Example sentences of "[modal v] be [adv] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | Discussions about the number of houses in rural areas , their size and density , how many should be publicly or privately owned , owner-occupied or rented , where they should be sited and how they should be designed are often presented as purely technical exercises . |
| 2 | The frequency of maintenance will depend on the harshness of the environment , and in normal circumstances should be once or twice a year . |
| 3 | When you send your contribution it should be more or less ready for publication . |
| 4 | In other words , it is not enough that a cell should be more or less active ; the change must be sufficiently unusual statistically for it to function as a code . |
| 5 | I think that the rest of the situation should be more or less a straight across thing , and I 'm gon na see if we can get Paul |
| 6 | Until the Bolshevik revolution the question of whether Marxists should be inside or outside the Labour Party was very much a matter for themselves , as for all other radical and socialist groups . |
| 7 | No matter whether the theme comes from fantasy or reality every movement should be lightly or firmly drawn into an overall dance design . |
| 8 | The relevance of these facts must be clearly or explicitly stated if they are used in an essay . |
| 9 | It must be all or nothing , ’ he declared , appealing to the American people from Korea over the President 's head . |
| 10 | it is possible that the retrieval of records bearing such information might be wholly or partially unsuccessful . |
| 11 | Laws used to specify offences such as loitering with intent or malicious wounding , so that it was up to the prosecutor to prove the evil character of an act that might be more or less culpable . |
| 12 | Sex might be more or less important to a person in later life , but the level would be higher or lower according to the general level of importance throughout adult years . |
| 13 | Some estimates suggest that CFCs direct contribution to the greenhouse effect might be more or less offset by their indirect effect of countering it by depleting ozone . |
| 14 | It might be more or less efficient or more or less fair to assign liability to one party or the other , and this is why it is important that the legislature or the courts , whichever first have occasion to set the rule , make the right substantive decision . |
| 15 | A low response rate is serious particularly if there is reason to suspect that persons likely to give particular kinds of answers might be less or more likely to respond than others . |
| 16 | I might be there or I might be with Roy , I do n't know . |
| 17 | No I do n't need the rail , I do n't the rail money in er Cos I presume if you pay the seven quid you 'll be more or less committed then to paying the I 'll I 'll get the rail money a bit later than . |
| 18 | So we 'll get that sorted out and been talking about it I think the best bet is if we can get a few lessons in during the holidays so that when he goes back to school he 'll be more or less up to date . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't know whether he 'll be there or not . |
| 20 | However , for a non-working partner this allowance could be partially or wholly transferable to the working partner ; i.e. there was transferability of tax allowances . |
| 21 | Before the delivery date , the futures price could be above or below the spot price . |
| 22 | Clearly this figure could be more or less . |
| 23 | The rubber sheet could be more or less flat and of a certain definite size — it has a boundary or edge to it . |
| 24 | Sometimes you will be caring for clients who may be physically or verbally abusive , or unpleasant in their personal habits . |
| 25 | These last two forms of cancer are now considered by experts to be in the category ‘ diseases for which the excess mortality in smokers may be partly or wholly attributable to smoking ’ . |
| 26 | The high rates of known opioid use in Wallasey Village and Bebington may be partly or wholly explained by microdiffusion processes . |
| 27 | If A is of simple form ( e.g. sparse ) this characteristic may be partly or wholly destroyed in forming A1 ; on the other hand , A1 has a column of zeros , and thus its own simplicity . |
| 28 | If the file is small , the cylinder index may be partly or entirely held in main storage , as explained earlier in this chapter ( see p. 228 ) . |
| 29 | It may well be that factors other than orthofunction are producing these improvements ; factors such as better resourcing , a purposeful environment , the amount of time spent in active learning each day , or the one-to-one relationship with conductors , may be equally or more important than the specific application of the technique of orthofunction itself . |
| 30 | The ability to formulate original thoughts , as well as the opportunity to put these into effect , both demand several other qualities , personal as well as situational , that may be partially or completely independent of those that might be ascribable to ‘ psychotic ’ modes of thinking . |