Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [verb] [art] [noun] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shareholders are thereby given the power to judge for themselves whether the directors are using their managerial powers for their own benefit at the expense of the company and if this is so to veto the transaction or at least hold the director liable for any profits thereby made . |
| 2 | The magnet array is thus called a wiggler or an undulator . |
| 3 | The head of a public sector institution is usually called the director or principal . |
| 4 | Victor Kiam is still seeking a buyer or backer for Remington — the razor company he liked so much in 1979 he bought it for $25m . |
| 5 | The idea is simply to take the subject or problem with which you are dealing and write it in the centre of a piece of blank paper . |
| 6 | Fourthly , we may single out what is ordinarily called an event or change , partly because of its brief duration , and thereby distinguished from what is called a standing condition — say the movement of a lever as against its tensile strength . |
| 7 | At Ferrari , the only effort to put things right is either to find the scapegoat or to cover up the mistake and deny it ever happened . |
| 8 | In sum then , this research has shown that the existing short sight-lines demand that cars travel slower than they do ; the solution is either to lengthen the sight-lines or to slow the cars . |