Example sentences of "be [vb pp] or [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's whether they will be withdrawn or not . |
| 2 | Whether attitudes towards BSL can be altered or not , those who come into work with deaf people will have to approach the task of learning BSL and it may be that the weight of sign learning must rely on motivation to the task and the cognitive and age factors . |
| 3 | Was he to be reprimanded or not ? |
| 4 | Not without opposition from other sections of the bureaucracy especially those.in Finance ministries , MITI argued that long-term self-reliance for Japan would be delayed or even undermined by following its apparent comparative advantage into labour intensive sectors . |
| 5 | ( 3 ) If the defendant has delivered a defence but does not appear then if the plaintiff so requests and can give evidence of the facts and as to quantum , judgment may be given or alternatively directions ( Ord 17 , r 8 ) . |
| 6 | But the essential distinction remains : whether the court should positively order treatment to be given or not to be given , or whether it should do no more than consider whether or not to authorise it , where authority is needed . |
| 7 | However , Murray left the Scottish prison service prematurely and the problem is always one of whether such pioneering work can be sustained or indeed survive much change . |
| 8 | Again , because treasures served to denote prominent persons , they are most likely to be listed or even described in written records , as well as featuring in works of art . |
| 9 | DEPTH — is an input parameter indicating whether all of the package structure is to be listed or just the root package . |
| 10 | This is evident not only from the fact that the jurisdiction of the Legal Services Ombudsman under sections 21 to 26 of the Act stops at the moment when a complaint enters into the jurisdiction of a disciplinary tribunal : section 22(7) , but also from the fact that in section 27(3) Parliament refers to the process by which a barrister may be disbarred or temporarily suspended from practice by order of an Inn of Court without any hint that it disapproves or wishes to alter in any way the manner in which for centuries the Inns have made orders for disbarment subject to the visitorial jurisdiction of the judges . |
| 11 | Nor did it support the ‘ geographic fiction ’ that evidence to be produced in the United States was not ‘ abroad ’ even though it was in fact located in a foreign country or must be gathered or otherwise prepared abroad . |
| 12 | Townsend asserts that the extent of that dependence is unnecessary and that ‘ the process can … be revised or least modified ’ . |
| 13 | If you have seen kitchens where the doors refuse to hang correctly , where shelves can not be adjusted or where drawers refuse to open the chances are it 's because ‘ savings ’ have been made and lower quality materials have been used . |
| 14 | ‘ Smoking tobacco , drinking excess alcohol and taking drugs of dependence … should be stopped or severely curtailed . |
| 15 | Steam disinfection : Environmental disinfection using lances powered by steam generators has been popular in large food factories , slaughterhouses and meat cutting rooms where large areas must be treated or where machinery or surfaces are difficult to reach . |
| 16 | Some degeneration can be treated or even reversed and doctors and researchers in our hospitals have made great strides forward . |
| 17 | 14.1 This Agreement may not be assigned or otherwise transferred by any Party in whole or in Party without the express prior written consent of the other Parties . |
| 18 | At the other extreme — where mineral working would involve ‘ too great injury to the comfort and living conditions of the people in the area or to amenities generally ’ — mineral working can be limited or even prevented . |
| 19 | The EEC countries are now producing more of nearly all agricultural products than can be consumed or profitably exported . |
| 20 | Products tend to be misplaced or even completely lost or they get in the way but somehow they never happen to be available when wanted . |
| 21 | The decision came after a year-long test to ensure that packaging made from pulp mould was strong enough to protect cameras should they be dropped or roughly handled during transport . |
| 22 | The camera can be preset or remotely controlled to cover the subject or area to be photographed , and provision made for a sequence of pictures or a single exposure , according to the camera type and its shutter release . |
| 23 | But in the history of warfare new weapon systems rarely achieve immediate dominance : only the passage of time and operational experience decides whether the older , well-tried systems should be superseded or not . |
| 24 | Not to be trusted or even understood but to be treated with caution and sometimes indulged . |
| 25 | Yet the Whale must be caught or else the village would know hardship and death . |
| 26 | Of course , insiders are well aware of the drama which surrounds interrogation and do not need to be reminded or really welcome such information being made public , for as a detective colleague pointed out after reading Irving 's paper , ‘ if we do n't use fear , force , fraud or the promise , how do they think we are going to clear up the crime and get the coughs the system needs to survive ? ’ |
| 27 | It must NOT be deleted or otherwise removed by the Hard Copy Manager . |
| 28 | Before commencing , a decision should be made as to whether grains touching chromosome edges are to be included or not . |
| 29 | What needs to be explored with the students is the effect of uncertainty on whether an asset should be included or not . |
| 30 | We 'll wait and see when the second draft comes to this Council , when the Council will discuss my points and agree or disagree that they should be included or not . |