Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [vb mod] [be] " in BNC.

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1 Does the worker embark on a specialism having already acquired particular knowledge and/or skills ( and if so how ) , or is there an assumption that by specializing this knowledge and/or skills may be attained ?
2 Specific details of the defective parts and/or accessories must be given in the charge and therefore in the prosecution evidence ( Simmons v Fowler ( 1950 ) 48 L.G.R. 623 ) .
3 The significance of many particular facts or operations could be perceived only with some background knowledge , which the uninitiated would have little wish or reason to acquire .
4 Plans and drawings or maps can be stored in neat rolls in large baskets or drums or laid flat in thin drawers set into a wall of storage ; these can look interesting in themselves with their severe and narrow horizontal lines .
5 Any referrals or requests should be addressed to Patrick Murphy for translations/interpreting or Graeme McLeish for language training .
6 Such contract or contracts may be varied if , and only if , the rules so provide , by a majority of the members or by a specified majority .
7 The confidence of buyers or investors or creditors would be eroded .
8 Coloured cards or strips can be used to indicate whether a room is vacant , occupied by staff , being cleaned or out of commission .
9 Resolutions in general meeting ( or partnership meeting ) of both companies is , of course , a condition precedent and minority members or shareholders must be paid off respectively , their shares purchased and cancelled .
10 Catastrophe Leicester was designated in 1990 and another two towns or cities will be chosen over the next two years .
11 Once they 're approved landlords or homeowners will be able to go straight to a county court for a possession order .
12 Both approaches are reflected in the report to annual parent meetings and both require a looking back at a school 's achievements in order that differences or improvements can be headlined .
13 Otherwise cell nuclei of embryos or aggregates can be stained and embryos disaggregated as discussed below .
14 A range of euphemisms or metaphors may be used , such as the device already noted employed by the wife to hoodwink her husband in La Saineresse and to render him yet more ridiculous .
15 As gastrointestinal symptoms or signs may be non-specific two or more features related to either the upper or lower tract were considered necessary to suggest the site of possible disease .
16 At these levels , borrowers with savings or investments must be wondering whether it is worthwhile using some of their cash to pay off the mortgage in part or in full .
17 Introductory handling sessions followed by work in the galleries generally allow pupils to get far more benefit from a museum visit than use of the exhibition galleries alone , where objects may be displayed behind glass .
18 Where this is not so , individuals or groups can be given the task of reviewing a particular area .
19 Is it not the case that individuals or groups can be wrong in their judgements about the nature or status of some theory ?
20 The depth required to protect from marauding cats or birds might be too much of an effort for an elderly owner .
21 Such a commentary can be recorded or notes can be taken directly by the analyst .
22 If equipment or projects must be subsidised from individual pockets , if there are no resources for creche facilities or disabled access it 's difficult to envisage genuinely equal opportunities .
23 Or strategies might be conditional upon the past history of the game .
24 But what kind of resources or strategies could be committed , both theoretically and practically to this task ?
25 When a ship of any size was docked , they were capable of being extended until they formed bridges across which stores or personnel could be transferred .
26 But few sportsmen or coaches could be more explicit on this point than Haringey 's sprinter John Skeets : ‘ It 's part of our make-up , physically and mentally . ’
27 The pages should be reduced and photographed in columns into the microfiche matrix , the top row of which is reserved so that legible headings or titles can be added to identify the microfiche when it is produced .
28 For all errors , the necessary corrections must be made before any installations or deinstallations will be accepted .
29 In addition to informal chat about how things were going and where improvements could be made , staff were required , and parents were invited , to write a brief evaluative comment about each shared activity .
30 Armed with the new approach , projects were identified where improvements could be made .
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