Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] be [adv] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where cathedrals are in or near large centres of population , perhaps with a significant student presence , their ability to pay realistic salaries is an obvious advantage . |
| 2 | First , there are too many complications to allow the conclusion that individuals were more or less likely to be receptive according to whether they were Protestant or Catholic . |
| 3 | If the feminist folklinguistic belief that women are less or differently logical than men is a matter of content , it could be that this is the sort of thing feminists have in mind . |
| 4 | However , the problem for competition policy is that trade-offs are more or less ubiquitous , and only in a few cases ( price fixing or market sharing are examples ) is it possible to reach an unambiguous verdict . |
| 5 | Approaches and perspectives are more or less fruitful in encouraging promising lines in inquiry , rather than being true or false or responsive to empirical test . |
| 6 | The amphibolite bands and lenses are more or less biminerallic , with hornblende by far the most abundant mineral , often occupying more than 75 per cent of the rock , and with feldspar as the other mineral present . |
| 7 | Polar lakes and ponds are partly or completely frozen and snow-covered for much of the year . |
| 8 | And Angela Hampel one of the GDR 's leading feminists now realises that while men and women were more or less equal in an impoverished communist society , in the capitalist West the great divide looms ever wider . |
| 9 | The degeneration occurs , not because men are congenitally or even incorrigibly narrow , libertine , isolated or selfish , but because in defining themselves as autonomous beings in opposition to other human beings they have had to seek what separates them as a group from others . |
| 10 | There is , in fact , a complex network of gene interactions , the product of one gene controlling the activity of others which involves an intimate relationship between nucleus and cytoplasm , because cytoplasmic signals play a crucial role in controlling transcription and thus determining whether genes are on or off . |
| 11 | When partners are more or less the same age , this slower response will be balanced by the older man 's more delayed reactions . |