Example sentences of "[conj] [vb infin] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paragraph one point four , legislation , figures prominent in here and Mr , legislation of course is currently a changing scheme in our service and perhaps the most important new act for several years is the New Road and Street Works Act , which is scheduled to be in action on the first of January next year and this will have two main effects for us , firstly the Local Highway Authority that is ourselves in Suffolk will be in a far stronger position to manage or influence or control the work of public utilities in public highways . |
| 2 | They can cry or laugh as long as they 're happy . |
| 3 | As far as this subject is concerned and the age of child you are teaching , it does not matter very much if you can draw or paint or not . |
| 4 | … the dimension of time has been shattered , we can not love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes off along its own trajectory and immediately disappears . |
| 5 | Force the other party to try hard to get your attention and let them know or think that they could lose out to someone else . |
| 6 | Without this information , the speechreader may appear to interrupt rudely or think that something is going on that he is missing . |
| 7 | He ca n't behave or think or speak or do anything else better than I can — nearly as well as I can — so he 's going to be the Old Man of the Sea until I shake him off somehow . |
| 8 | ‘ I have n't been able to sleep or eat since our last meeting and , from the way you look , neither have you , ’ he said , taking in the discarded food and her too slender form with one glance . |
| 9 | Do not smoke or eat while clearing up the mess . |
| 10 | Wounded deer by the next day separate from the herd and fail to groom or eat or move . |
| 11 | I have n't been able to sleep or eat or anything . |
| 12 | You 've no idea the miners and , and people that came out onto the road and had nowhere to go or stay and had nothing . |
| 13 | And he did n't know whether to grin or grimace when it produced a point-saver from Wright after a link-up between Steve Bould and Lee Dixon . |
| 14 | Think how often you see two people struggling to rig or de-rig because they are too embarrassed or independent to ask someone to help . |
| 15 | Befriending schemes have been established so that , where it is desirable , students with special educational needs can be accompanied by a volunteer helper who will interpret or explain and assist as necessary . |
| 16 | The first sign of tetanus in a newborn baby is the inability to suck or swallow and muscular spasms of the lips and mouth . |
| 17 | It makes it an offence to promote or conduct or assist in the conduct of a mock auction . |
| 18 | And er they would maybe er devise or make or r find a piece of suitable wood or something to scratch in the garden or in the sand or on a piece of nice soft soil , to make furrows and er imitate maybe what their Dad was doing out in the field and er they had no concept of doing anything else to play really , it was just pretending they were pretending they were grown up and working . |
| 19 | He found that he was able to identify the causes of patients ' problems , especially the small , less obvious ones which other prosthetists might miss or regard as trivial . |
| 20 | At a level above that there is what is called machine code : one whose lines are normally instructions to add or subtract or shift the contents of whole registers ( themselves strings of binary numbers ) . |
| 21 | At school and even now , I can not add or subtract or divide easily , but I can write clear figures — this is drawing ; and I can arrange my figures neatly in line , and one sum next to the other , i.e. design . |
| 22 | The number line method works when you have to add or subtract and ordinary positive number plus three means go up three , minus three means go down three . |
| 23 | That commitment can waver or disappear if the arguments of the philosopher or the historian appear to destroy its rational basis . |
| 24 | Britain grinds out almost five million tonnes of hazardous waste each year , of which about 63,000 tonnes are so difficult to store or treat that they are burnt at high temperatures here in Gwent or at one of three other centres : Ellesmere Port ; Fawley , near Southampton ; and the unfortunately named Killamarsh , near Sheffield . |
| 25 | If it is the latter , how will Britain ensure or guarantee that the old or new boundaries are enforced ? |
| 26 | Attempting to copy a decorative technique can confirm or disprove that it produces the same appearance and microstructure observed on the original item . |
| 27 | To verify or disprove that therapeutic vaccines can induce an anti-HIV immune response of such a kind that it has clinical , positive consequences ; and |
| 28 | In one missing person inquiry she had claimed success because the runaway girl had telephoned home , but no one could prove or disprove that Ruby 's meditation over a favourite pair of tights had influenced her . |
| 29 | He would sit or kneel until his body ached , picking and stroking in his efforts to please her . |
| 30 | Yet the above argument does not demand or predict that every criminal law directly represents the interests of the ruling class . |