Example sentences of "or be [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , many of us are teetotal or are low drinkers . |
| 2 | Or are multiple cells and synapses involved ? |
| 3 | These are the invisible sans-papiers , the ones nobody sees because they work through the daylight hours or are virtual prisoners . |
| 4 | What is or are liberal studies ? |
| 5 | In many cases students will also tour in productions mounted by the school , and this gives good audience experience away from the greenhouse of school performances , where the people who sit in the audience are usually either professionally interested , or are fellow students and friends . |
| 6 | ‘ Or are all men like this ? ’ |
| 7 | Or are new jobs being created which simply reproduce , in a slightly different form , existing patterns of gender segregation ? |
| 8 | Or are poorer respondents simply less prepared to admit to an interviewer that they would be prepared to break the law ? |
| 9 | Their principal glycosidic ingredients and their known aglycosidic intermediates are listed in Table I. Moreover , danthrone ( chrysazine ; 1 , 8-dihydroxyanthraquinone ) and purified sennosides A+B have been or are active ingredients of laxative drugs . |
| 10 | Of all the people who call themselves managers or are designated managers in Japan or the US , eighty-five per cent have a degree qualification . |
| 11 | Has society modified it 's conception of family and of black sheep , or are these changes the outcome of a climate of openness I think we 've touched on this , to some extent , already , by saying things have changed . |
| 12 | Are these dreams really triggered by outside stimuli , or are these reports only the outcome of rather memorable coincidence ? |
| 13 | They may have been purpose-built for pedestrians , or be ordinary streets where the traffic flow is restricted ( usually to emergency services and possibly delivery vans ) . |
| 14 | Counsellors should be accredited by the ‘ Rugby conference ’ of the British Association for Counselling or be chartered psychotherapists recognised by the British Psychological Society . |
| 15 | A number of persons who were involved in the crisis , or were wellinformed observers , later joined the militantly anti-trade union National Association for Freedom . |
| 16 | Furthermore , a three-phase study of over a thousand school leavers in the Lothian region of Scotland found that , in marked contrast to alcohol and tobacco use , ‘ levels of illicit drug use were much higher amongst both males and females who were unemployed than amongst their peers who were working or were full-time students ’ ( Plant et al . |
| 17 | A survey in 1982 found that a third of the left-wing Labour councillors either worked for another local authority ( including teachers ) or were full-time councillors living off their allowances . |
| 18 | Did morphological change in a lineage — the human lineage , for example — take place slowly , like a steady stream , or were long periods of stasis punctuated by bursts of rapid change , like Old Faithful ? |
| 19 | Several had black or blue flecking on brindled or streaked red and white coats , or were yellow-and-white brindles , but still the white finching persisted in nearly every case . |
| 20 | Over 85% of the male population are or were manual workers . |
| 21 | Or were those men simply other lonely hunters of other men ? |
| 22 | There had for a long time been publicly expressed unease in the United Kingdom about the unsatisfactory training of people treating the diseases of animals , whether they were farriers in the sense of being shoeing-smiths acting as horse-doctors , or were medical practitioners — physicians , or more especially surgeons — who had , partly or completely , left human medicine for the less crowded and potentially more lucrative ( if less socially acceptable ) field of animal medicine . |
| 23 | Or is that nights at the pub |
| 24 | And is and is a continuation of business or is this referrals ? |
| 25 | Or is natural rights a confused notion ? |