Example sentences of "[conj] is [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Russell showed us some slides from his collection and asked various questions e.g. ‘ Where is that ? ’ |
| 2 | When a mouse has two t genes it either dies young or is sterile . |
| 3 | Should the entry qualification be to do with difficult behaviour rather than severity , or is required level of care the most important factor ? iii Low expectations and reduced social stimulation from other residents may lead to impaired performance in dementia , hastening the decline iv Segregated units may become stigmatized , and be unattractive to prospective residents and relatives v Staff recruitment may be more difficult , and staff turnover may be higher vi A unit may find itself looking after an increasingly disabled group In response to the increasing numbers of dementia sufferers in every type of service for the elderly , we saw five different ways of dealing with the integration/segregation issue . |
| 4 | Ss 4 and 5 contain provisions under which a charity can be required to change its name if it is too much like another 's , or is misleading in other ways . |
| 5 | One important lesson concerns the need to consider the whole child when trying to discover what a child understands or is capable of . |
| 6 | In other circumstances an application may be made by a victim of the transaction , viz. , a person who is , or is capable of being , prejudiced by the transaction . |
| 7 | Finally , clause 56 states : ’ Where an offence under this Part committed by a body corporate is committed with the consent or connivance of , or is attributable to any neglect on the part of , a director , manager , secretary or other similar officer of the body , or a person purporting to act in such a capacity , he as well as the body corporate shall be guilty of the offence . ’ |
| 8 | A Jockey Club statement said : ‘ In the view of the stewards , no error of judgment highlighted by the committee arises from or is attributable to any breach of the rules of racing , nor does any such error of itself amount to such a breach . |
| 9 | When the husband or wife reaches 65 ( or is due to become 65 before 5 April 1993 ) , the allowance is increased to £2,465 . |
| 10 | When the husband or wife reaches 75 ( or is due to become 75 before 5 April 1993 ) , the allowance is increased to £2,505 . |
| 11 | Any attempt to grapple with a holist theory will therefore have to separate its holist character from its other features , and especially where a theory is weak , it will be important to see whether the deficiency is the result of its being holist , or is due to something else . |
| 12 | Harsh reality has arrived , or is due to arrive next year . |
| 13 | The net amount of work which occurs is often estimated by observing the frequency of an externally applied effective stress ( such as a weather- or hydrologically-related stress ) which is more easily measured or is accessible from records . |
| 14 | my Lord , er , er , in , in my submission the , the , the highest really could put their case is that if the matter were referred your Lordship simply did n't stay proceedings or permitted them for example to apply for interim payment or permitted them to take some procedural steps to pursue their action so that they were n't unduly delayed should they succeed at the end of the day and that would be a major concession because it would run against a normal rule cos on a reference the entire proceedings are stayed , that 's not a case just saying even if that is done , er that anybody is saying that particular measure is or is good is not good or may not be forced in the interim |
| 15 | Or is each to remain stubbornly not a piece of a jigsaw puzzle , but in its own watertight compartment , as shown in this diagram ? |
| 16 | The sad thing is that when you see a horse that is frightened of doing things or is nasty , you can often see where its willingness to please and its trust were abused as a youngster . |
| 17 | 5.5 shall not during or after the expiry or termination of this Agreement without the prior written consent of , use or adopt any name , trade name , trading style or commercial designation that includes or is similar to or may be mistaken for the whole or any part of any trade name , trade mark , trading style or commercial designation used by . |
| 18 | respect confidential information obtained in the course of professional practice and refrain from disclosing such information without the consent of the patient/client or a person entitled to act on his/her behalf except where disclosure is required by law or by order of a court , or is necessary in the public interest . |
| 19 | Practitioners could then consider whether this can be transferred to a new physical or social setting , or is sustainable only in a familiar setting . |
| 20 | So much the better if the odds are very heavily stacked against you , or if the consensus involves jingoistic patriotism , the use of armed force , or is pro-American — all points of ambivalence for the left . |
| 21 | How many were ‘ true ’ generalizations which went beyond the particular species and task and could begin to provide a real cellular and biochemical ‘ alphabet ’ of memory — or is such a search a mere will-o'-the-wisp ? |
| 22 | If the business buys goods for resale , or components for assembly , the terms on which it buys should be considered : to what extent is it possible to pass back liability for defects in those goods ; can the business recover an indemnity from its supplier against any liability it incurs to third parties , or is such liability excluded ? ( 3 ) Who are the business 's customers ? |
| 23 | Or is new single ‘ It 's Not What You Know ’ their finest , most focused outburst of angular funk yet ? |
| 24 | The instructions were to agree one answer to this question ‘ Are these two bricks the same size , or is one of them bigger than the other ? ’ |
| 25 | Will you require one large room for the entire week , with subsidiary rooms for practical classes , formal lectures etc. , or is one room sufficient ? |
| 26 | Where the draftsman can anticipate this problem arising ( eg where the lease in question is a sublease or is one of a parade of indentical shops ) he should consider enlarging the powers of the arbitrator . |
| 27 | But if selection positively encourages the change or is neutral to it , most or all the individuals in a population would gradually change from one phenotypic form to another . |
| 28 | Some combinations of b and f fail to entrain the system ; the response is either quasi-periodic , or is irregular and chaotic . |
| 29 | By virtue of s.47(1) it is an offence for any person , inter alia , to dishonestly conceal any material facts if he conceals those facts for the purpose of inducing , or is reckless as to whether it may induce , any other person to enter or to offer to enter into , or to refrain from entering or offering to enter into , an investment agreement or to exercise , or refrain from exercising , any rights conferred by an investment . |
| 30 | If the approved accounts do not comply with the Act , every director who was a party to their approval and who knows that they do not comply or is reckless as to whether or not they comply is guilty of an offence and every director at the time the accounts were approved is taken to be a party to their approval unless he shows that he took all reasonable steps to prevent their approval . |