Example sentences of "[be] [noun] or [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of them are sandstones or limestones that were laid down at the bottom of the shallow seas that once covered this part of North America . |
| 2 | It could have been fear or sympathy or irritation or a combination of all three . |
| 3 | They 're hippies or gypsies or squatters or whatever , and they 've already started camping out there as best they can . |
| 4 | What he actually did was right or wrong according to the criteria we have discussed , while his intention was right or wrong , on Bentham 's view , according as to whether his action would have been right or wrong if things had turned out as he expected . |
| 5 | They happened to end up in Cork but it might just as well have been Hamburg or Paris or London , or America , as so many other Jews did . |
| 6 | The prosecution say the robber was disguised by a crash helmet , it had been Bryant or Cunnliffe and the other had driven the getaway car . |
| 7 | So the next stop could have been Blackpool or Plymouth if we had wished . |
| 8 | Well the only people that I actually need to write to are managers or agents and I mean I give them a print out of what I do every day |
| 9 | She gave Kate a quick appraising glance and a nod which could have been acknowledgement or approval and said : |
| 10 | The people in Nepal are Hindus or Buddhists and they believe that they can get to God by going and praying lots of times , chanting , putting special dye on their cheeks , on their erm foreheads and making sacrifices . |
| 11 | Teasers are copylines or images that do not mention the service or product , but whet your appetite to discover more . |
| 12 | The losses suffered by the ‘ Names ’ at Lloyd 's of London made headline news because some of them are MPs or judges and others are celebrities . |
| 13 | It may be brine or alcohol and this turns the cheese into what one of my customers calls ‘ garage cheese ’ — smelly ! |
| 14 | Early 20th-century Europe was full of men and women who , as their very names indicate , had chosen to be Germans or Magyars or French or Finns , and even today the name of President Landsbergis and a number of prominent Slovenes suggests German parents opting for another collective identity . |
| 15 | Though they may be artists or craftsmen or poets in times of peace , every Elf is a deadly fighter in times of war . |
| 16 | It may be months or years before his work today makes an impact : in the case of a project failure it may never do so . |
| 17 | These were the zeks — they might be killers or thieves or rapists or parasites or hooligans . |
| 18 | Thus containment can effect rather than defeat change ( and this does not presuppose the desirability or otherwise of that change ; it might be reaction or progress or , as in this play , complex elements of both with each differently appropriated for different audience positions ) . |
| 19 | They may be neurotics or malingerers or both . |
| 20 | I 've always been the type of guy who 'll dig into every note regardless of whether that note might be right or wrong or in or out of tune . |
| 21 | 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 ? |
| 22 | Members to be Males or Females and above the age of fifteen admitted on paying One Shilling to Treasurer . |
| 23 | Bierwurst is a large German sausage that may be pork or pork and beef , has a fine texture and is usually spiced with peppercorns and white mustard seed . |
| 24 | a body corporate ( other than open-ended investment companies ) to persons it reasonably believes to be members or creditors or holders of other investments issued by it ( or another group company ) and it contains only an invitation relating to that investment |
| 25 | when a country makes a produc a product , whether it 'll be fruit or food or , er clothes and sells them to another country what is that called ? |
| 26 | Explicitly or implicitly the suggestion is that women are children or lunatics or whichever other company they keep . |
| 27 | By constructing a portfolio of efficiently priced assets , the investor can create opportunities for profitable arbitrage if there are assets or portfolios that have been underpriced or overpriced . |
| 28 | After drinks and introductions and a few minutes of jangled smalltalk , as if the three of us were gods or apes or spacemen , Fielding did the bad thing . |
| 29 | Most of the er riveting squads were friends or cousins or all They were all |
| 30 | ( 2 ) Any officer , servant or agent of the Bank may , on producing if required evidence of his authority , enter any premises occupied by any person on whom a notice could be served under section 39 above for the purpose of obtaining there such information or documents as are specified in the authority , being information or documents that could have been required by such a notice ; but the Bank shall not authorise any person to act under this subsection unless it has reasonable cause to believe that if such a notice were served it would not be complied with or that any documents to which it would relate would be removed , tampered with or destroyed . |