Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] be [adv] or " in BNC.

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1 The development of study skills was implicitly or explicitly part of every proposal made for inclusion in the ESSE/L Project , and as we have seen , the major thrust of recent inservice developments has been in this area .
2 The poles of are therefore given by and the appropriate transfer function is consequently or Comparison of this response with that of equation ( 12.12 ) establishes that the network of figure 12.2(a) achieves second-order Chebyshev response corresponding to provided that and .
3 Similarly , I suppose , the peace camp was more or less left in peace round there .
4 It is logical then to proceed with Jean Packman 's research into the way decisions are made when children and young people , home life being temporarily or long term unable or unsuitable to sustain them , for whatever reason , are received into care — or , in spite of referrals and requests , not received .
5 Moving to the capital market constraints , the takeover constraint is more or less unique to public liability companies though even then it can not impact strongly on the very largest companies .
6 Another problem , however , lies in the very assumption that all of those past retirement age are more or less automatically dependent ‘ burdens ’ on the economy rather than contributors to it .
7 The putatively modern new business district was more or less haphazardly established along the Leipziger Strasse , just a bit west of the old city centre .
8 Longer-term relationships had generally only developed where particular business interests were more or less directly involved .
9 To effect the separation it was needful that the particle size was more or less the same .
10 Opinion polls are more or less inaccurate measures of voting intentions .
11 She found that , for the RVF , manual reaction times for " same " trials increased with the number of letters presented but , for the LVF , reaction time was more or less constant regardless of the number of letters presented .
12 As we saw in section III , in the US and EC jurisdictions price discrimination is more or less per se illegal : resale price maintenance is also per se illegal in all jurisdictions , though it is difficult to justify separating out RPM from other vertical restraints on the basis of economic analysis .
13 Included in this list are Great Yarmouth , Hyndburn , Slough , Harlow , Ipswich and Thamesdown ( Swindon ) , where the local authority and constituency boundaries are exactly or very nearly contiguous .
14 My English friend Annie was more or less brought up by her nan in a back-to-back in Manchester .
15 Having said that , it is beginning to gel as a discipline ; Mr D said that staff rarely discussed the aims of the course now , there being a ‘ general assumption that the ground rules are more or less the same [ as when we started ] ’ .
16 Although these four authors address themselves to rather different problems , and do not appear to agree on a number of issues , their combined views on the importance of soil erosion are more or less consistent , and quite clear — its importance is exaggerated , agricultural technology initiated by both officials and farmers can respond satisfactorily , and the resources at disposal are massive and are constantly being created by technology itself .
17 And because it assumes that gender differences are biologically or culturally fixed , it is especially likely to neglect psychological or social differences between women , to take female subjectivity as defining feminism , and to treat psychology as a form of social action in itself .
18 Advertising objectives are more or less specific statements of what is to be achieved by advertising , in terms of ( for example ) increased awareness , or improved scores on certain attitude scales .
19 If the emphasis is on people whose holiday activities are more or less self-explanatory , a main title ( which can be pre-recorded onto the beginning of the tape or superimposed live over the opening shot by your camcorder 's titling facility ) may be all that is required to set the scene .
20 The computerisation of land registration is more or less completed , and this means that many of the delays formerly experienced are no longer so acute .
21 To measure the power in a load , whichever of the movable or pair of fixed coils has the lower resistance is connected essentially or actually in series with the load as indicated in figure 7.2(b) , so that the load current is essentially or actually carried .
22 The question is , will interest rates be strongly or only slightly affected by changes in money supply , and will aggregate demand be strongly or only slightly affected by changes in interest rates ?
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