Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] [pron] [is] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Questions relating to an offence may not be put to a person after he has been charged with that offence , or informed that he may be prosecuted for it , unless they are necessary for the purpose of preventing or minimising harm or loss to some other person or to the public or for clearing up an ambiguity in a previous answer or statement , or where it is in the interests of justice that the person should have put to him and have an opportunity to comment on information concerning the offence which has come to light since he was charged or informed that he might be prosecuted . |
| 2 | Badly drafted clauses sometimes encountered say that the expert must be acceptable to both parties , or that he is to be appointed by some person or institution acceptable to both parties . |
| 3 | Do you mean he represents a Lebanese faction like Islamic Jihad or that he is of the Hezbollah , the Party of God ? ’ |
| 4 | Such a detailed description of the Charing Cross collective bureau is not intended to imply recommendation of a collective structure or that it is without problems . |
| 5 | It would be convenient to report that Ross Cranston 's performance was as immaculate as his appearance or that it is on him that the smart money will be laid . |
| 6 | It is not enough that a state is unlucky or incompetent in its economic , social or foreign policies — that jobs or food are scarce , or that it is at war with itself or with its neighbours . |
| 7 | Even married couples working for the same firm can be fired if the boss can prove that their relationship makes their employment impractical , or that it is against company policy . |
| 8 | It does n't matter when it was made , or that it 's in flickery old black and white . |
| 9 | Or if it 's worth pile it in and . |
| 10 | This filter examines every character to see if it has some special meaning or if it is to be translated into another character or sequence of characters . |
| 11 | unless the discharge is authorised by a licence or consent granted by the appropriate Secretary of State or a water authority and is in accordance with any conditions of that licence or consent , or if it is in accordance with good agricultural practice — good agricultural practices being those recommended in codes of practice approved by the Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Foods . |
| 12 | Or if she is in a particularly schizophrenic mood — powerful enemies . |
| 13 | or if she 's on the phone . |
| 14 | One is the actual career breaks that happen for any woman , unless she is in a very highly paid job , where she can afford child care of her own , or unless she 's in those very few jobs in this country which actually erm are with employees who are responsible enough to either provide their own child care , or to allow women those sorts of career breaks in order to bring up children . |
| 15 | It has also been suggested that people buy the book because they have read reviews of it or because it is on the best-seller list , but they do n't read it ; they just have it in the bookcase or on the coffee table , thereby getting credit for having it without taking the effort of having to understand it . |
| 16 | There have to be priorities to meet all your needs — either because a service is not available , or because it is outside the money available — then you will be told this . |
| 17 | The basic principle of law is that assignment of a contract is not possible where the identity of the assignor is an important factor for the other party to the contract either as a reason for his entering into the contract in the first place , or because it is for some reason significant for the proper discharge of the contract . |
| 18 | I emphasise this point because popular topographical books still tend to suggest that any particular place is sited where it is for defence reasons , or because it is near a source of water . |
| 19 | A local authority that spends less on special educational needs does so either because it has less incidence of such needs or because it is in dereliction of its duties to pupils with those needs . |
| 20 | Is this because stylistics feeds off other , more clearly defined , areas within linguistics rather like a poor relation , or because it is in some sense at the interface of these other disciplines ? |
| 21 | ‘ As soon as you find out anything that suggests Heather is still alive , as soon as you learn where she might be or whether she 's in any danger , contact me at once . |
| 22 | ( b ) Separate practice The decision must be taken as to whether the business of a new office is to be integrated with that of the main office or whether it is to be run ( or the extent to which it is to be run ) as a separate , self-financing enterprise or even a separate partnership but using the same firm-name . |
| 23 | The only way I can think of , or I think as far as anyone else can think of , deciding whether it has in fact been important in speciation , is to look for pairs of closely related species which differ in some striking morphological trait , but are still sufficiently similar genetically for you to be able to carry out a genetic analysis , i.e. to cross them , to get offspring , to get F two 's and it 's then possible , it 's obviously not — I 'm not going to explain the details of the technique to you now — but it 's possible to work out whether the difference is due largely , or in part , to some single large gene , or whether it 's on the whole due to quite a lot of small ones . |
| 24 | Whether they 're the citizens ' charter , whether they are response to people from the press or from the public or constantly ringing in to the switchboard , or whether it 's by all the other ways in which we disseminate information . |
| 25 | Now the second problem is that we all value our freedoms and we the greatest thing that we all have in our lives , whether it 's in work , or whether it 's in our marriages or just in our social life , we all value our freedom and initiative , we want to be able to use our own initiative . |
| 26 | or when she 's on the trampoline and you 're |
| 27 | Nor that she is in fact a captive . |
| 28 | They are ; and he 's pretty much the way they 'd constructed him , except that he 's in the corner , bent over and moaning . |
| 29 | Often it seems that although there is in theory a clear commitment to land reform , in practice programmes concentrating on higher levels of production are preferred . |
| 30 | But the virus that killed him is so lethal that once it 's in the lungs it kills one in three of its victims . |