Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] or [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we can take from this contemporary debate is the realisation that although research can assess the effectiveness of signing in schools , the change to Total Communication is generally based on attitude or commitment , which minimises or ignores the teacher variable . |
| 2 | Well , certainly an ethical proposition which incorporates or presupposes a factual claim can be inconsistent with a factual statement . |
| 3 | Evidence can be defined as information which establishes or disproves a fact or a point in question . |
| 4 | A structure word which limits or determines a nominal ( noun ) . |
| 5 | In ‘ Ease , Into Place and Grow Accustomed ’ ( 1987 ) , the steamy blinding oranges , sonorous azure blues and the more synthetic , interior quality of an intense billiard-table green hint at the ways in which colour operates simultaneously on the one level as pre-verbal , as bodily sensation or perception , and on the other as a sign or symbol which modifies or disrupts a system or construction . |
| 6 | ‘ The court may grant the application if — ( a ) the debtor appears to have a counterclaim , set-off or cross demand which equals or exceeds the amount of the debt or debts specified in the statutory demand ; or ( b ) the debt is disputed on grounds which appear to the court to be substantial ; or … ( d ) the court is satisfied , on other grounds , that the demand ought to be set aside . |
| 7 | Safer sex is any kind of sex which reduces or eliminates the risk of blood , semen or vaginal juices getting from one person into the other 's body . |
| 8 | An exemption clause is one which excludes or restricts the liability of a party who is in breach of contract . |
| 9 | His own view of the way this field is structured posits two contradictory tendencies — on the one hand , music which affirms or accepts the social status quo ; on the other , music ( of the avant garde ) which refuses such affirmation . |
| 10 | Energy with wavelengths within these window regions is not absorbed but may be subject to a process called scattering which deflects or redirects the energy . |
| 11 | First , it ignores the infrastructure necessary to support the trainer ( let alone the training of trainers themselves ) which doubles or triples the resources required . |
| 12 | It must be remembered that a clause which restricts or excludes an obligation or duty is not an exclusion clause for the purposes of s3 . |
| 13 | Granted that it is possible to initiate the civilisation of a child by giving it a knowledge of right and wrong , the question arises ‘ How does this knowledge become an automatic power of conscience which enables or compels the child , and later the adult , to act accordingly ? ’ . |
| 14 | A clause which defines or clarifies the antecedent and is essential to the meaning of the complete sentence . |
| 15 | creating a polymer film at the air-tear interface which supports or drags a layer of water along with it as it spreads out over the ocular surface with each blink . |
| 16 | The problem arises in connection with section 99 which adapts or applies the provisions to cases where an individual rather than the local authority wishes to make the complaint . |
| 17 | The college is taking on extra staff to make sure that anyone who visits or telephones the college can have a confidential chat with adult education experts every day next week . |
| 18 | Anyone who kills or traps an animal after being warned away by a Brown Man will become very dizzy and lose all sense of direction . |
| 19 | A classic example of this can be found in the Interviewers Manual ( Social and Community Planning Research , 1977 ) in the section defining the head of the household as the man who owns or rents the property , or is in tied accommodation because of his job : |
| 20 | So although the law is mainly directed at shopkeepers , it could also be applied to anyone who sells or gives a young person a sniffable product . |
| 21 | One of the major concerns about the tax system is whether it discourages or encourages the growth of the economy . |
| 22 | If in the exercise of his own capacity to do so he transfers or transmits the opportunity to B with the knowledge or assurance or expectation that the opportunity will consequently pass from B to C without any further act on A's part , he may be said to provide C with the opportunity indirectly . |
| 23 | " When you inhale the poison of cholera it kills or impairs the functions of the ganglionic nerves which line the air-cells of the lungs … hence , the vital chemistry of the lungs is suspended ; neither caloric nor vital electricity is evolved hence , the coldness which is so typical of cholera . |
| 24 | In its legal forms it legitimates or ignores the voices under its control . |
| 25 | Before the Director General can take action under the Regulations , the advertisement must be such that it both deceives or is likely to deceive and is likely to affect the economic behaviour of those whom it reaches or to injure a competitor of the trader ( usually the advertiser ) whose interests the advertisement is promoting . |
| 26 | Notwithstanding the above , the context for the determination of this appeal is and remains Structure Plan 1985 , as it modifies or supersedes the previously adopted West Sector Local Plan . |
| 27 | A court has power to make a s8 order whether or not it varies or discharges the supervision order . |
| 28 | It will be incompatible if it creates or strengthens a dominant position as a result of which effective competition would be significantly impeded in the Common Market or in a substantial part of it . |
| 29 | This rather simple notion , that there is one single Mexican culture , problematic principally because it tends to valorize the European over the indigenous and to ignore the diversity , and richness of the latter , but also , conversely , because it excludes or denigrates the more purely European aspects of the culture . |
| 30 | If any reader has anything connected with Oakland , no matter how tenuous or trivial , and if anyone owns or knows the whereabouts of Oaklands in the UK , I would be grateful to hear from them . |