Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | By now you should have discovered whether you are predominantly left or right-brained , thought about developing your creativity and learned about the influences on your mind and how to quieten it . |
| 2 | That challenges have been made to the liberal humanist tradition by Marxists , structuralists , deconstructionists , feminists and others is not , however , to say that these challenges are widely accepted or even taught . |
| 3 | For example , under differing degrees of habitat richness , two predators of the same species may have widely differing territory sizes if the resource areas are widely separated or not . |
| 4 | He told me some hair-raising stories of the casual , careless way in which bodies can be handled at the undertaker 's and in transit , the most common being losing the coffin on the way to the funeral because the doors have not been properly secured or the wrong name-plates having been attached , resulting in great distress to the relations of the deceased and confusion for the minister concerned , all of which made our dealings with Nigel seem positively reverential ! |
| 5 | We 've all read newspaper report of faulty hire equipment which has n't been properly checked or maintained ; a bad outlet could happily send you away with a potential deathtrap . |
| 6 | ( 5 ) Where a licence is granted by a board which has not been properly constituted or is otherwise not in accordance with the Act , the licence is void . |
| 7 | What the three thousand four hundred are saying is that the County Council and British Coal do not know where they 're going with this thing , the full implications of it have either not been properly assessed or indeed not been released to the to the local communities . |
| 8 | The Piraeus kouros appears to have an iron armature inside , so was cast in one piece ( one of the advantages of sectional casting is that the core can be removed ) ; but it has not been properly studied or published and we can not say what methods were used ; nor do we know what was the nature of Rhoikos ' and Theodoros 's innovation . |
| 9 | The rule does not require the proper officer to accept a document which is illegible , has not been duly authorised or is for some other reason unsatisfactory ( Ord 50 , r 4A(2) ( a ) ) . |
| 10 | ( a ) Meetings and their conduct Whatever may have been agreed as to the taking of decisions by unanimous or majority vote , as much a matter of good management as of good faith is the need to ensure that all relevant information is given to all the partners before a vote is taken : the requisite majority of partners should not purport to take decisions and act on them behind the backs of the minority unless such has been expressly authorised or the need for immediate action precludes the convening of a partners ' meeting ; and even then there should be no delay before all partners are acquainted with the circumstances and invited to ratify any decision taken in their name . |
| 11 | From studying Figures 6.5 and 6.6 it will be seen that in hospital there are many potential danger points for contamination by direct contact , for example with infected articles or with hands which have been inadequately washed or not washed at all after dealing with contaminated discharges or materials . |
| 12 | Once approval has been successfully granted or denied to a package , its entry is removed from the Quality Assurance queue . |
| 13 | The special link has been successfully granted or removed for the given LIFESPAN user . |
| 14 | Large developments by Beazer , Wimpey , Berkeley , Crest , Durkan , Prowting , Trencherwood , Salthorp and Penta have been successfully sold or are currently being marketed by Adkin New Homes branches spread over Oxfordshire . |
| 15 | They considered that a building or product can not be regarded as a complex structure if it has been wholly constructed or manufactured by one person , so as to form a single indivisible unit . |
| 16 | YOU ca n't enjoy good beer if the pubs that serve them are badly run or have been modernised in a vulgar and insensitive fashion . |
| 17 | The arguments against housing mentally handicapped people in such institutions are not founded , in the main , on the premise that they are badly run or insensitive to the needs of their ‘ patients ’ , but rather that no mentally handicapped person should be institutionalised and segregated from the community as a whole unless they require hospital and medical care . |
| 18 | Have a knife handy to cut away any really old slings which are badly bleached or frayed , or else exhibit scorch marks from the friction of the ropes of previous parties . |
| 19 | Even grains which are badly weathered or altered still register the typical emission . |
| 20 | Role ambiguity occurs when others ' expectations are badly signalled or received and remain unclear . |
| 21 | But , equally , well-intentioned laws that are badly drafted or not readily accessible are also a form of tyranny . |
| 22 | Although some protection is provided by appeal to the Mental Health Review Tribunal or nearest relative right to discharge , in practice both are rarely undertaken or successful , relative to the total sectioned . |
| 23 | Conditions in some ‘ private ’ clinics , to which patients without funds are sometimes sent by the State , but which are rarely inspected or monitored for standards , can be even more stark than in the state institutions . |
| 24 | The task usually involves explaining the meanings other people 's actions have to them and , because these are rarely isolated or intelligible in isolation , re-creating other mental worlds . |
| 25 | Those who initiate racialist talk ( without referring to a racist ideology ) may be a minority too , but since they are rarely contradicted or opposed they tend to shape the norms of the group . |
| 26 | However , married or cohabiting women are not eligible in any circumstances , although all the evidence shows that they provide substantial care for the sick and elderly and that their opportunities for paid employment are thereby reduced or removed altogether . |
| 27 | Use the minimise option on program group boxes which are little used or when the Program Manager is particularly crowded . |
| 28 | One thing is certain , unless the food organisms have been badly damaged or Shed , free amino acids will not be liberated in vast amounts . |
| 29 | Mr Sloan believes the thieves were probably working for someone who has bought a similar Mercedes which has been badly damaged or written off . |
| 30 | Sadly , the rest of his collection of paintings and furniture had been badly charred or destroyed . |