Example sentences of "[adv] or [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Routine thinking throws up no ideas about how to work on or round or against a seemingly impossible situation — which reaffirms powerlessness . |
| 2 | ‘ There are also bruises on her thigh , which must have been caused by her being stamped on or kicked as she struggled . ’ |
| 3 | Loads cabbage with plenty of butter on or sprout and broccoli |
| 4 | It is for this reason that provisions in Conventions dealing with commercial contracts are almost entirely dispositive in nature , the parties being left free to exclude the relevant Convention entirely or to vary or derogate from its effects . |
| 5 | The other half of this group ( about a quarter of the entire sample ) either rejected the Authority 's recommendations entirely or claimed that although they agreed with them in principle they were prevented from implementing them by unsuitable classroom conditions or other school circumstances . |
| 6 | ‘ The houses should either be knocked down or renovated because this is not good , ’ said resident Ray Smith . |
| 7 | The plaintiffs ' contentions under this heading do not seek to cut down or erode or encroach upon the privilege against self-incrimination . |
| 8 | The copy application may be served on each respondent personally or delivered or sent by first-class post to his residence or last known residence ( FPCR , r8(1) ; FPR , r4.8(1) ) . |
| 9 | It is an offence under Section 47(2) to do any act or engage in any course of conduct which creates a false or misleading impression as to the market price or value of any investments if the purpose is to create that impression and thereby induce another person to acquire , dispose of , subscribe for or underwrite those investments or to refrain from doing so or to exercise or refrain from exercising any rights conferred by those investments . |
| 10 | Users could either join in or sit and do nothing . |
| 11 | The old program may be recovered with the OLD command provided no new program lines have been typed in or deleted and no variables have been created . |
| 12 | So whether it means add or take away or subtract or negative we can sort of forget about it and just look at the signs so if get if we get take away plus three , that will be the same as take away plus three , yeah ? |
| 13 | Go back downstairs or try and get a better shot at one of the bastards from up here ? |
| 14 | But because so much money and technical faith had been invested in the project no one thought to check the information elsewhere or suspect that the system might be fallible . |
| 15 | Broadly , the parties can choose what liabilities are to be taken over or treated as taken over , although liabilities to employees and liabilities attaching to specific assets pass automatically . |
| 16 | Sometimes our bodies and minds seek excuses to experience griefs that we may have put aside or denied because we could n't face them at the time . |
| 17 | Without this information , the speechreader may appear to interrupt rudely or think that something is going on that he is missing . |
| 18 | The arm can now be lifted off or replaced as required . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , the overwhelming majority of surviving herds of deer either died off or escaped when country houses were requisitioned during the Second World War ; the ‘ Dig for Victory ’ campaign meant that much ancient pasture was ploughed and used as arable land which was often never reseeded . |
| 20 | The 10 per cent of employees that are temporary or seasonal workers can be laid off or recruited as required , and altering the proportion of output coming from subcontractors causes them in turn to adjust their labour force . |
| 21 | After the tourist season finished , and various cars were either written off or collapsed or whatever , you know whoever had a car was put forward as the picket you know er the leader of that picket er shift , and then it was just a question of working round . |
| 22 | How would you decide whether input to a file should be processed directly or batched and sorted ? |
| 23 | The immediate problem , like that of 1923 , was whether to resign at once or wait and meet Parliament . |
| 24 | Where judgment is given in a default action ( Ord 9 , r 6(1) ) for payment forthwith , it need not be drawn up or served unless a request to issue enforcement proceedings has not been made , or the plaintiff has abandoned part of his claim without amending his particulars of claim and serving the defendant , or where the judgment is interlocutory ( N 17 ) or where a Certificate for judgment under s 12 of the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 is to be sought ( Ord 22 , r 1(3) ) . |
| 25 | For example : After payment of the Preference Dividend and the Preferred Dividend payable in respect of each financial year of the Company ( including any Arrears of the same ) the Company shall [ subject to provisions of clause … of the facility agreement ] pay to the Ordinary Shareholders out of the balance of any profits available for distribution a non-cumulative dividend of such amount as the Company shall determine ( but not exceeding the amount recommended by the Directors such recommendation to include the consent of the Investors ' Director ) on the capital from time to time paid up or credited as paid up on each Ordinary Share . |
| 26 | Sometimes , too , information was deliberately falsified , misrepresented , touched up or omitted or withheld from the pope , as by the emissaries of Baldwin IX of Flanders . |
| 27 | The idea is not to block them out or pretend that they never happened — indeed you would be building up a store of problems for the future If you did so — but to prevent them forming part of your future . |
| 28 | The plaintiff will still have to make the necessary amendments to his statement of claim and , if he has left it this late to do so , may well find himself in difficulty over costs if the action has to be stood out or adjourned because the defendant has not been given adequate notice . |
| 29 | It will eventually , yes , well the sun will erupt , not , not , not this , the sun will , the sun will , the sun will burn its bloody self out or explode or , or do , or do something , and this galaxy will go and probably , what about all the other galaxies in the bloody universe , you know , and , how , how , how , how , how , how , how 's get , how 's , how 's , how 's can you even think about it , you know , it 's millions and millions and millions of bloody light years away , what the bloody hell . |
| 30 | The second half of the project is concerned really with how on earth we get such program to work , such programs are very complicated , they interact in various odd ways , and getting the bugs out , getting the problems out or debugging as the jargon has it , is a really serious problem and we hope to make some advance on the problem of erm developing programs for such distributed multi-processor systems . |