Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The move followed a Supreme Court ruling by five votes to four on May 23 in the case of Rust v. Sullivan , upholding the constitutionality of a 1988 ban on abortion counselling , even in cases where women asked for information or where their doctors believed that it was medically necessary .
2 8.38 to 8.40 ) , that , should ( as the Act has done by the previous section ) the currency of a licence be extended to three years , it was desirable that a licensing board should have some form of sanction against the licence-holder where the premises were being misconducted , or where their suitability had deteriorated , and that such a sanction should be the power to suspend a licence .
3 If such rights were introduced , this would allow artists legitimately to charge a royalty either on public exhibition or where their work is displayed on a visual display unit .
4 Vologsky himself had no knowledge of exactly how his parents had died , or where their bodies lay .
5 ‘ What happens is that maybe I 'll just see the shape of some chords , or where my fingers should be on the frets .
6 He considered : surely things were n't so utterly disorganised in the kitchens that the scullions no longer knew who was in charge of them , or where his office was ?
7 Furthermore , your money is at risk , particularly when there is a thin market in shares , or where your shares are held under a nominee name for the convenience of your licensed dealer .
8 Use this form after any incident in which you were hurt , abused or threatened , or where your property was damaged .
9 And they 're all genuinely things apology or or whatever reason , there are things that I genuinely do n't know .
10 Not what that figure is or or what period it would be .
11 It 's not fair on either of you or or your people either
12 The general conclusion which we have reached is that there is no clear evidence in any of the figures we have examined that the abolition of capital punishment has led to an increase in the homicide rate , or that its reintroduction has led to a fall .
13 She would refuse to allow that the matter was serious , or that its consequences could affect her profoundly .
14 The UK 's relative lack of success in exploiting innovative technology is not , therefore , because the country 's engineers and scientists lack good innovative ideas or that its R&D is not of the highest quality .
15 Some archivists/records managers have shown concern over the loss of correspondence between historically important people ; others that e-mail encourages ‘ garbage ’ or that its tenor discourages sufficient development of ideas between contributors .
16 Few , however , would dispute either the inevitability of the process or that its effect on the 320 million European citizens will be real and lasting .
17 This is of course not possible , and we should rather conclude that any intermediate , formed by the initial attack of Cl - on , must have no significant absorption in the spectral range studied , or that its concentration is never so great that it contributes significantly to the spectrum .
18 Which is not to say , he wrote , that the present project has any value over and above the others , mine and those of everyone else , I have been into the question of value already and will not return to it now , has any value or that its outcome has any value , I have to repeat this , simply that now , for me , today , after the things I have done and given the time left me , it is the most important thing , it is what , from the time I first picked up a pencil and made a mark on a piece of paper , everything has logically led up to .
19 Men of science in the nineteenth century were increasingly becoming specialists ; but the eminent were often interested in other things as well , and hoped that these were not irrelevant to their science , or that its methods were foreign to them .
20 She hated it , and she was afraid of it , because she doubted her power to escape ; even after two years in London , she still thought that her brain might go or that her nerve might snap , and that she would be compelled to return , feebly , defeated , to her mother 's house .
21 She 'd never even been in love , she thought wistfully , was beginning to think herself incapable of the emotion , or that her standards were too high — or impossible .
22 … At the same time it is right to say that in her evidence … she repudiates the notion that any influence was exerted or any pressure put upon her , or that her husband made any misrepresentation to her .
23 The most impressive of the remains are the tiny stone coffins on the ruined floor of the chapel which indicate that either the Knights Templars were very small men or that their bones were broken after death and they were buried with their limbs beneath them .
24 To imagine other worlds was to imagine that Christ might have died and been resurrected more than once , or that their inhabitants might be restored to eternal life without a knowledge of the Son of God .
25 But he emphasizes very strongly that in no way does this mean that there is no longer scope for their further development , or that their return to profitability is a flash in the pan , to be reversed whenever the next downturn comes .
26 Monetarist opponents of these views point out that the fact that industries in certain regions are unprofitable is evidence enough of either the fact that such industries are not in line with modern production methods or with demands in the international market ; or that their location imposes additional costs on production compared with similar industries elsewhere in the country ; or both factors may apply .
27 So you believe either that Americans are prone to think conspiratorially or that their government has given them a lot of unbelievable explanations for incredible conduct .
28 ‘ Any suggestion that immigrants are being admitted on sufferance only , or that their range of choices , for example about where they live , is bring restricted , is likely to reinforce the unsettling effects of the move to a new environment which they will be making . ’
29 Critical examination by the most reliable of tests and measurements , usually showed that they had little if any action greater than that of placebos , or that their effects on performance were deleterious rather than beneficial .
30 The large number of foot-soldiers suggests either that they were mercenaries , or that their presence was accounted for by a surviving obligation under the ban .
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