Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] or [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No Practice … shall be required to contest any legal proceedings unless a Queen 's Counsel ( to be mutually agreed upon or failing agreement to be appointed by the President of the [ Law ] Society for the time being ) shall advise that such proceedings should be contested . |
| 2 | The disgust which inheres in desire is not , as the Freudian analysis might suggest , necessarily generated by or focused upon the repressed constituent of the self ; it may be , but what I am pointing to here is an additional structural interdependence of desire and disgust . |
| 3 | Pupils can not think about or develop sensitivity and discernment concerning what they are in deepest ignorance about , even as not to appreciate that there is anything of which they are ignorant is an even greater indication of the degree of deprivation . |
| 4 | Whether it is just looked at or heard , acted out or painted , a symbol arouses not only thought but delight , fear , awe , horror and the rest |
| 5 | This is reinforced by Handy 's view that schools have a multiplicity of purposes and these are not discriminated between or prioritised , nor do they include any reference to the management of adults . |
| 6 | It is widely believed both within TDC and by its critics that the relatively high pay levels established by the reforming directors of the 1950s and 1960s led to applications by , and the recruitment of , men who did not know of or subscribe to the old codes . |
| 7 | However , this does not mean that people do not act upon or make some such distinction , in everyday life and in other cultures . |
| 8 | Often there is no intention to frustrate the child ; the rejections — such as not listening to or fobbing off the child — may be the consequences of the parent 's being too busy with chores or being tired and irritable after a day 's work , and so forth . |
| 9 | You must not gamble on ES premises ( other than raffles etc for charitable purposes ) and must not borrow from or lend money to colleagues or people with whom you have dealings during your work for the ES . |
| 10 | Put simply , Northern Ireland is now the only place on the globe where people can not vote for or join the Labour Party . |
| 11 | Those candidates stood to draw attention to the fact that Northern Ireland residents can not vote for or join a party which will govern them when it comes to power . |
| 12 | But we 're not dictated to or dominated by the latest fashionable sample or the current BPM . |
| 13 | I have been told that , in some cities , if someone wants to ensure that their car is not tampered with or taken , they should buy the rustiest and least attractive car available . |
| 14 | It was held that volenti did not apply on these facts as the plaintiff had not consented to or absolved the defendant from subsequent negligence on his part . |
| 15 | More importantly , the different types of phonetic , metrical , syntactic and semantic parallelism in poetic language indicate iconically a connection of meaning between the terms involved , and thus point to or reinforce the analogies between disparate elements from which , in his opinion , so much of the effect of poetry derives . |
| 16 | Resolution 45/63 expressed concern at Israel 's continuing nuclear build-up and urged all states " not to co-operate with or give assistance to Israel that could enhance its nuclear weapons capability " . |
| 17 | Be determined not to think about or dwell upon them . |
| 18 | the chosen site must not interfere with or reduce the value of scenic and recreation areas , nor must the habitats of rare or otherwise important plant and animal species be disturbed ; |
| 19 | A number of other allegations made by Higgins against Kruger were either not proceeded with or found not to constitute conduct bringing the game into disrepute . |
| 20 | Cley did not pretend to or aspire to be a friend of the Emperor 's . |
| 21 | fears about not bonding with or loving the child immediately — this can take some time , as it does with some birth parents . |
| 22 | ‘ Elise was delighted I rang , but gave me a terrible dressing down for not ringing before or sending a postcard . |
| 23 | Do not ask for or accept information , advice , or direction except from railway officials or the Travellers ' Aid . |
| 24 | Love is not initiated by or nurtured upon nice table manners , an even temperament , a respectable career , an observance of the law . |
| 25 | The crux of the matter today is that those children were not listened to or believed when they complained to the very people in whose care we had put them for protection . |
| 26 | The Bishop of Chester saw them as the solution to the problem of reconciling " manual labour and spiritual instruction " in a way so " as not to interfere with or obstruct each other " . |
| 27 | That is , later transformations tend not to interfere with or undo the effects of earlier ones in the generation of a surface from a deep structure . |
| 28 | The proviso set out below may be a fair compromise : PROVIDED THAT in so doing the Landlord shall cause as little inconvenience or disturbance to the Tenant as is reasonably practicable in the circumstances and shall not prohibit or unreasonably interfere with or prevent the use of the Premises for the Permitted User In addition it may be as well for the tenant to stipulate in such a provision that any development of neighbouring or adjoining premises should not include the building of which the premises form part unless of course adequate safeguards are included to ensure that the premises do not suffer as a result . |
| 29 | I know this was the first time they 'd ever thought of or considered themselves as artists , before that I guess they just thought they were lucky . |
| 30 | They often study psychology after developing some expertise in it through education , community , health , or social services work , and they usually return to or take on such work , rather than becoming professional psychologists . |