Example sentences of "[vb infin] [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It makes it an offence to promote or conduct or assist in the conduct of a mock auction . |
| 2 | Planning colour schemes involves choosing and balancing colours which will contrast or harmonise in a pleasing way . |
| 3 | As for his suggestion that I should comment or write on the series , I did not follow this up . |
| 4 | At this stage , you can enhance or detract from a design according to your choice of background colour . |
| 5 | ‘ I could n't eat or drink at the moment . |
| 6 | Did the drug decompose or spread through the body or accumulated in certain organs ? |
| 7 | A contemporary dishonest bill ordinarily involves not an exorbitant disclaimer ( although there are plenty of these disclaimers still in use ) , but a shipment that does not take place , or a vessel that does not exist or disappears without a trace after loading . |
| 8 | I will not act or suffer at the sword 's edge — Not that — I will not bleed — my dear , do you remember ? " |
| 9 | Something like seventy five percent or sixty six or seventy five percent of the , of the units which we actually let , of the houses that we actually let , go to homeless families you know , it is a complete fiction to suggest , or even try and suggest as this does that somehow or other houses are being allocated willy-nilly to people who have massive resources who could go out and buy or rent in the private sector . |
| 10 | Rights to either buy or sell at a specified price within a specified period ( 3 months ) . |
| 11 | So , given the set-up of the model , in particular given that in any one period people can only buy or sell in the island on which they are located , different equilibrium prices can be established for the same good . |
| 12 | The matters directly relevant to futures include the following : ( 1 ) Fluctuations in value : A statement must be made that prices or values may fall or rise against the investor 's interest . |
| 13 | In answer to the question ‘ Do you approve or disapprove of the way … is handling his job as President ? ’ the respondents answers are given in Table 2 , which also shows that after the fourth month of Reagan 's first term , and in the wake of the assassination attempt on 30 March , his approval rating rose to 68 per cent . |
| 14 | Also , you can chat or listen to the radio while you 're doing them . |
| 15 | It barely represented the true drama of the moment , though Nicholson was better informed than most on the subject because apart from being a friend of Polanski , he gleaned first-hand accounts by attending the trial of Manson and his disciples , whose story proved to be more gruesome than even Hollywood could either manufacture or exploit in a movie . |
| 16 | I di I dive off the first board but I could n't even jump or drop off the second board . |
| 17 | ( 3 ) The wife shall not so long as the husband shall punctually make the payments hereby agreed to be made commence or prosecute against the husband any matrimonial proceedings other than proceedings for dissolution of marriage but upon failure of the husband to make the said weekly payments as and when the same become due the wife shall be at full liberty on her election to pursue all and every remedy in this regard either by enforcement of the provisions hereof or as if this agreement had not been made.n So far as we know , the parties have remained apart ever since . |
| 18 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , just a brief note to let you know that work on the MSS you left with me is proceeding apace ( at long last ! ) and will soon be ready for publication . |
| 19 | Did you know that upgrades to the EW + WW office software mean that in future it will be possible to print three-dimensional graphics and stereoscopic photographs ? |
| 20 | However , firms must consider that moving to a new area can break ties with existing customers and suppliers and could lead to a loss of business if new links are not forged straight away . |
| 21 | High above them the constant roof of clouds would merely lighten and darken in a long solar axial period of 116.8 days . |
| 22 | A member of a board , although not affected by one of the statutory disqualifications above mentioned , may be so closely associated with the subject-matter of the proceedings as to make it improper that he should act and vote as a member of the board in connection with them . |
| 23 | every anthropologist has experienced ‘ culture shock ’ ; a temporary inability to grasp and act and think in the terms of the assumptions upon which the newly entered culture is based . |
| 24 | I mean we do n't whether she sort of it does n't say whether she volunteered to go and talk to the people in the school , but even so it 's quite it takes quite a lot of doing to stand up in front of a group of people you do n't know and talk about the work . |
| 25 | Er , first of all on the comment from Dave in relation to British Gas and the minimum achieved performance level or M A P L er the initials that I 've come to er know and love over the past few months , never having heard of them before . |
| 26 | The substitution of the term " information " for the old " press and propaganda " , and its promotion to ministerial level seemed to indicate a more wide-ranging approach to questions of what the general public might know and think of the regime ; while the allocation of official attention to tourism suggested that , by contrast with the days of autarchy and isolationism , foreigners were henceforth to be encouraged to come to Spain . |
| 27 | Through this you , who have thought that the inner and outer struggle was your own , will understand , know and comprehend through the deepest fibres of your being that you are no longer alone and that everything you do matters to someone . |
| 28 | Q. Does the Committee know and agree to the cost of the work ? |
| 29 | How lovely , thought Winnie , letting her knitting fall and looking at the leaping flames , if she agreed ! |
| 30 | Trees did not whisper and murmur and chuckle with an evil malevolence … |