Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] or [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An increase from fifty to a hundred members would allow greater flexibility for our regional committees in the regions to decide whether they allow the branch to continue or to amalgamate with another branch . |
| 2 | Members have the opportunity to paint or sketch from still-life arrangements or a model or to choose their own subject matter . |
| 3 | If either party wants to call more he must ask the other side to agree or apply for directions to do so . |
| 4 | If the rider 's weight is in front of the horse 's , he may cause the horse to fall or stop in the above instances . |
| 5 | There is no moral imperative to sell or to buy in Europe . |
| 6 | And those who could n't afford a half-crown fine , but would rather wait until nightfall to sweep or cause to be swept their bit of pavement , must have been more than grateful that the Trustees would also kindly provide ‘ Lamp Irons or Lamp Posts to be put or affixed into , upon , or against the Walls or Pallisadoes of any of the Houses , Tenements , or Buildings within the said Town , . |
| 7 | if I can er start first of all with the pleadings bundle and with the statement of claim which erm er sets out all the er upon which the plaintiffs and your Lordship will see from paragraph one that this claims relate to the purchase by the plaintiff of a lease of a restaurant and wine bar business at and er it is alleged that the defendants were retained by the plaintiffs to advise them in relation to that transaction in early September of nineteen eighty five and that the contract between them er contained the usual implied required for the defendant to exercise or deal with the proper and care in relation to their conduct of the transaction and er to the advice given to the plaintiffs throughout . |
| 8 | Under ‘ mass-production ’ conditions the industry was obliged to keep its labour-teams steadily employed , moving in a planned succession from one undertaking to another , and progressively brought down its costs to reach an ever-widening circle of demand for homes to buy or rent at economic figures . |
| 9 | The only provision of Order 11 under which leave might be given was that dealing with the case where ‘ in the action begun by the writ an injunction is sought ordering the defendant to do or refrain from doing anything within the jurisdiction … |
| 10 | The jammers , at a cost of $3.5 million per plane , are designed to identify radars , single out the most dangerous ones and then transmit electronic signals to deceive or interfere with the radars of the hostile air defence weapons . |
| 11 | If given a choice many workers of both sexes in the " core " leaf of the shamrock would prefer a better balance between time and money and this could bring enormous advantages : greater sharing of child care between the sexes ( which many men now want ) , more opportunities to study or retrain in later life and the possibility of wider participation in public affairs or voluntary work . |
| 12 | There are at least two contrasting ways of opposing force : one is with greater force , and the other is with reasons which might influence those who use or are liable to use force to refrain or desist from doing so . |
| 13 | At this stage either party can invoke a procedure introduced in 1980 , which can place pressure on the other side to withdraw or settle at an early stage . |
| 14 | We find it useful to have someone available as a stock figure to represent or stand for certain kinds of person . |
| 15 | Kevin McCloud , whose background is in history of art and theatrical set designing , presents 40 individual roomsets in a variety of styles to copy or adapt to your own home . |
| 16 | The rash application of strong antiseptic solutions to prevent or ward off infection is another rare cause of urethritis . |
| 17 | Casting aside the political labelling , which view is correct : sitting back and following a policy of status quo which allows social change to evolve or embarking on a course of social engineering by positive discrimination ? |
| 18 | In other cases there were no restrictions on numbers of temporary workers or the duration of their employment , merely a requirement to inform or consult about their use . |
| 19 | A contact orderwhich requires the person with whom the child lives , or is to live , to allow the child to visit or stay with the person named in the order or for that person and the child to otherwise have contact with each other . |
| 20 | By contrast , the stance of doing is concerned with acting upon those phenomena to bring about change , although the capacity to react or respond to phenomena may be a precondition of successful action in some cases , for example in the diagnosis of human problems and situations , as Ryan ( 1984 ) points out in relation to medicine . |
| 21 | The fund will create graduate study fellowships and student travel , enable specialists from Korea to teach or speak at Harvard , and help permit the museum to publish and research the collection . |
| 22 | Would you have a different answer if Tack was already in an established business looking for areas to expand or to diversify into ? |
| 23 | A random element is incorporated into stochastic models to summarize or act in place of a number of small , independent processes . |
| 24 | Such a system could incorporate images to be construed ; hold relevant information to be drawn upon as required ; include a capacity to enlarge or select from the image under consideration ; provide cues aimed at stimulating a search for undiscovered features or ideas and be partially interactive in a non-verbal mode by means of direct pointing with a light pen . |
| 25 | ‘ Fans demand the right to sit or stand in a safe ground . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ By the common law of England the judges have the right to determine who shall be admitted to practise as barristers and solicitors : and , as incidental thereto , the judges have the right to suspend or prohibit from practice . |
| 27 | The solution perceived by some libraries has been to bring in educational technologists to perform or assist with evaluation . |
| 28 | There would have been little room to work or store on the gallery , but it could have been a convenient place to display finished work for the approval of the merchants riding round the countryside in search of stock , as the main road passes nearby and upon which the main flow of riders would have travelled . |
| 29 | Therefore we must not speak as if there were any ‘ capacity ’ in fallen human nature to receive or prepare for God by itself . |
| 30 | ‘ Neither a person 's drinking habits , nor refusal to help or co-operate in treatment , are disciplinary matters . |