Example sentences of "of [verb] [noun] or [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Revamped neofascist parties , such as the DVU , also rely upon primarily electoral strategies , although not to the exclusion of courting skinheads or expediting violence . |
| 2 | He was not in the business of inventing metaphors or illustrating stories with moral cameos . |
| 3 | As Bauer put it in a recent BBC television discussion of covert recognition , ‘ Our normal experience of perception , of seeing objects or faces as an all or none process , is a trick that the brain plays on us ’ . |
| 4 | The Allies ' aim in 1918 had been to leave Germany shorn of its military and industrial power , to make sure that it would never again be capable of waging war or threatening the established pattern of Atlantic trade and European industry . |
| 5 | Decisions of either the Council of Ministers or the European Commission are merely a means of enunciating policies or initiating actions . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Its use as a means of defining order or to set against those outside creates a subcultural style , which is reinforced continually . |
| 8 | Haines 's last publication was Aphorisms upon the New Way of Improving Cyder or making Cyder-Royal ( 1684 ) , publicizing his third patent for a method of doubling the strength of cider and so competing with imported wines and spirits , and including general advice on the management of orchards . |
| 9 | It is now more than a decade since the authors of the World Conservation Strategy , an influential report by WWF , IUCN and UNEP , defined conservation not in terms of cleaning pollution or saving whales but as ‘ the management of human use of the biosphere so that it may yield the greatest sustainable benefit to present generations while maintaining its potential to meet the needs and aspirations of future generations . ’ |
| 10 | They allow Pcs with Novell 's popular NOS to plug into a 10Base2 or 10BaseT network environment without the extra expense of adding software or reconfiguring your system . |
| 11 | Eastern cultures certainly know about the clash principle — the yin and yang of the Chinese and the Japanese Sumo wrestlers — but it is not used as a method of getting change or making decisions . |
| 12 | In 1968 the appeal proceedings over " Last Exit to Brooklyn " established the right of authors to explore depravity and corruption without encouraging it : writers were entitled to turn their readers ' stomachs for the purpose of arousing concern or condemning the corruption explicitly described . |
| 13 | In the past week , it happens , we have heard intelligent and well-meaning whites talking in apocalyptic terms about the problem of the black underclass — that it can only be solved by draconian measures of enshrining abortion or taking children away from mothers . |
| 14 | None of these operations , however , was strong enough to take on the role of nurturing talent or providing a supportive home for creative filmmakers . |
| 15 | At Kyalami Ranch , he 'd have a blade of grass in his mouth like a kid on a picnic , he 'd never think of holding court or taking himself so seriously ( as later champions did ) that you wanted to needle him . |
| 16 | Or perhaps you are thinking of moving house or redesigning the furniture in your living room — here Design Your Own Home Interiors may help . |
| 17 | When people think of giving help or support to those in trouble they nearly always imagine that this help will need to be of an intense and emotional nature . |
| 18 | The fact of taking charge or taking responsibility for a vulnerable elderly relative requires considerable moral courage which tends to fall to women ( Graham , 1983 ; Ungerson , 1987 ) . |
| 19 | We could not afford to allow the Borders farmers to suffer the terrible experience of stopping farming or reducing drastically their supplies of barley to the whisky industry . |
| 20 | The continuous relationship with the case manager is the main means of effecting change or maintaining individual 's quality of life in the community . |
| 21 | Mr Wickens would not dream of handing selection or filtering to anyone else , whether the union or a local government . |
| 22 | He attends junior camps when he is not following his hobbies of reading biographies or listening to music , and he is a Board Member of KidSports Foundation , which aims to teach the positive side of sports to youngsters . |
| 23 | With the rest of the economy still showing healthy expansion , the Boards were soon faced with the option of disobeying Whitehall or failing in their statutory duty to supply new consumers , and they chose the former , with one Board bluntly saying they were ignoring the Government 's financial allocation ( which was then increased for the industry generally ) . |
| 24 | The physical benefit of Oxo is , I suppose , that it is a very easy and acceptable way of making gravy or flavouring stews and casseroles . |
| 25 | The use of inappropriate forms of assessment to grade and rank-order pupils ' work for the purpose of making comparisons or to achieve so-called ‘ unified standards ’ is illustrated by the worst abuses of norm-referencing , which has been roundly and justifiably criticized by many writers , even in those areas of the curriculum where one might expect this system to be welcomed . |
| 26 | The author has no intention of making accusations or unmasking society . |
| 27 | The census of 1785 confirms that the Titfords were still on Pig Street , not having been driven out by the noise of falling stone or splintering wood ; not that noise would have been anything unusual for them — they already had Thomas Addams ' blacksmith 's shop down the street , and the ringing sound of metal on metal emanating from there must have mingled nicely with the constant clip-clop of horses ' hooves as Henry Webley went about his business as the Bristol carrier a few doors away . |
| 28 | It is one which , whether measured in terms of winning elections or carrying through policies , has been remarkably successful . |
| 29 | Many people can not think of playing music or listening to it until six o'clock in the evening . |
| 30 | And for gentlemen , for men of property , the idea that the unpropertied working class should be represented in Parliament simply could not arise , any more than the reformers , with few exceptions , could enter into the minds of working people or sympathise with the political aspirations of their leaders . |