Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes when the little ones were weakly or had been abandoned by their mothers , we would have to take them inside and feed them by hand . |
| 2 | This move was bitterly attacked by the planning profession , though in the event the process of scheme preparation quickened during the later 1930s ; by the end of the decade London and most of the large towns were wholly or almost wholly under planning control . |
| 3 | In 36 of these , the submissions were wholly or partially approved and the courses will commence in the autumn . |
| 4 | Given the certainty that freebooters were among the raiding armies , it is clearly possible that the contingents contributed by Swegen and Cnut were wholly or partly comprised of such men too , rather than exclusively of Danish levies . |
| 5 | By their words and conduct in the shop , including their production of the goods and signing of the receipts , they were expressly or impliedly incriminating themselves . |
| 6 | The real fraud was committed by the appointing officers , who were inadvertently or , worse , deliberately subverting the publicly declared equal opportunities policy of their health authority or trust . |
| 7 | All data sets obtained were initially analysed to determine whether data were normally or abnormally distributed . |
| 8 | They were either bought in by Don Bennett himself , and there were very few of those that got through my fine mesh , or those who were somehow or other forced on us by agencies over which we had no control . |
| 9 | Gone are the more dynamic days of the early 1960s when even substantial rates of net migration loss from the larger cities to other parts of Britain were largely or completely offset by relatively high rates of natural increase and by immigration from overseas . |
| 10 | In the mid 1980s approximately four hundred foreign banks were directly or indirectly represented in London with American , Japanese and Arab banks dominating the scene . |
| 11 | In both cases people who were directly or indirectly implicated in racial harassment were asked to reflect on their actions and attitudes by an outsider who did not share their views ; moreover , as a researcher I was concerned to elicit evidence about racist assumptions or practices which as an educator I was also concerned to challenge . |
| 12 | Warning that the future level and pace of North Sea development could be put at risk , he pointed out that estimates suggests about 100,000 Scottish jobs were directly or indirectly oil-related . |
| 13 | ( Of Pontius Pilate : ‘ The steps he took to still a particular local clamour were more or less what the service required , and he washed his hands with a civilised regret . ’ ) |
| 14 | In an attempt to try to contain the pressure for such changes donors adopted in the 1970s a strategy of establishing semi-autonomous project units , which were nominally attached to national ministries , but in fact were more or less independent of them . |
| 15 | by no means all of the old sport s were abandoned , but they were more or less confined either to the margins of community life or to the remoter parts of the nation . |
| 16 | All these societies were more or less developed economically , but did not use coinage . |
| 17 | Navigation was very much a specialist skill and the maps of the desert were more or less blank . |
| 18 | Each of these had its own grammar school , but ( by a fine piece of local and ingenious conservatism ) those at Chipping Norton and Burford were more or less comprehensive . |
| 19 | 80 per cent of the buildings were more or less seriously inadequate . |
| 20 | All of these problems were more or less overcome by ingenious chemical manipulation , so that a very wide range of semi-synthetic penicillins have become available . |
| 21 | Meanwhile the 11 + began to be criticized not only because it divided children up absurdly young into different categories , within which they were more or less trapped , but also because it was intrinsically inequitable . |
| 22 | Until recent times women were more or less owned by men — not allowed to vote or to own property ( if they were married ) , or to enter higher education . |
| 23 | But I think it is reasonable to observe that the major issues of the Falklands War were more or less written in the stars . |
| 24 | Well-launched as it was , I regret to report that the organization of China-Canada Inc. seemed to die of inactivity after its founder left for China in 1946 ; it was , after all , very much of a one-man show and the big names on all the committees were more or less honorary only . |
| 25 | Longer-term relationships had generally only developed where particular business interests were more or less directly involved . |
| 26 | These were more or less identical to the British Military overseas ambulance train . |
| 27 | At first , it seemed that the family — mother , father and two sisters — were more or less alone in their grief . |
| 28 | Neath , the leading Welsh club side of the moment , were more or less ignored because although their forwards could get around better than anyone else 's there would not have been much point if they could not win the ball in the first place . |
| 29 | The parishes were more or less equal in area , around 4000 acres ; their layout says a great deal for the Saxon ability to recognise and exploit soil features and for their respect for mutual rights of neighbouring communities . |
| 30 | Overall , the northern and southern halves of the motorway were more or less equal , with 200 incidents in the south between Dartford and junction 15 ( the M4 ) and 203 in the north between junctions 15 and Thurrock . |