Example sentences of "is [adv] [verb] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tribes grow and become powerful under brave and successful leaders , and then shrink or break apart when their chieftain is eventually defeated or slain . |
| 2 | Implicit information is held in the organisational memory ( for example , the description of office routine ) and is rarely recorded or preserved . |
| 3 | This simple truth is rarely perceived or admitted : almost always the judge pretends to get his solution out of the words of the Act , though he may confess in so doing to be guided by its general policy . |
| 4 | Direction of social policy from the centre is rarely promised or achieved . |
| 5 | Now the operation may only be carried out if a foetus is badly damaged or if a pregnancy threatens a woman 's life or health or is the result of a crime . |
| 6 | ‘ It appears to me that the whole question is governed by the broad , general , universal principle that English legislation , unless the contrary is expressly enacted or so plainly implied as to make it the duty of an English court to give effect to an English statute , is applicable only to English subjects or to foreigners who by coming into this country , whether for a long or a short time , have made themselves during that time subject to English jurisdiction . |
| 7 | ‘ Put into the language of today , the general principle being there stated is simply that , unless the contrary is expressly enacted or so plainly implied that the courts must give effect to it , United Kingdom legislation is applicable only to British subjects or to foreigners who by coming to the United Kingdom , whether for a short or a long time , have made themselves subject to British jurisdiction . |
| 8 | STATUS_RETURN — returns TRUE if no errors are detected and the operation is successfully completed or FALSE if an error has occurred , indicating that a more detailed examination of ERROR_RETURN_DETAIL is required . |
| 9 | If the argument is sustained in any of these instances , the benefit which the employer has derived from the patented invention is effectively reduced or even negated . |
| 10 | Indeed , for all cases where the to infinitive evokes " subsequent potentiality " the support is necessarily seen or implied to be situated in time prior to the event . |
| 11 | Finally , there is the tension in the design process between the sense of design as a transformative activity , a positing activity , transcendent of the givens of a problem ( in the sense of both breaking with context and with the form of the immediately perceived requirements — design as defining needs as well as solutions ) and design as a posited activity , that which works from the given which deals with what is real not with what is merely planned or speculated or imagined . |
| 12 | More generally , the emphasis was on securing a ‘ speeding up of the system ’ and ‘ to ensure that development is only prevented or restricted when this serves a clear planning purpose and the economic effects have been taken into account ’ . |
| 13 | It is only extinguished or " barred " because the claim it gives to land has been allowed to remain unpressed for a long time in face of a rival title … the effect of the Act is to eliminate . |
| 14 | A goods vehicle is a motor vehicle constructed or adapted for use for the carriage of goods or a trailer which is so constructed or adapted . |
| 15 | that nothing is so lost or gone to waste |
| 16 | What reasons may persuade him that he is so compelled or obliged ? |
| 17 | Above all , understanding an utterance involves the making of inferences that will connect what is said to what is mutually assumed or what has been said before . |
| 18 | A person born severely disabled will need a great deal of help in overcoming the effects of the disability , but they will possibly be able to adjust to it better than the person who has enjoyed perfect health and led a full , normal life and is suddenly injured or crippled by disease . |
| 19 | There would not have been much music , one is suddenly reminded or much singing and dancing where Anna came from . |
| 20 | Too much of it , however , is thoughtlessly neglected or replaced , often at great expense . |
| 21 | ( 8 ) ) , and on an appeal being taken , the suspension remains ineffective until the appeal is finally determined or abandoned ( subs . |
| 22 | A closer examination of the Celtic Church reveals a much greater deviation from Rome than is generally acknowledged or even known . |
| 23 | Is the department a marginal service for which the overhead commitment is already made or is it to recover all its costs , including capital ? |
| 24 | In fact my honourable friend , the parliamentary under secretary of state for the department of trade and industry who 's responsible for deregulation is also the sponsoring minister for one of these orders , namely the one on the insurance companies , and secondly our intention is that the cost here should be negligible , or nil er in that they do n't go beyond er what is already required or or possible by way of a right to report , here we 're imposing a duty to report . |
| 25 | Slower-acting than most artificials , it is best hoed or dug in during winter , some months ahead of renewed springtime growth and activity . |
| 26 | work is ever forgotten or unrewarded . |
| 27 | It might be heartbreaking but the summary plus the recommended actions may prove to be all that is ever needed or read . |
| 28 | Once viral genes have become integrated into chromosomes their activity is usually altered or totally suppressed . |
| 29 | The sense of obligation which pervades and often exacerbates the traditional patron-client relationship is usually diminished or wholly absent in the author-subscriber relationship . |
| 30 | It has an open textured paste when ripe and is usually washed or brushed with brine . |