Example sentences of "were [adv] [adj] or [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They were also Indian or Pakistani , not black or white or a mixture . |
| 3 | The materials of Fluxus artists were mainly ephemeral or paper-based , or centred on performance art , presenting problems for exhibition organisers . |
| 4 | Cottage dwellers were either authentic or immigrant — but mostly the latter . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , time was when mines were either magnetic or acoustic . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Turnout was about 64 per cent of the 10,000,000 people eligible to vote , and of the total votes cast 15.35 per cent were either blank or invalid . |