Example sentences of "been [noun] or [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taskopruzade quotes from his father these words of Hocazade 's : " At the time when I was at the Sultan medrese in Bursa I was thirty-three years old and loved nothing save Taskopruzade goes on to say that Hocazade used to take more pride in having taught at the Sultan medrese than in having been kazasker or Mehmed II's Hoca . |
| 2 | It could have been hours or minutes later that Isabel found herself staring into a dark pit . |
| 3 | Several members of his family had been artists or lovers of art , and Gow himself became no mean collector and connoisseur . |
| 4 | Such travellers may have been missionaries or emissaries , but the term presumably also encompasses those involved in commerce irrespective of whether they originated from across the English Channel . |
| 5 | Of these 57 authorities , 32 had been Partnership or Programme councils , and the remainder had a lower status either as Other Designated Districts or benefited from the traditional Urban Programme from which very many councils had gained some , often limited resources . |
| 6 | It could have been fear or sympathy or irritation or a combination of all three . |
| 7 | They reckon that Andropulos — if it was Andropulos , it could have been Alexander or Aristotle — made an amateurish blunder . |
| 8 | With effect from the start of an insolvent liquidation of the vendor , unless the court grants leave , the vendor 's company name may not be used by the purchaser if the purchaser or directors of the purchaser have been directors or shadow directors of the vendor during the twelve months preceding the liquidation . |
| 9 | These may have been farmsteads or hamlets , but they were certainly not large or extensive enough to be villages , whatever their status or internal arrangements . |
| 10 | Yet had the visitors been England or Australia he may well not have been able to resist the temptation , and this was only partly because they were the leading lights in world cricket ; there was also the racial aspect , in that he passionately wanted to prove that a team of black players led by a black captain was the equal of , if not better than , the white teams . |
| 11 | At a stroke , we might almost say , political ideas which had only been aspirations or dreams in the minds of philosophers or popular radicals , were placed on the agenda of real politics , not only in France or even Europe , but globally . |
| 12 | It will take several more years before most of these guesses will be proved to have been right or wrong . |
| 13 | But whether she had been right or wrong , Hugo had been allowed off the hook . |
| 14 | What he actually did was right or wrong according to the criteria we have discussed , while his intention was right or wrong , on Bentham 's view , according as to whether his action would have been right or wrong if things had turned out as he expected . |
| 15 | They happened to end up in Cork but it might just as well have been Hamburg or Paris or London , or America , as so many other Jews did . |
| 16 | The prosecution say the robber was disguised by a crash helmet , it had been Bryant or Cunnliffe and the other had driven the getaway car . |
| 17 | The Domesday Survey records a mill at Hucclecote which would have been Pitts or Ptymilne Mill . |
| 18 | So the next stop could have been Blackpool or Plymouth if we had wished . |
| 19 | In two strides the Trunchbull was beside him , and by some amazing gymnastic trick , it may have been judo or karate , she flipped the back of Wilfred 's legs with one of her feet so that the boy shot up off the ground and turned a somersault in the air . |
| 20 | Originally the nut would have been bone or brass , although JD could n't specify which . |
| 21 | As it happens , it was Geordie in origin but it might equally well have been Liverpool or Sheffield . |
| 22 | She suggests that the offending Geordie dialect ‘ might equally well have been Liverpool or Sheffield ’ - could it not also have been from Norfolk , Suffolk or Dorset ? |
| 23 | Of 1,000 GPs questioned by the Doctor newspaper , three out of four said the culprits had been patients or members of their families . |
| 24 | Thus in our ‘ suicide ’ drama the adolescents , instead of being in role as members of the family concerned , could have been neighbours or reporters getting a good story . |
| 25 | She gave Kate a quick appraising glance and a nod which could have been acknowledgement or approval and said : |
| 26 | Also ‘ bound with golden links ’ which might have been jewellery or chains . |
| 27 | and the aargh , just squeezed in and this lad sort of shit himself completely and went zoom right up the road then , well I knew what was gon na happen so I dropped right back and er how he missed him I do n't know , it must of been inches or itches |
| 28 | They were twisted and butchered and maimed and it was difficult to see if they had been Oaks or Beeches or Elms or what . |
| 29 | Sometimes it has been persecution or suppression . |
| 30 | But even more pressing was the need to escape from his discomforting gaze that could have been gratitude or suspicion or almost anything . |