Example sentences of "[verb] to be [adv] [verb] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case , Morrison 's narrative of violent neighbourhood rivalries , robberies and attacks on policemen — ‘ for kicking practice ’ as he put it — did not need to be either borrowed or invented in late nineteenth-century London . |
| 2 | The ideas of problem solving appear to be well known or obvious , but most of us will be able to recall situations where we spent hours or days on a problem whose solution was ‘ obvious ’ once we found it . |
| 3 | Thus a state whose institutions appear to be newly absorbed or influenced by the partisan considerations of government is likely to suffer erosion of legitimacy whenever it is challenged on a particular point . |
| 4 | The Group Theatre , as it name implied , was considered to be slightly advanced or progressive . |
| 5 | However , it was reported on May 7 that 35 leading officials in the newly established intelligence service department of the Interior Ministry had been removed following leaks of secret information , and the screening of various sections of the security services was reported to be well advanced or completed by early May . |
| 6 | Those that advocated social or political change in a reasoned and intelligent manner seemed to be either ignored or ended up defeated and disillusioned by the whole sorry mess . |
| 7 | Instead there were no beggars on the city streets of either Pesth or Kinsai , and no one in any of the towns and villages through which he had passed seemed to be poorly clothed or underfed . |
| 8 | It occurs naturally in Palestine , but the hyssop of the Bible is thought to be either marjoram or the caper plant ( Capparis spinosa ) . |
| 9 | It is either going to be physically rationed or price rationed … prices are too low anyway , since we still have to have an operating subsidy , and that is not in line with the long-term political trend … ’ |
| 10 | Also , lifts that are open to all and sundry seem to be readily vandalised or used as public toilets . |
| 11 | Labour is typically characterised as simply waiting to be either exploited or abandoned by capital . |
| 12 | It was obvious to me my projected work on Italy would have to be either abandoned or drastically modified . |
| 13 | Over 1500 teeth were examined from pellet samples of adult birds from South Africa , Kenya and England , and none were found to be either digested or broken . |
| 14 | Walker ( 1981 ) , for example , has shown how psychology regards the male as ‘ norm ’ ; any results which show that women behave differently tend to be either ignored or dismissed as an anomaly . |
| 15 | Although printed indexes tend to be either controlled or natural language , many large databases can now be searched in both ways . |
| 16 | Now in the eyes of the law , they have committed a crime , but if you put that situation before a jury , and even though the judge may instruct the jury , a crime has been committed , you must find them guilty , the jury 's inclination will probably be to say , natural justice , you , that you you done what was required of you , that you do n't deserve to be either convicted or sent to prison for it . |
| 17 | Some are intersected with elegant stripes or studded with radiant spots ; others affect to be genteelly powdered or neatly fringed . |
| 18 | She knelt down on the cushion , placed her ungloved hands together , closed her eyes and appeared to be either thinking or sleeping in an upright kneeling position . |
| 19 | The trade deficit had to be either financed or reduced : the former course meant courting the international financial institutions with their implicit or explicit power of veto over domestic policy , while the latter meant either fiscal deflation in excess of the deflation of demand already induced by the OPEC financial surplus ( in paradoxical combination with cost-inflation ) or setting up stringent import controls . |
| 20 | It involves , for example , some consideration of the overall aims or purpose of a course , though this does not necessarily mean that such aims have to be explicitly formulated or prespecified . |
| 21 | Perhaps they need to be better publicised or at different times/days . |
| 22 | Under the agreement five-member panels would review decisions made by either country to impose import duties on goods which they considered to be unfairly subsidized or dumped . |