Example sentences of "[vb past] to be [adv] [verb] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |