Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [verb] or [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Relocation policies may include provision to protect or cushion employees against financial loss when they sell their old properties and buy elsewhere . |
| 2 | We will strengthen support for such schemes and consult about the possibility of creating a new tax incentive to encourage companies to establish or extend an ESOP or set up a co-operative . |
| 3 | In the former , agencies such as local enterprise boards , or economic development units , have attempted to encourage firms to develop or invest with the help of limited assistance from councils — attempts have been made to ‘ lever ’ additional funds from the private sector ( Clarke and Cochrane , 1987 ) . |
| 4 | if the vehicle is a public service vehicle , being a stage carriage or an express carriage being used otherwise than on an excursion on tour within the meaning of section 159(1) of the Transport Act , 1968 , and the vehicle is waiting , after having proceeded past the zebra crossing in relation to which the zebra controlled area is indicated , for the purpose of enabling persons to board or alight from the vehicle . |
| 5 | Assertion of the principle served to do away with the monarch 's previously claimed powers to suspend or dispense with acts of Parliament and it served to deny judges the power to strike down measures . |
| 6 | The counselling and procuring provisions are contained in s.1(7) and stipulate that it is an offence for , inter alios , any of the above mentioned insiders to counsel or procure any other person ( ie not only individuals ) to deal in the relevant securities , if they know or have reasonable cause to believe that person would deal in them on a recognized exchange . |
| 7 | If and so long as the terms of any settlement are such that any person has power to pay or apply income or capital to or for the benefit of the settlor or his spouse , all income arising under the settlement shall be treated for all the purposes of the Income Tax Acts as the income of the settlor for that year and not the income of any other person ( TA 1988 , s674 ; and see Blausten v IRC ( 1971 ) 47 TC 542 ( CA ) ) . |
| 8 | The Area Director also has power to discharge or revoke it upon the happening of specified events including a request from the applicant so to do , or where the aid has been abused , or where the applicant is in arrears with contributions , or where the applicant 's financial position improves so that he or she is able to afford to fund legal action . |
| 9 | The Home Secretary has power to modify or supplement the data protection principles to provide additional safeguards for these categories ; it will be interesting to see what these additional regulations will contain . |
| 10 | A justices ' clerk has power to grant or refuse an application for transfer . |
| 11 | ( a ) Right to enter Where the landlord has undertaken obligations to repair or decorate the demised property , he has an implied right to enter the demised property for that purpose ( Saner v Bilton ( 1878 ) 7 Ch D 815 ) . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , even the poorest or smallest countries can , theoretically at least , frustrate the expansion plans of any one of these TNC giants by the simple , if often costly , expedients of refusing permission to trade or manufacture within that country 's territory or by nationalizing ( expropriating ) the property of a TNC already in business there . |
| 13 | As an alternative to modifying the soil , by the use of chemical agents , coatings may be applied to clean surfaces to prevent or interfere with soil attachment . |
| 14 | They would also be useful in requiring odour emitters to install equipment to reduce or prevent emissions . |
| 15 | This often proves difficult , however , because of the way in which daily transactions between government and public affect bankers ' balances , causing banks to buy or sell bills to replenish their cash balances and thus to affect their yield . |
| 16 | Furthermore , publishing information to enable or assist the circumvention of copy-protection is similarly treated . |
| 17 | Just as it is almost impossible to apply what is now called the ‘ Japanese ’ system of management to other parts of the world , because of the differences of culture and background of the people who are working in industry , so it is equally unlikely that the particular , precise ways that I have found so useful will have the same application to others ; Nevertheless , since I have spent so much of my life developing these ideas it may be that some of my experience will hit a chord of recognition or cause others to reflect or contemplate . |
| 18 | Many hot-spot plants are aromatic and , since patios and terraces are usually paved , this quality can be enhanced by allowing plants to trail or spill on to flagstones — which get hot in the sunshine — so that the aromatic oils which give them their scent are literally vaporised and perfume the air . |
| 19 | Finally , the process of comprehensive assessment includes the ability to identify strategies to meet or minimize the need and risk which have been assessed , to set objectives , to plan , and to define desired outcomes . |
| 20 | Fleischmann has been particularly worried about possible strategic implications of their research , believing that much of the negative reactions to it are prejudiced by this and that national security interests have orchestrated attempts to suppress or trash their work . |
| 21 | This study can not provide data to confirm or refute this hypothesis , however . |
| 22 | In the computer industry , as with any other , ideas have to be discussed with various persons and organizations with a view to raising finance and granting licences to use or make the resulting invention or copyright work . |
| 23 | Conversely , in motivating individuals to leave or withdraw , relative deprivation of individual rewards is a major influence . |
| 24 | Thus , in unregistered conveyancing unless a conveyance or other document of title is properly stamped , it can not be used to assert title to land or defend that title if attacked by others . |
| 25 | The aim of the programme was to help patients increase or restore their physical strength with the help of enhanced knowledge and coping skills . |
| 26 | Likewise , public relations may use advertising to support or spearhead a publicity programme to reinforce messages . |
| 27 | The new law on assembly allowed citizens to gather or hold demonstrations without prior approval from the local government . |
| 28 | I 'd been doing press and touring and all that lot for two years without a break , I 'd not had time to change or take anything in . ’ |
| 29 | Should an instrument come with an option attached allowing investors to buy or sell at particular prices ? |
| 30 | By s12 of the Solicitors Act , the Law Society is given discretion to grant or refuse an application for a practising certificate in the following cases : ( 1 ) a first application ; ( 2 ) an application by a solicitor who has never held an unconditional certificate since admission ; ( 3 ) where 12 months or more will have elapsed since a practising certificate was last held ; ( 4 ) after the disciplinary tribunal has ordered a penalty or costs against the applicant or delivered a reprimand ; ( 5 ) after failure by the applicant to offer sufficient explanation for his or her professional conduct after being called upon so to do ; ( 6 ) after failure to deliver an accountant 's report in due time ( and an additional fee will be payable if the discretion is not invoked to refuse the application ) ; ( 7 ) after the expiry of a period of suspension ; ( 8 ) after the name of the applicant who has been struck off is restored to the roll ; ( 9 ) while the applicant is an undischarged bankrupt ; ( 10 ) after the applicant 's discharge from bankruptcy or after the applicant has entered into a composition or deed of arrangement for the benefit of his creditors ; ( 11 ) while the applicant is a patient as defined by s94 of the Mental Health Act 1983 or a person as to whom powers have been exercised under s104 of the Mental Health Act 1959 or s98 of the 1983 Act ; ( 12 ) where the applicant has received a sentence of imprisonment ; ( 13 ) where the applicant has failed to satisfy a money judgment against him or her which is not a judgment limited to costs and which is not a judgment in respect of which indemnity or relief from some other person is available . |