Example sentences of "[Wh pn] be [adv] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is proposed to alter the Profit Sharing Scheme so that the Directors may permit participation in the Profit Sharing Scheme by employees who are temporarily or permanently working overseas . |
| 2 | Even the poor little mites who are physically or sexually abused do not , while still young , place the blame for such behaviour on the adult who perpetrates it . |
| 3 | The treatment for most people who are moderately or seriously ill is usually undertaken at a specialist unit . |
| 4 | Although day-care programmes are gaining increasing recognition , most patients who are moderately or severely ill are still admitted to hospital . |
| 5 | The promontory itself dissolves on the seaward side into rocks and inlets , including the delightful cove of the Plage du Port-Vieux , a sheltered bathing place recommended ‘ for persons who are weakly or unaccustomed to the sea ’ as my old Baedeker considerately puts it . |
| 6 | So many of Hardy 's girls are people who 've had a little bit of education , and who are somehow or other caught between traditional ways and modern ways , and I think one has the feeling that Hardy is more interested in the sociologically transitional status of the people he 's writing about than he is interested in them as people . |
| 7 | Zen masters insist that no amount of teaching and practice will help people who are temperamentally or intellectually unsuited to contemplation . |
| 8 | Exceptions to this are people who are mentally or physically disabled or those who are developmentally immature and are therefore unaware of dangers to themselves or are unable to protect themselves from hazards . |
| 9 | Most are still very much in the closet , however , and those who are more or less open about their sexuality rarely prioritise gay representation on their broadcasting agenda . |
| 10 | ‘ Some people are more religious than others ; what is required is some scale along which people who are more or less active can be distributed . |
| 11 | Such people have a concave utility of income function , i.e. Amongst them there will be people who are more or less risk-averse at any given income . |
| 12 | This can only be true for those speakers who are more or less monostylistic and " basilectal " : in other words , those whose repertoire is confined to a variety of Creole which is almost maximally different from Standard English . |
| 13 | I would like to hear from women who are now or who have been involved in prostitution . |
| 14 | The figure that I gave was of those who are directly or indirectly affected by the opencast sector . |
| 15 | They were either bought in by Don Bennett himself , and there were very few of those that got through my fine mesh , or those who were somehow or other forced on us by agencies over which we had no control . |
| 16 | Booz , Allen & Hamilton was forced to close down its executive search division in 1980 , when serious problems surfaced as a result of trying to carry on a recruiting business whilst at the same time having 3000 management consultancy clients on their books , who were more or less off-limits from the point of view of providing candidates for headhunting . |
| 17 | The real fraud was committed by the appointing officers , who were inadvertently or , worse , deliberately subverting the publicly declared equal opportunities policy of their health authority or trust . |
| 18 | In both cases people who were directly or indirectly implicated in racial harassment were asked to reflect on their actions and attitudes by an outsider who did not share their views ; moreover , as a researcher I was concerned to elicit evidence about racist assumptions or practices which as an educator I was also concerned to challenge . |
| 19 | Other epithets name him He Who Is Above or He Who Is After . |
| 20 | A middle peasant is somebody who is more or less entirely self sufficient , he does n't hire any labour but nor does he have to work for anybody else , his plot is big enough for him to be able to support himself and his family . |