Example sentences of "[subord] a [noun] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt that on this particular piece it did struggle through the heartwood at times , especially on the figure 's right-hand side as this was extremely hard in places , with dense interlocking grain where a branch or branches had formed . |
| 2 | Where a company or group has more than one pension scheme , disclose details on a combined basis , where possible , except that a deficiency of funding in one scheme should not be offset against a surplus in another scheme . |
| 3 | ( 4 ) Subsection ( 3 ) above does not apply where a society or associated body is authorised by the scheme to relieve itself of its obligation to take the steps it is directed to take or pay the compensation awarded by the society 's undertaking an obligation to give the requisite publicity for the reasons for not doing so and the society undertakes that obligation . |
| 4 | Except where a delay or derogation was allowed under the Directive — and the UK had now also accepted that its grounds for derogation had all along been invalid — ‘ all supplies of drinking water in the United Kingdom were required to be in compliance with the Directive by 20 July ’ . |
| 5 | It is not normally used between two complete sentences ( where a semicolon or colon is used instead ) , but is used to separate off various supplementary things in a sentence . |
| 6 | No other vehicle need be involved as where a person or animal or property is involved ( R v Pico [ 1971 ] Crim LR 599 ) . |
| 7 | Where a firm or a group of firms acting collectively , accounts for 25 per cent of the market or more , the Director General of Fair Trading can refer the industry to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission for investigation . |
| 8 | It is also notable that where a chairman or chief executive has been brought in from outside to those organisations , this may be followed by many changes in senior management and so , from the headhunters ' point of view , putting a chief executive into an older-style organisation is usually an opportunity for them to work with the newly appointed chief executive to build the new senior management team . |
| 9 | As well as the above charges , under-occupancy supplements may apply to other members of a party where a member or members of that party cancel . |
| 10 | The Town and Country Planning ( Use Classes ) Order 1972 is one such Order , specifying 18 use classes , and stating that where a building or other land is used for the purpose of any class specified in the schedule to the Order , the use thereof for any other purpose of the same class is deemed not to involve development . |
| 11 | Impregnation of the sample with a coloured epoxy resin ( commonly blue ) makes the pore spaces more easily visible in thin section ( Chapter 4 ) and allows distinction between a true pore space and a void where a grain or crystal has been plucked out during the process of making a thin section . |
| 12 | Where a judgment or order is enforceable by committal , that is where a person is required to do or abstain from doing an act , then if the order is in the form of an injunction , the court office will itself endorse a penal notice ( in new form N 77 ) , probably by attachment , rubber stamp , or printed on their form . |
| 13 | When the time is ripe the mandate will go forward that the men will refuse to load and unload , to supply coal or cargo to any ship in a British port where a Lascar or a Chinaman is on board " . |
| 14 | One of the conditions held that ‘ where a youth or girl was being adequately cared for by foster parents or was satisfactorily settled in life with sound views and reliable character … then the Movement might and should reduce , or in some cases discontinue , its welfare work . ’ |
| 15 | It could be asked to view the site where a particular incident occurred although the expense of leaving the courtroom is unlikely to be justified where a photograph or a detailed description would suffice . |
| 16 | Where a cloth or other equipment is to be used for applying disinfectants it should be disinfected before use . |
| 17 | Where a summons or other originating process has been served on a defendant by post or insertion in his letter-box under Ord 7 , 4 10(1) ( b ) or 4(a) or r 13(1) ( b ) or ( 4 ) and after judgment has been given or entered it appears to the court that the process did not come to the knowledge of the defendant in time , the court may of its own motion set aside the judgment and may give any direction or make any such order as the court may think just . |
| 18 | Where a matter or action is pending in the court the district judge may order that a party may inspect and make a copy of any document referred to on the Land Register ( s 112(3) of the Land Registration Act ( as amended ) and r 8 of the Land Registration ( Open Register ) Rules 1990 ( SI No 13625 of 1990 ) ) . |
| 19 | Where a receiver or manager is appointed then this must be stated in various business documents relating to the company . |
| 20 | Where a loan or advance is made to a participator in a close company , the tax charged will be due without assessment 14 days after the end of the accounting period . |
| 21 | Where a device or software has lawful uses , it would obviously be unsatisfactory to ban its sale . |
| 22 | NOTTS SPORT ( ) produce four synthetic cricket pitches : the ‘ Envelope System ’ , the Notts base ‘ D ’ system ( which can be laid onto a prepared sand , soil or hard/porous base ) ; the ‘ W ’ system ( designed for use where a concrete or tarmac surface already exists ) , and the ‘ NCA Junior Pitch ’ , which has been jointly developed with the National Cricket Association to provide young cricketers with the opportunity to develop their skills safely . |
| 23 | Where a defendant or respondent under disability has no guardian ad litem acting for him under rr 5 or 8(2) , the plaintiff ( or applicant ) shall , after the time for delivering a defence ( or answer ) has expired and before taking any further steps , apply to the court without fee on not less than three days ' notice to the person on whom the summons was served under Ord 10 , r 4 for the appointment of a guardian ad litem ( Ord 10 , r 6 ) . |
| 24 | Where a farmhouse or other building is regarded as being a private dwellinghouse a bank/organisation will only be required to notify its interest to an insurer where the sum insured exceeds the threshold . |
| 25 | By virtue of s.7 , trustees and personal representatives ( or where a trustee or personal representative is a body corporate ) are exempted from the prohibitions in the Act in certain limited circumstances . |
| 26 | Where a plaintiff or defendant dies and the cause of action survives but no person is substituted for the deceased under Ord 5 , r 7 , the defendant ( or his personal representatives ) may apply for an order directing the plaintiff ( or other person entitled ) to proceed within such time as may be ordered , and in default , the action may be struck out ( Ord 5 , r 12 ) . |
| 27 | ‘ What man in the whole world ’ , C. S. Lewis asked , ‘ except a father or a potential father-in-law , cares whether any other man gets married ? ’ and he partly answered his own question by saying that the ‘ self-abnegation ’ and ‘ anxiety ’ of the Poet for his Friend 's good was ‘ more like a parent 's than a lover 's ’ . |
| 28 | Although a 1- or 2-bit latch is not in itself very useful any larger number may be accommodated by having more flip-flops — one for each bit . |
| 29 | These simple but extremely robust observations concern children 's knowledge that although a substance or display is changed perceptually — in other words , that the appearance of an object may change — properties such as length , area , volume , weight , number do not change . |
| 30 | Although a contract or covenant is involved , marriage is a state of being , not just of belonging . |