Example sentences of "be [art] [adv] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , for the past fifty years there has been a more or less perpetual state of international crisis , with America constantly involved as a leading player . |
| 2 | In retrospect , what Essays in Criticism seems to have represented was the institutional absorption after the War of the so-called " critical revolution " of the interwar period , and the professionalisation of what had previously been a more or less oppositional movement within the academy . |
| 3 | But research indicates that guests are no more or less likely to use a phone when one is available in the room . ’ |
| 4 | First , there may be a more or less continuous emission of steam and other vapours , not carrying much solid material , which forms a white column rather like the plume above a power-station cooling tower . |
| 5 | In contrast , Cramlington is ‘ non-urban ’ and was intended to be a more or less ( there was always some equivocation about this and it grew over time ) free-standing new town , located on a ‘ green field ’ site quite separate from the Tyneside conurbation . |
| 6 | On the one hand , an item may be a later insertion , and therefore postdate its apparent context ; on the other , it may be a more or less faithful copy of earlier , perhaps discarded , material , and may thus predate its apparent context . |
| 7 | It is the quest to think of that peculiar essence of which its physical nature is the more or less full actualisation . |
| 8 | The most prominent , due west of the village of Lescun as you look up the valley , is the more or less pyramidal Pic d'Anie , of 8,200 feet , the first or most westerly of the major Pyrenean summits ; it is claimed by the Basques as their one high Pyrenee , the home of wild goats and the legendary source of storms . |
| 9 | Skewness is a positively or negatively signed dimensionless number ; it has neither metric nor phi value and lies within the range -1 to +1 ( Table 3.5 ) . |
| 10 | The second requirement is a more or less neutral soil ; neither too acid nor too alkaline . |
| 11 | ’ Learning is a more or less permanent change in behaviour not due to maturation or damage . ’ |
| 12 | Each is a more or less stable filter mechanism . |
| 13 | In particular , the situation of children both in Rousseau 's world and in Shulamith Firestone 's is a more or less impossible one . |
| 14 | Within the stigma is a more or less clearly defined blood sinus through which haemocytes move from the lacuna of the costa into other veins ( Arnold , 1963 ) . |
| 15 | Contrary to the popular myth of largely extempore worship , there is a more or less set liturgical pattern for most of the services of the former Congregationalists and Presbyterians , who , together with the Churches of Christ , form the United Reformed Church . |
| 16 | However , in Amphioplus there is a more or less superficial second papilla next to the infradental papilla which is homologous with the first oral tentacle scale . |
| 17 | And if you remember I said that , because of its concern for security , the state creates a capacity for violence in the world of states , its , its environment and since this is er erm a characteristic of all states , however large or small the resources , they all create this capacity , they all have a defence policy er there is a consequent competition and this competition , far from resolving the problem of security , in fact exacerbates it , it makes it worse , and so states find themselves competing at different levels er competing particularly in the creation of military capabilities and the consequence of this is a more or less sustained and permanent arms race which frequently er produces armed struggles and war . |
| 18 | It 's not an and situation , it 's an ei it 's an either or situation . |
| 19 | But the presence or absence of specificity may not matter much where the most serious penalty is an OFT or MMC inquiry . |
| 20 | At that time there was a more or less continuing concern with curriculum review . |
| 21 | But I mean cos that was a more or less was n't it ? |
| 22 | It was on the tip of his tongue to observe that Burun was no more or less trustworthy than he had ever been , but he realised suddenly that he would be stating the obvious . |
| 23 | Our most important finding was that there was no statistically or clinically significant difference in the acceptability of serotonin reuptake inhibitors and tricyclic and related antidepressants in patients with major depression . |