Example sentences of "[noun] or [vb -s] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | the number of virtual memory segments that are resident in real storage at the time it either finishes with the processor or exceeds the time slice allocated to it w |
| 2 | When an applicant comes into a priority category or reaches the head of a queue and is offered housing , he or she then has to decide whether to accept the offer if it does not accord with the original preference . |
| 3 | If any such liabilities are debts incurred for the purposes of Target 's trade in respect of which a deduction has been allowed in computing the profits of the trade within s94 TA 1988 , and the vendor releases or procures the release of Target from its obligation to repay so as to increase the price Newco pays for Target , Target could be treated for tax purposes as receiving a substantial amount of taxable income . |
| 4 | You know what it 's like : sitting in front of your PC , wasting time while it calculates a complex spreadsheet , draws your graphs or searches the database . |
| 5 | Often , if they have a disposition to broader problem-solving , the search consultant can provide views on several issues : the potential organisational structure ; how the individual would fit in ; the likely scope of his or her responsibilities ; if the tasks he or she will be set are manageable and possibly whether candidates can be found in the market who meet a particular specification ; whether the search can be a UK-based search or needs to be international ; whether any of the top candidates can be attracted for the remuneration or does the remuneration of the senior team need reviewing ; is the nationality of the candidate important ; could a woman do the job ; what happened to the last job holder ; did he or she move on to a bigger job or was he or she fired , and was that person successful in the role ? |
| 6 | No one else in the world has had your experience of life , sees the world through your eyes or treads the same path through life ‘ towards the light of your particular guiding star ’ ( this is described in a rather dull way as ‘ motivation ’ ) . |
| 7 | Today , however , we do not really have a politics of opinion or of action — nothing is proposed that either stirs the blood or excites the mind . |
| 8 | If he does attempt to do so he either receives a negative reply or causes the officer of that other authority to send a copy of the correspondence to his own chief executive or clerk . |
| 9 | The carrier will be liable , however for misdelivery , if he issues similar private keys or breaches the private key security safeguards . |
| 10 | What of the victim , be it child , young girl or mentally inadequate woman , who fails to make any demonstration of lack of consent because she does not appreciate the nature of the act or lacks the capacity to understand its significance ? |
| 11 | My name 's Derek in any profit-making org organisation the results shown by the playhouse would have automatically brought about a change of management or does the Chairman of the Harlow theatre trust still consider that it is running the business very smoothly ? |
| 12 | In the latter part of the book Richards discusses the reports on the ‘ protocols ’ , the anonymous reports on the anonymous poems or extracts the respondents had been given to read . |
| 13 | A defendant who , for example , is armed with a weapon or performs the assault in the presence of a third party is guilty of an aggravated offence . |
| 14 | Is there any chance of a job or has the Godfather Of Soul got the market sewn up ? |
| 15 | The component of external field which is in line with the core axis either aids or opposes the excitation field in its alternating polarity phases . |
| 16 | We used to , we , that 's all the as the village life was , it was it was all very now I know it 's very interesting , my daughter wants me to write a book about it , she says , I said I 'll oh I do n't know mm , write a memoirs mum she said er , you know and I said you know a lot about New Invention , which I do but it 's Willenhall you 're interested in , but it all sort or entails the lot and erm there might be things I 've can I wish I 'd have told you if I can think about them after it 's finished , but it 's erm . |
| 17 | In land animals , the transparent window at the front of the eye , the cornea , acts like the first element of a camera lens and bends or refracts the light entering the eye . |
| 18 | The only thing that is certain is that , if he buys bars of chocolate from a retail shop or acquires the wrappers from another who has bought them , that purchase is not , or at the lowest is not necessarily , part of the same transaction as his subsequent purchase of a record from the manufacturers . … |
| 19 | Is it my imagination or does the tranquil state of mind the car encourages contribute to these things ? |
| 20 | The late Ian Fleming did not have a monopoly in tongue-in-cheek , humorous adventures about secret agents , but a novelist might commit the tort of passing-off if he changes his name to Ian Fleming or uses the name James Bond or the 007 code in his novel . |
| 21 | Under Rule 3.2 the board of an offeror company must obtain competent independent advice on any offer which is a reverse takeover or presents the directors with a conflict of interest . |
| 22 | Er it 's been suggested by Mr from the H B F that as I understand his suggestion , that a lower provision of housing land in some way affects affordability or affects the er access to housing for the lower se lower ends of the lower income households . |
| 23 | As the Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano observes : ‘ If what is written is read seriously and to some extent changes or nourishes the consciousness of the reader , a writer has justified his or her role in the process of change : with neither arrogance nor false humility , but with the recognition of being a small part of something vast ’ . |
| 24 | Here , on all sides where this softer rock breaks or underlies the surface , streams flowing down from the upper slopes , aided and abetted by heavy rain , have , ever since the landscape was formed , been slowly penetrating the ground and eroding a honeycomb of underground caverns and passages of amazing dimensions . |
| 25 | Buckley LJ in the Court of Appeal provided some useful guidance as to precisely what rights or powers the individual must have before he can be said to have transferred or given the opportunity to another person so that the other person can make the gain . |
| 26 | 4.27 In calculating a plaintiff 's loss of earnings or profits the incidence of income tax must be taken into account . |
| 27 | The self-supply provisions define a developer as anyone who constructs or orders or finances the construction of such a building , and the provisions apply to certain reconstructions , enlargements and extensions . |
| 28 | On the other hand the doctrine clearly applies to contractual terms by which the covenantee , an employer or a purchaser of a business , seeks to forbid the covenantor ( the employee or seller ) from carrying on his trade or restricts the way in which he may carry it on after the purchase and sale of labour or the business , has been completed . |
| 29 | It was argued on behalf of the respondents that the doctrine applied to a covenant which was imposed for the benefit of the trade of the covenantee and which either forbids the covenantor to carry on his trade or restricts the way in which he may carry it on . |
| 30 | From time to time the press carries rumours of such enquiries , but they usually remain rumours unless legal action takes them into the public domain , because the DTI never comments or publishes the findings . |