Example sentences of "there is or " in BNC.

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1 A later Murdoch novel , The Sea , the Sea ( 1978 ) , explores in the same unblinking fashion an aspect of human selfhood from another angle : its ageing hero , living cheerfully for himself and cooking dishes that hardly anyone else would want to eat , suddenly rediscovers a lost love , is deranged enough to kidnap her , fails to regain her love in captivity and is forced to accept , by the end , that his old self-sufficient life is all there is or can ever be .
2 There 's projects with the kids you know get the kids to work on what they want what they want to see get them to work on their parents and find out you could find out then whether there is or not in Harlow .
3 Despite these strategies , applied in both depressed and prosperous Britain , it can not be argued that there is or ever has been a clearly defined national population-distribution policy in the UK .
4 Thus a fifth-century Thessalian inscription uses the phrase ‘ whether under a tagia or in an atagia ’ , that is , whether there is or is not a tagos ( Syll. 55 and ZPE , 1980 , p. 272 ) .
5 Although such inferences are not always logically entirely unimpeachable , given the above premisses , the pluralist case becomes difficult to defend and on balance the only reasonable option seems to be Spinoza 's own unitarist alternative , viz. that there is only one substance which is in fact identical with the whole of reality , and that the only plurality there is or can be is the plurality of " attributes and modifications " .
6 I do n't know whether there is or there is n't .
7 Under section 245A , where copies of the annual accounts have been sent out , laid , or delivered to the Registrar and it appears to the Secretary of State that there is or may be a question whether they comply with the Act he may give notice to the directors indicating the respects in which it appears to him that the question may arise and specifying a period of not less than one month for the directors to give him explanations or prepare revised accounts .
8 It is important to emphasize that ‘ creative accounting ’ does not properly refer to ‘ illegal accounting ’ : there is or was no support for illegal accounting .
9 A solicitor will generally be free to decide for himself whether or not to accept instructions from a client , though he must always bear in mind the statutory obligation not to discriminate against potential clients on the grounds of race , colour , sex etc ( see Chapter 3 ) and he must refuse to act or to continue to act in any of the following circumstances : ( 1 ) where his client seeks to insist on the solicitor conducting his case in a way which would involve some breach of law or professional regulation ; ( 2 ) where the client 's affairs are outside his professional competence ; ( 3 ) if he suspects that the instructions purporting to come from his client do not in fact represent the client 's wishes ; ( 4 ) where the solicitor is unable to obtain confirmation from the client of instructions received from a third person ; ( 5 ) where there is or is likely to be some conflict of interest involving the solicitor himself , his client , other clients ( present , past or prospective ) , or the firm ; ( 6 ) where the solicitor may be a material and not merely formal witness in any proceedings ; ( 7 ) where another solicitor has already received instructions which have not been formally withdrawn .
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