Example sentences of "[be] [art] [noun] or [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are the mutaradin or wanted ones , who are known to Israel 's security services . |
| 2 | Had it just been a dream or had I really shrunk ? |
| 3 | Anyone who has been a parent or had much to do with family and children will have seen the discrepancies . |
| 4 | ‘ I would never have been a dancer or believed I could do anything if it had not been for him , ’ said Crawford . |
| 5 | but of course we 're assuming for the purposes of the argument that er , that erm , your that is a matter of Eng English law , the matters of which you make complaint are a defence or set off |
| 6 | The partnership agreement sought to restrain outgoing partners over a period of five years from acting as a solicitor , notary , trade mark or patent agent or in any similar capacity in the Colony of Hong Kong whether as principal , clerk or assistant for any person , firm or company who was at the time of his ceasing to be a partner or had during the period of three years prior thereto been a client of the partnership … |
| 7 | Semiotics has conventionally spoken in terms of a tripartite model of signifier , signified , and referent , in which the signifier is commonly a word or statement , the signified is a concept or thought , and the referent is the object in the real ( and social ) world to which both signifier and signified connect . |
| 8 | Police think the man — who attacked a young woman in Brighton — is a transvestite or had been to a fancy dress party . |