Example sentences of "[conj] [vb infin] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , salesmen and/or engineers will be trained to sell and/or service a specific product in which they may develop technical expertise and thereby offer a better sales and after-sales service to customers ; |
| 2 | Henry , a successful playwright , is being pushed by his wife to re-write or adapt a play by a raw young man called Brodie , who is in prison . |
| 3 | By section 50C , a lawful user is permitted to copy or adapt a computer program providing that it is necessary for his lawful use and not prohibited by the agreement regulating the use ( for example , a licence agreement ) . |
| 4 | Cray is also introducing a company-wide wage freeze in 1993 ; executive officers will forego 1992 bonuses ; it will defer or eliminate a number of its current activities ; and will consolidate the Rice Lake , Wisconsin manufacturing operations with the Chippewa Falls base . |
| 5 | It was not possible to raise the necessary capital , or to sell or grant a long lease to developers , where the only marketable title was the life estate of the head of the family . |
| 6 | He rejects as mistaken the notion that the study of other religions might undermine or weaken a believer 's faith in his own religion . |
| 7 | The prongs would have been used to ram against a brick wall , maybe to try to remove or damage a cashpoint machine or similar cash dispensing machine . |
| 8 | This will be so where selection is for a ‘ trade union reason ’ , such as refusing to become or remain a member of a particular trade union ; or if you have been unjustifiably selected in contravention of a customary agreement or agreed procedure in respect of redundancies . |
| 9 | And I will actually draw or paint a word picture for you to put you in the scene . |
| 10 | Department of Social Security mobility payments to buy or lease a car . |
| 11 | ‘ The soul of man is a world full of beings , a kingdom in which armies clash to help or hinder a supreme conquest . |
| 12 | Nowhere was it easier for an administration politician to provide help than in questions relating to military and naval preferment , but for a politician in opposition it was much more difficult , though not impossible , to help or hinder a career . |
| 13 | In addition , it is an assumption that precludes them , to a large extent , from beginning to get to grips with the language- based problems that learners might experience and providing teachers with useful insights into how linguistic factors might help or hinder a child 's progress at school . |
| 14 | That is why I say that at impact , during a proper swing , the shaft of a club is doing nothing to help or hinder a shot — and we can have no control over it at this point . |
| 15 | ‘ If a dolphin can out-manoeuvre or outswim a shark it will do so … . if the dolphins can not take evasive action for some good reason , such as that a birth is about to take place , they will attack a shark . |
| 16 | C informed of rights — said he did not have or want a solicitor — did not know that solicitor instructed by his family had enquired about him — whether subsequent confession should be excluded under PACE , s. 78 |
| 17 | To volunteer , visit or make a donation , call 0538–75784 . |
| 18 | The deaf and dumb one , who seemed about to speak or make a noise as he came . |
| 19 | If women 's lives were often painfully limited , it was possible to find or make a better self in the mirror . |
| 20 | The prodder-armed Goblins are mounted two to a base , so you will have to either remember or make a note if one of them is killed . |
| 21 | Among the issues raised by this case were how the court was to go about deciding exactly what powers Parliament had intended to give to the GLC in relation to London Transport ; whether the GLC owed a duty to its ratepayers not to spend the rates on large subsidies for travellers ; whether the GLC was entitled to implement its cheap fares policy just because it had been a major issue in the recent GLC elections ; the extent to which central government ought to control local authority spending ; whether and to what extent public transport ought to be treated as a public service or , on the other hand , as a business which has to break even or make a profit . |
| 22 | She meant I did n't girn or make a fuss , and meant I should have stayed that way . |
| 23 | The man in the bed does n't move or make a sound . |
| 24 | The parent will tend to recalibrate their response , as , as , as you have said , parents will come to expect children to make a lot of fuss about nothing , and consequently wo n't pay so much attention to a child 's distress as they would to an adult 's , because we regard it as natural , children to cry or make a fuss about the treatment we contribute , but the reason for that could be that we , we have as it were , readjusted our sensitivity to distress and we , we really have a double standard . |
| 25 | The Council is not a ‘ business ’ in the usual sense of the word i.e. it does not trade or make a profit and it will not require many of the services normally provided by a bank for a small business e.g. loans , overdrafts , inpayments of large sums of cash in coin etc . |
| 26 | Do n't shout out or make a fuss and we wo n't hurt you , we only want your money . |
| 27 | or telephone when vehicles moving except in emergencies , you should only stick your fix or clip on microphone where it will not distract your attention from road , do not stop on a hard shoul shoulder of a motorway to answer or make a call however urgent . |
| 28 | But it does not tell you how to do four plus minus three or seven minus , minus three , for example but it does not tell you how to do four plus minus three , or seven minus minus three where you have to add or subtract a negative number . |
| 29 | Moreover , to the extent that in order to establish or preserve a just government a qualified recognition of authority is necessary , such recognition in itself , independently of consent , is sufficient to establish a suitably qualified obligation to obey . |
| 30 | So you nee you 've got to create or preserve a group who have a surplus over and above subsistence . |