Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [adj] or [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , further , we shall find that our conception of property relates to many things which are not tangible or material . |
| 2 | These children are not wicked or evil — but the love of power is there . ’ |
| 3 | They are usually black or aluminium coloured and tend to be rather specialised and difficult to buy . |
| 4 | All over England there are enigmatic earthworks called pillow mounds by archaeologists , although they are more cigar- or bolster-shaped . |
| 5 | They are divided by four south-flowing rivers , the Arun , Adur , Ouse and Cuckmere , and are characteristically rolling or whale-backed in outline . |
| 6 | In the Brianne catchment of mid-Wales streams with a hardness of less than 8 milligrams per litre of calcium carbonate ‘ have a depleted flora and fauna and salmonid fish are either absent or present only in small numbers ’ . |
| 7 | During their fertile years they are either pregnant or breastfeeding . |
| 8 | The finest quality watercolour papers are either hand-made or mould-made . |
| 9 | Assemblies in Western liberal democracies are either unicameral or bicameral , that is they consist of one chamber or two . |
| 10 | Right all the machines they 've got erm are either German or Italian , say we got dump trucks erm we |
| 11 | ‘ All the people that were on my squadron are either dead or Group Captains by now . ’ |
| 12 | The two with which I have experience which have very high patency rates are either rt-PA or anistreplase . |
| 13 | In this way , with the eigenvalues in order of modulus , we find unc A point of interest may be noted : the individual vectors are either centrosymmetric or centroskew , just as a symmetric structure has either symmetric or antisymmetric modes of vibration . |
| 14 | And I do n't use colours that are too obvious or primary . |
| 15 | And I do n't use colours that are too obvious or primary . |