Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [adv] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The inexorable logic does not , however , establish that the result is morally or socially desirable . |
| 3 | For example , in the first column , Greater York figure is more or less doubled . |
| 4 | When the parent is consciously or unconsciously seductive , and the child 's early fantasies are not mediated and finally renounced , the young person can remain fixated in love like the Brünnhildes and Queen Bees mentioned earlier in this chapter . |
| 5 | So the black youth 's progress in sport is partially or totally neglected by parents . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , as we have already said , casein is more or less a mixture of cheese and lime and under prolonged moist conditions casein behaves very like cheese . |
| 7 | It is simply that the type is more or less stable , established by convention , whereas the token is not since it is conditioned by context . |
| 8 | But crucially , although oppressive confessions may be ruled out , the Act goes on to provide that the fact ‘ that a confession is wholly or partly excluded … shall not affect the admissibility in evidence of any facts discovered as a result of the confession ’ . |
| 9 | The man whose own animals are missing when wanted has , in his turn , to ‘ hire' ’ , and so there is a continuous round of misappropriation , to which the whole community is more or less privy . ’ |
| 10 | As several million years are required for the transfer of a significant amount of heat to the surface of continental lithosphere , it has been suggested that hot spots are most likely to develop where the lithosphere is more or less stationary with respect to sub-lithospheric thermal anomalies as this would allow time for sustained heating to occur . |
| 11 | The computerisation of land registration is more or less completed , and this means that many of the delays formerly experienced are no longer so acute . |
| 12 | The move is more or less an insurance policy that Apple will at least have a place as a client in the enterprise . |
| 13 | The move is more or less an insurance policy that Apple will at least have a place as a client in the enterprise . |
| 14 | Although the spelling may be very different in the different words , the sound is more or less the same . |
| 15 | Mozambique has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the world , approximately 200 per 1,000 live births.4 Those who depend on emergency support because of war and drought number about 1,690,000 and about half the population is wholly or partially dependent on food aid . |
| 16 | All the models of passive rifting discussed so far assume that rifting is more or less a symmetric process ; that is , we would expect the opposing passive margins formed through continental break-up to have a similar structure and morphology because they have experienced a similar tectonic history . |
| 17 | Very well I said well yes my husband is there or not be there . |
| 18 | For example , the 1971 Act prevents single mothers from bringing their children into Britain unless they can prove sole responsibility ; and a woman can never be regarded a ‘ head of a household ’ unless her husband is mentally or physically handicapped . |
| 19 | Its concept is more or less universal , although its implementation is not . |
| 20 | There is no data to indicate that recombinant vaccine is potentially or actually safer than the plasma-derived product . |
| 21 | The immense , landless mass of Pacific water is more or less as it always has been . |
| 22 | To measure the power in a load , whichever of the movable or pair of fixed coils has the lower resistance is connected essentially or actually in series with the load as indicated in figure 7.2(b) , so that the load current is essentially or actually carried . |
| 23 | Learning is a process whereby knowledge , skills and attitudes are acquired or modified in such a way that human behaviour is more or less permanently changed . |
| 24 | Yes , my wife is more or less unrecognizable in every way . |
| 25 | Can you tell me if any woodworking and design courses — part-time , full-time , short or long — are available in which the emphasis is largely or completely using hand-tools ? |
| 26 | The effect on the original relationship of controlling a test factor is affected by whether the third variable is positively or negatively related to the other variables . |
| 27 | Their exam is more or less G C S E for eleven year olds you know |
| 28 | The lump is more or less intact , though crumbs of it stick to Perry 's fringe . |
| 29 | No protection exists for men over 65 or women over 60 or for persons over normal retiring age in a particular employment whether that age is more or less than the ages given above . |
| 30 | Elaborate social organization with co-operation tends to evolve in species attempting to reproduce under conditions where the carrying capacity of the environment is more or less filled . |