Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] or [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alternatively , by resting pasture or grazing it with another host , such as sheep , which are not susceptible to O. ostertagi , until most of the existing L3 on the pasture have died out . |
| 2 | It 's the way to breach the drift defence — change direction or swamp them by numbers . |
| 3 | Battlefield Engineers build bridges , clear obstacles , build roads or destroy them . |
| 4 | This connection between economic performance , marriage , and fertility , perhaps the best known empirical association in social science , then worked through the ‘ valve ’ of marriage : delaying marriage or avoiding it was the only practical way of controlling births . |
| 5 | There was no lack of enterprise in founding monasteries or endowing them ; it seems likely that if spinsters had been a serious problem to the fathers of the age , more convents of nuns would have appeared . |
| 6 | do you need paper or do you need card ? |
| 7 | He could not obtain compensation from the person who had caused the accident and sued his employer for failing to provide insurance or advising him of the need to take out insurance . |
| 8 | He has also been warned not to increase VAT or extend it to include children 's clothes , domestic fuel , books and newspapers . |
| 9 | Our marine insurance covers injury or damage you may cause to third parties with one of our yachts , dinghies or windsurfers , assuming you are n't negligent . |
| 10 | In extreme cases the project may fail to reach completion or reach it too late to make the desired impact on the market . |
| 11 | A husband who rapes his wife can be prosecuted for assault or an offence against the person if he uses force or injures her . |
| 12 | ‘ Do not deal with people who come knocking on your door asking if they can do work or sell you goods or services , unless you are sure what you are getting into , ’ says a Gwynedd Trading Standards leaflet . |
| 13 | We are now beginning new ways of thinking about whether to feed mice or kill them , plant trees or chop them down which require new balances of conflict of interest . |
| 14 | Because Pound the critic seems to be always in his shirt-sleeves sparing a few distraught hours or minutes from the more serious business of writing poems or translating them , his criticism is dispersed , though there is much more of it than we are likely to remember . |
| 15 | I am afflicted by that ambiguous unease which is produced by the prospect of starting some unwelcome task — a restless desire either to drink water or to pass it . |
| 16 | At home , people want to dim lights or to switch them on and off during long holidays . |
| 17 | Everybody should know the boundaries of their own competence , where and how their activities touch on those of others , and in what circumstances they need to consult others or keep them informed . |
| 18 | The move is not designed to penalise smokers or to force them to change . |
| 19 | You should either update the SPR further using option 3.2.0 — Update SPR or submit it using option 3.3.0 — Submit SPR . |
| 20 | I suppose you do know that not everyone can see ghosts or hear them or even feel them . |
| 21 | You sure you 'd like Coke or do you want some orange ? |
| 22 | You purchase players or get them from the free-transfer market . |
| 23 | You should update the SSR further using option 4.2.0 — Update SSR or submit it ( providing you are a user with SPR SSR CONTROLLER privilege ) using option 4.3.0 — Submit SSR . |
| 24 | Do they provide facts or views you can use ? |
| 25 | Right well the first thing I 'd like to have you got counters or have you got a |
| 26 | To give reasons or to withhold them ? |
| 27 | For all its strengths , the game has a few flaws — you ca n't drop objects or give them to another character . |
| 28 | What is questionable is whether Gandhi hypostasizes Religion or gives it a referential connotation in the same way as Tillich does by his use of the term Ultimate Concern . |
| 29 | History , with a capital H , similarly can not tolerate otherness or leave it outside its economy of inclusion . |
| 30 | The laboratory 's John Barton , speaking at a conference in London last year , described a number of occasions when decisions to invest in schemes to recycle rubbish or to burn it as fuel had been based on estimates of commercial and household waste that turned out to be much too high . |