Example sentences of "[verb] be [adv] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm so in actual fact we 'd 've been there or thereabouts had we not made the budget assumptions that we did . |
| 2 | When so large a part of modern politics , above all in America , is concerned with policies which an insight into the psychology of envy would reveal to be inherently futile , it is perhaps not surprising that the study of that psychology has been instinctively or deliberately neglected . |
| 3 | The rational expectations hypothesis challenges macroeconomists of widely differing outlook to re-examine the short-run dynamics of their respective models so as to check that no assumption of irrational behaviour has been implicitly or inadvertently embedded within the structure of the model . |
| 4 | As so often , one sees the survival of a social custom long after its original purpose has been wholly or partly superseded . |
| 5 | Once the presence of a carcass has been directly or indirectly detected , they glide down to it rapidly , and large numbers of vultures are thus enabled to assemble in a short time . |
| 6 | Since the turn of the century there have been brief periods when Britain has been more or less self-sufficient in cereals , meat , and dairy produce — during the two World Wars , and today , under the extraordinary economics of the European Community . |
| 7 | I will not go into detail but your disappearance has been more or less accepted now . |
| 8 | In Great Britain , the proportion of smokers has been more or less static for several years at around 32% for men and 30% for women . |
| 9 | They have n't been as much part of my life as I would like , because for the last year or so it has been more or less taken up by the future of the channel . |
| 10 | One particular group of people which has been more or less completely overlooked are those who became disabled in childhood or adulthood , and who are now ageing with a disability . |
| 11 | Good courses of ore had been met with in Deep Level , but Leathart pointed out , " the whole of the ground has been more or less worked prior to the present adventurers " . |
| 12 | Total per capita consumption of alcoholic drinks has been more or less constant for a decade . |
| 13 | In particular , there will be no change in treatment where the basis of valuation has been explicitly or implicitly agreed or accepted , or the view has reasonably been taken that there is no , or only negligible , benefit . |
| 14 | Some older people dread the idea of moving out of their own homes , while others would enjoy being near or actually living with their relatives . |
| 15 | The men at the headman 's house decided , on behalf of the village , that every dog that had been out in the night , possibly taking part in the fight and helping bring down the rabid dog , would have to be killed : and all bitches on heat , whether they 'd been inside or out , must also be killed . |
| 16 | The timing of debates which took place in the House of Commons on proposals which the European Legislation Committee advised were legally or politically important was dependent on the Government . |
| 17 | She had n't really believed it herself , not all of it anyway ; so when her mother started telling her that what Davy Treffry had said was more or less true , she wanted to put her hands over her ears and not listen ; she did n't want to know about the argument there had been between her father and her Uncle Harry ; she did n't want to hear about how they picked their wives by some silly fishing competition . |
| 18 | On the other hand , if he had n't been so keen on interfering there would not have been any tension because she would not have been here or even in France at all . |
| 19 | It is probably fallacious to assume that at every level a pebble beach was formed : if the rocks eroded are weak , such as clay , or both fairly weak and chemically attacked by the sea , such as certain types of limestone , there may well have been no or very little beach material formed . |
| 20 | In her childhood her father was obliged to take a job , not in the colonial administration which would have been more or less acceptable , but as a manager of one of the Peruvian silver mines . |
| 21 | No one was permitted to build outside the city wall — indeed it would have been more or less impossible given the sheer drop to the plain — and as a result the ever-industrious Kinsani merchants had expanded in directions which were not forbidden by the law . |
| 22 | It is simply that these conflicts , which once would have been more or less wholly contained within the personality , are now becoming externalized and , indeed , are transforming society . |
| 23 | In view of the large individual variations , and also the fact that some twins included were unpaired , the influence of disease might have been more or less masked . |
| 24 | I would have been more or less like that sir . |
| 25 | For many pupils their experience in school will have been mainly or solely with metric units and their out of school experience mainly with Imperial units . |
| 26 | What Tumbleweed are doing is more or less just putting the two approaches together . |
| 27 | Neither state is more or less truthful than the other . |
| 28 | Must change be all or nothing ? |
| 29 | What he saw was more or less what he 'd expected ; lots of business , big crowds full of stupid people who were n't watching the traffic , every other window steamed-up and hung with a brace of Peking duck . |
| 30 | Paul thus neatly avoided a vote expressly on this issue , which might have revealed the Council fathers to have been more or less evenly divided . |