Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] or [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All tumours were solid or had elements of er capillary and solid tumours and , routine sections were stained with a standard aminohistochemical technique , using anti C D thirty one anti-clotting . |
| 2 | Patients were excluded from the study if they were pregnant or lactating , if they were expecting to undergo surgery , or if they had a history of concurrent gastric ulceration , renal insufficiency , alcoholism ( pure ethanol intake greater than 100 ml/day ( women ) or 120 ml/day ( men ) , or behaviour consistent with alcohol abuse ) , drug abuse , or language difficulties . |
| 3 | None of the patients were alcoholic or had any history of small intestinal disease , gastric operation , or small bowel resection and had not lost more than 10% of body weight in the six months preceding the study . |
| 4 | So many of them were interrelated or came from the same Sardinian village that all of them , with or without a record , could usually tell him something if they would . |
| 5 | Vero cells were mock-infected or infected with 20 pfu/cell ASFV BA71V for 18 hr . |
| 6 | In 1983–4 , 33 per cent of young workers told interviewers from the GHS that they were unemployed or had experienced unemployment during the previous twelve months . |
| 7 | The lesions were linear or dotted in shape , and were often located on the upper part of the mucosal folds . |
| 8 | Among those older workers in the study conventionally defined as economically inactive , just over two-thirds were retired , although only 18 per cent had retired at the normal pension age , 17 per cent were sick or injured , and 4 per cent were looking after their families . |
| 9 | The delegates called for an end to workers being sacked just because they were sick or injured . |
| 10 | A survey by Germany 's Union for the Environment and Nature Protection recently found that two-thirds of the country 's trees were sick or dying from the effects of traffic and industrial fumes . |
| 11 | I had continued since , working for friends and neighbours who were ill or had legal problems . |
| 12 | But , of course , the client had only approached the lawyer because the solutions she could think of — those available in everyday discourse — were inappropriate or had been tried and had failed . |
| 13 | If the IVA proposal is accepted , the arrangement binds all creditors who had notice of and could vote at the meeting , whether or not they were present or represented . |
| 14 | My Lord erm just to sweep up one or two of the other , very briefly the points my learned friend has just raised , erm I , I think it follows that our provisional position at the moment is that we think that reference is probably more satisfactory than simply going to the commission , what went , if your Lordship went to the commission and then found that they were unsatisfactory or did n't really take matters further , for one of the reasons it might very well not , is because the original complaint put to the commission was not framed in the same way as the defence and counterclaim are now framed , er there 's been a very considerable amount of refinement , both parties would no doubt wish to put submissions into the commission as to how the answer should be put or to provide information so the commission can answer them and so on and so forth and it may not be any quicker doing it that way |
| 15 | The two groups were age matched and all women were married or living as married . |
| 16 | Markedly more men than women were single , while considerably more women were married or cohabiting . |
| 17 | A total of 34% ( 31.1% to 37.8% ) of cystic fibrosis adults were married or cohabiting , compared with 61% in the general population over 16 years of age . |
| 18 | Those plants that concern us here were terrestrial or lived in bogs , rivers or lakes . |
| 19 | So I used to encourage his own poetry , and his ideas for poetic themes , even when I knew they were poor or did not interest me . |
| 20 | Where replies were ambiguous or lacking in detail further information was requested before reaching a decision : in some cases this was supplemented by material obtained from elsewhere . |
| 21 | Whether these craftsmen were independent or worked under the aegis of the temple , which was close at hand , is hard to judge . |
| 22 | Initially , these Franco-German telecommunications satellites did not trouble US interests ; they were experimental or confined to educational or other non-commercial purposes . |
| 23 | It was found that schools which experienced budget cuts due to the formula had higher costs because they were small or had surplus places . |
| 24 | I also jot down the questions I did answer and ask myself if my answers were open or closed . |
| 25 | These towers were transeptal or set just behind the apses and were polygonal or circular in form . |
| 26 | This may cause difficulty where the audience were annoyed or distressed by what the defendant was doing . |
| 27 | Do you think they were faulty or have I done something wrong ? |
| 28 | It must be acknowledged , however , that the library appears to have been sometimes used to make sure that children whose teachers were absent or engaged in other pursuits were supervised . |
| 29 | However , the report further states , that in the course of communications between the pilot and Acapulco Approach and the Mexico City Control Centre , at not time did the pilot mention that his instruments , engines or flight systems were defective or functioning improperly . |
| 30 | During 1990 export levels were static or fell in many key categories , including electronics and textiles , leading to concerns about the overall state of the economy . |