Example sentences of "to [noun] or [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mhairi McMillan , a counsellor at St Andrews University , said : ‘ There may be a sense of glamour attached to a tutor or a lecturer for somebody who 's maybe just come up to university or working their way through . |
| 2 | When the child goes off to university or leaves home |
| 3 | One aspect of the case which is not explored in the judgment is the fact that the appellant was on parole when the offence was committed , although by the time he was sentenced it seems that his licence would either have been close to expiry or have expired already . |
| 4 | fidget with your hands , shift from foot to foot or find your voice quavering ? |
| 5 | The haulage contract was made on Smith & Jones standard form contract terms , endorsed with a special clause that in the event of any damage or delay to any of the goods , total payment would be suspended pending a satisfactory explanation as to damage or delay being received from GFT . |
| 6 | It was of no account to Tilak or to Kabir or Tukaram whether God 's light came via Benares or Jerusalem or Medina . |
| 7 | In these weavers the importance and complexity of the nest seems to have focused co-operative behaviour in this area but it will be interesting to see whether further research shows an extension of the behaviour to incubation or rearing in any of them . |
| 8 | Uniform provision of services as opposed to discrimination or targeting services towards groups with high needs become the norm . |
| 9 | It may be because they thought he has access to money or stores it there but that information is wrong . |
| 10 | In 1919 a herdbook was established for this breed of Central and Upper Belgium and its name was changed to Blanc-Bleu or Witblauw in 1971 . |
| 11 | The ( Iraqi ) Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and Kurdistan Democratic Party on Oct. 4 issued an ultimatum to the PKK to leave Iraq by Oct. 5 , their aim being to force the PKK to leave rather than to kill or crush them . |
| 12 | Edgar Laderoute of the American company Foxboro argues that this approach leaves the customer with a choice between buying equipment that is immune to RFI or suppressing offending radio waves at their source . |
| 13 | Now just so that they see whether to times or divide we 've got to tell them , it 's no good just putting a ten there is it I 've got to say it 's a times or divide okay ? |
| 14 | The sight of , say , a field of corn interspersed with poppies on a sunny day did n't move me ; the spectacle of a woman who had slipped and fallen in the street did n't move me — either to sympathy or to ridicule . |
| 15 | It extended the EC 's observer mission into Croatian territory and envisaged the withdrawal of the JNA , the Serbian guerrillas and Croatian National Guards out of each other 's range before returning to barracks or demobilizing . |
| 16 | A buy-back may be used to mop-up any " loose " shareholdings , return surplus cash to shareholders or to increase the marketability of the target 's shares as a consequence of it becoming known that the company itself is a potential purchaser . |
| 17 | We knew from listening to the Allied radio that groups of partigiani , partisans , had secretly started to organize them selves , and young men of military age were advised to go into hiding to avoid being sent to Germany or conscripted . |
| 18 | On the other hand , after a glance at ‘ Luck of the Legion ’ , I went about for a week with a white handkerchief tucked into the back of my cap , ordering the dog to about-face or wooing it with words of French culled from the strip ( ‘ Oo-ee , mon pet it ’ ) . |
| 19 | And charge transfer transitions , which involve transfer of an electron from metal to ligand or ligand to metal ( Section 6.8.5 ) , are fully allowed , and bands may be very intense indeed , as for example in . |
| 20 | Tenure guarantees reduce the rational basis for worker and union opposition to moves to automation or work redesign by management . |
| 21 | In Britain , copyright exists as soon as a song is recorded on to tape or written on manuscript . |
| 22 | The chief means of proactive enforcement is routine sampling , which will bring to light or confirm the existence of persistent pollutions . |
| 23 | It 's not just ice hockey players ; there are several teams of figure skaters now left without a rink to practice or compete on . |
| 24 | Request earliest information whether approved policy is to despatch to SHAEF or to endeavour to secure direct return to Russians by Eighth Army negotiations . |
| 25 | Following a 36-hour offensive , the government claimed on Nov. 1 to have routed the rebels , but it was unclear whether they had returned to Uganda or had dispersed within Rwanda . |
| 26 | In this atmosphere , it was understandable that commercial television should be placed under the close scrutiny of a licensing body , empowered by what is now s4(1) of the Broadcasting Act 1981 to ensure : ( a ) that nothing is included in the programmes which offends against good taste or decency or is likely to encourage or incite to crime or to lead to disorder or to be offensive to public feeling … ( b ) that due impartiality is preserved on the part of persons providing the programmes as respects matters of political or industrial controversy or relating to current public policy . |
| 27 | Clips on each end of the guylines pass through the eyelets to double-up or shorten the guyline so that they can be used in a variety of different ways . |
| 28 | The move from verse to prose can often signify a drop in seriousness , to mockery or ridicule ; from tension to relaxation ; or from public to private discourse . |
| 29 | They trundled in , promising that they would do nothing to distress or intimidate poor little Miss Harker . |
| 30 | In another sense , however , they are part of the same package for they are part of government attempts to bring employment and labour together irrespective of whether the aid is given to industry or to labour . |