Example sentences of "or [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ It shall be the duty of any person who manufactures , imports or supplies any substance for use at work — |
2 | A person who manufactures , imports or supplies any substance for use at work must ensure that , so far as is reasonably practicable , it is safe and without risk to health ; there are requirements for testing , examination and research . |
3 | ‘ It shall be the duty of any person who designs , manufacturers , imports or supplies any article for use at work — |
4 | ( 3 ) The Principal Education Officer either accepts the lists proposed or refers particular schools back for exclusion or substitution , on the basis of expert knowledge about factors of which the project team could not have been aware . |
5 | Or flies electric shears fringed with steel |
6 | Dismissal can not usually be justified merely because the employee 's private life is scandalous or involves immoral conduct , and this has been reconfirmed by a recent Higher Labour Court decision ( LAG Hamm , 17 Sa 1326/89 ) . |
7 | An amount may only be transferred from the revaluation reserve : to the profit and loss account , if the amount was previously charged to that account or represents realised profit , or for the issue of bonus shares . |
8 | During an ectopic pregnancy , the foetus damages or ruptures surrounding tissue as it grows , which causes abdominal pain . |
9 | Nozick argues that any more extensive state , such as one which seeks justice through redistribution or prohibits certain activities for people 's own good , will violate persons ' rights and is morally unjustified . |
10 | The human system is geared to this acquisition , and even when what is learned appears to be maladaptive or produces negative traits , it derives from a natural process . |
11 | The logic of transnational production either forbids , permits , or encourages backward linkages . |
12 | The suggestion that conventionalism reduces surprise must assume , then , not that surprise is unfair but that it is undesirable for some other reason : that it is inefficient , for example , or imposes unnecessary risks , or frightens people , or is otherwise not in the general interest . |
13 | Table 1 provides information on how many of the referrals started in or out-of-hours each month . |
14 | This approach has the advantage of providing detailed data about the nature and severity of illness in society , but it suffers from the obvious drawback that not everyone who is ill seeks or receives medical treatment and not everyone who seeks medical treatment is necessarily ill . |
15 | This weapon is a coercive metaphor or conceptual structuring lens which carves up the world according to its needs and either conditions or eradicates colourless inhabitants by subjecting them to ‘ diagnosis ’ or excluding them from ‘ symbiosis ’ in a perpetual present . |
16 | Put simply , a transistor is a small , crystal-based component , which switches or amplifies small amounts of electric current between circuits . |
17 | No signs of dangerously high radiation levels had been deteced in water samples from the Kara and Barents Seas , where Soviet dumping , totalling 2.5 million curies , took place , the conference participants said , adding that there was strong consensus among them that " there is no evidence of any regional-scale radioactive contamination in the Arctic and North Atlantic oceans that currently poses a threat to human health or causes environmental concern . " |
18 | Illness may be what motivates or causes this behaviour . |
19 | Anyone who would like to book a stall or needs more information should contact Jillian Aldred on . |
20 | If a deal goes ahead , the debtor gets more money , or owes less debt ; it can pay back more of every remaining unit of debt than before the deal . |
21 | It is the means by which the entrepreneur either creates new wealth-producing resources or endows existing resources with enhanced potential for creating wealth . |
22 | The overall impression gained by the Commission is that the Church in general either takes for granted the contribution of music to its worship , or places little value upon it . |
23 | This will be so , where the legislative competence of the ordinary legislature is limited by a constitution which contains no amending power , or places some classes outside the scope of that power . |
24 | If the rock is weak , or contains weak layers , it may be compressed and the ground above could subside . |
25 | Now if the mixture is isotropic or has cubic symmetry , but the geometry is otherwise arbitrary , it is apparent ( and can be proved ) that the overall bulk modulus would be increased ( decreased ) if both phases had a common rigidity equal to the larger ( smaller ) of their actual values . |
26 | he is aware of the danger or has reasonable grounds to believe that it exists : |
27 | he knows or has reasonable grounds to believe that the ( non-visitor ) is in the vicinity of the danger concerned or that he may come into the vicinity of the danger ( in either case , whether the ( non-visitor ) has lawful authority for being in that vicinity or not ) ; and |
28 | Where the section states ‘ he knows or has reasonable grounds to believe ’ this applies to the situation where the occupier knows or is aware of the primary facts but fails to draw the reasonable inference that the premises are dangerous or that the non-visitor 's presence is likely . |
29 | ‘ ( 3 ) A person who has been released on bail in criminal proceedings and is under a duty to surrender into the custody of a court may be arrested without warrant by a constable — ( a ) if the constable has reasonable grounds for believing that that person is not likely to surrender to custody ; ( b ) if the constable has reasonable grounds for believing that that person is likely to break any of the conditions of his bail or has reasonable grounds for suspecting that that person has broken any of those conditions ; or … ( 4 ) A person arrested in pursuance of subsection ( 3 ) above — ( a ) shall , except where he was arrested within 24 hours of the time appointed for him to surrender to custody , be brought as soon as practicable and in any event within 24 hours after his arrest before a justice of the peace for the petty sessions area in which he was arrested ; and ( b ) in the said excepted case shall be brought before the court at which he was to have surrendered to custody . |
30 | It is necessary to apply s. 1(3) which states : An occupier of premises owes a duty to another ( not being his visitor ) in respect of any such risk as is referred to in subsection ( 1 ) if — ( a ) he is aware of the danger or has reasonable grounds to believe it exists ; ( b ) he knows or has reasonable grounds to believe that the other is in the vicinity of the danger concerned or that he may come into the vicinity of the danger ( in either case whether the other has lawful authority for being in that vicinity or not ) ; and ( c ) the risk is one against which , in all the circumstances of the case , he may reasonably be expected to offer the other some protection . |