Example sentences of "be [art] [adj] [noun sg] or a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether you 're a complete beginner or a well-practised expert , you can have bewitching stitching at your fingertips with our superb prizes |
| 2 | Youth unemployment has since the mid-1970s been a central fact or a central fear of many young people , and has affected many others . |
| 3 | It did n't really matter , their expressions seemed to say , he might as well have been a short-order cook or a deep-sea diver or a male prostitute . |
| 4 | Peach , who often sat on the chestnut leaf table , marking it no more than if he had been a fluffy cushion or a nightdress-case cat , watched gravely from the basket in which he was wise enough to sit when at home on Sundays . |
| 5 | If you are a royal official or a Tory MP you end up with a knighthood . |
| 6 | Examples are a piezoelectric crystal or a small diaphragm whose movement changes a capacitance , but the choice of devices is quite wide . |
| 7 | The most common experiences in the two years before a cancer is diagnosed are a significant loss or a sense of meaninglessness in the whole process of living . |
| 8 | That it should require a lid painting at all suggests that it can not have been an English instrument or a Ruckers , and , if its shape is drawn as carefully as the presence of an accompanying scale would indicate , the rather blunt double curve of the bentside would suggest one of the Hamburg makers . |
| 9 | You can be the Prime Minister or a dustman and it 's still the most important thing in the world . |
| 10 | Menorrhagia is the major non-gastrointestinal cause of blood loss while dietary deficiency may be the sole cause or a contributing factor to the anaemia . |
| 11 | The target of its manipulation may be the same body or a different one . |
| 12 | A function can be a many-one mapping or a one-one . |
| 13 | It might just be a good week or a bad week . |
| 14 | Would that be a good thing or a bad thing ? |
| 15 | Following the collapse of Novell Inc 's latest negotiation for a bigger piece of Unix System Labs , folks close to the fire are saying that Roel Pieper 's outfit should decide one way or the other whether it wants to be a binary player or a research and development outfit ( UX No 404 ) , because it is n't big enough to be both . |
| 16 | A few shillings might represent a messuage or cottage with , perhaps , a little land attached ; alternatively it could be a small close or a croft . |
| 17 | She would be a great actress or a great painter , or perhaps the first woman Prime Minister . |
| 18 | For such a psychology , mind has ceased to be a static structure or a substantial thing and has become a dynamic entity , a nexus of activities and a sequence of adaptive responses ’ |
| 19 | Will it be a multiple choice or a written or a |
| 20 | ’ One did not have to be a political commentator or a student of politics to know that Hitler was not just a psychopath . |
| 21 | Might be a general store or a newsagents or grocers . |
| 22 | You do n't have to be a seven-foot giant or a 16-stone powerhouse to succeed at it , and no ‘ performance-enhancing ’ drug can convert an ordinary player into a good one . |
| 23 | It 's a shame actually they do n't say how with cerebral palsy it can be a mild handicap or a major handicap . |
| 24 | I 'm trying to decide whether to be a crusading journalist or a craven hack . ’ |
| 25 | It could be a joint development or a pricey investment by a third party . |
| 26 | Concept keyboards allow areas of an overlay , which could for example be a historical map or a picture , to be touched by the pupil , calling up associated sub-screens of data or questions about the feature in question . |
| 27 | The product can be a physical object or a service of some kind . |
| 28 | I 'd like to try and define what the difference between and eating disorder and simply wanting to be a different shape or a different size is ? |
| 29 | This may be a social problem or a sociological problem . |
| 30 | There may be a willing volunteer or a professional person specially appointed , but this may not be easy to find . |