Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] or [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps they need to be better publicised or at different times/days . |
| 2 | Those who were n't constantly eating or in front of a mirror , were trying to commit suicide . |
| 3 | They may be imposed in the form of obligations of strict liability to which defences are extremely limited or in more general and voluntary concepts of negligent omissions and commissions . |
| 4 | This trend for library guides to be more flexible , to be better designed or to be tailored more to the needs of the user is encouraging , but it all goes for nought if the user does not use them . |
| 5 | Fume cupboards may be manually operated or on a time clock control . |
| 6 | A host of aetiological hypotheses has been formed , which have frequently been untestable and based on data that had been unsystematically selected or of dubious validity ( Rosenthal , 1968 ) . |
| 7 | Also , specific DH sites have been used to pinpoint elements , not necessarily sequenced or with a known function , that appear to control the accessibility of chromatin domains to trans-acting regulatory factors , again even before a gene is expressed ( 22-24 ) . |
| 8 | On receiving notice of the payment in , the plaintiff may either ( i ) lodge his bill of costs for taxation , or ( ii ) if he so opts or in any event where the amount recovered does not exceed £100 but exceeds £25 , ask for his costs to be assessed under costs Appendix C to the 1981 Rules ( see Costs Appendix C ) to which will be added the plaint fee ( Ord 38 , r 19 ) . |
| 9 | If the database comprises data representing three-dimensional articles , for example a database of co-ordinates describing sculptures or industrial designs , that database may be considered to be a collection of artistic works so represented or to be a literary work as a compilation . |
| 10 | BASF , the German company which makes vinclozolin , said that there was no cause for concern about foods already consumed or in storage , as wide safety margins had been set . |
| 11 | On the other hand it appears that on occasions drivers may have no memory at all for road signs which they have just seen or for relatively complex manoeuvres which they have only just performed . |
| 12 | That homes already furbished or in the process of being refurbished or identified for refurbishment shall not be closed and will re-open as county council E P H s . |
| 13 | Some of this work has been informed from personal experience either because of being physically challenged or from having worked as a therapist , as an artist in residence within a hospital complex , in a mental institution , or has a counsellor in a hospice . |
| 14 | There is still a great deal to be learnt about early Anglo-Saxon society , both as a result of new excavations , the publication of older ones and research carried out on the wealth of material already published or in museums . |
| 15 | Whereas the adult is influenced by what he or she already knows or by what other people have been saying . |
| 16 | Whether working in an expansive phase in which the techniques of ‘ agitation ’ were widely used or in a ‘ consolidationist ’ period in which ‘ pressure from without ’ assumed less importance , antislavery needed to maximise its influence in parliament and the administration in order to translate aspiration into policy and ensure that policy was effectively executed . |
| 17 | Much of our material now contains footage of peoples and events which , in the space of just ten years , have forever vanished or at least changed beyond recognition . |
| 18 | No staff do it short term or as an addition to their normal job . |
| 19 | Chapters 1 and 2 have defined the meaning of high-bay warehouses and the types in current use , and while the whole purpose of this booklet is to concentrate on the fire risks of these storage areas , it must be appreciated that these buildings do not operate in isolation and that , according to their specific function , there will be ancillary accommodation to support the process either directly attached or in close proximity . |
| 20 | Continuing parental contact and interest can also eradicate or at least minimize the sense of rejection felt by many adopted people because of the act of relinquishment . |
| 21 | ‘ All costs charges and expenses incurred hereunder by the bank or by the receiver in perfecting or otherwise in connection with this security or in respect of the property hereby charged including ( without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing ) all costs of all proceedings for the enforcement of the security hereby constituted or for obtaining payment of the moneys hereby secured or arising out of or in connection with the acts authorised by clause 7 hereof ( whether or not such costs charges and expenses and moneys or part thereof would be allowable on a party and party or solicitor and own client taxation by this court ) shall be recoverable from the companies as a debt … and shall be charged on the premises comprised herein … |
| 22 | I might even be able to think of a n interesting way to make a larger profit that I would by tamely handing or over the Fraxillians . |
| 23 | The choice is to extensively renovate or to completely replace them with ‘ intelligent buildings ’ . |
| 24 | There is no mechanism to enforce user involvement and it is therefore often ignored or at best lip-service paid to it . |
| 25 | Because of his Cartesianism , Malebranche could not go so far as to say that material objects were not really extended or in motion , but Pierre Bayle had argued that such restraint was unjustifiable . |
| 26 | Modern society , it may be argued , is not like a set of neatly intermeshing and well-oiled cogs , but rather a game in which groups of players have considerable discretion so long as they keep within a set of rules which are often themselves rather loosely defined or at least open to negotiation and change . |
| 27 | The bubble of ever-increasing prize-money for pros must surely burst or at least deflate a little . |
| 28 | Such an order will not be made where the evidence is strongly contested or in cases where the trial judge will need to form an impression of the demeanour of the witness in order to assess his credibility . |
| 29 | There is , however , a somewhat earlier use of the terms and in another document in the Topkapi Sarayi archives which may be dated with some certainty to 929–30/1523 and which lists , and in most cases gives short biographies of , the ulema then holding or in line for the various offices of the learned profession in " the of eastern and western Anadolu as well as all the of Syria and Egypt " . |
| 30 | Ultimately I took to wearing them all the time — only whipping them off when approached by a boy I vaguely fancied or at the doorway of the house of a friend of my mother 's , with a boy my mother fancied for me inside . |