Example sentences of "[verb] or [verb] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If facilities were not provided or routes were withdrawn or changed at short notice consumers should have a statutory right to go to a statutory body to seek redress . |
| 2 | In my desperate fear and danger , I was like a pain-maddened animal , ready to kill or wound at any moment . |
| 3 | 16.53 For external assessment , we recommend that the SAT or SATs at key stages 3 and 4 should sample all the strands . |
| 4 | She found that in the time allowed four-fifths of the adult pairs conversed , looked or smiled at each other . |
| 5 | When toddler and baby both need to be carried or held at all times , how do you get the luggage and buggy off the train ? |
| 6 | On stylistic grounds other northern castles built or rebuilt at this time may be attributed to him , notably Raby and Sheriff Hutton ( 1382 ) , and perhaps also Lumley in county Durham and Wressle , Yorkshire . |
| 7 | If a stepping motor is used to change the position of a mechanical load by several steps the system designer needs to know how much torque the motor can produce whilst accelerating , decelerating or running at constant speed . |
| 8 | Recognised junior equipment is also available to buy or hire at many RYA centres . |
| 9 | Under ‘ mass-production ’ conditions the industry was obliged to keep its labour-teams steadily employed , moving in a planned succession from one undertaking to another , and progressively brought down its costs to reach an ever-widening circle of demand for homes to buy or rent at economic figures . |
| 10 | Should an instrument come with an option attached allowing investors to buy or sell at particular prices ? |
| 11 | Moreover , the inside of walls and ceilings must either be washed or painted at regular intervals . |
| 12 | There 's simply no personal challenge whatsoever ; one may as well pull the wings off small inspects or laugh at old people . |
| 13 | While not a new power , it was one not greatly recognised or understood at common law . |
| 14 | There were things all three of them knew , and things all three of them were wondering , but no one cared to question or acknowledge at this hour . |
| 15 | But , although many babies pull off hats , socks and booties in their first year , they do n't really try to dress or undress at this stage . |
| 16 | The grid size can easily be increased or decreased at any stage during the design process , thus allowing you to create anything from a tiny motif to a large electronic or intarsia design that would cover a complete garment piece . |
| 17 | The fund managers have said that any investors who have suffered because they bought or sold at incorrect prices will be compensated . |
| 18 | Whereas er in erm a factory , I believe , they would have had to have er the rooms whitewashed , colourwashed or whitewashed at certain times , we were n't bound up with any regulations , then . |
| 19 | Military expenditure may keep people in jobs but much of the equipment produced is never used and is scrapped or sold at give-away prices so that the armed forces can have the most up-to-date equipment . |
| 20 | Almost all the media coverage would be about her and Charles , how far apart they stood , whether they spoke or looked at each other . |
| 21 | Children are not unfamiliar with situations in which they tell , or are told , what someone else said or thought ; or in which they tell what they themselves said or thought at some point in the past or think at the time of speaking . |
| 22 | Still , overall we thought ourselves lucky because a lot of other houses in the street had rats as well as mice , which was much worse because at least mice do n't bite or nibble at human feet … |
| 23 | I did not know what to say or do at this moment but just said ‘ Thy will be done ’ . |
| 24 | New ramps that trucks could mount or circumvent at low speeds are one solution . |
| 25 | Further , many females who are alienated or marginalised at one stage of their lives are included at another , and vice versa . |
| 26 | They could be seen in constant arguments in every European court , as in the past , about the relative positions of diplomats on formal and even informal occasions , their placing at table at meals where more than one was present , the precise way in which they were conducted to their first audience with the ruler to whom they were accredited , when and whether they stood or sat at such audiences , the precise moment when they or the ruler removed their hats , and a variety of such tremendous niceties . |
| 27 | ( b ) The selection of an appropriate method for calculating the related cost , where a number of identical items have been purchased or made at different times ( such as unit costs , average cost or FIFO — first in first out : see below ) . |
| 28 | Often they are recruited or assigned at short notice to an unfamiliar school and are expected to instantly mould themselves to its systems of operating and style . |