Example sentences of "[be] [verb] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | was promoted to the Chair in Accountancy and Finance and a number of vacancies in have been filled or are in the process of being filled . |
| 2 | In muscles receiving delayed innervation , or muscles innervated at aberrant synaptic sites , both receptor clustering and receptor synthesis are delayed or redirected , consistent with the new pattern of innervation . |
| 3 | Living on income support is for many a very negative experience — the intrusive questioning about income and about personal relationships ; the difficulties of queuing with young children ; the problems when benefits are delayed or lost ; the lack of control over income as more and more direct deductions are made — all these and more contribute to the difficulties of bringing up children alone on a low income . |
| 4 | 10.1 If either you or we are delayed or prevented from performing our obligations under this order , by circumstances beyond the reasonable control of either of us , ( including without limitation any form of government intervention , strikes and lock-outs relevant to this order , breakdown of plant or delays by sub-contractors concerned ) such performance shall be suspended , and if it can not be completed within a reasonable time after the due date as specified in this order , this order may be cancelled by either party . |
| 5 | The appearance in the Tripoli courtroom of the two suspects , Abdel Baset Ali Mohammed al-Megrahi and al-Amin Khalifa Fhimah , disproved persistent US suggestions that they had been hidden or even executed by the Libyan authorities . |
| 6 | ( In the police and civil service an estimated 80 per cent of Albanian employees had been dismissed or had resigned . ) |
| 7 | The specific social relations of such privilege are of course derived from the social order as a whole ; it is there that the patron 's powers and resources are enrolled or protected ; in the crudest terms , he is doing what he wishes with his own . |
| 8 | WATER STORAGE : - In which the stems are swollen or the leaves are fleshy , i.e. succulents , e.g. cactus , stonecrop ( on dry walls ) , grasswort , saltwort ( saltmarsh ) . |
| 9 | Her concerned employers had referred her to a doctor , who had put her on the contraceptive pill but , as was normal practice , she had not been examined or questioned . |
| 10 | Throughout the main growing season vegetables , fruit and flowers are gathered or cut according to need , often before they are fully ripe . |
| 11 | If the expatriate and family are expected to find their own accommodation , information should be given on the types of properties available for rent , how much these are likely to cost together with information on whether they are furnished or unfurnished . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , many of the largest US purse-seiners had been re-flagged or sold to foreign investors . |
| 13 | 1 Where the person bringing an action to recover land , or some person through whom he claims , has been in possession of the land , and has while entitled to the land been dispossessed or discontinued his possession , the right of action shall be treated as having accrued on the date of the dispossession or discontinuance . |
| 14 | Then the curvature of geodesic surfaces in space–time around a spherically symmetric mass distribution are calculated or inferred . |
| 15 | He had had a long and tiring journey , flights from Frankfurt , Heathrow and Glasgow all having been delayed or cancelled . |
| 16 | And erm the we are given or they h one of the reasons or the purposes behind Confirmation is to give us the strength to use the gifts which God 's al has already given us . |
| 17 | The general safety requirement is encapsulated in s10(2) which provides : ( 2 ) For the purposes of this section consumer goods fail to comply with the general safety requirement if they are nor reasonably safe having regard to all the circumstances , including ( a ) the manner in which , and purposes for which , the goods are being or would be marketed , the get-up of the goods , the use of any mark in relation to the goods and any instructions or warnings which are given or would be given with respect to the keeping , use or consumption of the goods ; ( b ) any standards of safety published by any person either for goods of a description which applies to the goods in question or for matters relating to goods of that description ; and ( c ) the existence of any means by which it would have been reasonable ( taking into account the cost , likelihood and extent of any improvement ) for the goods to have been made safer . |
| 18 | The policies provide cover in respect of the Policyholder 's interest and buyer 's interest when the Policyholder has agreed to sell his house , up until the date on which the contracts are completed or date on which the missives are signed . |
| 19 | The essence of riot is the use of unlawful violence by two or more persons in a group of at least twelve persons who are using or threatening violence . |
| 20 | The essence of violent disorder ( section 2 ) is the use or threat of unlawful violence in a group of at least three persons who are using or threatening violence . |
| 21 | If it succeeds , it could turn the personal computer business upside down , by delivering what the PC always promised but has never quite achieved : the ability to work where and how you please , no matter what computer you are using or how limited your knowledge . |
| 22 | When the need arises to review the search firms they are using or when there is a particularly sensitive issue , then which firm is contacted is clearly a very important issue . |
| 23 | It should be noted that while 12 persons must be present who are using or threatening violence , only the person charged need be shown to have intended to use the violence . |
| 24 | If you are using or considering any of these programmes ( eg Somerset Thinking Skills or Thinking Science/Cognitive Acceleration through Science Education ) I would be pleased to hear from you . |
| 25 | ask and answer questions about what has been heard or read — how characters feel , their motives , the endings of stories ; |
| 26 | ( 1978 ) have pointed out , in its strong form , the clausal hypothesis is that interpretation of a clause does not begin until the last word in the clause has been heard or read . |
| 27 | As regards board structure , the Proposal suggests that , for all public companies ( PLCs ) , whether or not their shares are listed or otherwise publicly traded , a distinction should be drawn between directors responsible for ‘ supervision ’ on the one hand and ‘ management ’ on the other . |
| 28 | A control contract is subject to shareholder approval by a majority vote ( including any shares held by the dominant undertaking : but , in the case of a company whose shares are listed or publicly traded , the domestic regulatory authority may — as the Stock Exchange presently does — ban an interested shareholder from voting in this type of situation ) ; such a contract may therefore allow predators who have obtained board control of a company to make that company effectively subservient to an external body without the formalities of a takeover . |
| 29 | Takeover offers are also regulated and affected by the SARs ; the Fair Trading Act 1973 ( references to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission ) ; European Council Regulation ( EEC ) 4064/89 ( merger control ) ; the Company Securities ( Insider Dealing ) Act 1985 ( which prohibits a person from dealing in securities which are listed or subject to a marketing arrangement at a time when he is in possession of unpublished price-sensitive information ) ; liability for negligent misstatement and for misrepresentation ( both at common law and under the Misrepresentation Act 1967 ) ; and Statements of Standard Accounting Practice 22 and 23 ( accounting for goodwill and for acquisitions and mergers ) . |
| 30 | Well it depends on the people who are producing or directing or whatever , so it 's all got different ways of doing it . |