Example sentences of "or be [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or am I simply what they expect me to be ? |
| 2 | Or am I not permitted to speak in my own house ? ’ |
| 3 | Is this normal or am I just a good driver ? |
| 4 | Or am I just a moaning old crone ? |
| 5 | Or am I just plain incompetent — a liability to anyone reckless enough to venture onto rock with me ? |
| 6 | Yeah on the pensions one er are we a page missing or am I just a page missing ? |
| 7 | Perhaps I 'm still punishing him by penning this recollection , or am I perhaps finally laying the ghost ? |
| 8 | Most of the scriptures we 'll be looking at today is very familiar with us we know them and some of them we may be able to recite without even looking at the words , but er , if we can try and get you to think a little bit about them , then we 've achieved something , if we can get you to think that , you know , well am I dozing or am I really awake as I should be , then we 'll achieve more , in verse eleven it speaks there about er , you people knowing the season , well what people are we talking about ? |
| 9 | Is it possible for students to sing with you , or are they here for too short a time ? |
| 10 | " Your fever deaths too are high again — or are they mostly concealed suicides ? " |
| 11 | Are the Physical Education and Music departments only concerned with intensive coaching of small elites or are they also encouraging all pupils to improve their performances ? |
| 12 | Or are they no more than generalized exhortations , the playthings of ethicists , who love to pontificate , because that is all they are good for ? |
| 13 | Are our ethical values ( the Principles of Honesty and Natural Knowledge ) connate , that is " known to us instinctively by virtue of our divine origins " , or are they no more than " long inculcate precepts " which depend simply on " what has hapned to be taken up by overruling Custome " ? |
| 14 | Do they have something to offer nursing , or are they just ‘ flavour of the month ’ Peter Mason investigates |
| 15 | Or are they just actors on a stage ? ’ |
| 16 | Or are they just keen for a pat on the back from M. Delors ? |
| 17 | Or are they just greedy and saying well we 're doing quite well out of rent reduction , but if we , you know if we the landlords , we 're gon na get some more ? |
| 18 | Or are they just a crowd . |
| 19 | or are they just er |
| 20 | The miracles you 've done , are they true , or are they just tricks ? |
| 21 | Are they going to advertise it or are they not ? |
| 22 | Or are they not ? |
| 23 | Have CARTER USM gone rock dinosaur on us , or are they merely having a joke at their record company 's not inconsiderable expense ? |
| 24 | The interesting question arises : were the several widely acknowledged major episodes of mass extinction in the Phanerozoic caused by exceptional events different in kind from what occurred in the much lengthier intervening periods , or are they merely the spectacular end-members of a whole series ? |
| 25 | Which of you is responsible for the long periods of separation , or are they merely dictated by your careers ? ’ |
| 26 | Mm , and what are they , are they , are , are they actually supposed to make money off it or is it just supposed to be a break even thing or are they quite happy |
| 27 | Or are they so cluttered up that there is n't any real space to work on ? |
| 28 | Are the Government going to send other material that they want to launder to Wandsworth prison or are they now going to come clean about this episode ? |
| 29 | Is it possible to get tickets for the Kop or are they usually sold out ? |
| 30 | Or are they as incompetent as that across the whole waterfront ? |