Example sentences of "is [adj] [prep] [noun] or [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The average factory worker is paid a wage which is unrelated to productivity or protects and which is squeezed out of management , often through painful industrial disputation . |
| 2 | These optical systems work well , though the accuracy falls off in poor light and when the subject is dark in tone or lacking in contrast . |
| 3 | Bargaining is synonymous with trading or dealing and may be briefly defined as participation in mutually beneficial transactions . |
| 4 | This is good for voice-overs or to push down the level of the rhythm guitar to allow for the lead guitar to come over . |
| 5 | Karenin also tells Anna he loves her as a husband but she does n't believe he is capable of love or knows what it is either . |
| 6 | Sometimes , when one or the other partner grows obscenely fat , goes mad , is obsessed by TV or joins a monastery , the temptation to find ‘ a bit on the side ’ can be very compelling . |
| 7 | Edgar Laderoute of the American company Foxboro argues that this approach leaves the customer with a choice between buying equipment that is immune to RFI or suppressing offending radio waves at their source . |
| 8 | Sharing books , or using material that is virtually illegible because it is faint in colour or soiled , increases problems of deciphering . |
| 9 | It says the terms under which consumers will receive a ‘ free ’ item or gift must be clearly stated , particularly where it is conditional upon ordering or purchasing some other item . |
| 10 | Example 4:7 Side by side rent sharing SCHEDULE ( 1 ) In this schedule : ( a ) " rental income " means the aggregate of : ( i ) any yearly or other periodical sums payable under an occupational lease including sums payable by virtue of any enactment ; ( ii ) any sums payable by way of interest under an occupational lease ; ( iii ) any sums payable by way of damages or compensation for any breach of a tenant 's obligation under an occupational lease ; ( iv ) any sum payable by a guarantor of a tenant 's obligation under an occupational lease pursuant to his guarantee ; ( v ) any premium paid or other capital payment made by a tenant under an occupational lease in connection with the grant assignment variation or surrender of an occupational lease ; ( vi ) any sum payable under a policy of insurance in respect of loss of rent or other income ( b ) " permitted deductions " means the aggregate of : ( i ) expenses reasonably incurred by the tenant in order to comply with its obligations as landlord under an occupational lease ; ( ii ) legal costs incurred by the tenant in enforcing obligations under occupational leases except to the extent that the tenant recovers those costs from a party to an occupational lease ; ( iii ) the amount of any compensation or damages which the tenant is liable by statute or ordered to pay to any party to an occupational lease whether for non-renewal of a tenancy breach of covenant breach of obligation compensation for improvements or otherwise ; ( iv ) the cost of management and rent collection not exceeding … per cent of rental income ( c ) " notional rental income " means the rack rental value of any lettable unit which is either unlet or vacant or occupied by the tenant or by a group company the value to be determined as at the date on which the unit in question ceased to be let or occupied or as the case may be become occupied by the tenant or a group company and redetermined every year ( d ) " lettable unit " means a part of the property which is designed constructed or adapted for letting to an occupying retail trader ( e ) " occupational lease " means a lease under which physical possession of a lettable unit was granted by the tenant ( f ) " rack rental value " of any lettable unit at any time means the rent at which that unit might reasonably be expected to be let in the open market for a term of not less than ten years with an upwards only rent review on every fifth anniversary of the beginning of the term and on such other terms as would be expected to be negotiated in the open market ( including such financial inducements and concessions as are usual in the market at that time ) ( g ) " group company " means a company which would be treated as a member of the same group of companies as the tenant for the purposes of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 ( h ) " divisible income " means the difference between : ( i ) rental income plus notional rental income ; and ( ii ) permitted deductions but divisible income shall never be less than nil ( i ) " the first slice " means such part of divisible income as does not exceed £ ( j ) " the second slice " means such part of divisible income as exceeds £ but does not exceed £ ( k ) " the top slice " means such part of divisible income as exceeds £ ( 2 ) The rent payable by the tenant is the aggregate of : ( a ) … per cent of the first slice ; ( b ) … per cent of the second slice ; and ( c ) … per cent of the top slice to be paid by equal quarterly payments on the usual quarter days |