Example sentences of "to [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a wage would have been comparable to or even slightly better than that paid to other craftsmen in the area . |
| 2 | Nobody would want to be seen crawling to or even making sycophantic noises with Morrissey , of all people . |
| 3 | When she first begins to talk , she uses two different types of speech : egocentric speech , a kind of monologue , when she chatters on without bothering to know whom she is speaking to or even whether they are listening ; and socialized speech , a sign of growing maturity and decentring , when she tries to carry on a conversation , reacting to what the other person says . |
| 4 | Averse to being talked to or even approached |
| 5 | Averse to being talked to or even approached ; morose ; irritable ; sad ; fearful ; stupid ; horror of instant death ; nightmares , night horrors . |
| 6 | The awkwardness will probably prompt you to talk just for the sake of filling in the space , and you may say more than you wanted to or even find yourself talking rubbish . |
| 7 | The notion that the IBS is related to or even caused by the patient 's psychological state is as old as the concept of IBS itself . |
| 8 | Where secondhand goods were sold regularly under standard terms , the correct approach would be to include a provision equivalent to Precedent 4 in the set , either as an alternative to or instead of the standard clauses applying to the quality standards for new goods . |
| 9 | If , over the years , you suspect that there has been a swing to or away from attending more than once a Sunday , you may want to take the trouble of further refining your data . |
| 10 | In addition , one is struck by the importance of such factors as : vocal quality — this is Billie Holiday and could not be anyone else ; phrasing — that is , the way she places accents , alters the rhythm , often by stretching out notes so that they sound behind the beat instead of on it , and joins notes together , for example smoothly or with attacked consonants ; and pitch inflection — the way she sometimes slides up to or away from notes , hits them slightly ‘ off-pitch ’ , and so on . |
| 11 | If the presence of the trespasser is known to or reasonably to be anticipated by the occupier , then the occupier has a duty to the trespasser , but it is a lower and less onerous duty than the one which the occupier owes to a lawful visitor . |
| 12 | So maps to nearest integer equal to or above , nearest integer greater than or equal to X. |
| 13 | 10.1 Where an employee has been absent from work as a result of an act of violence the Director of Social Work will give due consideration to referring the employee to the medical adviser either prior to or immediately following their return to work . |
| 14 | 8.4 The Department recognises that employees who are the victims of violence at work may suffer emotional and psychological reactions to the incident in addition to or apart from any physical injury . |
| 15 | I would say that 's interpreted as easier to or easier dismissed . |
| 16 | the proletarian party must first of all advocate the proclamation and immediate realization of the complete freedom of secession from Russia of all the nations and peoples who were oppressed by Tsarism , or who were forcibly joined to or forcibly kept within the boundaries of the State . |
| 17 | a child 's needs are such as to require provision additional to or otherwise different from the facilities and resources generally available in ordinary schools in the area under normal arrangements . |
| 18 | We understand they 're about to or shortly become grandparents . |
| 19 | Quarter to or past sometime , what did it matter ? |
| 20 | There are now available drugs which , injected prior to or just after a learning trial , improve retention of the memory ( that is , increase the ‘ savings ’ as defined in Chapter 5 ) in animals tested hours or days subsequently . |
| 21 | ‘ Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding article , the judicial or administrative authority of the requested state is not bound to order the return of the child if the person , institution or other body which opposes its return establishes that — ( a ) the person , institution or other body having the care of the person of the child was not actually exercising the custody rights at the time of removal or retention , or had consented to or subsequently acquiesced in the removal or retention ; or ( b ) there is a grave risk that his or her return would expose the child to physical or psychological harm or otherwise place the child in an intolerable situation . … |
| 22 | It is a document about the Labour party 's policy attitudes and it rightly points out that more than half of Labour Members have either recently belonged to or still belong to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament . |
| 23 | Whether despite this revolution in design the cellular mechanisms required for learning and memory in invertebrates are similar to or radically different from those in vertebrates is an issue which is still unresolved in research terms , and one which will occupy some of the discussion of the following chapter . |
| 24 | Next in the expanding network is Lenin Strasse with assorted communist theoreticians and luminaries awarded a street closer to or further from the centre , depending on how high their star stood at the time . |
| 25 | What will that newly defined concept mean in terms of moving either closer to or further away from centralism ? |
| 26 | If the results are similar to or better than those predicted theoretically , the transformation is satisfactory . |
| 27 | A reasonable guide will be if it produces results near to or better than those predicted by equation ( 6.3 ) . |
| 28 | It would seem fair to conclude that while for the bulk of the population Hitler 's image was no doubt related in an abstract fashion to finding a ‘ solution to the Jewish Question ’ , this was an issue which people either gave little thought to or deliberately turned their minds from , and that , correspondingly , Hitler 's public attacks on the Jews were something absorbed with little deliberation , forming no central part in explaining either the high peaks of his popularity or the collapse of the ‘ Führer myth ’ in the last years of the war . |
| 29 | Get people along get the information networked and also to maintain a political presence amongst the people who are writing to or potentially to vote for us . |
| 30 | Groups like the NL , the TRL , and the ASU were , in the end , either too loyal to or too dependent upon the Conservative party to break away . |