Example sentences of "[be] [verb] or [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The appearance in the Tripoli courtroom of the two suspects , Abdel Baset Ali Mohammed al-Megrahi and al-Amin Khalifa Fhimah , disproved persistent US suggestions that they had been hidden or even executed by the Libyan authorities . |
| 2 | As regards board structure , the Proposal suggests that , for all public companies ( PLCs ) , whether or not their shares are listed or otherwise publicly traded , a distinction should be drawn between directors responsible for ‘ supervision ’ on the one hand and ‘ management ’ on the other . |
| 3 | A control contract is subject to shareholder approval by a majority vote ( including any shares held by the dominant undertaking : but , in the case of a company whose shares are listed or publicly traded , the domestic regulatory authority may — as the Stock Exchange presently does — ban an interested shareholder from voting in this type of situation ) ; such a contract may therefore allow predators who have obtained board control of a company to make that company effectively subservient to an external body without the formalities of a takeover . |
| 4 | As many as 60 political parties were believed to have been legalized or freshly created during the 13 months following the publication in December 1989 of the draft joint constitution for a unified Yemen . |
| 5 | [ No shares or other securities of the Company have been registered or otherwise qualified for sale or resale under Federal or State laws in the United States of America or Canada . |
| 6 | The first experiments assess how subjects ’ recognition of photographs of familiar faces is affected if these are disguised or otherwise altered in various ways , and clarify which features of faces are important for their recognition . |
| 7 | This was a direct challenge to Urban , who had not been consulted or even properly informed . |
| 8 | A bricoleur was a handyman who , by using bits of machinery or equipment , the original purpose of which had been forgotten or never known , was able to solve immediate mechanical problems . |
| 9 | Problems are individualized or even suppressed rather than openly explored with all the possible difficulties that this entails . |
| 10 | Moreover , it is unclear from the Directive whether all classes of voting shares in a listed company are included or only listed shares . |
| 11 | The dominant culture may well be one that has been fostered or actively imposed by the Organisation in the person of its managers . |
| 12 | Many women left not knowing if they had been attacked or simply been through a formal examination . ’ |
| 13 | They are condemned as signs of unclear or lazy thinking — and , indeed , when they are overused or inappropriately used ( as in a wall of political hedging erected by a defensive politician ) — they are widely and justifiably attacked . |
| 14 | All business activity is related either explicitly in terms of the way in which functions are organised or implicitly by the business system . |
| 15 | The animal may have been wounded or simply have deteriorated so much that it is no longer able to catch deer and other prey . |
| 16 | Jeffrey had apparently either been rescued or cruelly done to death . |
| 17 | If we believe that the child should be placed transracially as an alternative to institutional care , then social workers must resist the massive denial or evasion of the negative consequences of some transracial placements for black children when the substitute parents have not been prepared or perhaps are very unsuitable to care for a black child . |
| 18 | The Liberal Democrats are opposed to the basis of this review at national level we believe an opportunity has been missed or perhaps I should say ducked for the common , fair electoral system for which this country is supposedly a signatory . |
| 19 | Feelings have often run high , especially where learning opportunities are perceived to have been mismanaged or ineptly handled . |
| 20 | Perhaps this is because they really are wanting or perhaps it is because the professional refuses to take on a role that the parents want but that he or she thinks unsuitable . |
| 21 | And even if it and are you supposed to tell people that you 're recording what they 're saying or just record it |
| 22 | You can listen to the radio while you 're working or even take them on holiday , though DO N'T try to punch cards in a coach , train or plane . |
| 23 | But it can then happen that these relations become a norm , from which other periods are interpreted or even , by contrast , judged . |
| 24 | Moreover , every member of every discipline has a right , even a duty , to challenge , disprove or modify what has earlier been agreed or just taken for granted . |
| 25 | ( That is why , in Task 2 , although one may make a pretty good guess on the basis of past experience , there is no sure way of knowing whether the sentences which are grammatically correct ike ( 1 ) , ( 3 ) , and ( 5 ) — have been used or just invented . ) |
| 26 | Joyce accepted that any one of these weapons may have been used or even two of the same used in conjunction . |
| 27 | They have never been shown or even reproduced . |
| 28 | 1.9 In every case the onus lies on the defendant to prove that the plaintiff should have been wearing a seat belt and that his injuries would have been avoided or less severe if he had been . |
| 29 | or ( e ) The way in which goods are packed or otherwise got up for the purpose of being supplied . |
| 30 | It also features acoustic technology from Groveland , California-based Crystal River Engineering Inc , involving high performance signal processors that can localise sounds such as ringing telephones and voices at their visual sources — whether these are moving or still . |