Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have to cancel or change your plans , you may be charged a cancellation fee . |
| 2 | But , oddly enough , Harriet had never held it against Tom who , after all , could easily have elected to cancel or postpone their plans . |
| 3 | This can be understood to mean that Vietnam is not prepared to renounce or imperil her close ties with the Soviet Union . |
| 4 | The DSS has been arguing successfully for years that if a claimant was ignorant of his entitlement , that did not justify his failure to claim or justify his having a back payment . |
| 5 | It was decided , first , that in actions brought by the Crown to enforce or protect its proprietary or contractual rights , it should be in no different position from the ordinary citizen and so should be required to give an undertaking in the usual way . |
| 6 | The order of one court requesting the court in another country to enforce or recognise its orders is called an order in aid . |
| 7 | ‘ I agree therefore with all your Lordships that the practice of exacting an undertaking in damages from the Crown as a condition of the grant of an interlocutory injunction in this type of law enforcement action ought not to be applied as a matter of course , as it should be in actions between subject and subject , in relator actions , and in actions by the Crown to enforce or to protect its proprietary or contractual rights . |
| 8 | In extremity , with nowhere to go , and not even a believed theory to wear or hold his mind 's hand ( ‘ what will you run away with ? ’ ) , |
| 9 | With little access to trade outlets , early Inuit had neither the power nor the will to over-exploit or destroy their few resources . |
| 10 | I understand Tennant , an American , met Wimbledon owner Sam Hammam 10 days ago but he refuses to confirm or deny their rendezvous . |
| 11 | Sabine is not here to confirm or deny their conversation , and neither can she confirm or deny how much of her work went into the Durances . |
| 12 | If you have access to such an instrument and you suspect Hexamita infection , then careful examination of your specimen should provide the evidence you require to confirm or refute your suspicions . |
| 13 | No executions had been carried out since 1984 , and there were currently 287 people in prison waiting for parliament to confirm or commute their death sentences ( mostly handed down in the early 1980s ) . |
| 14 | All sites should be protected from damage or development , managed so as to conserve or increase their wildlife value , and monitored . |
| 15 | At the end of the book , though , Zuckerman confronts Roth with the opinion that the latter has made a mistake in trying to tame or to shed his imagination in the foregoing text , that fiction is superior to fact , and that the factuality of The Facts is specious . |
| 16 | I do n't have to preach or tell our colleagues in England and Wales the effects water privatization 's had on them since nineteen eighty nine , they can see it for themselves every day . |
| 17 | Only a few , largely of the younger members , consider that at least for the first few years after an election , the House as a whole should keep a wary eye on the government and seek to support or influence its policy irrespective of the line taken by the official Opposition . |
| 18 | These sources are here referred to as " evidence " , meaning the sources themselves and the use to which the historian puts them in order to support or prove his interpretations . |
| 19 | In this service the middle classes — who might be able to afford private care — are admitted , and the burden of care falls on those least able to cope or argue their case . |
| 20 | He therefore refused to attend or to allow his wife to . |
| 21 | Now , with varying degrees of enthusiasm , all these councils have begun preparations to draft or update their plans . |
| 22 | The effect of such imagery is to enrich or enlarge our concept of the male , or of what may truly be said to be ‘ masculine ’ . |
| 23 | the employer of any person permitted to drive or use your motor cycle if liability is incurred while on the respective employers business , but not while using a motor cycle provided by the employer . |
| 24 | anyone you allow to drive or use your car as long as your policy schedule allows this |
| 25 | anyone you allow to drive or use your car as long as your policy schedule allows this |
| 26 | anyone you allow to drive or use your car as long as your policy schedule allows this |
| 27 | anyone you allow to drive or use your car as long as your policy schedule allows this |
| 28 | Hotels , restaurants and other local businesses are known to have been deeply disappointed that the city failed to make a suitable offer which might have persuaded the Baron to forestall or reconsider his new arrangements in Madrid . |
| 29 | Diana went on to demand that she should be allowed to continue as a full member of the Royal Household , free to accept or reject her own official engagements and free to pursue her own special charity interests . |
| 30 | Nonetheless , the Conservatives are still pressing on with their plans to stand in all 17 constituencies in Northern Ireland and to give the electorate the chance to accept or reject their programme for governing the country . |