Example sentences of "or [vb infin] in " in BNC.
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| 31 | If the trustees have power to pay or do in fact pay capital transfer tax due on assets which the settlor puts into the settlement the Revenue have taken the view that the settlor has thereby an interest in the income or property of the settlement , and that the income of the settlement should be treated as his for income tax purposes under [ TA 1988 Part XV ] . |
| 32 | The Board of Inland Revenue have therefore decided that they will no longer , in these circumstances , treat the income of the settlement as that of the settlor for income tax purposes solely because the trustees have power to pay or do in fact pay capital transfer tax on assets put into settlements . |
| 33 | They have least to offer the family in return for all the help and support they may need or expect in return . |
| 34 | Something like seventy five percent or sixty six or seventy five percent of the , of the units which we actually let , of the houses that we actually let , go to homeless families you know , it is a complete fiction to suggest , or even try and suggest as this does that somehow or other houses are being allocated willy-nilly to people who have massive resources who could go out and buy or rent in the private sector . |
| 35 | At the far side , the peninsula of Northmavine forms a boundary which ends at Fedeland , one of the famous ‘ haaf stations ’ of last century , from which the Shetland fisherman used to row or sail in open boats to the ‘ far haaf ’ , the fishing grounds which could be as far as sixty or more kilometres from land . |
| 36 | The difficulty came when one imagined these numbers written on the spine of a book , or on the can of a filmstrip or an audio-cassette , and given to an untrained person to shelve or file in a sequence . |
| 37 | A voice crying out a message which you could not always understand or believe in , but which was important . |
| 38 | It is clearly undesirable and often more expensive to admit or keep in district general hospitals or long stay hospitals old or mentally ill or mentally handicapped people who could be properly looked after in the community . |
| 39 | Bad debts are kept low because of the ‘ common bond ’ which members of a union must share , ie they must live or work in the same neighbourhood , or belong to the same organisation , such as a church . |
| 40 | My peers are more tolerant , more willing to accept me for what I am rather than for what I might produce or become in the hierarchy . |
| 41 | Leavis always laid claim to the subtler view of controversy , but his doctrine was always easily open , as he knew , to cruder interpretations , and the fire-and-brimstone of his prose sometimes made it hard to interpret or understand in any other way . |
| 42 | If given a choice many workers of both sexes in the " core " leaf of the shamrock would prefer a better balance between time and money and this could bring enormous advantages : greater sharing of child care between the sexes ( which many men now want ) , more opportunities to study or retrain in later life and the possibility of wider participation in public affairs or voluntary work . |
| 43 | Planning colour schemes involves choosing and balancing colours which will contrast or harmonise in a pleasing way . |
| 44 | Should n't smudge or run in water , but many do . |
| 45 | These people will have no right to enter Britain and no right either to work or vote in Britain or elsewhere . |
| 46 | It is true that , as the term is commonly used , a representative , as opposed to a delegate , is not mandated to speak or vote in particular ways ; but it has always been a puzzle to me to understand in what ways such a person can then be said to represent , or speak for , those who sent him/her there . |
| 47 | on the streets , he has to react or or react in a manner that erm really when he 's on there , he does n't he does n't react to that particular incident that 's happening in front of him . |
| 48 | Elitism has to mean more than this — even in its modern , broader sense — for it to be of analytical use , so modern elite theory has tended to argue for a plurality of elites which may interact or compete in a variety of ways . |
| 49 | ‘ Unbelievable ! ’ cried a media unused to hearing from singers who habitually hate to see the sun go down or sleep in hollow logs . |
| 50 | There is a saying that one should never explain or apologise in making a speech . |
| 51 | The floor is only ten inches square so you ca n't sit down or squat in it . |
| 52 | She would have liked to be nearer to the panel , but she doubted her ability to kneel or squat in the spacesuit . |
| 53 | If the rider 's weight is in front of the horse 's , he may cause the horse to fall or stop in the above instances . |
| 54 | The actions of political forces and corporate bodies , within the resistant medium of social collectivities over which they have some influence but which they can not shape ex nihilo , may either conserve or transform in various ways the system of economic class relations . |
| 55 | He believed strongly in the psychology of home territory , which invariably put witnesses at their ease and made them more likely to remember little details they might otherwise forget or overlook in strange or foreign surroundings . |
| 56 | Rather , he is expressing his own agreement or disagreement in attitude , and to agree or disagree in attitude is not to agree or disagree about an attitude . |
| 57 | If you are younger , perhaps living alone after the death of an elderly parent , and you are in the same situation of having a large house or flat that is too much of a financial burden for you , then you must either sell or take in lodgers . |
| 58 | At the bottom end of the ladder are those inmates , mostly Somocistas and ex-National Guardsmen , who refuse to work or join in education . |
| 59 | So , given the set-up of the model , in particular given that in any one period people can only buy or sell in the island on which they are located , different equilibrium prices can be established for the same good . |
| 60 | Addressing Congress five days after the assassination , he hit exactly the right note : " Let us here highly resolve that J.F. Kennedy did not live or die in vain . " |