Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] he is " in BNC.

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1 Mr Giuliani has been unable to focus voters ' attention on the fact that Mr Dinkins once went several years without paying his taxes , or that he is a product of a corrupt Democratic machine .
2 Nevertheless it seems to me that Gironella is right , or that he is right in so far as he is using ‘ mestizo ’ to claim for his work a Mexican , not a European identity .
3 These points are similar to points 2 and 3 ante but vary slightly in the content of the call , e.g. for point 4 examples would include falsely telling a woman her husband was dead or that he is having an affair .
4 Do you mean he represents a Lebanese faction like Islamic Jihad or that he is of the Hezbollah , the Party of God ? ’
5 As a member of that Council I emphatically deny that he has had any mandate , or that he is justified in assuming that the Council as a whole takes his view .
6 Or that he is betrayed ?
7 Indemnity insurance At the same time as applying for replacement of his practising certificate a solicitor must satisfy the Law Society ( by attaching to his application a copy of the form of evidence issued and stamped by London Insurance Brokers Ltd ) that he has complied with the provisions of the Solicitors ' Indemnity Rules 1991 or that he is exempt from so doing .
8 Nevertheless , in the absence of a reservation the landlord may find that he is unable to display advertisements on his adjoining property or that he is unable to redevelop adjoining property economically if those activities would involve a trespass to his tenant 's airspace ( Kelsen v Imperial Tobacco Co Ltd [ 1957 ] 2 QB 334 ; Woollerton & Wilson Ltd v Costain ( Richard ) Ltd [ 1970 ] 1 WLR 411 ) .
9 Instead it is copied to the plaintiff together with new Form N236 which asks him to confirm whether he wishes the case to proceed or that he is withdrawing the action ( Ord 9 , r 2(7) ) .
10 Badly drafted clauses sometimes encountered say that the expert must be acceptable to both parties , or that he is to be appointed by some person or institution acceptable to both parties .
11 Or until he is finished .
12 He should have a glass of water with each meal , at least , and possibly in between meals if his environment is very warm , or if he is doing a lot of active therapy .
13 This is not only likely to be painful for him , but it undermines his stability , so that he can only walk slowly , with constant concentration , and he is much more likely to fall over if he has to change direction or if he is distracted .
14 If a person is ‘ torn ’ between opinions , unable to ‘ make up ’ his mind , or if he is ‘ up in the air ’ over something and unsure which side he should ‘ come down on ’ , or if he is furiously ‘ debating ’ with himself or ‘ hanging back ’ , or weighing up his ‘ reservations ’ , he is nothing if not ‘ in two minds ’ .
15 If a person is ‘ torn ’ between opinions , unable to ‘ make up ’ his mind , or if he is ‘ up in the air ’ over something and unsure which side he should ‘ come down on ’ , or if he is furiously ‘ debating ’ with himself or ‘ hanging back ’ , or weighing up his ‘ reservations ’ , he is nothing if not ‘ in two minds ’ .
16 But he gets very angry if they come up to him in a restaurant when he is eating or if he is busy talking to someone else , ’ says Marci .
17 When such an accident occurs the pilot , or if he is incapacitated the owner or operator of the aircraft , is required to notify the Chief Inspector of Accidents .
18 Anyone in possession of material inside information must either disclose it to the investing public or if he is disabled from disclosing it in order to protect a corporate confidence , or he chooses not to do so , must abstain from trading in or recommending the securities concerned while such inside information remains undisclosed .
19 or if he is absent from duty , the constable responsible for performing his functions may act .
20 There is a difficulty , however , if the seller is disposing of only part of his holding represented by a certificate or if he is disposing of all his holding but to several buyers .
21 It is sufficient if he is shown to be intentionally using violence or if he is aware that his conduct may be violent .
22 There 's a dead man lying there — or if he is n't dead he needs help . "
23 Or if he is n't — what did he die of ?
24 Chauthala is the villain in the latest outrage or if he is a victim of a brutal and diabolical act of his political opponents " .
25 The operator may deviate from the listed procedure because it may require excessive moving about or because he is interrupted by the requirements of other tasks .
26 Subsequently A finds the original certificate and , either because he has forgotten about the sale to B or because he is a rogue , then purports to sell the shares to C. The company will rightly refuse to register C whose only remedy will be against A ( who may by this time be a man-of-straw ) unless he can successfully invoke against the company the so-called doctrine of estoppel by share certificate .
27 No man will publicly humiliate a woman because she is ‘ old ’ or he finds her sexually unattractive : no woman will deride a man for his sexual insufficiency or because he is ‘ weak ’ or ‘ wet ’ or a ‘ wimp ’ .
28 Did he do that on the basis of arrant hypocrisy or because he is a man of no principle who is now putting his principles in his pocket ?
29 The purchaser will insist on an asset sale either because he has identified significant liabilities which he can not risk or because he is simply nervous as to the general state of the business and the risk of unforeseen liabilities .
30 A recognised body shall not have as a director or solicitor or registered foreign lawyer while he is a patient as defined by section 94 of the Mental Health Act 1983 or while he is a person as to whom powers have been exercised under section 98 ( emergency powers ) of that Act and no voting rights shall be exercised in respect of any shares registered in the name of or beneficially owned by such a solicitor or registered foreign lawyer .
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