Example sentences of "make or [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Differential expansion with increasing temperature causes the compound rod to bend and make or break electrical contact . |
| 2 | Because it is not subject to the paramount law of a written constitution , it can make or unmake any law as it chooses . |
| 3 | ‘ We make or break human life every day of every year as probably no other force on earth has ever done in the past or will ever do again … |
| 4 | Client will provide to KPMG such information as KPMG may reasonably request from time to time in connection with the Offer and will not , without prior consultation and the written consent of KPMG ( such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed ) make or publish any announcement , public statement or document concerning the Offer whether before the announcement of or during the course of the Offer ; and |
| 5 | McIntosh is too much the diplomat to say what he really thinks about the firm 's three year spell inside the TSB empire , except to say two things — firstly that he doubts whether it either made or lost much money on its investment , and secondly that Hill Samuel was very supportive once the decision to sell had been taken in principle . |
| 6 | In the following paragraphs we look in more detail at the reasons which have encouraged a number of large manufacturers to start making or make greater use of temporary workers , at the terms and conditions under which these temporary workers are engaged , especially the forms of contract which are used , and at the characteristics of the temporary workers themselves . |
| 7 | More than this ; few dissent from the proposition that it is legislatively supreme , that is to say , that it is competent to make or unmake any law whatever , and that no other body can impede its will so to do . |
| 8 | It is only when thus defined that Parliament ‘ has , under the English constitution , the right to make or unmake any law whatsoever ; and , further , that no person or body is recognised … as having the right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament ’ . |
| 9 | As each successive Parliament is deemed to be all powerful , logically , that Parliament must have the power to make or unmake any law . |
| 10 | The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this , namely , that Parliament thus defined has , under the English constitution , the right to make or unmake any law whatever ; and , further , that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament . |
| 11 | Parliamentary sovereignty , he wrote , meant that Parliament had " the right to make or unmake any law whatever ; and , further , that no person or body is recognized by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament . " |