Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] or be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No. 23 had a front garden the size of a Kleenex which was either badly looked after or was one of the new butterfly sanctuaries Greenpeace were trying to establish . |
| 2 | Thus , though one might for some purposes characterise the human sciences as concerned with human behaviour in all its fullness this is to misrepresent what turn out to be very different ways of looking at or being interested in the world of human beings . |
| 3 | Tina had no moral sense about this question , no feeling that children ought to know who their fathers were or should be fathered by the men their mothers lived with or were married to . |
| 4 | During the half-century after Kulin 's death his successors , who either sympathised with or were unable to control the heretic Bosnian Church , were the object of crusades led by the Hungarian kings with the blessing of the pope . |
| 5 | In the case where an E is extended by qualification in order to provide a more suitable identification to an audience , as in ( 14 ) , it is entirely natural to assume that a P which does the qualifying — typically an attributive adjective , in traditional terms — will apply to or be valid for the entity identified by the whole pattern [ P E ] . |
| 6 | Any other arrestable offence may be serious if its commission has led to or is likely to lead to : ( a ) serious harm to the security of the state or public order ; ( b ) serious interference with the administration of justice or with the investigation of offences ; ( c ) death ; ( d ) serious injury ; ( e ) substantial financial gain or serious financial loss . |
| 7 | We were playing a silly game , which had not a tragic outcome — it had , thanks to the mercy of providence , a fortunate outcome — but it had an outcome which is not one which ah statecraft should either aim at or be proud of having achieved . |
| 8 | A Jockey Club statement said : ‘ In the view of the stewards , no error of judgment highlighted by the committee arises from or is attributable to any breach of the rules of racing , nor does any such error of itself amount to such a breach . |
| 9 | uncertainty about ends or focus , i.e. what the output from the activity is aimed at or is likely to result in , and |