Example sentences of "or [pron] have a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first is that to know ‘ I ’ by description is to know it not as ‘ that which is aware of something ’ or which has a mental state ’ but as , in Hume 's words ' ‘ a bundle or collection of different perceptions ’ . |
| 2 | definitions of words which may be new to students , or which have a specific meaning |
| 3 | How does the gospel relate to those areas with which the culture is least able to cope , or which have a dehumanising influence ? |
| 4 | We wish to make simple distinctions between sign languages ( BSL , ASL and so on ) ; sign systems , which will draw on sign language vocabulary but add features of the spoken language ( signed English ( UK ) , Signed Swedish , Seeing Exact English ) , or which have a manufactured vocabulary ( Paget-Gorman Sign System ) ; fingerspelling ; sign vocabularies , which reflect the meaning of sign languages and spoken languages without necessarily adopting inflections from either ( Makaton , Cued Speech ) ; and Total Communication which involves a mixture of one or more of these with spoken language . |
| 5 | If you 've recently joined the NCT , or you have a new baby then let me know and I 'll put you in contact with another member who lives nearby . |
| 6 | Before the provision contained in rule 3(7) was enacted , the law governing standing to apply for prerogative orders was , in simplified terms , as follows : a person could apply for certiorari or prohibition provided he or she had a genuine grievance or , in other words , provided the applicant was a person aggrieved by the challenged decision . |
| 7 | His Offensive Weapons ( Scotland ) Bill would put the onus on the person carrying a knife to prove he or she had a valid reason for doing so . |
| 8 | Your plugger should contact all the DJs with whom he or she has a good relationship , trying to persuade them to play your record . |
| 9 | The second must be that he or she has a long life . |
| 10 | If the researcher is interested in discussions of government finance in the Treasury , he or she has a potential problem of informational over-kill . |
| 11 | It will be recalled that Section 37 of the Finance Act , 1969 provided for the ascertainment for the purposes of estate duty of the ‘ slice ’ of the property in which the interest of ; beneficiary who was entitled to less than the whole of the in come or who had a joint interest in property which was no income-producing subsisted . |
| 12 | This would be ideal for any doctor who wished to be a clinical tutor , or who had a special interest in education . |
| 13 | On the other hand a child who was brought up to be bilingual in French and English or who had a natural facility for ‘ picking up ’ languages could romp through his spoken French grades and have reached the top by the time he was 16 , while perhaps having achieved lower grades both in written French and in other more literary aspects of the subject . |
| 14 | Zuwaya enthusiasts of the revolution did sometimes speak of the injustice of unequal distribution of wealth , but like those who attended the Intellectual Seminar in 1970 , they had difficulty in identifying any particular groups of Libyans who suffered as a group , or who had a common interest in pursuing distributive justice : in Benghazi they said , there were Libyan workers who were oppressed , or perhaps Tripoli . |
| 15 | It might be argued that the courts have a role to play in ensuring that groups which have been unfairly denied access to the policy-making arena or who have a genuine complaint about how that process was conducted , should be allowed to challenge the outcome of that process in the courts . |
| 16 | DIAL ( Disablement Information and Advice lines ) give a great deal of assistance to people who are disabled or who have a disabled relative , and Gingerbread , the charity concerned with one-parent families , does much educative and advisory work . |
| 17 | We would like information about how to involve users who are profoundly disabled , non-verbal or who have a sensory impairment in addition to a learning difficulty . |
| 18 | As you may know , there is a strong self-help element in DIAL UK , as the service that is provided is done so , wherever possible , by people who are themselves disabled or who have a direct experience of disability , and this has proved to be very successful . |
| 19 | ( it could be misshelved ) or who has a particular title . |
| 20 | She-She : " If you give the fifty cash , then seventy-five on the card plus the credit supplement which is 15 per cent else we lose on the rental or we have a spa-cheque policy which works out the same minus the 15 per cent with a ten-dollar supplement . |
| 21 | Sometimes we have problems finding a referee , or the perfect referee has gone to sea for a month , or the referee loses the figures and takes three weeks to ask for copies , or we have a furious debate over a paper at the hanging committee and decide that we need another specialist opinion . |
| 22 | In a spoken message we notice the quality of the voice as well : maybe the speaker 's voice was shaking , or they had a particular accent , or hesitated , or slurred their words . |
| 23 | Or they have a little book where they can look it up . |
| 24 | Many people visit their doctors to have their ears syringed — often because their hearing is impaired or they have a bad earache . |