Example sentences of "[noun sg] or [noun sg] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For earlier social reformers , human progress or decline had been seen to depend on the constant interplay of the individual 's moral faculties and the state of the environment . |
| 2 | Sales will be recognised when title passes or a separately identifiable phase of a contract or development has been completed and its overall profitability can be reasonably foreseen . |
| 3 | Sales will be recognised when title passes or a separately identifiable phase of a contract or development has been completed and its overall profitability can be reasonably foreseen . |
| 4 | You see a university has a wide spread of expertise and facilities , which is well beyond the finance of a small company , and even sometimes a larger company , especially when the expertise or facility required is out of the ordinary . |
| 5 | Perhaps incest is even more closely a matter of social norms than paedophilia ; its proscription or permissibility has been and is highly variable from period to period and in different sub-cultures within our own country , let alone others . |
| 6 | The alternative electrostatic headphones are by nature precision assemblies and , like electrostatic loudspeakers , remain firmly in the upper price bracket except where the simpler and less costly electret principle with a pre-charged diaphragm or backplate has been used . |
| 7 | In what follows , the branch or sector has been used as a category in the first classification of father 's occupations , with skill as a secondary and more arguable subdivision . |
| 8 | But it is difficult to see how the section 5 restitutionary remedy could be available against anyone other than the other party to the transaction in question or the party to whom , under the transaction in question , the investor 's money or property had been paid or transferred . |
| 9 | Up until this time no ID card or warrant had been produced . |
| 10 | After this , but before the car or rogue had been traced , the rogue sold the car to an innocent purchaser . |
| 11 | I was asked by Wales Link to write again , but still no reply or acknowledgement has been forthcoming . |
| 12 | ( 4 ) Many tenants object to forfeiture provisions applying where distress or execution has been levied on its goods at the premises , as even in the best run organisations this sometimes occurs and it is not always an indication that the tenant is in financial difficulty . |
| 13 | Car owners needing their wheel or battery changed are now greeted by men clad in bright orange uniforms and natty caps . |
| 14 | Though not resolving all problems , the Court of Appeal in Shelton ( 1986 ) 83 Cr App R 379 held : ( a ) if there is doubt as to whether the appropriate charge is theft or handling , both can be charged ; ( b ) the jury should be directed that a handler may also be a thief but he can not be convicted of both in relation to the same property at the same time ; and ( c ) if the jury can not agree whether theft or handling has been proved , the jury should be discharged . |
| 15 | Come , now , and see how I have lodged her , and that no harm or insult has been offered her . |
| 16 | ( 10 ) If the property is leasehold : ( a ) please confirm that the seller has complied with all the covenants in the lease ; ( b ) does the seller know whether any items of substantial expenditure for decoration , maintenance or repair have been carried out by the lessors recently but not yet charged to tenants , or are any such contemplated in the near future ? ( 11 ) Is the seller aware of any overriding interest under the Land Registration Act 1925 , s70(1) ? ( 12 ) Please confirm : ( a ) that all gas and electrical installations are the seller 's absolute property and are included in the purchase price ; ( b ) that the electric light installations down to the bulb holders will be left intact ; ( c ) that all furniture , furnishings and fittings not included in the sale and all rubbish will be removed before completion . |
| 17 | Among the sites where characteristic evidence for iron extraction or smithing has been located might be included those at Ancaster , Braintree , Camerton , Holditch , Sapperton and Wilderspool . |
| 18 | For a claim to be recoverable the Policyholder must satisfy us that on the balance of probabilities the loss or damage sustained was caused by a peril insured against . |
| 19 | To apply these characteristics as the criterion for dismissal or refusal to employ is to apply a gender-based criterion , which the majority of the House of Lords has already held to be unlawful direct discrimination in James v Eastleigh Borough Council [ 1990 ] 2 AC 751 . |
| 20 | The nature of the act or omission demanded is immaterial and it is also immaterial whether the menaces relate to action to be taken by the person making the demand . |
| 21 | In over 30% of domestic burglaries , the burglar simply walks in without using any force because a window or door has been left open . |
| 22 | Unless there is a contract governing the transaction , it is suggested that when the conveyance or transfer has been executed by all parties a completion date should be arranged so that the necessary searches can be made by reference to that date and the matter completed . |
| 23 | the alleged error or malfunction has been notified to within the warranty period specified above . |
| 24 | Autumn passage or departure has been noted between 3 August and 25 September . |
| 25 | I do not think this grouping or group let is yet a class either in itself or for itself and it may never become one . |
| 26 | no alteration , modification or addition has been made to the Licensed Software without 's prior written consent |
| 27 | The areas in which slavery or serfdom had been of marginal importance or genuinely ‘ uneconomic ’ — e.g. northern and southern Russia or the border states and the south-west in the United States — adjusted readily to its liquidation . |
| 28 | But is this so , even in a context , which we assume throughout , in which the parent or guardian has been fully informed and can make a rational decision ? |
| 29 | Insight into abnormalities of transit and pressure activity in constipation or diarrhoea has been obtained with these techniques . |
| 30 | They were to act as the first stage in settling disputes , and there would be " no stoppage of work until any difference or dispute had been referred to them or if necessary to the District or National Board as circumstances may require " . |