Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] or [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What all this amounts to , among other things , is that in translating pronouns from English to , say , French , Italian , Greek , Spanish , Russian , German , or Bahasa Indonesia , decisions may have to be made along such dimensions as gender , degree of intimacy between participants , or whether reference includes or excludes the addressee . |
| 2 | Any claim that a certain state or government , regime or society is " really " or " in the last analysis democratic , however implausible it may seem , must involve the implication that in some way or other the government , regime or state in question serves or represents the people ; that the " real " will of the people is expressed through it , or that the people support it , even if this support is not necessarily demonstrated through such formalities as elections . |
| 3 | If the claim is for less , then leave of either the county court judge or of the Court of Appeal is required , unless the decision includes or preserves an injunction ( County Courts Act 1984 , s.77 ; County Courts Appeal Order 1981 , SI 1981 : No. 1749 ) . |
| 4 | Of course we must say what that means by describing how a community adopts or betrays a principle , and this will be part of constructing our conception of law as integrity . |
| 5 | It is important to observe whether the stroked person accepts or rejects the stroke . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If the mutation creates or destroys a restriction site then this can be simply examined in the products of the reaction . |
| 8 | Where a person borrows or enters a contract ( agreement ) involving some future form of payment , this will invariably be expressed in money terms . |
| 9 | By convention , the government of the day resigns or requests a dissolution if a motion of no confidence is carried against it in the House of Commons . |
| 10 | ( 2 ) Any amounts by way of allowance payable by virtue of subsection ( 1 ) above shall be payable by the council of the district or islands area whose area constitutes or includes the area of the licensing board . |
| 11 | The LF control raises or lowers the level below around 160Hz over a range of +4 to -6dB , making the sound correspondingly fuller or thinner ; the HF offers a similar shaping above 1kHz to help compensate for dull ( overly absorptive ) or bright ( highly reflective ) rooms . |
| 12 | When a pupil borrows or returns a book , the bar-code reader is drawn across the bar-code on the book or item and across the pupil 's bar-coded library ticket . |
| 13 | This legislation prohibits or restricts the exclusion of terms that would otherwise be implied in contracts of supply ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 14 | The research will explore the way in which paid work in later life facilitates or inhibits the development of such networks . |
| 15 | Visit the nearby Greek island of Kos and return loaded with duty frees or visit the magnificent site of Epheus , the largest Roman city outside Rome with its spectacular remains . |
| 16 | At the world 's main airports a plane arrives or departs every 30 seconds . |
| 17 | The pressure makes or breaks the appropriate microswitch contacts . |
| 18 | If a prisoner has or knows the material which reaches the department , that is sufficient . |
| 19 | An expressive notation expresses or displays the relationship structure of subjects within the scheme . |
| 20 | ( 3 ) For the purposes of the valuation referred to in subsection ( 1 ) above , it shall be assumed — ( a ) that the landlord in default is selling his interest on the open market to a willing buyer ; ( b ) that neither the residential occupier nor any member of his family wishes to buy ; and ( c ) that it is unlawful to carry out any substantial development of any of the land in which the landlord 's interest subsists or to demolish the whole or part of any building on that land . |
| 21 | While Professor R. T. McKenzie was right to argue that the common purpose of winning elections and of maintaining a government in power imposes or produces an almost identical power structure in the parties , it is wrong to infer from this that the atmosphere within the parties is the same . |
| 22 | The law states that if a physical system is thermally isolated ( that is , if no heat enters or leaves the system ) , the thermodynamic quantity known as entropy must increase or stay constant . |
| 23 | For example , Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf-5 produces pyoluteorin ( 3 ) , which is effective in controlling damping-off in cotton caused by Pythium ultimum ( this disease prevents or retards the establishment of seedlings ) ; other strains of the same bacterium produce pyrrolnitrin ( 4 ) , which is active against a range of fungal pathogens of cotton , whereas phenazine-1-carboxylic acid ( 5 ) is active against take-all or ‘ whiteheads ’ of wheat caused by Gaeumannomyces graminis var tritici , which infects roots . |
| 24 | Accordingly , within s.3 it is not enough that the victim expects or requires the accused to pay . |
| 25 | It will be in everyone 's interests to ensure that accounts are taken and valuations made promptly and , perhaps , if the involvement of a third party as independent valuer , arbitrator or mediator is contemplated to break any deadlock , that a time limit be imposed for agreement inter partes. ( b ) Calculation of what is due to the outgoing partner The first and obvious step in the valuation process is the taking of an account up to the date when the outgoing partner dies or leaves the firm , unless that happens or ( except in the case of a death or bankruptcy ) is made to happen at the end of the firm 's normal accounting period . |