Example sentences of "[noun] be [adv] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | The concept of ‘ satisfaction with housework ’ follows the concept of ‘ work ’ or ‘ job ’ satisfaction as used in the sociology of industry and paid work ; it represents an overall assessment of the degree to which housewives are positively or negatively oriented to their work . |
| 2 | This rule may help to keep clear the distinction between those interventions which seek to challenge the structural conditions under which racist discourses are directly or indirectly reproduced , and those strategies which aim to interrupt their circulation in specific micro-contexts , and/or introduce alternative story lines . |
| 3 | The shareholders in non-profit institutions and publicly owned companies in both cases are more or less synonymous with the customers of the firm ; they provide no additional constraint apart from this , though in publicly owned companies the relevant government department will impose its own constraints ( see chapter 4 ) . |
| 4 | If the emphasis is on people whose holiday activities are more or less self-explanatory , a main title ( which can be pre-recorded onto the beginning of the tape or superimposed live over the opening shot by your camcorder 's titling facility ) may be all that is required to set the scene . |
| 5 | These are obvious cases because the forms are linguistically or stylistically related , and in one of them it will be shown later that the name became hereditary — as Forsey — down to the twentieth century . |
| 6 | Having said that , it is beginning to gel as a discipline ; Mr D said that staff rarely discussed the aims of the course now , there being a ‘ general assumption that the ground rules are more or less the same [ as when we started ] ’ . |
| 7 | However , this is not always easy to do because , as I have already said , most disputes are more or less polycentric . |
| 8 | So all our lads are more or less , that was lightning strikes and finish off . |
| 9 | It is of great significance that most of the NICs are presently or have been in recent times one-party states , not necessarily totalitarian in the classic sense , but certainly lacking in most of the genuinely pluralistic institutions that characterize advanced industrial societies . |
| 10 | But the question of what pictures are entirely or for practical purposes Bellini 's own is answered largely by personal taste ; there is therefore a considerable divergence of view . |
| 11 | Stork was not entirely sure how the headhunting process worked ; indeed , there were no guides to the subject and all the existing purveyors of search are more or less self-taught . |
| 12 | All data sets obtained were initially analysed to determine whether data were normally or abnormally distributed . |
| 13 | A horse 's more or less inherited position in the herd can be altered by unusual conditions . |
| 14 | Yet the London we inherited from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is more or less a success . |
| 15 | It might be suggested that the victim ‘ asked for it ’ by accepting a lift or an invitation to the defendant 's home or that he ‘ led him on ’ or consented and afterwards regretted it . |
| 16 | When the weather has entered a relatively rain free period , but when cloud cover is moderately dense and uniform , but not too low — when the prevailing light is evenly spread over the landscape , with no parts over bright or too deep in shadow — when the wind is still or gently fitful , a magic prevails everywhere upon the Wolds , and it comes from within the chalk . |
| 17 | The inexorable logic does not , however , establish that the result is morally or socially desirable . |
| 18 | ‘ If you 've changed so much , then you should n't care in the least whether Eleanor 's here or not . |
| 19 | C. A. Moser in Survey Methods in Social Investigation identifies three sources of bias in sample selection : ( 1 ) the use of a sampling frame which does not cover the population adequately , completely or accurately ; ( 2 ) the use of a ‘ non-random ’ method of sampling , so that the selection of subjects is consciously or unconsciously affected by human judgement ; and ( 3 ) the refusal to co-operate among some segments of the chosen population . |
| 20 | For example , in the first column , Greater York figure is more or less doubled . |
| 21 | Foreign investment was more or less prohibited ( it had to contribute to the development of the domestic industry ) . |
| 22 | er when Pearl , my other daughter came over Christmas , course Andrea was more or less still going through a bit of a rough period with between her grandfather and her , you know ? |
| 23 | And Lucy was blithely or otherwise ignoring that fact . |
| 24 | A pattern emerged whereby shipping belonging to or destined for Kuwait was more or less assured of Iranian attention . |
| 25 | Nor is it known how such circumstances arose or whether the balances are individually or cumulatively material in relation to the company 's accounts . |
| 26 | This is not to say that all theories of legitimacy are only or merely ‘ rationalizations ’ ; rather , it is to say that they have an element of rationalization in them . |
| 27 | Relations with so-called third countries are more or less formalised . |
| 28 | So long as these descriptions are more or less correct they should be praised , and everyone 's attention drawn to the most unusual ones . |
| 29 | The movements are more or less directed sideways , i.e. écarté or effacé , as in the dances fur Romeo , Mercutio and Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet and fur the Tutor in A Month in the Country . |
| 30 | Selvedges are more or less the same on all items , but the fringes are secured in a number of distinctive ways . |