects in words images of that universe ( or , of those universes ) on to the social screen , and these images may be more or less sharply focussed , or more or less diffuse , in relation to each other or in relation to those projected by others in their interaction with him … |
| 5 | The high rates of known opioid use in Wallasey Village and Bebington may be partly or wholly explained by microdiffusion processes . |
| 6 | He might perhaps attribute the incompleteness of his account to the fact that he is a ‘ bourgeois ’ subject , who can only glimpse an alternative view ofthe individual ; but this defence is still a problem , for even a glimpse suggests that the ISAs of the capitalist totality may be more or less effective , and this variation will have to be explained . |
| 7 | Until the Bolshevik revolution the question of whether Marxists should be inside or outside the Labour Party was very much a matter for themselves , as for all other radical and socialist groups . |
| 8 | In other words , it is not enough that a cell should be more or less active ; the change must be sufficiently unusual statistically for it to function as a code . |
| 9 | Some estimates suggest that CFCs direct contribution to the greenhouse effect might be more or less offset by their indirect effect of countering it by depleting ozone . |
| 10 | Clearly this figure could be more or less . |
| 11 | It is therefore inevitable that our Poundians will be exceptions , and that majority opinion for the foreseeable future will be more or less hysterically hostile to Pound . |
| 12 | In such a situation the teacher can not choose when to use the programme , and unless it is a rebroadcast , he will only have a very general idea of what the programme will be about or what its language content will be ( vocabulary , grammar , structures , level of difficulty , appropriateness , etc ) . |
| 13 | Steeply sloping sites may be totally or partially unsuitable for development and the writer can recall a site where only two thirds of the land was developable and the remainder barely suitable for inclusion in the gardens of the completed dwellings . |
| 14 | The frequency of maintenance will depend on the harshness of the environment , and in normal circumstances should be once or twice a year . |
| 15 | Blackburn will be there or thereabouts at the end of the season , especially with the chequebook . ’ |
| 16 | Sometimes the question of what a public authority ought to have done in performance of its duties will be politically or morally contentious , and the court would prefer not to have to pronounce on the issue . |
| 17 | Unlike the brachiopods , many of the modes of life of living bivalve molluscs can be more or less directly matched in fossil examples . |
| 18 | The heap may or may not heat up due to aerobic bacterial action , and the end product may be more or less valuable accordingly . |
| 19 | Alternatively , the relocation package may be more or less generous . |
| 20 | Forgive me if I omit intimate personal details included in the American list — such as whether Y-fronts will be in or out — but I have failed in my mental attempts to undress either man . |
| 21 | it is what I 've always thought for a long time that somebody like Brian if he 's not if he 's not showing at our fish at our show , even as an A class judge , I , I fail to see why he ca n't judge at our show it 's , he goes to Skelm and , and judges there and our fish will be there or strange really when we 're struggling for judges that , that we do n't do these things . |
| 22 | well , well thank Mr very much , if you , if you could , I can accommodate Mr at any reasonable time tomorrow , erm , but although he may say he 's only got , he only wants to rest for a quarter of an hour d'your , as you gather from the interchange from the bench , that 's er , that will be the very minimum and I may well have questions to ask him , although I hope I 'd asked most of them to Mr , so , erm , but I 'm , I 'm I think for everybody 's convenience it , erm , unless he 's got a specific time he could deal with , we either start say at eleven thirty , when Mr can be here or at two , erm , but if he 's got some other clever idea I 'm perfectly prepared to entertain him , but er we ca n't leave this hanging around , I 've got ta write this and whichever way it goes we 've got ta look at it again , er and although I suppose I 'm not entirely unheard of and I disappear to the court of appeal next term it 's gon na make things extremely awkward to try and arrange anything else next term , cos I 've got two other judges to bear in mind as well as myself |
| 23 | Heterosexuality can be more or less narcissistic , it can be very disturbed or not so . |
| 24 | Such skills or knowledge may be more or less specialised , comprehensible , or penetrable to an outsider . |
| 25 | A syllabus may be more or less fixed or negotiable ; apparently rigid courses can in fact be quite flexible in detail . |
| 26 | Teams may be outside or cross the conventional boundaries of the business and encompass business partners , suppliers or customers . |
| 27 | Before the delivery date , the futures price could be above or below the spot price . |
| 28 | If the colour dries on the paper but does not look right , I found that by carefully washing over with water and then gently lifting out as before , unwanted passages can be partially or completely taken off . |
| 29 | So it seems that this is a further reason for Althusser to allow that the process of constitution may be more or less successful . |
| 30 | Political forces and corporate bodies may be more or less able to calculate the likely effects , ceteris paribus , of the implementation of their policies and demands , and the conservation/transformation effect is anyway likely to appear as the ‘ resultant vector ’ of non-coherent activities on the part of a whole range of such forces and bodies ( although , for instance , dominant positions within a government may give one political force more leverage than others ) . |