Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] or [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would have stopped there if the adrenalin in her system had been less potent or the half-smile on his face had n't taunted her to further repartee . |
| 2 | Seldom has the time been more appropriate or the need more urgent for a Bill of this kind . |
| 3 | One can not square the circle of being ‘ independent and accountable ’ : it will be either one or the other . |
| 4 | It it would need to be either one or the other I think . |
| 5 | Its slight irregularity could be either intentional or an accident due to the hard-edged woman 's discomfort with the beads of meaning . |
| 6 | Attendance at a day centre where the parents and child attend together can be very valuable or the professional 's going to the parents ' home to watch a play session will enable sharing of the observations . |
| 7 | So long as this is done where improving the outcome is more important than deciding for oneself this acceptance of authority , far from being either irrational or an abdication of moral responsibility , is in fact the most rational course and the right way to discharge one 's responsibilities . |
| 8 | • A free-running rhythm with a period greater than 24 hours ( because the time-cues were too weak or the subject was unable to receive or respond to them adequately ) ; |
| 9 | If you are going to be lightly humorous , skimming like a butterfly , then you will be ill served by a plot that is impossibly ingenious or a plot that has at its centre something too grave to be dealt with light-heartedly when , long after you have embarked on the actual writing , the moment comes to reveal all . |
| 10 | Clause 79 provides for discount where there is only one or no resident in the property . |
| 11 | Since this includes all those forms which are conventially termed subjective , it is clear that the distinction between individual and society is only one or the selection or an analytical level , since the two are inseparable . |
| 12 | In well-winnowed sediments there is generally little or no matrix , leaving resultant pore spaces which may be partially or totally occluded ( or filled ) by cement during diagenesis ( Fig. 5.2b ) . |
| 13 | There is thus little or no tendency for molecules of one component to hinder or help the escape into the vapour phase of molecules of the other component . |
| 14 | Similarly , one can not talk about contemporary Chinese , Russian or Balkan weaving groups , because there is usually little or no difference in the character and appearance of rugs made in the various centres throughout each country . |
| 15 | The most noticeable feature is that there is still little or no evidence of multi-culturalism . |
| 16 | He is also sceptical or the argument that parasuicides and the unemployed are linked by personality disorders which make it difficult for them to hold down jobs . |
| 17 | Take a sampling of modern preaching , for example a minister who is culturally aware or an evangelist in the classic nineteenth-century tradition . |
| 18 | This principle applies in full force in dealing with the harmonic idioms of the present day , in which discords are approached and quitted with the utmost freedom , and there is often little or no feeling of resolution at all , for there must always be ‘ part-writing ’ and the notes must ‘ go somewhere ’ and not be left in the air , so to speak , even if the progressions are not in accord with nineteenth-century harmonic notions . |
| 19 | It thus has a value on the settlement day which is either zero or the difference between the current price of the stock minus the option 's exercise price , if that is positive . |
| 20 | It 's either that or the roof , we 've got to do something . |
| 21 | well it 's either that or the launderette and I mean that 's , that 's quite costly is n't it ? |
| 22 | If this is not possible because the drain is too long or the land falls the wrong way , the pipe used for the drain will have to be larger and laid with a gentler slope . |
| 23 | These are included in relation only to limited classes of investments , which , however , cover not only money market investments but also debt investments ; it is therefore likely that futures contracts linked to debt securities are included , even if they fall outside the money market exemption ( because the transaction is too small or the debt securities have too long a maturity ) ; and ( 6 ) Countries , monetary authorities or certain supranational institutions . |
| 24 | Even having made a commitment to the climb , the option of retreat is always open if you sense the temperature is too high or the snow conditions dangerous . |
| 25 | This procedure can fail to produce a result under extremes of lighting due to spreading if it is too bright or the exposure cut-off if it is too dim . |
| 26 | Unless a watercourse is very small or the pollutant particularly powerful , the natural processes of dilution and purification will often make it very difficult for either proactive or reactive discovery to reveal the existence of pollution soon enough and in sufficient detail for it to be traced to a particular discharger . |
| 27 | Erm the , the other thing I noticed was that there is very little or no eye contact at all with Martin so you , you were never really looking at him when you were asking questions or when he was giving you the answers back , so there was no er visual acknowledgement whenever he was , he was coming back to you . |
| 28 | Disregarding the cases when the electric field is very large or the conductor is very hot ( beyond the scope of this course ) the electrons can not get farther than the boundary of the conductor . |
| 29 | If the night is very cold or the middle of the day extremely hot , they may retreat to the galleries below ground level where the temperature does not vary so much . |
| 30 | There is therefore little or no scope for the clearing member who is not also a market member . |