Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] or [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They picture women gathered together to dance or perform some apparently ritualistic act of worship . |
| 2 | Superposition is of the essence of waves , which can be added together to reinforce or cancel each other out . |
| 3 | What should happen if [ J. ] suffers an episode before then which should require ventilation to be applied mechanically to save or prolong his life ? |
| 4 | During the test periods subjects were instructed not to smoke or eat anything but drank water ad libitum . |
| 5 | By early November however , as the Dublin lock-out attacks against leaders of the trade unions and the Labour Party who seemed to be obstructing his plans for a general strike , not only in Dublin , but throughout Great Britain , vilifying them as " serpents whom I shall allow to raise their foul heads and spit out their poison no longer " and as having " neither soul to be saved nor body to be kicked " Almost overnight , support for Larkin turned into denunciation of his reckless methods and of his policy of attempting to bleed British unions of funds in support of sympathy strikes which seemed destined either to fail or to lead to unwanted revolution . |
| 6 | Prepared either to swim or play tennis , she packed her shoes and racket , towel and suit and a pair of shorts and a shirt . |
| 7 | In fact nobody knows exactly what Galileo did promise at this meeting in 1616 , but his enemies , by a gangster-like trick , did much later produce an unsigned document ( long after Bellarmine was dead ) claiming that Galileo had promised not to teach or publicise the Copernican doctrine . |
| 8 | At his trial he would protest that , although he could remember being told not to hold or defend the Copernican system , he had no recollection of an injunction against teaching it . |
| 9 | These interviews were to be used partly to obtain or confirm information about the sufferer but also to examine the carer 's own contribution to the care of the sufferer ; his or her physical and emotional well-being ; feelings about or attitudes to the sufferer , towards his/her own involvement , and towards the sufferer 's continued residence in the community . |
| 10 | That the document containing the statement was produced by the computer during a period over which the computer was used regularly to store or process information for the purposes of any activity regularly carried on over that period , whether for profit or not , by any body , whether corporate or not , or by any individual ; |
| 11 | It 's more satisfying and exciting to add the art yourself than being told how to look or feel about something . |
| 12 | Or should he have realised that an implied term , or some other interpretation , would have been brought in to alter or anticipate the true meaning of the rule ? |
| 13 | It has even been suggested that it is possible to use inimical remedies with impunity although I have n't actively set out to prove or disprove this . |
| 14 | It is more likely to be about sore things from childhood , which we were not allowed properly to experience or mourn : or we may have been too young in emotional or physical development to cope . |
| 15 | Horizontal and vertical number lines like the ones you have been using are put together to describe or plot positions on a graph . |
| 16 | Care was taken not to influence or constrain what students wished to communicate , though , where necessary , questions to clarify issues and comments were asked by staff . |
| 17 | Specific , narrow-targeted services should be developed either to replace or supplement general-purpose business information services . |
| 18 | Angrily she kept her lips pressed tightly together , determined not to fight or show any response whatsoever , but pretty soon she realised her mistake . |
| 19 | Had the time come to forget the promise they had made each other , the guarantee they had given never to meet or speak ? |
| 20 | What of the media that are federally owned , of which the most important are the FRCN and NTV ? politicians from those four parties not in the Federal Government claim that federal radio and television are ordered either to ignore or play down news favourable to them . |