Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [adv] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in someone 's home or social life the most common factors are : |
| 2 | An allowance in the nature of an attendance allowance ( or a financial loss allowance ) MAY be paid to a councillor in respect of his attendance at ANY conference or meeting which the council itself considers relates to the interests of the area ( other than one called in respect of a trade or business , or which is wholly or partly political ) . |
| 3 | The Public Order Act defines a public assembly as an assembly of 20 or more persons in a public place which is wholly or partly open to the air . |
| 4 | A public assembly is defined as a gathering of twenty or more people in a place which is wholly or partially open to the air ( e.g. a mass meeting , picket , demonstration or pop festival ) . |
| 5 | An assembly is defined as being a gathering of ‘ 20 or more persons in a public place which is wholly or partly open to the air . ’ |
| 6 | For Mercury to have an iron core which is wholly or substantially molten today it must either possess significant quantities of U , Th and K in the core and deep mantle , or tidal heating by the Sun must be particularly powerful , or the solar wind must be efficient at inducing electric currents in the core . |
| 7 | The project is complementary to work going forward in Wales and Northern Ireland and to a European programme , which is wholly or partly funded through JAEP . |
| 8 | On the other hand , misinforming a patient , whether or not innocently , and the withholding of information which is expressly or impliedly sought by the patient may well vitiate either a consent or a refusal . |
| 9 | Sections 1–7 of the Insolvency Act 1986 relate to a procedure whereby a company which is nearly or actually insolvent may resolve its financial difficulties to the satisfaction of its creditors without incurring the expense and adhering to the formalities otherwise involved under the Act . |
| 10 | It is vital to have good side mirrors on the car in order to be aware of traffic which is behind or overtaking . |
| 11 | But of course if salaries go up evenly throughout a forty year lifespan and the Chairman is given a forty year lifespan which is quite or pension lifespan which is quite a suitable one , if salaries go up and someone leaves their company every ten years , then the first three departures are obviously going to be at much lower salary levels and it 's not going to be satisfactory the first three departures are just index linked to inflation , there is the problem of how does one index link them towards the final salary . |
| 12 | It 's fascinating and deals with attitude and mind control , using a technique called ‘ visualisation ’ which is more or less what I have been doing with my Knights . |
| 13 | This involves the acquisition of goal-oriented behaviour which is more or less formulaic in character and whose capacity for accommodation to novelty is , therefore , very limited . |
| 14 | Kenny does the same , and he relates animal wants to Aristotle 's notion of epithumia , or sensual desire : ‘ It is felt desire , and it is desire for something now , desire which is more or less continuously felt until it is satisfied ( like hunger , sleepiness , thirst ) ’ ( 1975 : 49 ) . |
| 15 | Sun Microsystems Inc has been sending out some rather confusing messages of late with regard to its position over the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Computing Environment — DCE — initiative , which is more or less completely opposite to its own Open Network Computing , ONC environment . |
| 16 | It was simply that a bottle of brandy , even of the kind intended only for the kitchen ( by which I do n't mean something not fit to drink , I mean something one prefers not to drink ) , somehow always turns out in fact to have been drunk by somebody just when it is needed for cooking and has n't been replaced , while whisky is a supply which is more or less automatically re-ordered as soon as it runs out . |
| 17 | However , since managers can also offer a coupon for the bonds — and hence a yield — which is more or less competitive by taking a higher risk , the overall price must also contain elements of the deviation of the yield from that which would be obtained from other competing intermediaries . |
| 18 | London , of course , and our Amsterdam exhibition has been trading since the beginning of the year and the price increase is generally coming at the beginning of the season , which is more or less now for the parks , earlier for the exhibitions . |
| 19 | ‘ If we can keep them out long enough , maybe the crowd will turn against them a bit and frustration will set in ’ — which is more or less what happened . |
| 20 | Which is more or less where we came in ! |
| 21 | For they [ plays of other nations ] are most esteemed for learning the languages , and many of them compiled by men of great fame for wisdom and learning , which is seldom or never seen among us . |
| 22 | And so she 's more or less chained to a desk then is she ? |
| 23 | ‘ She 's more or less packed . ’ |
| 24 | She 's more or less she 's er |
| 25 | Think I must be blushing , and maybe she is too or is it her English rose complexion kissed , fuck , there I go , kissed ( I should be so lucky ! ) by sudden Mediterranean sunshine ? |
| 26 | Other epithets name him He Who Is Above or He Who Is After . |
| 27 | A middle peasant is somebody who is more or less entirely self sufficient , he does n't hire any labour but nor does he have to work for anybody else , his plot is big enough for him to be able to support himself and his family . |
| 28 | But , having said that , if you feel , particularly with schemes that you are particularly familiar with , that that one is above or another or we could substitute rather than , there wo n't be any more money , that 's the point I need to stress I think . |
| 29 | For instance , it has been noted that when ‘ parents are depressed and irritable they do not take it out on all their children to the same extent : often one is more or less scapegoated . |
| 30 | There 's no rules in our business , but there 's more or less a convention that we do n't kill each other . |