Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | Additionally this clause forbids the seller to use the order or his connection with the buyer as a reference sale or generally for advertising or publicity purposes . |
| 2 | On the defendants ' application for directions as to whether they were at liberty to comply with the Bank of England 's notice notwithstanding the terms of the injunction , or alternatively for variation or discharge of the injunction so as to permit such compliance : — |
| 3 | ‘ An order under section 6(2) requiring the third , fourth and fifth defendants to pay such sum as the court thinks fit to the plaintiffs or alternatively into court or alternatively to each and every investor who was a party to a transaction referred to in paragraph 30 or , alternatively , to each and every investor who was a party to a transaction referred to in paragraph 31 in such manner as the court may direct for the purpose of restoring persons who entered into transactions with the first defendant in the course of contravention of section 3 by the first defendant to the position in which they were before the transactions were entered into . |
| 4 | ‘ An order under section 61(1) that the third , fourth and fifth defendants and each of them pay such sum as the court thinks fit to the plaintiffs or alternatively into court or alternatively to each and every investor who was a party to a transaction referred to in paragraph 30 or alternatively to each and every investor who was a party to a transaction referred to in paragraph 31 in such manner as the court may direct or alternatively that they take such other steps as the court may direct for the purpose of remedying the contravention by the first defendant of sections 47 and 57 . |
| 5 | Secondly , its direct effect on sexual activity is such that a man may obtain an erection ( or a woman may become " prepared " for sexual intercourse by dilation of the vagina , protrusion of the clitoris and the other numerous changes which make coitus comfortable and pleasant ) with no physical stimulation at all ; simply by action from the brain — seeing and being close to an attractive member of the opposite sex , looking at pornographic material or simply by fantasy or " thinking about it " . |
| 6 | Early botanists had based their accounts either upon brief visits or else upon information or specimens provided by others . |
| 7 | and invite the hearer to an exchange of views in which he will agree with him or otherwise in belief or attitude . |
| 8 | Representatives were sent abroad to solicit customers , and the fixed sum was either agreed there or subsequently by letter or telex , with the documentation prepared in Hong Kong and sent for the customer 's signature . |
| 9 | The price to be paid for the sub-licences was either agreed at that time or subsequently by letter or telex and the sub-licence was then prepared in Hong Kong and sent to the customer for signature . |
| 10 | The fiction of the family is the most powerful one in terms of unquestioned loyalties — children , parents , grandparents , siblings and spouses are traditionally expected to conform to codes of duty and right without question or gain . |
| 11 | Babies can be affected in the womb and perhaps during birth or breastfeeding . |
| 12 | If that part of the journey from home to destination that lies outside the immediate neighbourhood can not be made safely and easily by bike or on foot , then the environmental and safety gains made inside neighbourhood traffic calmed areas are unlikely to be fully utilised . |
| 13 | Load the tape to tape unit number 580 or , if already in use or unavailable , to tape unit 581 . |
| 14 | Load next sequential tape to tape unit number 580 or , if already in use or unavailable , to tape unit 581 . |
| 15 | Load next sequential tape to tape unit number 580 or , if already in use or unavailable , to tape unit 581 . |
| 16 | Choosing the wrong technology , or failing to take the necessary adaptive measures in management , production or marketing can quickly lead to falling profits , dwindling market shares and finally to takeover or closure . |
| 17 | a spirit of ‘ formalistic impersonality , without hatred or passion , and hence without affection or enthusiasm ’ . |
| 18 | It is unthinkable that any arguable account of dependent conditionals could be without a notion of lawlike connection , and hence of law or lawlike statement . |
| 19 | The statues ( a late example , fig. 72 ) seem always to have been undifferentiated kouroi or korai , but the stelai , perhaps because low relief belongs essentially to narrative art , show the dead man bearded or beardless and often as warrior or athlete . |
| 20 | The other fields , which are arable , or ploughed , are usually for barley and sometimes for oats or kale . |
| 21 | Other people 's houses always intrigued her by the contrast they offered to Greystones ; she would see suddenly — with detached interest and quite without envy or criticism — the extent to which other people 's preoccupations differed from her own . |
| 22 | There must still be some people alive who recall going on to a Sunday School outing from Leicester to Foxton ; parties would travel to Market Harborough by train and either by boat or cart to Foxton . |
| 23 | Analysis at this level of detail is not usually attempted by direct observation but rather by film or video analysis . |
| 24 | Furthermore , many absences from services in the post-Reformation period were occasioned not by apathy or reluctance to forgo a morning 's work or relaxation , but rather by ill-health or family commitments ; when William Kirke of Stow-cum-Quy in Cambridgeshire , for example , was hauled before the church courts for absenteeism , he informed them that at the time his wife had been ‘ lying in childbed and also his children wanted succour ’ . |
| 25 | Accordingly the Royal Commission on Civil Liability and Compensation for Personal Injury recommended a different approach ( but only for death or personal injury ) in the form of a parent statute which would empower a Minister to ‘ list ’ dangerous things or activities as giving rise to strict liability . |
| 26 | Several other long term survivors have been described but only after radiotherapy or surgery . |
| 27 | People aged up to 20 but still at school or in further education , who have no independent income of their own . |
| 28 | This condition is characteristic of societies dominated not only by kinship but also by feudalism or slavery ; it is also characteristic of the peasant village . |
| 29 | There was , he added , a danger that exclusions might come about not deliberately but simply through inertia or administrative error . |
| 30 | The farmers use the fields on the better-drained soils of the drumlin hillsides normally for sown grass but sometimes for barley or potatoes , especially where the clay is mixed with sand . |