Example sentences of "to make or [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 3 ) Loss of an opportunity to make or enhance one 's reputation . |
| 2 | In both Britain and Spain the minister has statutory powers to approve budgets , plans and investment programmes , annual reports and accounts , overall price increases , and rail closures ; to set the level of state support for the railways ; and to make or confirm appointments to the board , including the chairman . |
| 3 | ‘ Mueller will have the power to make or break whole areas of Europe . |
| 4 | Nowadays no clergyman is entitled to a living of the sort which used to make or break his marital prospects in Jane Austen novels , but incumbents still enjoy tenure . |
| 5 | The first time one person whispered in the ear of another to make or break a third person 's reputation , then public relations was born . |
| 6 | What the charity groups think of him is hardly going to make or break him in the operatic world . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Training our sales force properly and thoroughly about the market applications is going to make or break our marketing effort . ’ |
| 8 | We can not depend only on companies coming to Singapore solely to make or assemble products designed elsewhere . |
| 9 | GET PUPILS TO MAKE OR INVENT SOMETHING … to measure turn … to measure time … to carry a certain weight . |
| 10 | GET PUPILS TO MAKE OR INVENT SOMETHING to measure turn . |
| 11 | It must also be satisfied that the adopter has not received nor agreed to receive , and that no person has made or given or agreed to make or give to the adopter , any payment in consideration of the adoption , except such as the court may sanction . |
| 12 | Similarly with regard to misrepresentations made , it was held in Overbrooke Estates Ltd v Glencombe Properties Ltd [ 1974 ] 1 WLR 1335 ( followed by the Court of Appeal in Collins v Howell-Jones ( 1980 ) 259 EG 331 ) , that a clause limiting the authority of auctioneers and the firm 's employees to make or give representations or warranties , fell outside the scope of the original version of s3 of the Misrepresentation Act 1967 , since it was a limitation on the apparent authority of the auctioneers rather than an exemption clause . |
| 13 | The Local Government and Housing Act 1989 empowers the Secretary of State to require local authorities to incorporate proscribed provisions into their standing orders and to make or refrain from making other modifications ( Clause 20 ) . |
| 14 | Any party to proceedings may appeal to the High Court against a magistrates ' court decision to make or refuse to make an order under the Children Act ( s94(1) ) . |
| 15 | An appeal may be made against a court 's decision to make or refuse to make an order pending appeal . |
| 16 | We should also recognize that there is more to producing and understanding meaningful language — to communicating — than knowing how to make or recognize correct sentences . |
| 17 | They are the basic implements needed to make or reshape your specialised tools . |
| 18 | If your elderly parent is in the habit of doing this , the only way around it is to tell her quite frankly , as kindly as possible ( even at the risk of giving some offence ) , that there are certain times of the day when it is very difficult for you to make or receive phone calls except in an emergency . |
| 19 | Loss is also central to Bowlby 's theory , but the losses which are the basis of vulnerability are real and not imagined and centre on a person 's failure to make or maintain a stable and secure relationship with his parents early in childhood . |
| 20 | The memorandum of association of the Ashbury Railway Company stated the company 's objects to be : ‘ to make or sell or lend on hire railway carriages , wagons and all kinds of railway plant , fittings , machinery and rolling stock ; to carry on the business of mechanical engineers and general contractors , to purchase and sell as merchants timber , coal , metal and other materials , and to buy and sell such materials on commission or as agents ’ . |
| 21 | If , however , a definite association were to be found between the occurrence of skin cancers or miscarriages and the continued use of computer monitors , then computer manufacturers and importers who continued to make or sell equipment giving off such dangerous emissions would be liable under the Act . |
| 22 | It explains why judges must conceive the body of law they administer as a whole rather than as a set of discrete decisions that they are free to make or amend one by one , with nothing but a strategic interest in the rest . |
| 23 | Members are invited to make or support nominations for these vacancies . |
| 24 | One may , after all , competently drive a car without understanding much about the principles of the internal combustion engine ; one may use a typewriter or a word-processor without being able to make or mend one ; one may quickly be taught to use a computer , and make simple programs without being a master of , or even a beginner in , computer science . |
| 25 | Fishermen would repair to the woods to cut hazel and withies to make or mend their pots , then set out in their small boats to their chosen ‘ grounds ’ to drop the pots . |
| 26 | The rest of us use this time to make or mend kit , and to read up on possible areas to visit come the Spring . |
| 27 | You , as beneficial owner , assign to Oxford University Press the copyright and all other intellectual property rights in respect of the product by the law in any part of the world , authorise Oxford University Press to make or cause to be made any alterations , adaptations and additions to the product , and waive your rights conferred by Chapter IV of Part I of the Copyright , Designs and Patents Act 1988 . |
| 28 | 5.19 Statutory notices etc To give full particulars to the Landlord of any notice direction order or proposal for the Premises made given or issued to the Tenant by any local or public authority within [ 7 ] days of receipt and if so required by the Landlord to produce it to the Landlord and without delay to take all necessary steps to comply with the notice direction or order and at the request of the Landlord but at the cost of the Tenant to make or join with the Landlord in making such objections or representations against or in respect of any notice direction order or proposal as the Landlord shall deem expedient Seven days may be too short a period , particularly if the notice is served at the premises and not forwarded to the appropriate officer of a tenant company with any great alacrity . |
| 29 | and at the request and cost of the Landlord to make or join with the Landlord in making such objections or representations against or in respect of any notice direction order or proposal as the Landlord shall reasonably deem expedient except where the Tenant reasonably considers that any such objections or representations are against its best interests or those of any undertenant |
| 30 | A transaction or set of circumstances engineered by the target to make it unattractive to a bidder to make or proceed with an offer . |