Example sentences of "or [vb base] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most students start with vague objectives or change direction quite fundamentally during their first year so that a wider range of courses is required including some broadly-based and some of a more specialized nature . |
| 2 | Usually the field trip is still an episodic visit to somewhere else , geographically to another culture from which the analyst can take leave or bring visitors too . |
| 3 | Not only was he unable to play with his father , put on loud music or bring friends home , he also became aware of an emotional gap which meant that he could never raise the topics of girls or male friends . |
| 4 | By having Alexander lessons an individual would be able to learn how to sit , stand or pick objects up so that they do not put so much strain on the back muscles , thus bringing instant relief to their back . |
| 5 | You can get cross infection or push inflammation deeper into the tissues , resulting in scarring . |
| 6 | After that , the dust will begin to settle and you must settle your differences , too , since you will need all the support you can muster to make your mark at work or make life more financially secure . |
| 7 | Where possible , cover the main floor area in one sheet , or make joins well away from main traffic areas . |
| 8 | It is not about how to achieve better discipline , or make maths more interesting , or organize the filing cabinet in which you try to keep track of the GCSE coursework . |
| 9 | He does n't take it personally or make excuses when he gets his priorities wrong and other people point it out . |
| 10 | I would also like to point out that antivivisection organisations , do not hatch up their facts or repeat facts out of the air ; they come from individuals as knowledgeable as any vivisectionist . |
| 11 | Bureaus do not sell services to citizens or raise taxes directly . |
| 12 | One in three youngsters could not write two simple sentences with correct punctuation or add or subtract numbers under 10 in their heads . |
| 13 | The court may order instalment payments ( s 71(1) ( b ) of the 1984 Act ) or suspend payment altogether ( s 71(2) ) . |
| 14 | Octel has also announced two other products : FaxBroadcast , enabling a document to be sent to many locations using a single transaction and FaxStation , an overflow mailbox designed to eliminate problems caused by busy signals or fax machines out of paper . |
| 15 | We have used them to great effect from boats or for getting baits in under trees or undercut banks where casting has been impossible but the wind has helped to carry the bait into inaccessible areas often inhabited by pike . |
| 16 | Drill or melt holes all round the bottom of the canister . |
| 17 | Kill flies with a swat or fly papers rather than aerosol or chemical fly traps . |
| 18 | Hire of bait or fly rod only 75p . |
| 19 | If the recovery fails to materialise , the deficit in 1993-94 could be even greater than the £50 billion forecast , and the Chancellor will either have to slash welfare spending in November or put taxes up even further , risking a vicious circle of rising taxes , depleted spending power and slower growth , or borrow more which inevitably will mean putting interest rates back up . |
| 20 | I think a lot of us want to be noticed — I know I do — and when we get dressed up , or put make-up on , it is n't to hide behind the make-up , like some people think , it 's to be noticed , to say : Look at me ! |
| 21 | On 12 July 1330 , during the last months of their rule , the perambulations made during the reigns of Edward I and Edward 11 were ordered to be observed in every particular , and the Forest officers in Shropshire were forbidden to take any action against the owners of lands within the disafforested districts who had taken the deer or cut timber there . |
| 22 | It is compounded by the fact that later in the game Strach also tires and can not pressurise his full-back , or cover Kelly so well . |
| 23 | Bake , roast , grill or fry meats slowly , without any added fat . |
| 24 | Other sports that I would like either to see articles about , or receive info on from you are long distance riding and novice eventing . |
| 25 | ( If you did not use application forms or receive c.v.s then refer also to the basic list of questions , p. 100 . ) |
| 26 | The water managers will push water in or hold water out according to a computer programmed with decades of data about rainfall and drought . |
| 27 | A parent can grant additional privileges ( provided the parent has the additional privileges himself ) or rescind privileges previously granted to a descendant at any time . |
| 28 | But , as Alison Lurie observed in the Language of Clothes ( Bloomsbury , £11.99 ) , ‘ The entire history of female fashion in this century can be viewed as a series of more or less successful campaigns to force , flatter or bribe women back into uncomfortable or awkward styles in order to handicap them in professional competition with men . ’ |
| 29 | On the strength of this case , Lord Denning has argued , extra-judicially , that " if newspapers or television receive or obtain information fairly from a reliable and responsible source , which it is in the public interest that the public should know , then there is a qualified privilege to publish it . |
| 30 | Perhaps she lacked confidence to find a job outside the house or manage contraception efficiently . |