Example sentences of "be the [noun] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am the sinner or the bloody idiot . |
| 2 | That really turned my stomach , even if , I mean I remember when I was carrying , when I was carrying the twins , and he used to go out huge things you know , and so much so that if he came home in the night , right , and I was already in bed asleep , I would be able to er , he would wake me in the bedroom cos I could smell smoke on him , but he did n't smoke , but where he 'd been the pub or a night club , I smelt |
| 3 | It could have been the wife or daughter , wanting his money . |
| 4 | In this last section , we consider what for many , especially working class pupils , has been the consummation or the release from schooling : the labour market . |
| 5 | Perhaps it had been the Prince or Gaveston ? |
| 6 | This had ‘ not always been the law or practice , but now seemed ‘ to be well established ’ . |
| 7 | The most widely accepted theoretical explanation of which issues should be held to go to jurisdiction has been the collateral or preliminary or jurisdictional fact doctrine . |
| 8 | However , he was prevented from standing on Oct. 19 , when the Constitutional Court upheld the Supreme Court 's Oct. 12 ruling that anyone who had been the author or beneficiary of a military coup was debarred from participation in elections under Article 186 of the 1986 Constitution . |
| 9 | Often , and particularly with those individuals who have spent long hours in heavy manual labour , there has perhaps not been the time or energy to develop such interests or hobbies . |
| 10 | To return to the source of good , evil and neutral ; whatever , in the conflicts referred to , may have been the intentions or hopes of the protagonists , the fact remains that over the centuries they have produced a constant flow of individual human decisions which can be examined and specified as either good , evil or neutral . |
| 11 | There had been women in Pesth , some of them attractive even by Imperial standards , but they had been the wives or concubines of Burun 's officers , or else they had belonged to the Altun . |
| 12 | By a notice of appeal dated 23 April 1992 the Treasury Solicitor appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) on a true construction of the Evidence ( Proceedings in Other Jurisdictions ) Act 1975 the court was precluded from making the order for examination ; ( 2 ) the deputy judge had erred in law in making the order and in holding that ( i ) it was possible to interpret section 9(4) of the Act so as not to preclude the order sought , ( ii ) the exclusion contained in section 9(4) was restricted to cases where the actual capacity in which the witness was called on to give evidence was a Crown capacity and that the fact that the evidence sought was acquired in the course of the witness 's employment as a servant of the Crown was not of itself sufficient to bring the case within the exclusion , ( iii ) the fact that the witness was now retired from his position was relevant to the question whether the exclusion in section 9(4) applied , ( iv ) if some other interpretation were possible , it would be unacceptable to approach section 9(4) as requiring the court to refuse to make the order that a witness who was competent and compellable within the United Kingdom should give evidence for foreign proceedings , ( v ) there was nothing in the material sought to be given in evidence which it could have been the policy or intention of the Act to have prevented being explored ; ( 3 ) the deputy judge had erred in law in approaching the question of capacity by concentrating on the position of the witness at the time that the evidence was to be given as opposed to the position of the witness at the time that he acquired the information which was the subject matter of the evidence and the nature content and source of such evidence ; ( 4 ) the judge had wrongly ignored the fact that the Crown as a party to the Hague Convention was in a position to give effect to it and to provide evidence to foreign courts in accordance with it without recourse to the court ; and ( 5 ) the judge had wrongly approached section 9(4) on the footing that it most likely addressed prejudice to the sovereignty of the state . |
| 13 | Open-market operations are the purchase or sale by the Bank of England of government securities ( bonds or Treasury bills ) in the open market . |
| 14 | We can afford to make gestures towards people , whether they are the Queen or the cleaning lady . |
| 15 | Mental processes are the accompaniments or concomitants of the functional activity of specially differentiated parts of the organism . |
| 16 | Are the hotel or centre staff going to throw up their arms in horror if you want an earlier lunch so that you can press on with the afternoon session ? |
| 17 | A distinctive feature of the Downs are the coombes or dry valleys formed through erosion by water derived from the thawing of frozen land at the time of the last Ice Age . |
| 18 | Examples of equal interest , of course , are the ant or bee colonies . |
| 19 | According to the documents before the court , the applicants in the main proceedings are the owners or operators of 95 fishing vessels which were registered in the register of British vessels under the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 . |
| 20 | The latter are the trailblazers or what could be termed the ’ baddies ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ In newspaper terms , the BBC is much more Telegraph and we are the Mirror or even the Sun ’ , remarked ITV 's head of sport recently . |
| 22 | Similarly , within science & library , we should stick to enquiries where we are the experts or where we have the resources of information and staff time , and refer other enquiries to the relevant specialist agencies . |
| 23 | It can be called the logical problem , and briefly expressed it is this : in general , what are the premisses or grounds or bases for dependent conditionals ? |
| 24 | However , as I said before erm if you are the farmer or the grower , the apple grower whose crop has been completely decimated you wo n't be able to er benefit from the very high , high prices if you have got very little output right , so your as an individual your income may be very low , right , in bad years , right , but on average when we look at the industry as a whole , industry incomes will be very very very large . |
| 25 | These are the characteristic or normal vibrations of the molecule , each with a characteristic vibration frequency where k i is the force constant [ see Eqn ( 5.1 ) ] and µ i a reduced mass for the particular motion . |
| 26 | The most obvious kilns that survive are the square or circular-plan nineteenth-century type which are high rooms with tall conical roofs terminating in cowls . |
| 27 | The goals are the aims or outcomes that a programme purports to pursue , and for which it can be held accountable ( where measurable ) . |
| 28 | What can not be known are the thoughts or expectations in someone else 's mind . |
| 29 | Of greater sophistication are the diffusion or dispersion models which can predict pollution concentrations from emission inventories under varying meteorological conditions and take the topography of the area into account . |
| 30 | ‘ At a time when more and more cases involve the application of legislation which gives effect to policies that are the subject or bitter public and parliamentary controversy , it can not be too strongly emphasised that the British constitution , though largely unwritten , is firmly based upon the separation of powers ; Parliament makes the laws , the judiciary interpret them . |