Example sentences of "[adj] or in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The importance of boredom and aimlessness is very much obscured by most popular treatments of police work , whether in fictional or in documentary style . |
| 2 | In the Auvergne , Figure 10 shows the Communes in which remembrement was complete or in progress in 1983 . |
| 3 | Support for the scanning hypothesis of lateral differences in tachistoscopic recognition came in the form of findings which showed the direction of visual field asymmetry to be related to whether the stimuli are symmetrically shaped ( Bryden , 1968 ) or are presented in normal or in mirror image orientation ( Harcum and Filion , 1963 ) . |
| 4 | However , the parol evidence rule is now generally regarded merely as a rule of presumed intention ; it is therefore generally possible to avoid it if it can be shown that the written document was not intended to contain the whole of the parties ' agreement ( J Evans and Son ( Portsmouth ) Ltd v Andrea Merzario Ltd [ 1976 ] 1 WLR 1078 ) or that the written agreement was supplemented by a collateral agreement , either oral or in writing ( De Lasalle v Guildford [ 1901 ] 2 KB 215 ; Brikom Investments Ltd v Carr [ 1979 ] QB 467 ) . |
| 5 | ( ii ) has had a bankruptcy order made against him or has made a composition or arrangement with his creditors or has made a proposal for a voluntary arrangement under Part VIII of the Insolvency Act 1986 or is or has been a director of a company in respect of which an administration order under Part II of the Insolvency Act 1986 or a winding-up order has been made or in respect of which a resolution for voluntary winding up has been passed or which has made a proposal for a voluntary arrangement under Part I of the Insolvency Act 1986 or in respect of which a person has been appointed receiver or administrative receiver ; or |
| 6 | Predation has greatest impact on small mammal populations when they are low or in decline and less impact when populations are increasing . |
| 7 | On the other hand , the details within the shot can certainly be seen with enhanced clarity if played back frame-by-frame or in slow-motion . |
| 8 | What accounts for the complexity of the problem of evaluation is not only the economic and social costs involved themselves , but the interests , conflicting or in harmony , of those who pay the costs and those who reap the benefits . |
| 9 | Children do not recognize the physical cues of when they want to empty their bladder until they reach the ages of 12 to 18 months ( Leach 1975 ; Lask 1985 ) and so it is unlikely that children trained before this age are reliable or in control . |
| 10 | The figure in this field is used by LIFESPAN to calculate the number of blocks which are free or in use , as displayed at option 9.3.0 — Update Availability of Media . |
| 11 | But they become only honorary family , lacking the status of MacIver 's wife and children ; unlike them the animals will quickly be ‘ put down ’ when old or in distress . |
| 12 | Thus deviation may be held to arise either when incestuous feeling is obsessive as such or in relation to public norms , or from both considerations . |
| 13 | Certainly those working with the mentally ill or the handicapped or the senile or in health education may properly think it is . |
| 14 | It is to be submitted monthly or in accordance with special accounting periods , subject to approval from the local VAT office . |
| 15 | [ Around 1800 ] persons … were enabled by their skill and industry to maintain themselves and families in a state of comfort and respectability ; and to keep their own houses and pay taxes , scot and lot , and contribute towards the maintenance of other persons in their profession , who were either sick or in distress , so that it was scarcely known that any person in this trade ever applied for parochial relief . |
| 16 | The expression of the hepatitis B virus envelope proteins on the plasma membrane was usually diffuse , while that in the cytoplasm was either focal or in cluster . |
| 17 | It appears that costs are awarded on the indemnity basis only in exceptional cases , for example ‘ major test cases ’ and ‘ cases in which the paying party 's conduct is considered to have been wholly unmeritorious , oppressive or in contempt of court ’ and the court must expressly direct that costs be awarded on such a basis . |
| 18 | When did we see you ill or in prison , and come to visit you ? ’ |
| 19 | And they too will reply , ‘ Lord , when was it that we saw you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or ill or in prison , and did nothing for you ? ’ |
| 20 | During the week supplicants , bent , bowed , ill or in pain , fell in line down the path between the narrow rosebeds and out into the street , in search of a miracle cure . |
| 21 | Babies cry for quite basic reasons — they 're hungry , cold or in need of a cuddle — but later , crying is either from frustration or insecurity . |
| 22 | The report went on to point out that these goals were the same for all children , although some children will realise them ( all or in part ) at a much slower pace than others . |
| 23 | But he will not be unhappy or in pain any more , and I am happy for him . |
| 24 | The proportion of adolescents among the female population married or in union varies greatly among developing countries and , depending on local traditions , their problems and the perception of these problems also vary from country to country . |
| 25 | Provided that the Corporation shall not be liable in respect of any accident caused directly or indirectly by through or in connection with any Motor Vehicle by which such Caravan is being drawn . |
| 26 | Half the time we carry on as if we did n't have a body : and we only think about our bodies if they trouble us — if we 're hungry or in pain . |
| 27 | Man shuffled along over the cold floors , some dressed in grey prison-issue pyjamas , others bare-chested or in boxer shorts . |
| 28 | The adults and children of the family also learnt much of the Gospels and Psalms by heart , for , said Nicholas , ‘ Who knows how or where he shall be before he dies , suppose blind or in prison , and whether travelling on horseback , on foot or by sea , by reciting these passages he would have heavenly food and medicine with him . ’ |
| 29 | Control experiments showed that addition of heparan sulphate , alone or in conjunction with other growth factors , BSA alone , or supernatant prepared appropriately from bacterial cells containing only pGEX2T expression vector , had no apparent effect on limb growth . |
| 30 | ( w ) To do all or any of the things aforesaid in any part of the world and either as principals , agents , contractors or otherwise , and by or through agents , brokers , sub-contractors or otherwise and either alone or in conjunction with others . |