Example sentences of "or [vb base] [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As new treatments and technologies proliferate and new needs are identified these demands escalate , but even as early as 1954 , the then Minister for Health , Enoch Powell , discovered that it became a " positive ethical duty for ( providers ) to beseige and bombard the government and force or shame them into providing more money … and then more again " ( Powell 1966 ) . |
| 2 | The relevant provisions state that an employee has the right not to have action short of dismissal taken against him ‘ as an individual ’ by his employer to : prevent his belonging to an independent trade union ; or prevent him from taking part in the activities of an independent union ; or compel him to join any trade union . |
| 3 | The [ draft ] FRS therefore requires that the facilities must be committed and that there must be no reasons expected or likely which would either permit the lender to avoid his obligation to provide new borrowings or prevent him from providing them . |
| 4 | Hitherto the older waist-band had tended to slip on to the horse 's neck and either throttle him or prevent him from pulling hard ; hence the slower and less efficient ox had been generally used . |
| 5 | Or prevent you from finding inner peace ? |
| 6 | Like Matthew , we will keep creating realities which coax or provoke us into feeling anger — by being hurt , by suffering from injustice , by seeing a world full of hatred and cruelty . |
| 7 | One might , thus , fantasise the death of someone seen as a threat , or imagine oneself as possessing enormous fame or wealth . |
| 8 | He took it up in a Pauline spirit , as a reparation ; now the least of Christians ( by special grace ) but once an infidel , and even if he had not persecuted the faithful , one who scorned the Faith , he would do what he could to convert men or stop them from straying away . |
| 9 | Or stop them from ticking . ’ |
| 10 | If children did visit they should be with an adult who could explain the pictures or stop them from seeing the more controversial ones . |
| 11 | She did not court disobedience or fuss them by calling . |
| 12 | This prompts you for the input range and you type this in or select it by pointing . |
| 13 | Director Chris Pond said : ‘ People will be faced with difficult choices , such as whether to use water for baths , or save it for cooking or to water the flower pots . ’ |
| 14 | But it is still a passive role and , while many major figures in sport express a sense of responsibility for black youth , none actively encourage or discourage them from following their examples . |
| 15 | They could either become clients of European nations , or resist them by adopting European ideas and methods ; in either case the cultural dominance of Europe was implied . |
| 16 | And if you 're leaving the boat at moorings , do n't forget to either take the engine home with you , LOCKED in the boot of your car , or secure it by chaining it to the mast or inside the cabin . |
| 17 | A hearing may be adjourned if either you or the Council say anything to the Committee , or produce something in writing which the other did not know about beforehand , and it is so important that you or the Council want time to think about it before proceeding . |
| 18 | ‘ So that you can overpower Jimmy , or talk him into giving you a gun back ? |
| 19 | A letter to Dr. Watson from the Sir C.J. Liston Foulis Trust , dated 14th October 1991 states , ‘ Our clients have instructed us not to continue the lease either on short-time or long term basis and therefore the ground with the buildings there-on belongs to our clients outright and the residents of Juniper Green have no right to occupy it or use it for playing tennis or for any other purpose . ’ |
| 20 | Savage Orcs do not usually wear armour although they sometimes obtain it as war booty or trade it from wandering Goblin tribes . |
| 21 | ‘ But for the other two groups we feel there are many factors that spoil their enjoyment or deter them from making trips . ’ |
| 22 | There was a touch of desperation in her reply which she knew he heard , but surprisingly he made no attempt to mock her , or force her into giving him any more reasons . |
| 23 | Kapuscinski generalises : ‘ the degree of consciousness that drives one to demand justice or do something about obtaining it has n't yet been reached . ’ |
| 24 | There are a number of additional options with which you can limit the extent of the search or increase it by ignoring spaces and making the search non case-sensitive . |
| 25 | She could not glare at it or protect herself by clutching at the chair 's arms . |
| 26 | Or block you from developing personal qualities , talents or skills ? |
| 27 | Help her , or help himself by warning his friend how much she knew ? |
| 28 | If the reader is happy to meet no Albanian , he will be overjoyed by the absence of anyone from India , China or the USSR , for no one in his right mind could imagine that those who dwell in these alien steppes and deserts could either enjoy ‘ states of mind ’ or have anything worth saying about them . |