Example sentences of "be [adj] or [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the parenthetical term in ( 7–38 ) is positive ( sufficient conditions for which are that or the gross factor price of capital in the corporate sector rises ( falls ) , and this increases the equilibrium firm size where fixed costs are relatively capital-intensive ( ) . |
| 2 | GCSE , like its predecessors , remains predominantly a ‘ sudden death ’ examination , for which there are little or no formative components , whereas the provision of regular feedback and review is becoming increasingly fundamental to profiling schemes . |
| 3 | It will consider the conditions under which government policies have been conducive or a constraint to NGO activity . |
| 4 | To accept that whatever she had done or promised or performed to maintain her position in Market Square then her choice could only have been that or the workhouse . |
| 5 | As a result there would have been little or no evolutionary pressure on cats to develop an anti-stranger reaction where kittens are concerned . |
| 6 | Hardcore porn is openly traded in the cities and exhibited in cinemas and video shops across the country , despite experimental zoning restrictions in certain areas , yet there has been little or no attempt in the courts or the legislatures to discriminate between the greater and lesser dangers it represents . |
| 7 | Thus despite the companies ' use of highly toxic chemicals , such as cyanide , there appears to have been little or no state regulation of the environmental impact of mining , until the Navan mines project . |
| 8 | If the pulsar is a rejuvenated old neutron star , the large magnetic field suggests that there has been little or no decay from its original value , lending support to work suggesting the field decay may not occur , in contrast to other evidence . |
| 9 | In the more notorious slum districts , there appears to have been little or no respect for the law . |
| 10 | Up to then there had been little or no solid research in this field and the facts as to sexual elements in British society were still arcane . |
| 11 | While there have been several academic studies using data from the 1982 , and the subsequent 1984 BCS , there has been little or no independent research using the local data sets . |
| 12 | There may have been little or no discussion of these issues , even among the higher clerics and ecclesiastical advisers , but Innocent was too polished a performer not to realize the public relations advantages of pronouncement in a general council . |
| 13 | But the coded language of the joint communiqué issued at the end of Churchill 's Washington visit of January 1952 showed that there had been little or no meeting of minds . |
| 14 | The disease progressed rapidly and there 's been little or no remission . ’ |
| 15 | Since the mid-1980's there has been little or no growth . |
| 16 | There are a number of species which occur in this way and hence define communities in a rather trivial sense , since there are few or no associates . |
| 17 | This type of base tends to feel very firm as there are few or no springs . |
| 18 | One is intensive arable as in the Fens , New Holland in Lincolnshire , and on much of the chalk ; there are few or no hedges or trees , but open country with no sense of enclosure or division . |
| 19 | A smaller , or zero tuning delay is best set when facilities are unavailable or the machine is lightly loaded to maximise the work achieved in a discrete time interval . |
| 20 | I hope to show ways you can help heal our environment and enjoy yourself at the same time , regardless of your earning capacity , age , sex , sexual orientation , race , political ideology , whether you 're an individual , couple , group , family and whether you 're country-folk or a city-slicker . |
| 21 | Hence , if all goals are deep or the branching ratio is large , it will be very slow . |
| 22 | By and large , he was saying what most ordinary people think : that it is not a good idea for very young girls to embark on motherhood , especially if they are poor or a bit dim . |
| 23 | You will have off days when you are tired or a bit under the weather . |
| 24 | Finally , below a few hundred feet , if no definite field has been chosen there can be little or no choice , and an accident is almost certain to happen . |
| 25 | At some point in training , then , the loss of effectiveness of the inhibitory association occasioned by a change of context will counteract the reduced effectiveness of the excitatory association more or less exactly and the outcome will be little or no net change in the observed CR . |
| 26 | But there can be little or no dispute about the appalling state of agriculture as a result of forced collectivisation and the fact that millions of farm animals were slaughtered by the peasants rather than allow them to be collectivised , nor can the starvation and deaths be disputed . |
| 27 | But , as ambient water temperature falls , they will need food that is easily digestible so that , should a sudden cold snap occur , there will be little or no waste matter to decay in their gut . |
| 28 | If one of the piezo blocks is not touching the saddle , there will be little or no noticeable output from that particular string . |
| 29 | Regarding the question of pole pieces , there should be little or no difference in performance between pickups ( of identical specification ) fitted with Allen head screws , compared to those fitted with slot head screws . |
| 30 | There may be little or no hope of finding those particular items , but there are many others to be collected , some as yet unrecorded . |