Example sentences of "[vb base] or [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In those elements which gain or lose three or more electrons in becoming ions , adjacent atoms can share electrons through covalent bonding . |
| 2 | Pressman and Wildavsky have made a tentative attempt to draw attention to what may loosely be described as the mathematics of implementations the way in which the mere quantity of agreements necessary may , even when all parties are committed to a policy , undermine or delay effective action . |
| 3 | But what does the word curriculum denote or connote that ‘ course ’ does not ? |
| 4 | A person domiciled in a part of the United Kingdom may , in another part of the United Kingdom , be sued : ( 1 ) in matters relating to a contract , in the courts for the place of performance of the obligation in question ; … ( 3 ) in matters relating to tort , delict or quasi-delict , in the courts for the place where the harmful event occurred or in the case of a threatened wrong is likely to occur ; … ( 8 ) in proceedings — ( a ) concerning a debt secured on immovable property ; or ( b ) which are brought to assert , declare or determine proprietary or possessory rights , or rights of security , in or over movable property , or to obtain authority to dispose of movable property , in the courts of the part of the United Kingdom in which the property is situated . |
| 5 | The following are the principal cases where that leave would be forthcoming : ( 1 ) relief is sought against any person domiciled in England or Wales ; ( 2 ) an injunction is sought ordering the defendant to do an act or refrain from doing anything ( whether or not damages are also claimed in respect of a failure to do something or for the doing of that thing ) ; ( 3 ) the claim is brought against any person duly served within or out of England and Wales and a person out of England and Wales is a necessary or proper party thereto ; ( 4 ) the claim is founded on any breach or alleged breach of any contract wherever made , which : ( a ) according to its terms ought to be performed in England and Wales , or ( b ) is by its terms , or by implication , governed by English law , or ( c ) contains a term to the effect that a court in England or Wales shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine any action in respect of the contract ; ( 5 ) the claim is founded on a tort and the damage was sustained or resulted from an act committed , within England and Wales ; ( 6 ) the whole subject-matter of the proceedings is land ( with or without rent or profits ) or the perpetuation of testimony relating to land ; ( 7 ) the claim is brought to construe , rectify , set aside or enforce an act , deed , will , contract , obligation or liability affecting land ; ( 8 ) the claim is made for a debt secured on immovable property or is made to assert , declare or determine proprietary or possessory rights , or rights of security , in or over movable property , or to obtain authority to dispose of movable property ; ( 9 ) the claim is brought to execute the trusts of a written instrument , being trusts that ought to be executed according to English law and of which the person to be served with the originating process is a trustee , or for any relief or remedy which might be obtained when such a claim is brought ; ( 10 ) the claim is made for the administration of the estate of a person who died domiciled in England or Wales or for any relief or remedy which might be obtained when such a claim is made ; ( 11 ) the claim is brought in a probate action within the meaning of Ord 41 ; ( 12 ) the claim is brought to enforce any judgment or arbitral award ; ( 13 ) the claim is brought against a defendant not domiciled in Scotland or Northern Ireland in respect of a claim by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue for or in relation to any of the duties of taxes which have been , or are for the time being , placed under their care and management ; ( 14 ) the claim is brought in respect of contributions under the Social Security Act 1975 ; ( 15 ) the claim is made for a sum to which the Directive of the Council of the European Communities dated 15 March 1976 No 76/308/EEC applies , and service is to be effected in a country which is a member of the European Economic Community . |
| 6 | The Kuwait disaster raises the question of how to deal with serious environmental damage during wartime when hostilities hinder or prevent any attempt to tackle environmental disasters . |
| 7 | A second trend is that the gap in activity left by the older industries is being filled , at least partially , by new , small companies , many of which make or use electronic products . |
| 8 | ‘ We make or break human life every day of every year as probably no other force on earth has ever done in the past or will ever do again … |
| 9 | Client will provide to KPMG such information as KPMG may reasonably request from time to time in connection with the Offer and will not , without prior consultation and the written consent of KPMG ( such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed ) make or publish any announcement , public statement or document concerning the Offer whether before the announcement of or during the course of the Offer ; and |
| 10 | For one thing , he says , in a few years , applications for Unix and mid-range systems will require major rewrites as these environments change or become redundant . |
| 11 | Particularly strong articulative relationships are established when what we can call ‘ cross-connotation ’ takes place : that is , when two or more different elements are made to connote , symbolize or evoke each other . |
| 12 | it sounds very much the same , the same line , I mean it 'd be very odd if any court came to a conclusion that one put on a fanciful grounds erm suspend or ignore any , any er particular part of European law |
| 13 | The main body of the research consists of a number of in-depth case studies to see how firms develop or use new technology , taken over periods of several years . |
| 14 | The erm type thing means what means little codes mean or does that give us any indication as to what these sites are ? |
| 15 | Should their personal and family relationships remain or become negligible , then they might leave residential care supplied with skills and interests which they did not have before coming into care . |
| 16 | His own model of churchly behaviour , he once remarked , was Russian Orthodox , where people sit , stand , kneel or lie flat , and ‘ no one takes the slightest notice of what anyone else is doing , ’ the guiding motto in religion ( as in life ) being to mind your own business . |
| 17 | It is in the whole couplet of A and B in which A is affected by its juxtaposition with B , and B by its juxtaposition with A. The whole is different from the sum of its parts because the parts influence or contaminate each other . |
| 18 | You are carrying on a business if you sell or barter any of the livestock or their produce . |
| 19 | There are few women agricultural workers , although some wives and daughters cook or do other domestic tasks on the big estates . |
| 20 | Owners naturally forget or feel sorry for the underdog , but experience has shown that dog/owner relations are all important if treatment is to be successful . |
| 21 | A report published in April by the New York-based Carnegie Endowment for Peace claimed that Argentina , Brazil , India , Iraq and Pakistan had been able to circumvent international regulations and build or expand nuclear weapons capabilities . |
| 22 | Volumes of almost 900m shares reflected not only the Midland placing , but also a sizeable number of program trades , where institutions inject or extract large blocks of funds across a range of stocks at a pre-arranged time and at pre-determined prices . |
| 23 | Too often we assume that others want exactly what we want or need those things we find easiest to deliver . |
| 24 | Once parents start to try and rationalize the situation , over-compensate or feel guilty about their children not liking each other , the situation will only get worse . |
| 25 | In any event , the fish ( especially the anchovies ) either die or become unavailable to man and wildlife . |
| 26 | ‘ Lloyd 's has to decide whether , as Names die or become unable to pay , the risks can be assumed by the Society as a whole or whether the maxim of ‘ Each for his own part ’ is strictly applied . |
| 27 | Instead of being eroded , classes intermediate between capital and the manual working class have consistently expanded in size : wage-earners who supervise or control other people 's labour , people in non-manual jobs , and state employees . |
| 28 | The foods that commonly cause or aggravate these conditions are for the most part excluded from the diet . |
| 29 | The organisation also campaigns for tougher penalties for drivers who kill or injure other road users . |
| 30 | Erm now driving is probably the most dangerous thing you do , unless you bunjy jump or abseil or do other daft Well they 're maybe not daft things to people who do them , but certainly they 're potentially dangerous . |