Example sentences of "or has [adv] " in BNC.

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1 For example , loading the stomach with food or water directly has some satiating effect , but not as great as when the substance is also allowed to pass into the intestine or has previously passed through the mouth .
2 Some ads will be irrelevant : the viewer or reader is not in the target group , or has just made a purchase in that product group and does not want another just yet .
3 The performance of modern gliders makes it much easier and more likely for a pilot to fly himself into a potential death trap unless he uses his imagination or has already learned to have a healthy respect for the elements .
4 Every industrialized country faces similar problems and is either considering similar solutions or has already implemented some of them .
5 If a relative is sick when the dolphin appears it will give a sign whether or not that person will recover or has already recovered .
6 Some patients become disoriented , a more likely reaction if the patient is elderly or has already shown signs of mental confusion ( Clarke , 1987 ; Ford et al , 1986 ) .
7 An animal that is overtly unhealthy or has already started to give birth should not be used .
8 If this expert knows the product or has already worked with it , so much the better .
9 a ‘ notice to warn ’ can require the trader upon whom it is served to take specified steps to warn consumers about unsafe goods which that trader supplies or has already supplied .
10 People know the evidence of their pockets and are unlikely to be easily persauded that Mrs Thatcher 's Britain has been , or has yet become , the economic disaster area which Mr Kinnock depicted .
11 The last I heard you were still in Gloucester with the Empress Matilda , so , whether fitzAlan loves you also or has yet to lose interest in your pretty face and form , he will come for you .
12 Breach of the provisions of the Act involves the commission of an offence punishable by fine and may even in certain circumstances disqualify the firm from bringing proceedings to enforce its contractual rights — where by reason of the breach the defendant is unable to pursue his own claims against the firm or has otherwise suffered financial loss and the court does not consider that justice and equity require that the firm 's action should be allowed to proceed .
13 If she asks a question or has clearly misunderstood something , it is fine to talk , but the silences matter too .
14 As with large tracts of The Possessed this is in effect third-person narrative , recalling the notebook assurance that whether ‘ my ’ story is based on hard facts or has simply been made up , it is all ‘ true ’ .
15 The question of whether the state merely supported pre-existing market trends or has positively guided the market towards this end is a contentious one which will be addressed in Chapter 4 .
16 Composers of new hymn tunes should be discouraged from writing for a traditional text which is either wedded to a well-loved tune or has more than one good tune to which it may be sung .
17 This is only possible where there is a transnational capitalist class willing to deal with the TNCs when , for example , the comprador role may be too dangerous or has actually been abolished .
18 He can look here at times a little like a man who has taken the first steps in a descent from the high ground of Self-consciousness , impersonality , fantastication and ironic indirection — not that this has lately been , or has ever been , literature 's only ground .
19 As has been indicated for the parish church , it will be prudent to determine if a descriptive booklet is , or has ever been , available .
20 They are : — ( a ) mankind must have a ‘ god ’ , and ( b ) there is no evidence that the kind of incontrovertible ‘ god ’ that is needed actually exists in an eternal , ready-made form , or has ever thus existed .
21 Yes but surely if you 're saying in combating Chinese collaborators , settling accounts with landlords and reducing rents and interest , the people have seized the land directly from the landlords thus realizing the principle of the land to the tiller where the mass movement has been thorough the land problem is being or has basically been solved .
22 Geometrical isomerism is sometimes , or has sometimes been called cis trans-isomerism .
23 Her first bit of advice , especially to older women , is to go through the wardrobe , ruthlessly discarding anything that no longer fits , no longer looks good on us , or has long since seen better days .
24 he has knowingly obtained ( whether directly or indirectly ) that information from another individual who is connected with that company , or was at any time in the six months preceding the obtaining of that information , so connected , and who the tippee knows or has reasonable cause to believe , held the information by virtue of being so connected ; and he
25 knows or has reasonable cause to believe that , because of the individual 's connection and position , it would be reasonable to expect him not to disclose that information save for the proper performance of his duties .
26 The tippee need not only knowingly obtain the information from an individual connected with a company ( as defined above ) who he knows or has reasonable cause to believe holds the information by being so connected , he must also know or have reasonable cause to expect that individual not to disclose that information save for the proper performance of that individuals duties .
27 Section 1(8) prohibits insiders from communicating unpublished price sensitive information to any other person ( ie not only individuals ) , if the insider knows or has reasonable cause to believe , that that person or some other person would make use of the information to deal , or counsel or procure some other person to deal on a recognized exchange in those securities to which the communicated information relates .
28 knowingly or has reasonable cause to believe that the insider holds the relevant information by virtue of being ‘ connected with the company ’ and
29 knows or has reasonable cause to believe that because of the insider 's connection and position it would be reasonable to expect the person in his position not to disclose the information except in the proper performance of his duties ; and
30 ( b ) he persistently withdraws or withholds services reasonably required for the occupation of the premises in question as a residence , and ( in either case ) he knows , or has reasonable cause to believe , that the conduct is likely to cause the residential occupier to give up the occupation of the whole or part of the premises or to refrain from exercising any right or pursuing any remedy in respect of the whole or part of the premises .
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