Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] 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 | Longer-term relationships had generally only developed where particular business interests were more or less directly involved . |
| 3 | Opinion polls are more or less inaccurate measures of voting intentions . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ] ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ? |