Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] or [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Bauer put it in a recent BBC television discussion of covert recognition , ‘ Our normal experience of perception , of seeing objects or faces as an all or none process , is a trick that the brain plays on us ’ . |
| 2 | Here , in a series of wrecked sheds , men mended cars or sat on old tyres , smoking . |
| 3 | Customs has ruled that , following a European Court of Justice judgement , the basic activities of a holding company , such as acquiring subsidiaries or defending against takeovers , are not business activities for VAT purposes . |
| 4 | The 1992 National Cup competition at the Crystal Palace exhibition was once again attended by the top men 's , ladies ' and youth teams who had either fought their way through eliminating rounds or prequalified by high National League placings last season . |
| 5 | People either grow apples or work with them , and it unifies the villages . |
| 6 | She doubted then that he had felt very much like climbing trees or swimming in the river for some long while after he had lost his parents . |
| 7 | The court could be asked to observe injuries or scars on the child 's body . |
| 8 | A task-based approach for those needing to write letters or telexes in English . |
| 9 | The objectives of the promoter may conflict with those of the retailer or distributor ; consequently some sales employees are not permitted to accept incentives or participate in trade contests because their management wish to maintain strict control over their selling activities . |
| 10 | But there were children with the women here and there , subdued children eating chips or drawing on pieces of paper on the floor . |
| 11 | Develop an index of notes that really helps you locate notes quickly when preparing for tutorials , writing essays or revising for exams . |
| 12 | It spans the room , looking purposeful — after all , arches were originally self-supporting structures , forming domes or vaults within buildings if several were used together , or making impressive bridges across rivers . |
| 13 | He shall break clods or hoe from deep for 1 work and as much he shall make of them hedge for 1 work . |
| 14 | Section 238 enables the court , in prescribed circumstances , to make orders restoring the original position where a company has made gifts or entered into other transactions at an undervalue . |
| 15 | Not everyone can negotiate discounts or travel to shows , though in most cases you should get a discount for buying a complete set up , and may do for investing in several expensive fish at once . |
| 16 | Others survive by begging , selling trinkets or scavenging on rubbish tips . |
| 17 | In addition , there are numerous foreign graduates from the Continent and elsewhere with considerable linguistic skills selling hamburgers or working as waiters with poor pay and no social recognition or status . |
| 18 | Western languages may use puns or play on similar-sounding words , but there are few , if any , direct equivalents to the Chinese tendency to give the same symbolic meaning to an object and a quality whose names sound the same . |
| 19 | The command you can see starts or switches to Word for Windows ( the USEEXIST makes the button switch to Word if it 's already open , and the IMAX sizes its window to leave the Power Launcher toolbar clear at the top of the screen , and icons clear at the bottom ) . |
| 20 | They can also run courses or help with internal courses , e.g. : ‘ Members of staff registered to attend courses and they provide tutors/input to locally arranged courses ’ . |
| 21 | Equivalent statutory offences to deal with men who procure women by threat to perform any other sexual acts or who administer drugs or procure for third parties for such purposes do not exist . |
| 22 | There were some complete manuscripts but there were nothing more than a collection of royal warrants written personally by King James and sealed under his signet ring , granting tasks or favours to his ‘ beloved physician , Andrew Selkirk ’ . |
| 23 | There are , in criminal investigations , a number of situations in which the police adopt ruses or tricks in the public interest to obtain evidence . |
| 24 | Does she procrastinate , lose things or fail to hand work in to her teacher ? |
| 25 | A short selection of some of these complementary groups is given in table 8.5 , where a polymer containing groups or composed of units from column 1 will tend to form miscible blends with polymers containing groups or composed of units from column 2 . |
| 26 | A short selection of some of these complementary groups is given in table 8.5 , where a polymer containing groups or composed of units from column 1 will tend to form miscible blends with polymers containing groups or composed of units from column 2 . |
| 27 | The bank has abandoned all plans to finance roads or logging in Cameroon 's forests , in keeping with its ‘ stringent policy to protect the rights of indigenous people . ’ |
| 28 | In common with other scholars we have considered , Durkheim was essentially an armchair theorist who seldom stirred outside his study , or beyond his own milieu , except to give lectures or to participate in learned debates . |
| 29 | Samples can be hung on a rod , in slotted pockets or placed on a lectern . |
| 30 | Hands also convey emotion , for example the interviewee attending a selection panel who reflects inner anxiety by restless , wringing movements or fiddling with small objects ; or the angry person who shows white knuckles or clenched fists . |