Example sentences of "is [adj] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | His Lordship begins by looking at direct discrimination under section l(l) ( a ) of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 and concludes that there is no doubt that in general to dismiss a woman because she is pregnant or to refuse to employ a woman of childbearing age because she may become pregnant is unlawful direct discrimination since childbearing and the capacity for childbearing are characteristics of the female sex . |
| 2 | I would n't know whether that is pregnant or not , it 's taking deep breaths |
| 3 | But consistency in strategy would not require a judge to probe the past to discover the " best " interpretation of a statute or the Constitution when this is controversial or the " correct " account of a past judicial decision when lawyers disagree how it should be read . |
| 4 | Only in a few cases is it unclear whether a crater is volcanic or from an impact , and in comparably few cases does it seem more likely that a crater is of volcanic origin . |
| 5 | This observation has led to the suggestion that whether a passive margin is volcanic or non-volcanic depends on whether the site of rifting happens to coincide with the location of a mantle plume and its associated hot spot . |
| 6 | Over most of its geographical range , the middle shore acorn barnacle Semibalanus balanoides is the favoured food ; where 5. balanoides is scarce or absent , Nucella distribution reflects the availability of mussels , limpets or winkles . |
| 7 | This can be smoothed , either manually or by computer , to control costs , particularly if the resource is scarce or expensive . |
| 8 | If in any doubt as to whether one of these leather corals is alive or dead , a simple test is to bring the animal to the water 's surface and take a good sniff . |
| 9 | The rotating particles are videoed and each frame processed by computer to determine whether and in what quantities the target is present ; and whether it is alive or dead . |
| 10 | . Now that normal heart you saw , you saw that normal heart , I would ask you if it was in a twenty five four year old man , do you think that man is alive or dead ? |
| 11 | The same , of course , is true whether the database is textual or multimedia . |
| 12 | The general power of precedents to guide behaviour will not be much jeopardized if judges refuse to follow them when the advice they give is garbled or murky . |
| 13 | Although the Act ( sec. 25 , 1944 Education Act ) would seem to give parents and pupils the right to practise a religion other than that ( Christianity ) , in general there is little or no provision made in school for any kind of peripatetic Muslim teacher to give lessons in Islam . |
| 14 | In most opinion reports from the last months of the war , there is little or no mention of the Führer and the attitudes of the population towards him . |
| 15 | There is little or no hint of the compassion and humanity which lay beneath the cool exterior . |
| 16 | There is little or nothing on the coloration of other everyday materials , such as leather and paper , nor is there any mention of non-substrate uses , such as in dye lasers or photovoltaic cells . |
| 17 | He drew up a work schedule dedicated ‘ to providing holes which would be reachable with two good shots , when the ground is soft and there is little or no run , rather than cater as regards length for the summer conditions ’ . |
| 18 | Sadly , despite a lot of research , there is little or no clear cut evidence of an objective kind which can supply an answer to all of these questions . |
| 19 | Now there is little or nothing left of that theology among Church leaders , it being mainly the prerogative of evangelical back benchers . |
| 20 | There is no known proof of true hereditary surnames in the period before the Conquest , and although a number of Domesday tenants of English origins have names additional to their first — such as Alnod of Kent , a byname given to a man with land in Oxfordshire — there is little or no evidence to show that these were other than personal to the individuals . |
| 21 | There is little or no formal requirement and few incentives . |
| 22 | There is little or no heating for staff |
| 23 | Thus , for example as Revill has pointed out , in programmed instruction students work as isolated individuals ; there is little or no interaction with other students , or with the teacher . |
| 24 | But students work as isolated individuals ; there is little or no interaction with the rest of the group or with the lecturer . |
| 25 | When the sections are stained we can see wide , light-coloured bands representing the summer period of growth , and darker lines representing the winter when there is little or no growth . |
| 26 | If there is little or no improvement on the Step 2 diet , then it may be because there is a general yeast sensitivity , due to candidiasis ( see p 184 ) . |
| 27 | But now this much vaunted initiative has foundered because there is little or no market interest in redevelopment . |
| 28 | There is little or no discussion of principle . |
| 29 | If there is little or no local Christian presence , then a team from outside needs to be brought in . |
| 30 | The fact that there is little or no evidence that a gift is operating does not necessarily mean , however , that it is not present . |