Example sentences of "[vb -s] be [adv] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | When so large a part of modern politics , above all in America , is concerned with policies which an insight into the psychology of envy would reveal to be inherently futile , it is perhaps not surprising that the study of that psychology has been instinctively or deliberately neglected . |
| 2 | The rational expectations hypothesis challenges macroeconomists of widely differing outlook to re-examine the short-run dynamics of their respective models so as to check that no assumption of irrational behaviour has been implicitly or inadvertently embedded within the structure of the model . |
| 3 | As so often , one sees the survival of a social custom long after its original purpose has been wholly or partly superseded . |
| 4 | Once the presence of a carcass has been directly or indirectly detected , they glide down to it rapidly , and large numbers of vultures are thus enabled to assemble in a short time . |
| 5 | Since the turn of the century there have been brief periods when Britain has been more or less self-sufficient in cereals , meat , and dairy produce — during the two World Wars , and today , under the extraordinary economics of the European Community . |
| 6 | I will not go into detail but your disappearance has been more or less accepted now . |
| 7 | In Great Britain , the proportion of smokers has been more or less static for several years at around 32% for men and 30% for women . |
| 8 | They have n't been as much part of my life as I would like , because for the last year or so it has been more or less taken up by the future of the channel . |
| 9 | One particular group of people which has been more or less completely overlooked are those who became disabled in childhood or adulthood , and who are now ageing with a disability . |
| 10 | Good courses of ore had been met with in Deep Level , but Leathart pointed out , " the whole of the ground has been more or less worked prior to the present adventurers " . |
| 11 | Total per capita consumption of alcoholic drinks has been more or less constant for a decade . |
| 12 | In particular , there will be no change in treatment where the basis of valuation has been explicitly or implicitly agreed or accepted , or the view has reasonably been taken that there is no , or only negligible , benefit . |
| 13 | For the past few months it 's been more or less constantly at the limit — the £300,000 cheque put it unacceptably over . " |
| 14 | In Depeche Mode , Yazoo , The Assembly and Erasure , he 's been fully or partly responsible for some of the best music of the past ten years . |
| 15 | She 's been once or twice . |