Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] and " in BNC.
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| 31 | During that time dividends were cut or passed and there were plenty of closures and redundancies , but spending on R&D and on capital investment was maintained . |
| 32 | The records must contain day-to-day entries of all money received or expended and of the matters to which that related and a record of the company 's assets and liabilities . |
| 33 | ‘ We can not rely on virtue ; it is weak and equivocal , or hidden and unknown ; … we must thus take as our starting-point only the possible and even probable abuse of power , ’ wrote another two generations later . |
| 34 | If you have fractured a bone or fallen and damaged your back , do not move at all , you could make it worse . |
| 35 | It should aim at helping individuals to assess the cost to their former life-style , and either to fight the consequences realistically , or to accept and come to terms with them , whichever seems to be the most appropriate . |
| 36 | to identify the political and economic groups that have an incentive either to promote and support particular prevention policies or to obstruct and oppose them ; |
| 37 | Whether it was running the Woman 's Institute or assembling and distributing gas masks , it was all the same to them . |
| 38 | The old program may be recovered with the OLD command provided no new program lines have been typed in or deleted and no variables have been created . |
| 39 | How would you decide whether input to a file should be processed directly or batched and sorted ? |
| 40 | You will need to warn management of the potentially adverse effects of refusing to appear or to comment and this will need to be set against the fact that having a valid argument does not always guarantee a sympathetic audience . |
| 41 | Build over and forget , or preserve and remember , there are dangers in both . |
| 42 | Or to try and improve the lives of the people who would one day be his subjects ? |
| 43 | To pass the time , they told Verdeţ what his fate would be if the government resorted to violence to suppress the strike or to try and rescue them . |
| 44 | Creggan had learnt by now not to talk of his past , or to try and explain about the Zoo he had escaped from . |
| 45 | When she saw him do this , Melanie knew he was going to kiss her or to try and kiss her . |
| 46 | I do n't think this was the case , though , as many women did conform and those who stuck out in the way of Madeline Vesey Neroni and Mrs. Proudie were few and far between — few dared to be too independent or to try and think for themselves . |
| 47 | A second result is an overburdened infrastructure : fewer resources available to expand electrical generating capacity or to repair and extend railway lines . |
| 48 | Smokeless tobacco can be inhaled , chewed or sucked and , as with smoking , can cause cancer in humans — most particularly cancers of the oral cavity . |
| 49 | To establish a start point , traditional cooking temperatures were set and balanced with a microwave power level to suit the food 's characteristics , that is to say their dielectric properties , for example , dense or delicate , sugar or liquid content , chilled or frozen and so on . |
| 50 | This suggests that only relatively severe cases of endometriosis were diagnosed or reported and that the actual incidence in this population might be greater . |
| 51 | But one way of generating or protecting and stabilizing conventions is by authoritative intervention . |
| 52 | Available in a wide range of sizes , the uPVC framework will never rot or corrode and the conservatory is double glazed throughout . |
| 53 | The immediate problem , like that of 1923 , was whether to resign at once or wait and meet Parliament . |
| 54 | As stated earlier , whereas creative artists such as authors commit words to paper , artists paint or carve and composers write scores away from the performers , choreographers create movements directly on the dancers in front of them . |
| 55 | For the average mixed adult class , where understanding and responding in basic linguistic situations is likely to be a primary aim , they provide a realistic stimulus for oral and aural activities . |
| 56 | If you reflect for a moment on which areas are likely to have rocks under tension , and where cracking and dyke intrusion are likely , you will realize that the mid-ocean ridges are hot favourites for this kind of activity . |
| 57 | The requisite energy-related technologies are either already available or demonstrated and close to commercialization " . |
| 58 | Subject to such disclosure as is required by Section 317 of the Act , a Director may vote in respect of any contract or arrangement in which he is interested or upon any matter arising out of the same and may be counted in the quorum present at any meeting at which any such contract , arrangement or matter is proposed or considered and if he shall so vote his vote shall be counted . |
| 59 | Subject to such disclosure as is required by Section 317 of the Act , a Director may vote in respect of any contract or arrangement in which he is interested or upon any matter arising out of the same and may be counted in the quorum present at any meeting at which any such contract , arrangement or matter is proposed or considered and if he shall so vote his vote shall be counted . |
| 60 | For example , when I began researching into social aspects of book reading I knew very little at all about publishing or bookselling and my experience of libraries was mainly limited to being a user of them . |