Example sentences of "[is] [adj] or [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The definition of what constitutes a ‘ disease state ’ is influenced by social concepts as is the definition of what is normal or average . |
| 2 | Both these cases , while they are addressed to the distinct issues of whether history is accidental or planned , and whether it is accidental or law-governed , exemplify a widespread failure to engage with the problem of holism . |
| 3 | The average group however choose private provision when G is low or medium , hence preferring the lower level of state spending , but switch to public provision when G is high , this being their overall preferred level . |
| 4 | Manchester United and Everton use a transfer fee movement mechanism to appropriate profits to reserve account when transfer expenditure is low or transfer revenues high , and debit this account when transfer payments are significant . |
| 5 | Even earthworms have light-sensitive cells in their skin which tell them whether it is light or dark . |
| 6 | The photo-sensitive cells can detect whether it is light or dark , but give no other information . |
| 7 | The binary opposite of heterosexual is homosexual or lesbian ; the binary opposite of married is single . |
| 8 | The word is usually used in the New Testament of internal reasoning which is wrong or evil . |
| 9 | The determination of whether a fabric is grain- or mud-supported otherwise takes considerable experience to determine from thin sections , which are essentially two-dimensional . |
| 10 | It makes no difference to our income whether it is timber-frame or brick and block . |
| 11 | It is not incomplete , but it is vague or question-provoking , especially when compared with B or with the total effect of A plus B. |
| 12 | I assume that the quality of the ones I have handled is typical or representative of the quality of the others . |
| 13 | Lawrence placed enormous emphasis on the duality of , and opposition between , the male and female principles : ‘ except in infinity , everything of life is male or female , distinct ’ ( Phoenix , 443 ) . |
| 14 | The moral outlook a person has may — though this is , of course , only a statistical or average truth — depend on whether that person is male or female . |
| 15 | You ca n't tell whether the person is male or female . |
| 16 | Er I might say if keep a little check list of whether each person you ask is male or female or how old they are |
| 17 | The Criminal Law Revision Committee now recommends that , whether the victim is male or female , the maximum penalty for non-consensual buggery should be life imprisonment . |
| 18 | The writer of this sentence does n't know whether the reader is male or female , but has chosen to use " his " as a GENERIC to mean " male or female " , overriding the normal use of " his " as a gender-specific pronoun meaning " male " . |
| 19 | The question of whether God is male or female is supremely bad theology . |
| 20 | I do n't really understand why so many galleries seem to be closed to women , but it does n't make any difference to me whether an artist is male or female . |
| 21 | At fifteen weeks the cub 's too young to be approached so keepers still do n't know if it is male or female . |
| 22 | , , dream occasionally in n it strange ? , help is one goldfish is male or female , how 's one know whether to call it James or Jessica or I have n't the faintest idea how you sex a fish . |
| 23 | This does not mean that the measure of profit is absolute or objective . |
| 24 | Thus , those whose work necessitates an early start ( for example , farmers , bakers , some factory workers , and long-distance commuters ) will routinely time their life-style ( retiring , rising , and meal times ) earlier than average and their environment — when it is dark or light , noisy or quiet — will be adjusted to match . |
| 25 | But this animal — which I nicknamed ‘ Ginger ’ — is fawn or biscuit-coloured all over . |
| 26 | the address of the property if the charge is Standard or Collective . |
| 27 | I think in a er incident like that I do n't it matters whether it 's male or female . |
| 28 | it 's male or female you see . |
| 29 | And whether it 's male or female , so , number eight , and in fact , number nine as well , because number nine was that couple of questions I said look do n't get confused , they are actually |
| 30 | Similarly initial costs are high as vendors try to recover their non-recurring investments in the technology , but falls as volumes increase and manufacturing is streamlined or competition depresses prices . |