Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] or [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | There is no moral imperative to sell or to buy in Europe . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A random element is incorporated into stochastic models to summarize or act in place of a number of small , independent processes . |
| 5 | ‘ Fans demand the right to sit or stand in a safe ground . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Neither a person 's drinking habits , nor refusal to help or co-operate in treatment , are disciplinary matters . |
| 7 | Do not , by taking away their right to vote or participate in their policies and selections , you need the back-up teams of the trade unions in all its elections . |
| 8 | The consequence could be a reluctance to enter or remain in hospital care or pressure to prematurely dispose of a home . |
| 9 | The difficulty came when one imagined these numbers written on the spine of a book , or on the can of a filmstrip or an audio-cassette , and given to an untrained person to shelve or file in a sequence . |
| 10 | Recent pressure to end the obligation of junior officers to salute or stand in the presence of their seniors and recommendations to scrap the existing discipline code for a new ‘ code of ethics ’ applicable equally to all had dangerous implications , said Deputy Assistant Commissioner Lawrence Roach . |
| 11 | It went to the extent of stating , ‘ … the TUC could not at any stage commit itself in advance to approve or acquiesce in the methods to be adopted to reach full employment simply because those methods can be shown to be well fitted and even necessary to the achievement of that objective … |
| 12 | Fans want the choice to sit or stand in safety and comfort and the message that all-seat does n't mean all-safe is getting through to politicians and clubs . |
| 13 | The basic argument is persuasive fans want the choice to sit or stand in safety . |
| 14 | She would have liked to be nearer to the panel , but she doubted her ability to kneel or squat in the spacesuit . |
| 15 | Where these exist , the setting up of a manufacturing subsidiary may be the only way to enter or stay in the market . |
| 16 | I suggested some simple exercises , to be done without knitting on the machine , that showed what effect the tuck and slip controls had on the needles and how we could set the carriages to slip or tuck in one direction and knit in the other . |
| 17 | This does not mean that adultery is the one legal basis for divorce among Christians , because Jesus never encouraged his followers to think or act in legalistic terms . |
| 18 | If the trustees have power to pay or do in fact pay capital transfer tax due on assets which the settlor puts into the settlement the Revenue have taken the view that the settlor has thereby an interest in the income or property of the settlement , and that the income of the settlement should be treated as his for income tax purposes under [ TA 1988 Part XV ] . |
| 19 | The Board of Inland Revenue have therefore decided that they will no longer , in these circumstances , treat the income of the settlement as that of the settlor for income tax purposes solely because the trustees have power to pay or do in fact pay capital transfer tax on assets put into settlements . |