Example sentences of "be [art] [adj] or [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By a similar slip of logic it is sometimes presumed in such discussions that voluntary bodies are the only or the main beneficiaries of voluntary help and cash aid . |
| 2 | Weekend conference and seminar and study group , doctoral dissertations , and communally compiled working papers toward another Annotated Index — we may agree , as I do , that in present historical conditions these are the best or the only ways of responding to the achievement of a very great , though of course imperfect , poet . |
| 3 | And when you 're choosing your bag you 'll need to take account of what your metabolism is like — whether or not you 're a cold or a warm sleeper . |
| 4 | It would not be the first or the last time . |
| 5 | ‘ This show is going to be the noisiest or the most interesting ever because the technologies are in transition , ’ Cray said . |
| 6 | After two months of Anna and Vronsky meeting he says : ‘ Friends we shall not be , you know that yourself ; but whether we shall be the happiest or the most miserable of human beings … rests with you ’ ‘ Only one happiness is possible for me in life , … love … ’ he declared . |
| 7 | If there had been no Kiss , the world would be no better or no worse off than it is . |
| 8 | According to a pamphlet of 1704 , the present war was about whether England should be a popish or a Protestant country , since Louis XIV was advancing the cause of a popish prince to the throne of Great Britain , whilst at home the strength of the papists was increased " by the Non-Jurors and Disaffected Persons of all sorts " , who were zealous for a popish prince . |
| 9 | As I said it could be a thirty or a sixty minute job . |
| 10 | ‘ He ought to be a twelve or a thirteen , he 's so good . |
| 11 | However , two of the First Class singles illustrated seem to be a late or a second printing . |
| 12 | Should it be a historical or an anthropological science ? |
| 13 | It may be a direct or an indirect restraint or it may be contained in an agreement outside the primary contract between the parties . |
| 14 | Oh , well , I say I 'm on early but I will be , I could be an early or a late . |
| 15 | There was a temptation to regard the headteacher as being the major or the sole activator and this was supported , in the secondary sector , when a Manchester study suggested that most heads were too powerful and would not delegate responsibility . |
| 16 | Asked , when Our Lady of Finchley was still in her niche , all candles blazing , if he were a Thatcherite or a liberal , he modestly admitted to being a liberal . |
| 17 | Examples of peasant or pastoralist protest where official conservation policies were a catalytic or a leading grievance are Kenya ( Heyer et al. |
| 18 | It is easy to forget that the majority of the people living on earth still lived and died where they had been born , or , more precisely , that their movements were no greater or no different from what they would have been before the Industrial Revolution . |
| 19 | Far from being a luxury or a peripheral activity , music often meets basic needs : ‘ There exist a good many people for whom music is so important that it is difficult for them to conceive of life without it . |
| 20 | This is an important point to note if the impression is to be avoided ( given the brief of this study ) that the particular division of gender is the only or the most important one : |
| 21 | Erm it 'll be it 'll be erm twelfth , thirteenth it 'll be the Tuesday , no I think it 's the fourteenth or the fifteenth . |
| 22 | You draw a line and you know at once whether it 's a good or a bad line . |
| 23 | Do you have any thoughts as to whether it 's a good or a bad thing that food is produced artificially , as it were ? |
| 24 | I do n't know if it 's a sweet or a Dan say Arthur . |
| 25 | ‘ We own about 60 or 70 of 200 houses in the Rivers area , and Trent Street is no worse or no better than anywhere else . ’ |
| 26 | A demand by such an authority under an ultra vires regulation is no more or no less unlawful than a demand under a valid regulation which does not apply to the situation in which the demand is made . |
| 27 | We need to know whether it is a 10-strong or a seven-strong management committee , with a majority of management representatives . |
| 28 | Errors made in the learning of a language , whether it is a first or a second one , are often indicative of the range and type of strategies used . |
| 29 | For the first dimension , five used were : whether executive power is concentrated ( as in the British Cabinet ) or shared ( as in the Swiss Federal Council , in which all parties are represented ) ; whether the executive dominates ( as in the UK ) , or shares power with the legislature ( as in the United States ) ; whether there is a two or a multi-party system ; whether parties are divided on one political dimension ( e.g. the typical left-right division in Great Britain ) or several ( as in The Netherlands ) ; and whether elections use plurality or proportional representation procedures . |
| 30 | Do you think this sort of advertising is a good or a bad idea ? |