Example sentences of "[be] [noun] or [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are reasons or issues which have increasingly come to dominate our discussions within Obair in the past year . |
| 2 | Taskopruzade quotes from his father these words of Hocazade 's : " At the time when I was at the Sultan medrese in Bursa I was thirty-three years old and loved nothing save Taskopruzade goes on to say that Hocazade used to take more pride in having taught at the Sultan medrese than in having been kazasker or Mehmed II's Hoca . |
| 3 | These are an alternative healthy choice , particularly if they are seafood or chicken-based . |
| 4 | Most of them are sandstones or limestones that were laid down at the bottom of the shallow seas that once covered this part of North America . |
| 5 | The most common in use are strips or wires of galvanised steel . |
| 6 | Some of these are available to all households ( e.g. child benefit ) while others are income or age related . |
| 7 | It could have been hours or minutes later that Isabel found herself staring into a dark pit . |
| 8 | The other one per cent are artists or outsiders . |
| 9 | The other one per cent are artists or outsiders . |
| 10 | Several members of his family had been artists or lovers of art , and Gow himself became no mean collector and connoisseur . |
| 11 | Some special provision has to be made for depositors who are nominees or trustees . |
| 12 | Rules are combinations or chains of concepts which guide and regulate practice . |
| 13 | Such travellers may have been missionaries or emissaries , but the term presumably also encompasses those involved in commerce irrespective of whether they originated from across the English Channel . |
| 14 | The characteristic products are books or articles , and review articles : these enable members of a scattered community to communicate and to develop knowledge and polemic . |
| 15 | There must be no schools which are winners or losers . |
| 16 | The chief stars of Delphinus are Beta or Rotanev ( 3.5 ) , Alpha or Svalocin ( 3.8 ) , Gamma ( 3.9 ) , Epsilon ( 4.0 ) and Delta ( 4.4 ) . |
| 17 | Its leading stars are Beta or Rigel ( 0.1 ) , Alpha or Betelgeux ( variable between 0.1 and 0.9 ) , Gamma or Bellatrix ( 1.6 ) , Epsilon or Alnilam ( 1.7 ) , Zeta or Alnitak ( 1.8 ) , Kappa or Saiph ( 2.1 ) , Delta or Mintaka ( 2.3 , very slightly variable ) , Iota ( 2.8 ) , Pi³ ; ( 3.2 ) , and Eta and Lambda ( each 3.4 ) . |
| 18 | The other leading stars of Taurus are Beta or Al Nath ( 1.6 ) , Eta or Alcyone ( 2.9 ) and Zeta ( 3.0 ) . |
| 19 | The chief stars of Libra are Beta or Zubenelchemale ( 2.6 ) , Alpha or Zubenelgenubi ( 2.7 ) and Sigma or Zubenalgubi ( 3.3 ) . |
| 20 | The other leading stars of Ursa Minor are Beta or Kocab ( 2.1 ) and Gamma ( 3.0 ) , known as the Guardians of the Pole ; Kocab is strongly orange , with a K-type spectrum , and makes a good contrast with Polaris . |
| 21 | Typically they are husbands or wives walking out to live somewhere else , or teenagers leaving home . |
| 22 | In the current Middle Eastern situation it 's as well to be reminded , for example , that of the world 's 10 largest companies , seven are car or oil companies , and that one-third of the latter 's output is in the form of petrol . |
| 23 | If there is no spouse , they take in the following order , brothers and sisters of the half blood ; grandparents in equal shares ; uncles and aunts , who are brothers and sisters of the whole blood of a parent of the intestate ; uncles and aunts who are brothers or sisters of the half blood of a parent of the intestate . |
| 24 | Of these 57 authorities , 32 had been Partnership or Programme councils , and the remainder had a lower status either as Other Designated Districts or benefited from the traditional Urban Programme from which very many councils had gained some , often limited resources . |
| 25 | They are F or G giants , so that they can be seen over great distances . |
| 26 | Avoid these and go for the grilled items — possibles are poussins or chicken breast , game such as pheasant , partridge or guinea fowl , or , if you do n't have ethical qualms , lean veal . |
| 27 | It could have been fear or sympathy or irritation or a combination of all three . |
| 28 | Safety should be considered in relation to positioning of lighting in the house and access areas , particularly where there are steps or stairs . |
| 29 | To attempt to encapsulate ‘ pain' or ‘ red ’ , in the sense in which these are sensations or experiences , within a form of words , is no more illuminating than trying verbally to capture the stink of durian ( a tropical fruit with a foul odour yet hypnotic taste ) . |
| 30 | ‘ Aids ’ to living are gadgets or equipment which may help you if you have a problem in managing certain tasks . |