Example sentences of "or [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is clear that insubstantial changes will not give rise to a new copyright ( or right to prevent unfair extraction ) but what is the position when a database has changed considerably from its original form but this has happened incrementally over a period of time ? |
| 2 | Unless a society is to utilise only a fraction of the intelligence at its disposal it must obviously in one way or another make sufficient provision for vertical mobility to ensure that capacity passes , unimpeded by vulgar irrelevancies of class or income to the type of education fitted to develop it . |
| 3 | ‘ to provoke the immediate use of unlawful violence by that person or another ’ The intent to provoke the immediate use of unlawful violence means an intention by the offender to cause the other party or another to use unlawful violence . |
| 4 | Clinical trials in which comparable patients received either one kind of treatment or another confirmed this belief . |
| 5 | It used to be considered that , if a patient was compulsorily detained , treatment was then at the discretion of the psychiatrist in charge of the case because such a person was not always able or willing to give informed consent . |
| 6 | Action plans included laying coats and baggage over every nearby seat , spreading the wrappings of the BR egg'n'cress far and wide ( before the new Sir Clement shrink-wrap ) or simple feigning noisy sleep at every station . |
| 7 | The National Curriculum makes enormous demands on teachers in rural primary schools , requiring a staff of two or three to cover nine curriculum areas and five cross-curriculum themes . |
| 8 | ‘ I hope to provide two or three reports each week in the series , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Both windmills and watermills were built taller or larger to accommodate additional machinery and grain storage space , and an extra floor was often provided above the rest of the accommodation so that grain could be emptied into bulk storage bins and led through spouts to millstones as required . |
| 10 | under Sub-Section 2 , 3 or 4 to indemnify any person |
| 11 | The area health authority and Department of Health and Social Security on the other hand contended that under the common law a minor of sufficient intelligence and understanding could always consent to treatment and that the effect of section 8 was to produce an irrebuttable presumption that a child of 16 or 17 had such intelligence and understanding . |
| 12 | For many teachers the self-appraisal failed to be a major event , either because they were not required to participate in any review activities or because they were unable or unwilling to devote much time to it . |
| 13 | But — with exceptions of course — it has at the same time been unable or unwilling to devote enough time and effort to understanding and pursing financial and accounting matters , perhaps because these often lack the immediate and general glamour of other aspects of policies . |
| 14 | But the authorities seem unable or unwilling to take tough action . |
| 15 | Waxing , a more traditional English technique employed by those unable or unwilling to undertake french polishing , ousted the latter by the 1920s , having run alongside it for the previous forty years . |
| 16 | This will remove any possibility of bloom in the first year , but it will concentrate the plant 's mind on good long stems which will need tying in to a support like a pergola or arch to show next year 's bloom to best advantage . |
| 17 | Keep foods , especially milk , all cheeses , cooked and fresh meats , pâté , fish , eggs and ready-made dishes , in the refrigerator operating at 5°C or colder to inhibit bacterial growth . |
| 18 | There were blue plastic seats and a warning in four languages not to lean out of the window ; English , I noticed , requires more words than French , German or Italian to convey this advice . |
| 19 | ( 3 ) The proposal is a friendly merger with the larger company wishing to acquire the smaller company but there is known to be a difficult minority shareholder in the smaller company holding above 10 per cent of the voting rights ( or able to muster that level of support against the proposal ) which could prevent the larger company implementing the compulsory sale procedures under CA 1985 , s429 . |
| 20 | None the less , they are not always willing or able to deploy this skill . |
| 21 | The cinema can show us eyes being gouged out , heads blown off , and aliens bursting from John Hurt 's entrails : when it comes to counterfeiting the mechanics of sexual congress , however , it admits defeat ; nor , in general , are performers willing or able to remedy this deficiency . |
| 22 | Mr Sowerberry , the undertaker in Charles Dickens 's Oliver Twist , was in the middle of the funeral hierarchy , but towards the bottom end as he only catered for parish funerals — that is to say those from the workhouse or those receiving outdoor relief . |
| 23 | So if two or more do this thing like , if they do n't call your name , there at the same time , the first person to speak will be four . |
| 24 | Once Heseltine departed , succeeding Secretaries of State for the Environment such as King , Jenkins and Baker , were unwilling or unable to sustain this vision . |
| 25 | Such an event might result in the new government being unwilling or unable to service external debt , including bank loans , i.e. nonpayment of interest and/or the principal sum loaned . |
| 26 | Those of modest personal means or unable to command corporate finance are unlikely even to enter primary races , let alone sustain a campaign through a gruelling eighteen months of campaigning for the party nomination . |
| 27 | This often occurred when the father alone had parental responsibility and was too busy or preoccupied to provide adequate care . |
| 28 | It is not possible or necessary to consider this question fully here , but a consideration of the texts of Scaevola shows that in fact he too took account of the scientia of buyers when considering the availability of missio . |
| 29 | But better still , if you decide you are going to fish the same one or two swims each time , is to set up permanent anchors . |
| 30 | Now she 's on powerful drugs to suppress the problem … and she only has to cope with a one or two fits each day . |