Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [adv] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | The concept of ‘ satisfaction with housework ’ follows the concept of ‘ work ’ or ‘ job ’ satisfaction as used in the sociology of industry and paid work ; it represents an overall assessment of the degree to which housewives are positively or negatively oriented to their work . |
| 2 | This rule may help to keep clear the distinction between those interventions which seek to challenge the structural conditions under which racist discourses are directly or indirectly reproduced , and those strategies which aim to interrupt their circulation in specific micro-contexts , and/or introduce alternative story lines . |
| 3 | The shareholders in non-profit institutions and publicly owned companies in both cases are more or less synonymous with the customers of the firm ; they provide no additional constraint apart from this , though in publicly owned companies the relevant government department will impose its own constraints ( see chapter 4 ) . |
| 4 | If the emphasis is on people whose holiday activities are more or less self-explanatory , a main title ( which can be pre-recorded onto the beginning of the tape or superimposed live over the opening shot by your camcorder 's titling facility ) may be all that is required to set the scene . |
| 5 | These are obvious cases because the forms are linguistically or stylistically related , and in one of them it will be shown later that the name became hereditary — as Forsey — down to the twentieth century . |
| 6 | Having said that , it is beginning to gel as a discipline ; Mr D said that staff rarely discussed the aims of the course now , there being a ‘ general assumption that the ground rules are more or less the same [ as when we started ] ’ . |
| 7 | However , this is not always easy to do because , as I have already said , most disputes are more or less polycentric . |
| 8 | So all our lads are more or less , that was lightning strikes and finish off . |
| 9 | But the question of what pictures are entirely or for practical purposes Bellini 's own is answered largely by personal taste ; there is therefore a considerable divergence of view . |
| 10 | Yet the London we inherited from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is more or less a success . |
| 11 | C. A. Moser in Survey Methods in Social Investigation identifies three sources of bias in sample selection : ( 1 ) the use of a sampling frame which does not cover the population adequately , completely or accurately ; ( 2 ) the use of a ‘ non-random ’ method of sampling , so that the selection of subjects is consciously or unconsciously affected by human judgement ; and ( 3 ) the refusal to co-operate among some segments of the chosen population . |
| 12 | Nor is it known how such circumstances arose or whether the balances are individually or cumulatively material in relation to the company 's accounts . |
| 13 | Relations with so-called third countries are more or less formalised . |
| 14 | So long as these descriptions are more or less correct they should be praised , and everyone 's attention drawn to the most unusual ones . |
| 15 | The movements are more or less directed sideways , i.e. écarté or effacé , as in the dances fur Romeo , Mercutio and Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet and fur the Tutor in A Month in the Country . |
| 16 | Selvedges are more or less the same on all items , but the fringes are secured in a number of distinctive ways . |
| 17 | ( One possible exception to this was Mexico , where the Communists were more or less tolerated until they made a misjudged and Comintern-inspired attempt to exploit an abortive right-wing coup against the portes Gil government in 1929 — see pages 39–40 . |
| 18 | The other bones were more or less in a confused mass below the thorax . |
| 19 | All are agreed , however , that competition in European telecommunications is more or less inevitable , as a debate at last week 's Networked Economy Conference in Paris , organised by Communications Week International , demonstrated . |
| 20 | Note the Weberian , and even Nietzschean , notion of a ‘ charisma of creativity ’ implicit here , in which artists , scientists , and religious heroes are more or less interchangeable in the role of prophet . |
| 21 | Approaches and perspectives are more or less fruitful in encouraging promising lines in inquiry , rather than being true or false or responsive to empirical test . |
| 22 | It is meant to be a 12 day walk but because of its convoluted shape the circuit can easily be shortened , for instance two of the days are more or less optional . |
| 23 | 80 per cent of the buildings were more or less seriously inadequate . |
| 24 | First , there are too many complications to allow the conclusion that individuals were more or less likely to be receptive according to whether they were Protestant or Catholic . |
| 25 | In the mid 1980s approximately four hundred foreign banks were directly or indirectly represented in London with American , Japanese and Arab banks dominating the scene . |
| 26 | For example , this definition of federalism seems reasonable enough : ‘ a federalised state is one in which the several units and their respective powers are constitutionally or otherwise legally united under the ultimate power of a central state or government ’ . |
| 27 | Polar lakes and ponds are partly or completely frozen and snow-covered for much of the year . |
| 28 | The amphibolite bands and lenses are more or less biminerallic , with hornblende by far the most abundant mineral , often occupying more than 75 per cent of the rock , and with feldspar as the other mineral present . |
| 29 | Geophysical work ( King , 1954 ) has demonstrated how some major British landforms are more or less coincident with New Red Sandstone features . |
| 30 | In the digital world , things are there or not there , ‘ on ’ or ‘ off ’ . |