Example sentences of "or [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , they tried to link training placement to jobs , or to target construction jobs on local people . |
| 2 | Commissions in an expanding army might be made available without purchase , either to support the interest of Administration politicians or to stimulate recruiting and sometimes both , but rarely could they serve an opposition politician directly , although the fact that military commissions were not immediately under the control of the Government manager for Scotland permitted some indirect approaches by opposition members and their friends . |
| 3 | Beverages with concentrations above that in wine ( 10%-12% ) failed to release gastrin or to stimulate acid . |
| 4 | by mineralising the compound only as a cometabolite , which means that the microorganisms require some other organic compounds for growth or to induce formation of the enzymes required for degradation of the target compound ; or |
| 5 | The report side-steps such questions as whether the council will have the resources to protect threatened sites of special scientific interest ( SSSIs ) or to promote conservation in the countryside as a whole ( see p 7 ) . |
| 6 | The second problem is that a lax competition policy might be used by a member state as a substitute for trade policy or industrial policy , to protect domestic producers or to promote export sectors . |
| 7 | This , he argues , is good news for reform since it makes fudging the issue harder : ‘ We still have not answered the basic question : do we want to be Libya or Europe , to re-establish an old-style communist regime or to promote market institutions ? |
| 8 | Hypertension is but one among many diseases , and progress has been made similarly in developing new drugs for regulating or adapting other parts of the body : drugs to strengthen the heart , to promote formation of blood , to help blood to clot or to prevent blood from clotting , to aid respiration , to increase the flow of urine , or selectively to increase or to diminish the amount of some selected component , to prevent conception or to promote fertility , drugs to stimulate the production of hormones or to block their actions , drugs to influence some particular aspect of the metabolism , and so on . |
| 9 | On 12 August 1746 the Disarming Act became law , making it illegal for anyone in the Highlands to own or carry specified types of weapon , including broadswords , or to wear Highland costume . |
| 10 | The numbers in the 45–64 year bracket are probably accentuated by part-time farmers who had recently bought a small farm either for early retirement or to invest redundancy money . |
| 11 | The primary purpose of these data is to record assessment decisions , to support decision-making by management , or to enable monitoring of quality to occur . |
| 12 | ABARE says some policies , such as lump sum payments not related to production or to input use , or production entitlement guarantees ( PEGs ) , which provide budget financed support on limited quantities , are far less distorting than most current policies . |
| 13 | To try to wrap up that question in the way in which the hon. Gentleman has suggested , or to lose sight of either of those objectives , would be extremely unwise . |
| 14 | Though often believed to be most beneficial for those who wish to give up smoking or to lose weight , hypnotherapy has , in fact , a multitude of uses — ranging from the comparatively minor ( for example , breaking the nail-biting habit ) through dealing with phobias , migraine , pre-menstrual problems and so on , to the severe , such as the physical results of a stroke , the symptoms of multiple sclerosis or some cases of cancer . |
| 15 | The Mexican government has informed them that they have to decide by December whether to return to Guatemala , or to lose refugee status and become Mexican citizens . |
| 16 | In the general improvement of the clergy , canon 18 of the Fourth Lateran Council declared that henceforth clergy were not to take part in the pronouncement of the death penalty , to fight or duel , or to perform surgery which involved cutting or burning . |
| 17 | Similar pressures might be felt by some people today — to fight , or to risk injury in certain situations , and so on . |
| 18 | The reasons for obeying these moral rules are egoistic , that to disobey them is to forward the perils of social chaos , or to risk punishment . |
| 19 | the Government 's seeming indifference to the effect of the dispute on police public relations , [ should entitle the police ] to wonder whether it is being used to preserve law and order or to implement government policy . |
| 20 | The liberal theory of the press ( see pp. 37 — 41 ) vests substantial discretionary power in private proprietors to campaign to change public perceptions of issues , or to foreclose discussion of threatening social topics . |
| 21 | Competitors — espionage , arson , patent copying ; bribery and corruption to influence those in new or expanding markets , such as government officials in developing economies ( Braithwaite 1979b ; Jacoby , Nehemlis , and Ells 1977 ) ; price-fixing to squeeze out new competitors or to rationalize competition ( Fuller 1962 ; Geis 1967 ; Smith 1961 ) ; mergers or take-overs in violation of anti-monopoly legislation ( Snider 1978 ) . |
| 22 | In the first instance , a simple solicitor 's letter may be sufficient to halt the work you wish to stop or to prompt action on a derelict building . |
| 23 | ( c ) Accreditation , i.e. proficiency certification often in some way a summary " or measure of achievement on the course of instruction and often used for selection purposes , or to acknowledge success . |
| 24 | Measurements would have been taken from the guest cast enabling the Costume Supervisor either to begin tailoring any special costumes ( a Sensorite uniform for instance ) , or to arrange hiring of costumes from BBC stock or from Theatrical Costumiers such as Bermans & Nathans — who had supplied William Hartnell 's Edwardian outfit as the Doctor . |
| 25 | Some of the passengers must have been up just after dawn to watch the huge liner ease its way gently alongside the dock , and those who were n't were beginning gradually to emerge on the upper decks , or to enjoy breakfast by one of the pools . |
| 26 | The majority were based in CAEx , some in local authorities , ( e.g. in social services departments or to support rent officers ) , and there were six voluntary sector money advice centres . |
| 27 | How like a politician 's were his constant attempts to justify his own record ( for example , his decision to sign a pact with Stalin and to admit the " separatists " into his governments in the mid-1940s ) or to claim credit for " successes " ( such as the exclusion of the communist ministers in 1947 ) which belonged , in fact , to others . |
| 28 | The Liberals … and Conservatives returned to MacDonald late that evening and told him that the economies were quite inadequate , and unlikely to be accepted by Parliament or to restore confidence . |
| 29 | For of course the Pacific is still influenced by the Atlantic that once dominated the world : the ties that bound the world together yesterday — personified by the men and women who came out from the West to trade or to peddle religion , to colonize , annex , smuggle or fight — these ties still exist today , though more weakly , with less influence and fewer and fewer people enrolled in the process . |
| 30 | We accept that it is not the function of the planning system to preserve existing commercial interests or to inhibit competition between different methods of retailing . |