Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [adv] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is of great significance that most of the NICs are presently or have been in recent times one-party states , not necessarily totalitarian in the classic sense , but certainly lacking in most of the genuinely pluralistic institutions that characterize advanced industrial societies . |
| 2 | ‘ If you 've changed so much , then you should n't care in the least whether Eleanor 's here or not . |
| 3 | er when Pearl , my other daughter came over Christmas , course Andrea was more or less still going through a bit of a rough period with between her grandfather and her , you know ? |
| 4 | And Lucy was blithely or otherwise ignoring that fact . |
| 5 | A pattern emerged whereby shipping belonging to or destined for Kuwait was more or less assured of Iranian attention . |
| 6 | To account for this , we would need first of all to explain how the form how about VERBing is more or less restricted to usages in suggestions ( again , this looks like a linguistic form that has pragmatic rather than semantic content , a problem discussed in Chapter 5 ) . |
| 7 | Now ten years old , Ellie was more or less expected to run the house day by day . |
| 8 | He would not need above four days ' leave from them and since Oreste is now or will be by then nearly three which is the age Pen first travelled at I can not see any reason why he need inconvenience the party . |
| 9 | But whereas TMTSF is more or less planar , in BEDT-TTF methylene groups ( CH 2 ) at the ends of the molecule lie out of the main plane . |
| 10 | The position of the Spice Islands was more or less well known . |
| 11 | So perhaps Kinsey was more or less right after all . |
| 12 | Gas and oil pipelines were already being laid and the first oil and gas field at Eckofisk was more or less ready to come on stream at that time . |
| 13 | So far , China is more or less on course . |
| 14 | With its declination of 63 degrees south , Acrux is more or less circumpolar from much of South Africa and Australia , and never sets over New Zealand . |
| 15 | I do n't know whether Wills is here or not . |
| 16 | I do n't know whether Wills is here or not . |
| 17 | I mean , I do n't know what sort of taxes they have on eh , on drink and that sort of thing , but I think Austria is more or less the same same sort of tax . |
| 18 | The first street in Funchal was more or less the present Rua Santa Maria , and the flat area of beach was where the Largo do Corpo Santo is now . |
| 19 | It does n't matter whether Gabriel is here or not , really . |
| 20 | He had drawn his own face many times and Viola 's once or twice before . |
| 21 | Stubbly was more or less on cue . |
| 22 | While our residential weekends at Aston Clinton are more or less ‘ home from home ’ now . |
| 23 | Gone are the more dynamic days of the early 1960s when even substantial rates of net migration loss from the larger cities to other parts of Britain were largely or completely offset by relatively high rates of natural increase and by immigration from overseas . |
| 24 | De Quincey was more or less in hiding from Edinburgh people to whom he owed large sums of money , so Glasgow , a thriving and blackening metropolis of 365 , 000 souls , was the ideal place in which to eat your opium and keep your head down . |
| 25 | It were always like , me and our Colin were more or less with me dad , and our Margaret and John were more or less for me mum . |
| 26 | UK deep mined coal , although the cheapest in the EEC is twice or three times as expensive as US deep mined coal or Australian mined coal , or South African coal ; |
| 27 | Unlike BR , where the decline has been virtually continuous , numbers in RENFE were more or less static between the mid-1970s and 1984 . |
| 28 | Between disquisitions on Chinese opera and Venetian architecture , the story of Marco Polo 's voyage from Venice to Peking is more or less retold , though the narrative is continually being brought to a halt in moments when it half-realises that it does not mean enough . |
| 29 | I have never thought that the EC was intrinsically or automatically good or bad , as much depends on the effect of what is decided on our constituents and , indeed , on the people of Europe as a whole . |
| 30 | Her books , and she 's , she 's a right boffin right her books are really clean , she do n't never write on them , and she moans at me writing them , you know I always write Frances was here or something , like that , like you do . |