Example sentences of "[adj] or [vb -s] a " in BNC.

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1 moon god of Thebes , child of Amun and Mut , who is either falcon-headed or has a moon disk on his head .
2 If anybody if anything survives because it can chew better or gallop better or bring forth it 's young alive or has a better circulation , it 's not the species .
3 Taxes Act 1988 , s66(3) states that if at any time a person acquires a new source of any income in respect of which he is chargeable under Case III or makes an addition to any source of any such income then in the year of assessment in which the income first arises from the source or addition and the two following years of assessment the charge shall be on an actual basis in accordance with TA 1988 , s66(1) .
4 Provided that the authority adopts a meaning which is reasonable or has a rational basis the courts could accept that interpretation , even if it did not accord with the precise meaning which they would have ascribed .
5 Experimental studies and clinical observations suggest that the cause of abnormal repolarisation may lie within the heart itself , perhaps in the form of an abnormal channel protein that reduces or blocks an outward repolarising potassium current or increases an inward depolarising calcium or sodium current .
6 Well , we can give a certain clear sense to saying that the hot coffee is able or has a power to dissolve the cube of sugar .
7 It acts as a sort of catch-all offence where the accused has caused death but did not have malice aforethought or has a defence to murder .
8 Clearly we can not normalise X in this case to make both unc and unc unit matrices ; we say therefore that in this case X is bi-orthogonal or has a generalised orthogonal form .
9 Whatever you choose it will need to be a matter of trial and error , but avoid anything that is slow or spends a lot of time near the bottom — it wo n't stand a chance .
10 ( 4 ) if he becomes a patient as defined by Section 94 of the Mental Health Act 1983 or becomes a person as to whom powers have been exercised under Section 98 of that Act ;
11 ( 4 ) if he becomes a patient as defined by Section 94 of the Mental Health Act 1983 or becomes a person as to whom powers have been exercised under Section 98 of that Act ;
12 If a Tribunal refuses to consider a fact as relevant or operates an exclusion without considering any of the facts , this is a mistake of law and an appeal will be appropriate .
13 There 's an ecumenical consensus nowadays surely that it is by faith and baptism that one is made a Christian or becomes a Christian and we 've also inherited , many of us , another rite , with its origins in the New Testament , valuable in the making of a christian and the three strands in confirmation set out in the report before us would certainly be owned by all of us .
14 The first fella is a bit er I , I think is is very academic or has a very ac academic
15 They then count , but they must not say any number that is a multiple of seven or has a seven in it .
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