Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] or [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not find the dock company has operated or operates the port other than as a normal commercial undertaking . |
| 2 | 10.7.3 Any such use under Clauses 10.7.2.1 or 10.7.2.2 shall be subject to reasonable prior notice to the Party which has generated or supplied the information to enable any relevant application for intellectual property rights to be made . |
| 3 | Supporting players in the lineout can only move when the jumper has touched or caught the ball . |
| 4 | As Richard Caborn , chairman of the Commons energy select committee , pointed out , Mr Heseltine has rejected or ignored the committee 's main point , to wit , the need for a larger market for coal . |
| 5 | South African destabilization has succeeded in many of its aims ; the rebel movement , RENAMO , has destroyed or forced the closure of approximately fifty percent of the PHC network . |
| 6 | The Settlement still plans to sell or lease the Pickwick site , ( with outline planning permission ) for office/commercial development which would include a purpose-built wing to house the Settlement 's projects . |
| 7 | The court did not state why they thought this was the mischief , and the Criminal Law Revision Committee 's Report considered aggravated burglary was aimed at instances where the accused intends to use or threaten the use of weapons in order to steal . |
| 8 | At first sight , the dictum — though not the decision — the NIRC in Hudson ( Birmingham ) Ltd v Winsper appears to be inconsistent with the spirit of Schedule 1 Para 32 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act , 1974 , which provides , ‘ … any provision in any agreement ( whether a contract of employment or not ) shall be void insofar as it purports to exclude or limit the operation of any provision of this Act … . ’ |
| 9 | Section 296A(1) also makes any term or condition in an agreement void in so far as it purports to prohibit or restrict the use of any device or means to observe , study or test the functioning of a computer program in order to understand the ideas and principles underlying any element of the program . |
| 10 | In any event , the grant of an option to renew may depress the value of the landlord 's reversion and reduce the number of potential purchasers of it since the plans of a purchaser who wishes to redevelop or to occupy the property for the purposes of his own business may be frustrated by the exercise of the option . |
| 11 | It means recognising or creating a need , pointing it out and offering to meet the need with your product or message . |
| 12 | Whenever any structure seeks to inhibit or censor the arts we have to question their motives . ’ |
| 13 | The writer who seeks to control or dictate the responses of his reader outside the boundaries of the text itself , is comparable to a card-player who gets up periodically from his place , goes round the table to look at his opponent 's hand , and advises him what cards to lay . |
| 14 | Sometimes a patent application is made largely to prevent others imitating the underlying idea while the patentee seeks to develop or refine the invention into something which is marketable . |
| 15 | And how the devil a poet writing English manages to make or find a language for poems is a mystery . |
| 16 | No need arises to define or limit the word " particular " . |