Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] or [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few men were willing to forgive or at least forget ; but the women hated her , for by deserting her man she had somehow disgraced every woman , and where the women were still united against her , what man dared help her openly ? |
| 2 | As expected , they are also less likely to own or to be buying their house , less likely to be living in council accommodation and more likely to be renting furnished accommodation . |
| 3 | Once again Hindu girls from an urban background are most likely to study or at least to continue their courses after marriage , but for Muslim and Sikh girls higher education can rarely be achieved without a struggle . |
| 4 | Lord Denning recognised that " in our constitutional theory Parliament is supreme but he saw the judges as the real " guardians of our constitution " and he felt that they ought to be able to pronounce on the validity of the conventions and " ought to have a power of judicial review of legislation similar to that in the United States : whereby the judges can set aside statutes which are contrary to our unwritten constitution — in that they are repugnant to reason or to fundamentals " . |
| 5 | And the social base of a governing elite can be open or closed , but is always susceptible to challenge or to displacement by a counter-elite : ‘ History is the graveyard of aristocracies ’ ( Pareto , 1966 , p. 249 ) . |
| 6 | We accept responsibility for the acts and/or omissions of our employees or agents and suppliers while acting within the scope of or in the course of their employment , agency or contract of supply and we also accept responsibility for any deficiencies in the services we are contractually obliged to provide or for any failure of such services to reach a reasonable standard save , in each case that : |
| 7 | Such a material we term a composite , taking the word in its most general sense as being equivalent to multiphase or to heterogeneous . |
| 8 | Eastern European countries were likewise keen to join or at least to negotiate with the EC association agreements which would give them preferential access to EC markets . |
| 9 | The clinical features and light microscopic findings were similar to those described in children with liver failure due to valproate or in Reye 's syndrome . |