Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Routine thinking throws up no ideas about how to work on or round or against a seemingly impossible situation — which reaffirms powerlessness .
2 ‘ There are also bruises on her thigh , which must have been caused by her being stamped on or kicked as she struggled . ’
3 Loads cabbage with plenty of butter on or sprout and broccoli
4 All of these factors weaken the ties that such businesses have with the communities in which they are located and make it less difficult for them to close down and/or relocate if and when business conditions deteriorate in one country relative to other countries .
5 It is for this reason that provisions in Conventions dealing with commercial contracts are almost entirely dispositive in nature , the parties being left free to exclude the relevant Convention entirely or to vary or derogate from its effects .
6 The other half of this group ( about a quarter of the entire sample ) either rejected the Authority 's recommendations entirely or claimed that although they agreed with them in principle they were prevented from implementing them by unsuitable classroom conditions or other school circumstances .
7 In practical terms this concern is relevant only where supervising and senior staff in the agency may learn about a pollution ; by definition these are cases which the agency regards as important , in particular , those which may have implications for the agency 's public reputation .
8 ‘ The houses should either be knocked down or renovated because this is not good , ’ said resident Ray Smith .
9 The plaintiffs ' contentions under this heading do not seek to cut down or erode or encroach upon the privilege against self-incrimination .
10 The copy application may be served on each respondent personally or delivered or sent by first-class post to his residence or last known residence ( FPCR , r8(1) ; FPR , r4.8(1) ) .
11 It is an offence under Section 47(2) to do any act or engage in any course of conduct which creates a false or misleading impression as to the market price or value of any investments if the purpose is to create that impression and thereby induce another person to acquire , dispose of , subscribe for or underwrite those investments or to refrain from doing so or to exercise or refrain from exercising any rights conferred by those investments .
12 Users could either join in or sit and do nothing .
13 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 .
14 We we need n't worry too much that thought but erm the Greek revolt itself in eighteen twenty to one to round about eighteen twenty five had gone on without any European intervention .
15 He can do no better than argue that it involves apprehending things simultaneously rather than in succession though he does not explain how the successful mystic can transcend the limits of the magic number seven , which most psychologists agree is the maximum number of entities that can simultaneously be held before the mind .
16 In the middle of the nineteenth century Faraday ( 1791–1867 ) , one of the wisest of men , could do no better than to say that the strength of solids was due to the cohesion between their fine particles and that the subject was a very interesting one .
17 If your interest in the past centres on some figure in particular from days gone by you could perhaps not do better than to consider whether he or she would make a detective , as the American writer Lilian de la Torre did with a series of short stories about Dr Sam Johnson , Detector .
18 But if , as seems increasingly likely , Mr Clinton will soon tell Congress and the public that American fighting men will have to be sent to Bosnia , he will have to do better than say that he has thought things over carefully .
19 Babyish even for nine year olds perhaps , but better than waiting until they are teenagers .
20 Narrow neutrality consists in helping or hindering them to an equal degree in those activities and regarding those resources that they would wish neither to engage in nor to acquire but for the conflict .
21 She believed in love , but she had been too impatient , her eagerness to experience it persuading her to believe that what she had felt went deeper than liking and a mild physical attraction .
22 So that stuck and eventually when that place folded and we came over here , er we just called them the Dollies and that was , they were referred to , everybody knew who they were ,
23 So that go that goes there then really does it ?
24 So that meant that he was he could n't sort of do a heavy heavy work so he just used to do odd job things you know , he 'd sell horse and carts and er he 'd go down to the pier when he used to do the fishing boats , he used to come in and he 'd buy a box of fish from them and go round the streets selling them you know .
25 Erm and that how that but through land reform it meant that how that you had erm credit difficulties and that how that landlords who prev previously provided the credit were no longer there and so that meant that how that erm that exasperated problems of increasing productivity and also there was a severe shortage of farm implements and animals cos they were n't redistributed , there was only the surplus that was taken away from the rich peasants and landlords , it meant that how that the , the rich peasants erm you know , got back er they sort of were a self-perpetuating elite in that how the poor peasants just did n't have the means to improving their production .
26 And so that shows that how that they I mean it implies that that 's happening and that that ought to be controlled .
27 Not only have we got young people from all the political parties involved , but we 've also got Sir Geoffrey Howe , John Smith , David Owen , Lord Jenkins , in other words one senior representative from each of the major political parties has agreed to be a patron er so that shows that it is a cross-party initiative .
28 Yeah , so that means that people who 've been living here before has has been ripping catalogues off and things like that .
29 So that means that , okay , supposing we have a tutorial , does that mean we have n't got anything next term until the exams start ?
30 That means that we are locked into issuing fire certificates since we rely on the and it imposes a marked official erm , performance target on us , we ca n't afford to let the numbers of inspections of supported defences drop , so that means that we 've got to find money from elsewhere in the budget .
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