Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] be [adj] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | A housewife may be married or not , and she may or may not have a job outside the home . |
| 2 | The contract may be good or the cheque generous , but it lacks the binding authorization of a signature . |
| 3 | The oral shield may be rhombic or rounded triangular with only a slight distal projection . |
| 4 | This family is characterised by a large well defined disk usually covered with thick skin or indistinct scales ; the radial shields long and bar shaped ; the papillae on the jaw may be spine-like or block-like ; the genital slits on the proximal part of the ventral interradial areas ; the arms long and covered with skin . |
| 5 | Their function may be sensory or supportive . |
| 6 | This suggestion of subfecundity among young girls who marry at too early an age is notable in some other countries as well , and the condition may be temporary or long lasting . |
| 7 | First , the fact that the ‘ needs ’ of accumulation and those of legitimation may be contradictory or confused , both internally and with respect to each other , gives an independent role to the political sphere in the formation of policy . |
| 8 | The priest may be black or white , fair or dark , old or young , good-looking or ugly , male or female … for the priest is a symbol , which is quite different from a picture — the representation attempted by an artist . |
| 9 | At the initiative of the Lord Chief Justice , Lord Parker of Waddington , who , unlike his predecessor in 1948 , had voted for abolition , the Lords debated at Committee stage whether the penalty of life imprisonment for murder should be mandatory or discretionary . |
| 10 | ‘ A crime must be deliberate or reckless intent to do something that society brands as criminal . |
| 11 | ( Note that unc need not be a normal form program if P is , since the clauses in the IFs might be false or not all distinct . ) |
| 12 | More than 90% of incontinent people , however , considered that their general practitioner would be sympathetic or helpful to their problem ; almost half would welcome some form of treatment . |
| 13 | So how we handle the foal is certainly going to make a difference between whether the mature horse will be friendly or not , and in my experience , horses that have not been well handled as foals are never as friendly , trusting , and confident as those who have . |
| 14 | At very best , any particular religion can be normative or valid only for those who happen to subscribe to it . |
| 15 | The figure for inventory investment can be positive or negative ; positive when inventories are being added to , negative when they are being depleted . |
| 16 | This system will be used in deciding on future allocations of the pool and the DES has already indicated that it would expect NAB to give advice about appropriate courses and rationalization , particularly concerning those which are expensive , those which are so specialist in nature that control of student numbers is required , and those where both university and public sector provision might be unnecessary or where rationalization is desirable for other reasons . |
| 17 | The purchase of specialist equipment may be uneconomic or insufficiently flexible . |
| 18 | This information is significant for the teacher as blackboard and wall-mounted work may be difficult or impossible to discriminate for a pupil with poor visual acuity . |
| 19 | It suggests too why the other of sexual fantasy may be stereotypical or two-dimensional in a way somehow at odds with the intensity and density of the desire which constructs it . |
| 20 | The projection may be linear or exponential , or may incorporate more complex calculations which make allowance for variation in the basic parameters assumed to remain constant in the simpler equations . |
| 21 | Such organised abuse may be satanic or ritual , but we do not use those terms . |
| 22 | To be effective , a committee must be unanimous or virtually so ; on the fairly rare occasions a committee divides on party lines , it is certain that its work will be ignored . |
| 23 | Mr. Tecks submitted that the European Court of Justice authorities , cited below , show that the crucial words refer to obligations which have their basis in contract or in a closely similar nexus such as that existing between an association and its members , so that the matters in question must be contractual or closely akin to contractual . |
| 24 | They certainly did object to the proposed changes , but they did so in terms of where it is right that the inset boundary should be placed , and as far as I 'm aware there are no references in any objections to the wider question of whether or not the village should be washed-over or be inset . |
| 25 | The costs of setting up a manufacturing subsidiary might be prohibitive or the foreign country might be politically unstable . |
| 26 | Maybe the purely locomotive-hauled coach could be obsolete or at least an enthusiast 's treasure by the end of the nineties . |
| 27 | The Budget Planner ( pages 120–25 ) may help you to work out whether the various luxuries and plans of which nearly all of us dream could be affordable or are destined to remain as fantasies . |
| 28 | We believe , of the causal circumstance for the starting-to-work of the wipers , that since it happened , so did the effect — and that if the effect were missing , the causal circumstance would be missing or incomplete . |
| 29 | This benefit can be direct or indirect and is sometimes referred to by lawyers as ‘ consideration ’ . |
| 30 | Investment is linked to 11 funds and benefit can be level or increasing . |