Example sentences of "it be [adv] [adv] [verb] or " in BNC.

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1 It is not enough to visit or telephone the offices of the local authority , water authority and public utilities , to verify the availability of services .
2 However , if training is to contribute to this effective working , then it must be applied in the areas where it is most urgently required or where the benefit is greatest .
3 And 44 percent of it is never even opened or read .
4 There is no mechanism to enforce user involvement and it is therefore often ignored or at best lip-service paid to it .
5 In non-literate society … the cultural tradition functions as a series of interlocking face-to-face conversations in which the very conditions of transmission operate to favour consistency between past and present , and to make criticism — the articulation of inconsistency — less likely to occur ; and if it does , the inconsistency makes a less permanent impact , and it is more easily adjusted or forgotten .
6 Singer Sebastien Bach , at No. 22 with Youth Gone Wild , says : ‘ I wanted kids to know it was n't just junkies or gays who get that disease .
7 It was not thickly populated or well defended , but it was much larger than the islands the English already held in the Caribbean , so it provided land for English emigrants for some years .
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