Example sentences of "or [v-ing] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The NFU plan aims to offer the farmer a choice between setting land aside and receiving the full , subsidised rate for produce , or producing at maximum capacity without support . |
| 2 | The Food and Drug Administration has also hinted that it may revise a policy that does not at present require special safety testing or labelling for most biotechnology foods . |
| 3 | The forms of lighthouses and boats , while almost toy-like in their basic simplicity , are developed internally in terms of a large number of planes or facets , and since the sky receives the same treatment , the painting resolves itself into a mass of small , shifting planes , jointed together or hanging behind each other in shallow depth . |
| 4 | The term ‘ premises ’ as defined in Article 2(2) ‘ includes any place and , in particular , includes any vehicle , vessel , aircraft or hovercraft , any installation on land ( including the foreshore and other land intermittently covered by water ) , any offshore installation , and any other installation ( whether floating , or resting on the seabed or the subsoil thereof , or resting on other land covered with water or the subsoil thereof ) , and any tent or movable structure . ’ |
| 5 | 17.2 No amendment or modification of this agreement shall be valid or binding on any party unless the same : |
| 6 | This is most evident in cases of indecent assault , which may be committed by the least unwanted touching or stroking of one person 's body by another . |
| 7 | To reach it other than by boat or wading in low tide would have taken an hour 's drive , so it was not often visited by the women . |
| 8 | Clause 5 of the Bill would impose an obligation of confidence on a person who improperly acquires information by using or interfering with any computer or data retrieval mechanism , a welcome clarification . |
| 9 | When a vehicle is being weighed , the weigher should satisfy himself that all the wheels are on the plate and clear of the surround , and that no person is on the vehicle or the plate , or interfering in any way which might affect the weighing , and the engine must be switched off . |
| 10 | In various articles of the forties Eliot refined his material , whether in relating poetry to religious ritual in ‘ The Social Function of Poetry ’ or returning to Primitive Culture and John Layard 's studies ‘ in the ‘ stone age ’ New Hebrides ' in ‘ Cultural Forces in the Human Order ’ which reworks many of the points in the earlier ‘ Notes ’ series . |
| 11 | for proceeding to or returning from any garage , auction room or other place at which vehicles are usually stored or usually or periodically offered for sale and at which the vehicle is to be or has been stored or is to be or has been offered for sale as the case may be ; |
| 12 | In this chapter Neil Toppin describes the assessment panels at his school in Scotland , which were established to attempt a flexible response to problems of disruption within the school and to offer pupils excluded from other schools or returning from special provision another chance in the mainstream . |
| 13 | Under most insurance systems , hospitals and health care providers supply services to insured patients and are then reimbursed for the services by the insurer either according to retrospective full-cost reimbursement , or according to prospective reimbursement . |
| 14 | Under most insurance systems , hospitals and health care providers supply services to insured patients and are then reimbursed for the services by the insurer either according to retrospective full cost reimbursement , or according to prospective reimbursement . |
| 15 | A non-exclusive list of examples of such abuses is provided : ( a ) directly or indirectly imposing unfair purchase or selling prices or other unfair trading conditions ; ( b ) limiting production , markets or technical development to the prejudice of consumers ; ( c ) applying dissimilar conditions to equivalent transactions with other trading parties , thereby placing them at a competitive disadvantage ; ( d ) making the conclusion of contracts subject to acceptance by the other parties of supplementary obligations which , by their nature or according to commercial usage , have no connection with the subject of such contracts . |
| 16 | This is done by applying pressure to the mastfoot by pulling or pushing with one hand on the mast . |
| 17 | There 's the firstly that of young children , and it 's something that I remember putting a motion to in the last administration about a creche or whatever or looking into this facility , in the fact of erm , trying to encourage more people with young families to erm , actually get involved in local government and politics . |
| 18 | Local authorities must be notified of private fostering arrangements and of children accommodated by health or education authorities or living in residential care or nursing homes on a long-stay basis ( see Chapter 18 ) . |
| 19 | The law does not permit the right of the press freely to report proceedings in open court to be fettered , notwithstanding that such reporting would be inconvenient , embarrassing or damaging to some individual who has featured in the case . |
| 20 | Beneath the flowering plants were slats of the veranda half eaten by ants or crumbling with tropical humidity . |
| 21 | ‘ Before any enactment existed with regard to actions by solicitors for their costs , a solicitor stood in the same position as any other person who has done work for another at his request , and could sue as soon as the work which he was retained to do was finished , without having delivered any signed bill of costs or waiting for any time after the delivery of such a bill . |
| 22 | For example , limitations on domestic heating during winter smogs could lead to the elderly suffering from hypothermia , and prohibitions on the use of private cars could increase exposure to outdoor pollution whilst walking to work or waiting for public transport . |
| 23 | Finally , there also seemed to be some evidence than an internal bias towards helplessness ( similar to Seligman 's concept ) was implicated at some stage , in making PMP more likely or leading to poor coping responses . |
| 24 | On a more personal level , Riley has said : ‘ The game is the same but the stakes are higher for women – – You need time to reflect , you are alone essentially , and I knew that I could n't give the time and thought to bringing up children or caring for another person on an intimate level . |
| 25 | or punting for dear life in the stream , |
| 26 | Infringement of the hospital rules , or quitting without medical consent , carried penalties of up to two months imprisonment . |
| 27 | He features in Kirby 's Wonderful Museum ( p. 34 , vol. 4 , 1820 edition ) where he is described as having been ‘ tall and very slender ’ and ‘ as he was never seen in company , or speaking with any person , his real name and character remained enveloped in profound mystery , so that he was generally known by no other appellation than the ‘ Walking Rushlight ' ’ ' . |
| 28 | These results , however , are somewhat misleading because in most cases the wells do not appear to have been drilled for Zechstein objectives and were either off-structure or lacking in significant closure at Zechstein level . |
| 29 | The Hindus saw subtle forces and proceeding energies crystallizing or condensing into gross matter . |
| 30 | The mind does extraordinary things exaggerating or minimising with consummate ease . |