Example sentences of "[conj] is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Whether the child has arrived or is yet to be born is unclear . |
| 32 | If ever there was any documentation relating to this episode , none appears to have survived or is yet to be unearthed . |
| 33 | Also some ratios are fairly crude eg Index of Labour Turnover , which shows the position in gross terms and gives no indication as to whether turnover is spread throughout the organization or is heavily concentrated in one department or in one occupation . |
| 34 | Their power to do justice will become more restricted by law than it need be , or is today . |
| 35 | Artificial insemination by donor ( AID ) , i.e. by a man other than the husband , can be used to achieve fertility where the husband lacks spermatozoa , or is otherwise infertile , or if the husband is a carrier of a genetic disease with a high chance of its being transmitted to a child ; alternatively the husband and wife may both be carriers of the same recessive gene , so that each act of fertilization would have a 25 per cent chance of giving rise to a diseased child . |
| 36 | a single prostitute who provides services in private premises to one client at a time without spectators is guilty of the common law offence of keeping a disorderly house if it is proved that the services provided are of such a character and are conducted in such a manner … that their provision amounts to an outrage of public decency or is otherwise calculated to harm the public interest to such an extent as to call for condemnation and punishment . |
| 37 | An order under section 2 may also not be made if it is shown that the request infringes the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom or is otherwise prejudicial to the United Kingdom ; on these matters a certificate of the Secretary of State is conclusive . |
| 38 | Thus the statement " The concept lion is not empty " obviously is not likely to convey the desired information unless it is already clear from the context , or is otherwise indicated , that what is being talked about are actual and not merely imagined or fantasized lions . |
| 39 | ( 5 ) Where a licence is granted by a board which has not been properly constituted or is otherwise not in accordance with the Act , the licence is void . |
| 40 | The Council may provide that the provisions of any Codes of Practice promulgated by it shall be available to and shall be taken into account by the investigating and disciplinary bodies and , if appropriate , the appeals committee in determining whether or not an individual on the Register has failed to comply with the Rules of Conduct or is otherwise liable to disciplinary action pursuant to the Charter . |
| 41 | However , the firm will have to make the prescribed disclosure that all or most of the FSA protections do not apply if ( even though it does not have to do so ) it tells a private customer that it is a member of SFA or is otherwise FSA-authorised ; or ( 2 ) It is carried on with or for customers in the UK , but the FSA 's overseas person exemption would have applied if that non-UK office had been a separate person from the UK office ( see page 40 above and also below ) or , presumably , is outside the territorial scope of the FSA in any event ; or ( 3 ) The business is that of an appointed representative of the firm and is not carried on in the UK . |
| 42 | Under TA 1988 , s677(10) there shall be treated as a capital sum paid to the settlor by the trustees of the settlement any sum which is paid by them to a third party at the settlor 's direction or by virtue of the assignment by him of his right to receive it or is otherwise paid or applied by the trustees for the benefit of the settlor and which would not otherwise be treated as a capital sum paid to the settlor . |
| 43 | The suggestion that conventionalism reduces surprise must assume , then , not that surprise is unfair but that it is undesirable for some other reason : that it is inefficient , for example , or imposes unnecessary risks , or frightens people , or is otherwise not in the general interest . |
| 44 | Thus , to give an obvious example drawn from Fuller , participation through reasoned argument loses its meaning if the arbiter of the dispute is insane or is hopelessly prejudiced . |
| 45 | For the examples to work , it must be possible for a false belief still to be justified ; and a justified belief must justify any belief which it implies ( or is justifiably believed to imply ) . |
| 46 | ‘ unless … ( a ) the court has deprived the first defendant ( as mortgagee ) of any relevant costs ; or ( b ) the court has ordered taxation of any relevant costs on some other basis save where there is no inconsistency between such an order and the preservation of the first defendant 's contractual right to payment of such costs ( for example , where such an order has been , or is hereafter , made against the mortgagors or any of them and other persons joined as co-plaintiffs or co-defendants with the mortgagors or any of them ) . |
| 47 | It seems plausible to suppose that unless a person enjoys or is soon likely to acquire effective power in a society he does not possess legitimate political authority over that society . |
| 48 | If a horse is being naughty then you have to punish him in some way — but do n't punish him if he does n't understand or is physically incapable of doing what you 've asked . ’ |
| 49 | This is not to suggest that Radio Nigeria , as the FRCN now describes itself , either ignores or is openly or blatantly unfair to the other parties . |
| 50 | As a simple rule of thumb we could say that major differences in thermoregulation are determined by whether heat is derived solely from the environment , or is entirely internally generated , or is somewhere between the two . |
| 51 | Or is both sided , soldered ? |
| 52 | Here , the items of contention in the theories of the state appear as features which can be used to characterize each particular state ; for we need to consider in every instance the extent to which the state is independent of other social spheres , or on the contrary is subordinate to ‘ constellations of interest ’ which themselves have to be specified , and further , the degree to which the state is a repressive agency which dominates society ( and what the sources of that domination are ) , or is rather the executive body of society as a whole . |
| 53 | This can quite often happen as a result of the last part of the tone-unit being already ‘ given ’ ( i.e. something which has already been mentioned or is completely predictable ) , for example : |
| 54 | These are factors which decide whether the specimen is initially handled as a solid and disaggregated after fixation , or is immediately disaggregated and handled from the outset as a cell suspension . |
| 55 | Second , if the condition goes unrecognised , or is incorrectly treated , irreversible damage may occur . |
| 56 | ( a ) the nature of the shareholdings in the company ( including whether control is in the hands of the public or is privately held ) ; |
| 57 | Whether he gave the command to open fire in Vilnius and Riga or is cynically refusing to condemn the thuggery of his troops in order to put pressure on the Baltic republics , he has taken the side of order against law , acting in defiance of those republics ' legally elected parliaments . |
| 58 | Neither the court nor a Chief Constable could compel an officer to do acts which can only lawfully be done if the officer himself with reasonable cause suspects that a breach of the peace has occurred or is imminently likely to occur . |
| 59 | He 's either suppressing his delight at his success or is genuinely pragmatic about it . |
| 60 | Occasionally sleep is missed , or is twice as long as usual . |