Example sentences of "to be [adv] [adj] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | The researchers fed the emerging larvae , which they later found to be equally male or female , on sloth hair ( on which a green algae often grows ) , sloth dung , and leaves from those trees on which sloths generally feed . |
| 2 | If these could be found to be overwhelmingly large or small then the results could be of use in the framing of policy . |
| 3 | Their request , therefore is that the NBCW provides a regular input expressing as far as is possible , the concerns and views of women in the Church on topics which seem to women to be most crucial or fundamental . |
| 4 | ‘ While it 's true that an awful lot of eidetikers have problems with communication and some are even autistic , those that are n't do n't tend to be overly neurotic or unhappy . |
| 5 | May is unlikely to be particularly easy or straightforward , but what comes to light between the 2nd and 9th will alleviate your fears or anxiety . |
| 6 | Offers made on the editorial pages need to be particularly attractive or the readers will not take the trouble to send off their stamped addressed envelope . |
| 7 | Sometimes a resident of one of those towns was thought by one of his fellow citizens to be particularly obnoxious or dangerous , even though it was not possible to prove anything against him in law . |
| 8 | It it would need to be either one or the other I think . |
| 9 | He seems to be saying that the product must be seen to be either cheaper or different if people are to buy it . |
| 10 | Imposing English at all levels of the education system may not turn out to be either practical or appropriate . |
| 11 | The pressures to be either Black or lesbian make it very difficult and confusing to develop being Black and lesbian . |
| 12 | He can be a ‘ character ’ , a source of quaint rustic humour or homespun rural philosophy on such matters as the seasons and the weather , but he is rarely expected to be either forward-thinking or ‘ forward ’ in his demeanour . |
| 13 | Although changes at the sensory-motor synapse might occur during the habituation of the gill and siphon withdrawal reflex , they have not yet been formally shown to be either necessary or sufficient for that behaviour . |
| 14 | It will not have to be either critical or challenging , although elsewhere in the world , among less fortunate nations , it may be found to be so . |
| 15 | Mexico is a country with over three thousand years of continuous civilization , but knowledge of its history , culture and people has tended to be either minimal or — worse — affected by the kind of stereotypes we acquire from film or television . |
| 16 | I had ceased to be good at the convent , and now I also ceased to be either healthy or clever . |
| 17 | A MAN has to be either rich or crazy to make films in Latin America these days . |
| 18 | Iris Murdoch has spoken of novels as tending to be either crystalline or journalistic ; and the journalistic , which she practises , sounds like a free-wheeling and ever-hospitable realism : ‘ a large , shapeless , quasi-documentary object … telling with pale conventional characters some straightforward story enlivened with empirical facts . ’ |
| 19 | His silly face , so meaningless and without awareness of danger , seemed translated into sense through his return to music , and his entire concentration on the rhythms of the jig — Nicandra felt exhausted and exasperated by the realization that it was not in her power to be either kind or cruel to Silly-Willie . |
| 20 | Performances of Brahms 's piano sonatas tend to be either vigorous or spacious , the one approach emphasizing the impetuous element in this music written before he was 21 , and the other reminding us that even the young Brahms was a dour northerner much given to self-doubt . |
| 21 | As the outside and upper are also designed with weight rather than durability in mind , unless you are exceptionally light on your feet you would have to be either foolish or wealthy to train in a pair of racers . |
| 22 | General disclosure directions , such as those under discovery procedures of the court ( see 11.5.5 ) are not likely to be either welcome or appropriate . |
| 23 | Bourque and Grossholtz ( 1984 ) argue that the acceptance of ‘ masculinity as ideal political behaviour ’ has dire consequences for studying women : the unquestioned assumption that the political attitudes , behaviour and preferences of men define mature political behaviour means that when women do not match these they are said to be either apolitical or politically naive . |
| 24 | Noting that rats tend naturally to be either left- or right-pawed in reaching for and picking up their food , he constrained them to reach for their food with the non-preferred paw and reported changes in RNA and protein synthesis in the region and side of the brain responsible for the motor coordination of the ‘ learning ’ paw compared with the ‘ non-learning ’ side . |
| 25 | Any other fish therefore has to be either large or armour-plated . |
| 26 | Japanese kites , and there are almost a score here to set beside nearly 90 examples from China , tend to be either square or diamond-shaped and to be emblazoned with fearsome images of the heads of actors from the Kabuki stage . |
| 27 | In most of the early work on quantity constrained models it was assumed that any observed general unemployment had to be either classical or Keynesian but not both at the same time . |
| 28 | A path does n't have to be just straight or curved . |
| 29 | Rather they appeared to be just incomplete or abandoned . |
| 30 | They say that although sulphur dioxide may play a role in climate change , its effect is unlikely to be sufficiently widespread or to last long enough to offset the influence of the greenhouse gases . |