Example sentences of "or [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plaintiff argued that the prior disclosure was irrelevant as the share sale agreement contained clauses stating that the warranties were given subject to the matters set out in the disclosure letter but that no other information whether actual , constructive or imputed would affect any claim made by the plaintiff or reduce any amount recoverable . |
| 2 | Those who hold or have held a professorship in the British Isles are not eligible , and any publications cited or listed in connection with a previous successful candidature for an RSC award will not considered by the assessors . |
| 3 | This collection is arranged by family , sub-filed by genus and species , but it is not indexed or listed in any way . |
| 4 | His nasogastric tube has from time to time to be removed or re-inserted . |
| 5 | In September several senior officials were dismissed or reprimanded for poor work in the consumer goods sector . |
| 6 | One other official has gone , two demoted or reprimanded . |
| 7 | Torts committed by the wife during marriage render her liable , but , since 1935 , impose no liability on her husband unless he has authorized or ratified them . |
| 8 | Legitimate : ( a ) etymologically , the word expresses a status , which has been conferred or ratified by some authority ; ( b ) conformable to law or rule . |
| 9 | A good rule of thumb is that a model may be considered a potential hit if at least half its base area lies under the template , while models whose bases are only touched or grazed can be ignored . |
| 10 | The station had to have yards large enough for hundreds of such vehicles to be marshalled , areas where the animals could be tethered or grazed , perhaps for days . |
| 11 | On farms where severe outbreaks have occurred pigs should be houses , dosed , and the infected pasture cultivated or grazed with other stock . |
| 12 | Copyright comes into force immediately on completion or publication of the work and does not normally have to be recorded or registered . |
| 13 | ( ‘ I.B.C. ’ ) , was not formed or registered under the Companies Acts . |
| 14 | L 24 , p. 1 ) , whereby only fishing vessels flying the flag of or registered in a member state may fish against the quotas allocated to that member state , which in other words are reserved to ‘ national ’ vessels to the exclusion of vessels from other members states . |
| 15 | Of course refineries can be modified or adjusted to produce the necessary product range given time , but the idea that this can be done to every refinery simultaneously and instantaneously is ludicrous . |
| 16 | But pouring fertilizers on to the fields does not help the situation , for the processes of nature are too complex to be so simply overridden or adjusted . |
| 17 | Aged residents were suddenly objects of pilgrimage from such far-off places as America , and soon there were few people over sixty who did not have some hastily dusted-down anecdote , remembered , borrowed or adjusted , ready for eager visitors . |
| 18 | For example , Gumperz identifies the following functions ( 1982 : 75 – 84 ) : quotations ( using a different code to mark a stretch of quoted speech ) , addressee specification ( choosing a code to pick out one 's intended addressee ) , interjections ( " sentence fillers " offset from the the main content of the sentence by a code switch ) , reiteration ( the message content is emphasised by repeating it in the other code ) , message qualification ( the main content of the message is " qualified " or adjusted by a clause in the other code ) , personalisation versus objectivisation . |
| 19 | Similarly children have been spaced or limited when required by a variety of means ( e.g. abstinence after the birth of a child , or delaying the age for cohabitation ) . |
| 20 | This joy is not questioned or limited in any way . |
| 21 | Some people feel restricted in their choices or limited to their present station in life , because their birthcharts declare that they are unlikely to better themselves . |
| 22 | A private company may , however , be limited by shares or limited by guarantee . |
| 23 | Such rules of change may be very simple or very complex : the powers conferred may be unrestricted or limited in various ways : and the rules may , besides specifying the persons who are to legislate , define in more or less rigid terms the procedure to be followed in legislation . |
| 24 | By this approach invasive fetal sampling techniques may be avoided entirely or limited to those cases where confirmation of a positive diagnosis is desirable . |
| 25 | A.1.2 is not to be affected or limited by any previous or other disclosures , express or implied , to the Purchaser , its officers , representatives or professional advisers . |
| 26 | The Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 limits the extent to which liability can be excluded or limited for breach of contract , or for negligence , or under the terms implied by the Sale of Goods Act 1979 and other legislation containing similar provisions , such as the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 . |
| 27 | For example , business liability for death and personal injury resulting from negligence can not be excluded or limited at all by section 2(1) and , in the case of other loss or damage , liability can only be excluded or restricted where the term or notice purporting to do this satisfies a test of reasonableness ; section 2(2) . |
| 28 | To complete this discussion of exclusion clauses it should be noted that , by section 7 of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 , liability for defective products under Part I of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 can not be excluded or limited by any contract term . |
| 29 | Finally , the insurer will be concerned to see that the vendor has not waived or limited its rights of subrogation . |
| 30 | Waivers may be permanent or limited in time or conditional on some agreed reorganisation of a firm 's practices . |