Example sentences of "[conj] the [noun] [verb] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its products are no longer in demand , it has n't the capital or the rating to expand or diversify ; its management is moribund . |
| 2 | A vote given or poll demanded by proxy or by the duly authorised corporate representative of a recognised body shall be valid notwithstanding the previous determination of the authority of the person voting or demanding a poll unless notice of the determination was received by the Company at the office or at such other place at which the instrument of proxy was duly deposited before the commencement of the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the vote is given or the poll demanded or ( in the case of a poll taken otherwise than on the same day as the meeting or adjourned meeting ) the time appointed for taking the poll . |
| 3 | A vote given or poll demanded by proxy or by the duly authorised corporate representative of a recognised body shall be valid notwithstanding the previous determination of the authority of the person voting or demanding a poll unless notice of the determination was received by the Company at the office or at such other place at which the instrument of proxy was duly deposited before the commencement of the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the vote is given or the poll demanded or ( in the case of a poll taken otherwise than on the same day as the meeting or adjourned meeting ) the time appointed for taking the poll . |
| 4 | This would still seem to be so if most , though not all , the terms are standard — if , say , there are minor variations from one buyer to another ( e.g. as to the commodity or the quantity bought or the price to be paid ) . |
| 5 | 7.7.9.1 to rebuild and reinstate at its own expense the Premises or the part destroyed or damaged to the reasonable satisfaction and under the supervision of the Surveyor the Tenant being allowed towards the expenses of so doing upon such rebuilding and reinstatement being completed the amount ( if any ) actually received in respect of such destruction or damage under any such insurance policy or |
| 6 | One apparent stumbling block to mounting more research is that we lack qualified people to do it or the resources to employ or deploy them , but as so often , a wider and less conventional look at the problem reveals one possible solution . |
| 7 | Perhaps they are soon to go to Britain or the States to study or as tourists . |
| 8 | 9.3 Covenants relating to adjoining Premises Nothing contained in or implied by this Lease shall give the Tenant the benefit of or the right to enforce or to prevent the release or modification of any covenant agreement or condition entered into by any tenant of the Landlord in respect of any property not comprised in this Lease Tenants have very limited rights to enforce covenants against each other . |
| 9 | On the other , does the policy of government to leave much decision-making to commercial factors or the market enhance or hinder democracy ? |
| 10 | ‘ For the purposes of this section , no consent is obtained where the complainant submits or does not resist by reason of ( a ) the application of force to the complainant or to a person other than the complainant ; ( b ) threats or fear of the application of force to the complainant or to a person other than the complainant ; ( c ) fraud ; ( d ) the exercise of authority . ’ |
| 11 | Normally amongst these is included any matter where the complainant has or had a right of appeal or right to go to the courts but has not used it . |
| 12 | It is suggested that as a result of CA 1985 , s35 the main difficulties will only arise where the purchaser knows or should have known that the directors of the vendor were abusing their powers , for example , by committing a fraud on the vendor 's creditors . |
| 13 | This exception applies where the seller continues or is in possession of the goods or documents of title and subsequently delivers them to a new innocent purchaser . |
| 14 | With little access to trade outlets , early Inuit had neither the power nor the will to over-exploit or destroy their few resources . |
| 15 | ‘ the fact that the companies owning or managing the fishing vessels concerned are incorporated under the laws of the United Kingdom , that they are subject to corporation tax and value added tax in the United Kingdom … ’ |
| 16 | By this I mean that the commands to do or to abstain proceed from persons who no matter whether this is logical or reasonable or justifiable by any objective criterion — are believed to be persons who have the moral right to issue them : so that , correlatively , those to whom the commands are addressed feel a moral duty to obey them . |
| 17 | It must also be noted that the liability to answer or to make discovery depends on the opinion of the judge . |
| 18 | The two main things that go wrong are that the ball corrodes or that the valve itself starts leaking . |
| 19 | So too with all other conditionals : letters in lower case for events , conditions , and the like , the same letters in upper case for the statements that the event occurred or the condition existed . |
| 20 | The touch judge is allowed to inform the referee of any act of foul play that the referee has or has not seen himself . |
| 21 | Accordingly , within s.3 it is not enough that the victim expects or requires the accused to pay . |
| 22 | If the prosecutor were required to prove that the assailant knew or was reckless about the question whether his victim was a policeman , it might occasionally be that the assailant would escape conviction of the section 51 charge . |
| 23 | The origins of affray as being committed by fighting are preserved by the requirement that the violence used or threatened must be directed at Another person , and not ( unlike violent disorder and riot ) at property . |
| 24 | Information concerning or identifying another pupil should not be disclosed , and information , the disclosure of which might cause serious harm to the mental or physical health or emotional condition of the pupil or anyone else , or which indicates that the pupil has or may be likely to suffer child abuse , should not be disclosed . |
| 25 | Difficulties are smoothed out for pupils by , for example , ensuring that awkward cases do not occur or that the numbers cancel or that the answer is not a fraction . |
| 26 | He suggests that the functions of speech can be to focus on any of the six basic components of the communicational event : thus the referential function focuses on the referential content of the message , the emotive function on the speaker 's state , the conative function on the speaker 's wishes that the addressee do or think such-and-such , the metalinguistic function on the code being used , the phatic function on the channel ( establishment and maintainance of contact ) , and the Poetic function on the way in which the message is encoded . |
| 27 | The clothes that the children wear or dress up in often prompt comment . |
| 28 | ‘ did proceed across ( or along ) the carriageway ’ This point means that the pedestrian tried or succeeded in walking across the carriageway i.e. from footpath to footpath or along the carriageway in the same direction as the traffic flow . |
| 29 | Even now , almost a decade into the project , we can not say that the monster does or does not exist . |
| 30 | Indeed , one of the hallmarks of a living party system is that the parties develop or even modify their positions over time , as they seek to adapt to changing political circumstances . |