Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teachers had to learn to accept children 's idiosyncratic ideas , even those which appeared to them to be wholly misconceived or ridiculous . |
| 2 | Fortunately some can be successfully treated or controlled by particular therapies . |
| 3 | Unless these issues are satisfactorily resolved , ideas emerging from disciplinary study can not be effectively assessed or acted upon in the pedagogic domain . |
| 4 | Above all territory must be effectively occupied or it would fall to the partisans ; this kept French troops from the battlefield . |
| 5 | Even as the century nears its end , this key fact has yet to be properly understood or acknowledged . |
| 6 | In a centralised system the dull and docile will always go along with new policies , but no change can be properly interpreted or adequately sustained without support from active thinkers and innovators at different levels in a system . |
| 7 | They became , in a sense , a captive labour force ; those who tried to escape from the land to neighbouring towns could be forcibly returned or punished . |
| 8 | The addition and removal of sub-assemblies and components from the tree may also create difficulties as jumps between " branches " may be inadvertently created or breaks produced making the data inaccessible through the tree structure . |
| 9 | In non-consumer sales the implicated terms can only be so excluded or modified if the terms purporting to do this are reasonable in accordance with the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 sections 5 to 7 . |
| 10 | Where the UCTA controls exclusion clauses its approach is either to state that liability for the matter in question " can not be excluded or restricted by reference to any contract term " ( imposition of a total ban ) or to state that such liability can not be so excluded or restricted unless the relevant contract term " satisfies the test of reasonableness " . |
| 11 | er people that have behaved more er better you know they , they may be only fined or whatever and er although it 's a revolution , I mean it 's a rise of an association of a a power to sort of , to erm to counteract landlord power so become this sort of balance almost . |
| 12 | It does give them the opportunity to provide the facilities , and on top of that on top of classification we now have grading , where every aspect of that hotel 's operation is examined and inspected and they are giving erm the classification as well as the grading , which could be highly commended or commended , and to give you some idea , out of the hotels in this region , you know , very , very few so far have reached the highly commended accolade , and those that do are well worth it , you know . |
| 13 | It is usual for a given level to be entirely duple or entirely triple ( although variation across levels is more common ) . |
| 14 | To be fully professional , one needs to express feelings and give responses to the feelings of the sufferer but nonetheless be aware that within that professional relationship it is not relevant that one should be personally liked or even appreciated . |
| 15 | Perhaps they need to be better publicised or at different times/days . |
| 16 | This trend for library guides to be more flexible , to be better designed or to be tailored more to the needs of the user is encouraging , but it all goes for nought if the user does not use them . |
| 17 | Right erm I would just like to mention that it does n't say here that the A P C have set up er a separate er lobby group erm on which I have the honour to be a member with Patrick er to try and influence the MPs because one of the things which er is coming out and it 's it 's actually shown in paragraph three point three A at the bottom , the questioning whether the demand should be necessarily met or whether in fact , and this links to the government 's present erm reluctance to direct airlines to work from current unused capacity for example at , at erm at Luton and I think that there may well be some pressure put that er we should try and change that . |
| 18 | The Trust is also uniquely empowered , under its Act of Parliament , to declare its properties inalienable , which means that they can not be compulsorily acquired or used for any purpose against the Trust 's wishes without specific parliamentary consent . |
| 19 | Fume cupboards may be manually operated or on a time clock control . |
| 20 | They can be manually set or use automatic sensing for exposure . |
| 21 | Artificial expertise can be easily transferred or reproduced . |
| 22 | Instead of wingnuts the easel has nobs which can be easily loosened or tightened and a ratchet handle which keeps the easel stable . |
| 23 | Instead of wingnuts the easel has nobs which can be easily loosened or tightened and a ratchet handle which keeps the easel stable . |
| 24 | The bags are usually made of leather or canvas and hung from the ceiling on a rope or chain so that they may be easily raised or lowered . |
| 25 | ‘ I have just received your Portfolio of MS drawings quite safely , ’ wrote the former to the latter in January 1844 ; ‘ I quite agree with you that they are not to be compared in finish with Lear 's , though generally accurate , but then Lear was a Man both for manners in Society & Skill in his Profession not to be easily found or replaced . ’ |
| 26 | Fabric should be easily washed or cleaned cotton , or vinylised cotton ( for roller blinds ) . |
| 27 | For them , the social order is structured and not composed of discrete and shifting groups : there are real and deep inequalities between classes which can not be easily eliminated or resolved by recourse to a competition , by groups or individuals , for political power . |
| 28 | A child becomes thereby ‘ a child in trust ’ : parental responsibilities can not be easily extinguished or ‘ assumed ’ ( local authority powers in this respect are abolished ) : only through their legal transfer to others , by means of adoption , can they be snuffed out . |
| 29 | It is either going to be physically rationed or price rationed … prices are too low anyway , since we still have to have an operating subsidy , and that is not in line with the long-term political trend … ’ |
| 30 | It is via these windows that the system informs the Offline Operator what is happening and requests a media item to be physically mounted or dismounted on the appropriate media unit ; in this case mounting refers only to the action of placing a media item onto a media unit . |