Example sentences of "[adj] [vb -s] or [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem , for instance , of Pound 's admiration for Brancusi , and of how that fits or does not fit with his other proclivities and principles , can not for much longer be left where Alexander leaves it . |
| 2 | And so we can go back to all the Beatitudes , seeing how each stands or falls in relationship to the previous ‘ Be-attitudes ’ that we have before God , in God , for God , and through God living in us . |
| 3 | When we are dealing with the structure plan for which there is no local plan in force , we have a new problem which is that , owing to the diagrammatic nature of the plans , no one will be able to say with certainty that this does or does not affect the claimant 's property , but that nevertheless , because of that very uncertainty , a wider number of properties may be affected . |
| 4 | 3.9 It has of course long been recognised that a person who suffers an identifiable psychiatric illness or psychological condition , often referred to as nervous shock , can be awarded damages without the necessity of showing direct impact or fear of immediate physical injuries for himself where another dies or suffers personal injury . |
| 5 | Anything at all that hinders or prevents the energy factory from doing its job throws a plant into a lower gear , and it has to work so much the harder to make progress . |
| 6 | It is handling if the accused knows or believes the goods to be stolen . |
| 7 | This approach has the advantage of providing detailed data about the nature and severity of illness in society , but it suffers from the obvious drawback that not everyone who is ill seeks or receives medical treatment and not everyone who seeks medical treatment is necessarily ill . |
| 8 | ‘ Threat ’ when used in this connection means ‘ an intimation by one to another that unless the latter does or does not do something the former will do something which the latter will not like . ’ |
| 9 | The backup server that is providing at release ten has or employs device striping to provide linear scaleability of the backup to multiple da tape and disk devices . |
| 10 | Thus far flight tests have demonstrated that the 1,200 hp PT6A-67B-powered PC-12 meets or exceeds all performance estimates , including a maximum cruise speed of 268 knots TAS at 25,000 feet and ability to operate from short , soft and grass runways . |
| 11 | It is alleged by the plaintiff that the use of these roads by numerous heavy goods vehicles at night amounts to a public nuisance for which the defendants are responsible : the dock company because it controls the Gillingham Gate and by its operation of the gate and the port in general causes or permits the heavy goods vehicles to go in and out of it at all hours , and the fourth and fifth defendants , Crescent Wharves Ltd. and Ship Link Terminals Ltd. respectively , because as sublessees of the dock company they or their customers send heavy goods vehicles in and out of the port and cause or materially contribute to the alleged nuisance . |
| 12 | The age at which the woman first marries or enters into another type of conjugal union circumscribes childbearing . |
| 13 | Where family planning is not widely practised , as in the overwhelming majority of developing countries , the age at which a woman first marries or enters a conjugal union determines in large measure the age at which she bears her first child . |
| 14 | A word that names a quality , or that defines or limits a noun . |
| 15 | Of the early basilicas , built in the second-fourth centuries A.D. none exists entirely unaltered , but sufficient survives or has been carefully rebuilt to the original pattern to give a clear idea of what such churches were like . |