Example sentences of "[adv] be [adv] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the ambivalence that some studies have shown must call into question the relative importance of the history of family attitudes to bedwetting as perhaps being equally or more important than any postulated physical reasons . |
| 2 | That 's right they 're all with me , yeah that 's right because you know that you 've just been there or you 're going to be there yourself . |
| 3 | In other words , there are certain roles which are tailor-made for certain people who will go along and just be more or less themselves , and other roles which do require a lot of — if you like — psychoanalysis beforehand to get the most out of the part . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I realised that if I was going to switch guitars , I wanted something that had some kind of improvement , rather than just being more or less the same . |
| 5 | La Marche was a huge fief held of the Duke of Aquitaine , but the Counts had always been more or less independent . |
| 6 | I saw a river-bed , biting deep into the land , but nothing to suggest that a lake had ever been there or that man had ever trod there . |
| 7 | But would any be psychologically or physically fit enough to spend two or three years in a weightless box ? |
| 8 | I felt like someone out of a pop song , revisiting the haunts of childhood , going to see an old sweetheart , not knowing if they would still be there or not , hoping against hope that they might . |
| 9 | For no work of art which is deeply embedded in the imagination can ever be still or dead . |
| 10 | Ever be harder or clearer or come |
| 11 | In the central Andes there has probably been more or less continuous subduction since the Mesozoic . |
| 12 | The vehicle must be going towards the ‘ limits ’ and also be within or partly within the zig-zag lines , i.e. the ‘ zebra controlled area ’ . |
| 13 | Ads work in several different ways : these may be more or less intellectual or emotional : they may also be more or less conscious . |
| 14 | Or , if we prefer it , we may say the physical body as it is described by the anatomist is the more ghostly thing , a phantasy of cells and cell assemblies , a convenient way of talking about ourselves and that we really are more or less what we feel ourselves to be . ’ |
| 15 | well this people I mean with , with , that I mean that really is more or less the same amount as the other companies have said for er more or less the whole lot , so why the wardrobes are so cheap and yet the , the bed surrounding is so expensive , we do n't know |
| 16 | He thought : I believe that this is how I shall remember her when it is over , as over it will surely be sooner or later . |
| 17 | Sometimes be more or less . |
| 18 | Further , the explicit memory may then be more or less irrelevant . |
| 19 | The consensus then is more or less that help + bare infinitive is used when the helper participates directly in the activity for which he is giving assistance , while help + to is preferred when the assistance is felt as mediate or indirect . |
| 20 | Do n't want to I want you to learn things but there 's no point in learning everything twice is there or learning more than you need to at the moment . |
| 21 | The court may not be stipulating a particular substantive conclusion ; it may however be explicitly or implicitly ruling out certain options by the way in which it addresses and answers the preceding issues . |
| 22 | A basic scanner can capture a dot as either being there or not , it is a binary device . |
| 23 | Also , Bourdieu 's presuppositions make it seem as if a rational way forward is more or less ruled out in the political field . |
| 24 | ‘ The purpose of man , ’ it declared , ‘ is to praise God , and this , man 's proper work , remains when all else is past or put aside . ’ |
| 25 | It recognizes that some laws are passed purely as symbolic victories which the dominant class grants to inferior interest groups , basically to keep them quiet ; once passed , they need never be efficiently or systematically enforced . |
| 26 | Until recently was more or less confined to his home having no close relatives or transport . |
| 27 | For twenty years , while he turned the porn shop of sports into international theatre , attention was paid in a way it never was before or has been since . |