Example sentences of "[prep] be [adv] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first is that even if we concluded that a representative democracy was the best that could be achieved under modern circumstances , the idea or principle of representation is far from being fully or effectively embodied in existing political arrangements . |
| 2 | A court can include a requirement for the child to be medically or psychiatrically examined on one occasion or from time to time as directed by the supervisor ( para 4(2) ) . |
| 3 | In the first group of lead actions the position is as follows : ( 1 ) there are a very large number of major points of law which have to be decided on the manifold issues which arise under the various heads of restitutionary claim ; ( 2 ) there appear to be no or no significant disputes on the common issues of fact affecting the swaps cases generally , and indeed those matters covered by an agreed general statement of fact which has been placed before the court ; ( 3 ) there are discrete factual issues arising in individual cases , eg. , on change of position , since individual local authorities dealt with the money received under swap transactions in several different ways , which are variously relied upon as furnishing a change of position defence . |
| 4 | Almost 40 per cent of such problems were attributed in whole or part to the pupils ' characteristics whilst in about 65 per cent of cases the home was thought to be wholly or partly to blame . |
| 5 | Are you meant to be here or you just ? |
| 6 | The British Isles linger off the shores of continental Europe , uncertain whether to be apart or a part , and their cattle have developed to some degree in isolation but also with many strong two-way links with the cattle of the Continent . |
| 7 | The head thought that many reports were highly descriptive and rather thin on evaluative comment and most of the heads of department I interviewed accepted that there was a tendency for reports to be largely or entirely descriptive : |
| 8 | Support dipped sharply to 51 per cent only when the Americans were held to be largely or in part to blame for the failure of the Paris Summit in May 1960 . |
| 9 | Mrs Grant , I 'll need to be away or I 'll miss my bus . |
| 10 | Using this method and the data of Goodglass and Quadfasel ( 1954 ) she estimates language laterality in left handers to be predominantly or exclusively left-sided in 60 per cent of cases and right sided in approximately 40 per cent . |
| 11 | The shift in balance in the style of operation embodied in the anti-apprenticeship campaign was revealed in the gathering of a conference of antislavery delegates from around the country in London in November 1837 and their appointment of a Central Negro Emancipation Committee drawn from activists able to be permanently or frequently in London . |
| 12 | demanding to be home or anything ? |
| 13 | It 's either Maurice going to be there or . |
| 14 | Ninety-three per cent of women believe themselves to be fairly or very successful at balancing all the roles demanded of them . |
| 15 | But unfortunately , Gatt has turned out to be all or nothing . |
| 16 | This is admittedly an extreme case since Germany has passed from the , in theory , most complete pan-German political unity under Hitler to a situation where at least two states coexisted which could claim to be all or part of the German nation . |
| 17 | The respondent will inform the secretary of the disciplinary committee whether he wishes to be legally or otherwise represented , to call witnesses and/or submit documents as evidence . |
| 18 | Other things to be observed would be the patient 's appearance , presence or absence of heat and sweat in different areas of the body , his behaviour and mood , what he wants in his surroundings and environment , does he want to be still or moving , if he moves why does he move , does he want fresh air or to be covered , or both , or neither , and so on ! |
| 19 | The national economic and political environment is likely to be far more important for most companies , particularly since they will tend to be nationally or even transnationally organized . |
| 20 | No element , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) should ever pretend to be more or less than itself . |
| 21 | One scene from the film had remained in her mind : it had seemed to Marie to be more or less her own experience of life . |
| 22 | Leftists and Republicans were therefore entitled to feel that whether the right as a whole , or merely one element of it , achieved power , the consequences for them were likely to be more or less equally unpleasant . |
| 23 | No , no , I know what you mean , and on the whole yes , you 're right ; your modern fairy-tale — I do n't just mean what 's miscalled ‘ science fiction ’ , but all the stories that feed the modern hunger for the supernatural — they do tend to be more or less moral now . |
| 24 | Or rather , they laid down specific principles that were to be more or less taken for granted by subsequent positivists . |
| 25 | Here is an example of a political decision being taken at the highest level by an elected government which nevertheless felt itself to be more or less powerless in relation to a large transnational company . |
| 26 | Most of them still seem to be more or less all right , but Fiver and Pipkin will have had as much as they can stand before long . " |
| 27 | One group of sites could be seen to be more or less contemporary because they produced the same types of tool , while those which produced other types could be shown to be earlier or later in date . |
| 28 | Before that , all ‘ gases ’ were considered to be more or less pure samples of air . |
| 29 | In the end it seemed to be more or less common ground that the judge did not formally state his reasons when he made his order , although in the course of argument he had indicated that he had sympathy for the debtor 's argument based on section 69 of the Solicitors Act 1974 . |
| 30 | I could not believe that such an outburst of violence could happen in Fontanellato , where everybody , including those who belonged to the party , seemed to be more or less on good terms with one another , but when I arrived home I begged my father to be careful and to avoid discussions with anybody except the doctor . |