Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [verb] or [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Downing Street declines either to list or number the posts directly in the gift of the prime minister . |
| 2 | But if a person with a roughly similar disability is socially isolated , or the home environment has actually precipitated or exacerbated the illness , then they will be gravely handicapped in attempting to return to normal life after a period in hospital . |
| 3 | Dawn has never bent or broken a feather in two and a half years . |
| 4 | Called Dual Control , it calculates where to lower or raise the plough to get a straight edge on the headland . |
| 5 | A more appropriate model of academic goals , one which does not construct or require a ‘ great divide ’ between an ‘ objective ’ , written , academic language and a ‘ context-dependent ’ , oral , lay language , is offered by Godfrey Lienhardt , in his attempts to find a language for describing concepts of ‘ self ’ in different cultures . |
| 6 | This Article does not affirm or imply the converse : that actions which can be sufficiently achieved by Member States should be performed by them . |
| 7 | The Council is not a ‘ business ’ in the usual sense of the word i.e. it does not trade or make a profit and it will not require many of the services normally provided by a bank for a small business e.g. loans , overdrafts , inpayments of large sums of cash in coin etc . |
| 8 | However , AI does not ignore or underestimate the importance of civil , political , social , economic or cultural rights . |
| 9 | A member who considers that such principles have been breached should be careful that he does not waive or condone the breach . |
| 10 | Leavis does not question or problematize the existence of the materials of the literary tradition , and the moral force to be associated with the study of English resides , not in the " personalities " of great authors , but in the capacity of an intellectual and professional elite to " respond " , that is , to recreate in themselves that evaluative response to cultural change seen as inscribed within the literary tradition . |
| 11 | It does not preserve or enhance the area in any way . |
| 12 | ‘ One does not like or dislike the Mouth of Truth , Caroline . ’ |
| 13 | This does not suppress or suspend the right , but may restrain its exercise . |
| 14 | The Theban citadel , the Kadmeia , does not master or menace the Boiotian skyline like the Athenian Acropolis ; and there were always places like Orchomenos and even Tanagra which envied Thebes ' leadership . |
| 15 | Respublica does not define or describe a common substantive purpose . |
| 16 | However , this information needs to be given very carefully so that it does n't anger or hurt the person . |
| 17 | The man in the bed does n't move or make a sound . |
| 18 | It does n't break or pull the hair out and it costs less . |
| 19 | If it does then move or remove the leaf . |