Example sentences of "be [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 | Additional generating capacity will be mainly coal-fired or hydro with some nuclear . |
| 6 | Again for sweaters , little crescent moons and stars scattered over the fabric makes a very pretty design , as does one big intarsia crescent moon which again can be classically simple or fun with a face on it . |
| 7 | The researchers fed the emerging larvae , which they later found to be equally male or female , on sloth hair ( on which a green algae often grows ) , sloth dung , and leaves from those trees on which sloths generally feed . |
| 8 | There are two types of source for quotation ; they may be either primary or secondary in origin . |
| 9 | The mechanism of induction of eicosanoids may be either primary or secondary . |
| 10 | A bisyllabic pet name could be either male or female , but a monosyllabic one is much more likely to be male . |
| 11 | Traditional Champagne presses can be either round or square , but both compress a wide and thin cross-section of grapes which , unlike those in other areas , are not de-stalked . |
| 12 | The feature structures consist of features and associated values which may be either atomic or complex ( i.e. feature structures themselves ) . |
| 13 | The pressures to be either Black or lesbian make it very difficult and confusing to develop being Black and lesbian . |
| 14 | Loss under a Marine Policy may be either partial or total . |
| 15 | A single Access/One hub enclosure supports up to five DragonSwitch modules , which can be either eight- or 16-port . |
| 16 | In summary , we can say that an oriental rug , in order to be truly authentic within the generally accepted meaning of the term , must be either hand-knotted or hand-woven , originate from one of the traditional weaving regions and also follow certain ancestral patterns of composition and designs . |
| 17 | Hagstom suggests that many curves labelled as ‘ logistic ’ may in fact be either linear or exponential . |
| 18 | They can be either one-hole or two-hole depending on the fitting details for your sink . |
| 19 | Under the 1919 Act local authorities were permitted to establish such bodies , and they could be either advisory or executive as the constituent authorities wished . |
| 20 | Any other fish therefore has to be either large or armour-plated . |
| 21 | Resist may also be too thick or artwork film too opaque , and has not been thoroughly activated by the UV light — see above . |
| 22 | They are divided by four south-flowing rivers , the Arun , Adur , Ouse and Cuckmere , and are characteristically rolling or whale-backed in outline . |
| 23 | When such circuits oscillate , the waveform is far from sinusoidal , often being approximately rectangular or square . |
| 24 | The paintings were usually English or French , some oils , but watercolours for the most part — country scenes , portraits , and one strange canvas of a lady dressed in a ball gown holding a dead hare by the hind legs . |
| 25 | They were also Indian or Pakistani , not black or white or a mixture . |
| 26 | The materials of Fluxus artists were mainly ephemeral or paper-based , or centred on performance art , presenting problems for exhibition organisers . |
| 27 | Cottage dwellers were either authentic or immigrant — but mostly the latter . |
| 28 | In parliament , opposition party tactics were to capitalize on popular discontent with government economic policy by opposing specific measures , such as price increases , on the grounds that they were either inopportune or part of a generally faulty government economic strategy . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , time was when mines were either magnetic or acoustic . |
| 30 | Of the Duchy 's 400,000 inhabitants 113,000 were foreigners ( half of whom were either Italian or Portuguese ) , while of the 78,000 inhabitants of Luxembourg-Ville 25,000 were from other EC countries . |