Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Managers at the Landing Gear factory have so far refused to confirm or deny the report that up to two hundred jobs are to go . |
| 32 | It 's a high-risk enterprise for us to , to pontificate about local radio , particularly as we have three as it were local radio representatives here , and we shall give them ample opportunity to confirm or deny the sort of things we 're saying . |
| 33 | Leeds manager Howard Wilkinson , who refused to confirm or deny an interest in £3m Coventry winger Peter Ndlovu , had clearly had better weeks . |
| 34 | After a positive test result the family practitioner and health visitor are contacted when the baby is about six weeks old to develop a social profile of the family and decide how best to approach them to offer a venous blood test to confirm or refute the screening test . |
| 35 | From the transcript of the trial proceedings this seems to be unlikely , but no further testimony is now available to confirm or contradict the evidence . |
| 36 | The problem for the authorities is that it may be impossible to confirm or disprove the existence of ‘ Inner Circle ’ . |
| 37 | The problem for the authorities is that it may be impossible to confirm or disprove the existence of ‘ Inner Circle ’ . |
| 38 | In order to confirm or disprove the phenomena , certain criteria have to be decided in order for the theory to have any value . |
| 39 | And when we next want to paint or draw a tree we will have some definite knowledge of one species of tree . |
| 40 | LEFT At times it may be possible to conserve or reconstruct a site , by incorporating it in the development plans . |
| 41 | Table 5.6 shows that the proportions still at home were very low for those who had no principal carer , whose carer wanted institutional care , or where we were unable to interview or ascertain the carer 's preferences . |
| 42 | What is sad is that caught in this way , they are unable to see or use the opportunities for life-fulfilling experiences spread out before them . |
| 43 | To this day just to see or hear the word ‘ hermaphrodite ’ is sufficient to make those luminous pictures shimmer before my eyes . |
| 44 | Hair colourants — the permanent variety using oxidation dyes — lift the hair 's protective outer cuticle scales , too , to impart or change the pigment inside , while bleaching works by neutralising some of the darker natural pigment . |
| 45 | Its laws are made piecemeal by Parliament and by judges , who are placed under no overriding constitutional obligation to preserve or protect the media 's right to report matters of public interest . |
| 46 | Gandhi would regard it as a failure to preserve or maintain the function of symbols and a degeneration of their purpose . |
| 47 | I expect her to say more , to preach or pose a second question , but she does n't . |
| 48 | Sister Cooney looked at him with a polite , questioning smile and waited for him to continue or change the subject , as he thought fit . |
| 49 | Thus evaluation can be used for decisions about whether to continue or terminate a given course , about the modification necessary for an existing programme , about the use of various teaching methods to achieve a pre-specified goal , or about the adoption of an innovation . |
| 50 | But the IWC has yet to decide whether to continue or end the moratorium , preferring to ask more questions of the scientific committee regarding the management procedure ( see Nature 358 , 99 ; 1992 ) . |
| 51 | In cases where the rent paid is low , do you consider it advisable to continue or dissolve the tenancy ? |
| 52 | Indeed she was afraid to plan or picture a different future of any kind . |
| 53 | It may , in certain circumstances , be lawful for a person to kill or injure an animal belonging to another if this is necessary for the protection of his livestock or crops . |
| 54 | When a boy goes ‘ bang bang ’ with his finger , or a more realistic-looking gun , he no more wishes to kill or maim the ‘ enemy ’ than his parents would actually enjoy seeing gouts of blood issuing from a real villain as is shown on television . |
| 55 | The violent citizens sought to kill or abduct the Pope when Barbarossa refused to pay them an immense bribe . |
| 56 | He remembers hearing it said that each man in one gang at least vowed to kill or disable the keepers if they attempted to thwart their attacks on the game . |
| 57 | But the issue was still a tactical one , as it had been for Marx ; national liberation was a means to support or obstruct the unity of the working class and the achievement of socialist revolution in Russia , not a matter of general principle . |
| 58 | It would equally be an offence to seek to bribe a Member in order to persuade him to support or oppose a particular measure , although the boundaries here are hard to define . |
| 59 | Her deep involvement in the Falklands war and determination to retain British sovereignty over the islands has to be set against Britain 's negotiated return of Hong Kong to China with effect from 1997 and refusal to support or condemn the US invasion of Grenada ( part of the Commonwealth ) . |
| 60 | Likewise , public relations may use advertising to support or spearhead a publicity programme to reinforce messages . |