Example sentences of "[conj] [vb infin] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Assuming that there is a perfect capital market , so that the individual can borrow or lend freely at an interest rate r ( about which he has confident expectations ) , a person 's expected lifetime discounted income is measured by , where W u and M u are expected wage income and capital receipts at time u , and P u denotes the survival probability . |
| 2 | Occasionally he will get in early to see the morning shift or stay late for the night shift . |
| 3 | Behaviour can help or hinder just like a hammer that can be used to construct or destroy . |
| 4 | They are designated by local authorities which must then pay special attention to any applications to demolish or build anew within the area 's boundaries . |
| 5 | The heat shields were still intact and the computer assured him that they would not crack or fall off on the journey through the atmosphere . |
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| 7 | By this , we mean that it will ascend perfectly when the sail is under pressure , and the line tension applies a driving force ; but it will tumble or spin off to the right or left if the line tension is relaxed . |
| 8 | It is essential to keep good records to pursue or respond effectively to a claim , a matter which is covered in detail in chapter 7 . |
| 9 | Only through his marriage , which for him was unconsciously rooted in an identification with the bereaved , did he create the conditions where it became more difficult to drive out or cut off from the attachment he both yearned for and feared . |
| 10 | For example , you could jog or walk briskly for a mile or two for one exercise session ; use an exercise tape for another session ; and participate in something different like weight-training , or cycling , or a ball or racket game , for a third session in the week . |
| 11 | He repeated that it was the right of the pope to inspect and crown , absolved all from their oaths to Philip and again exhorted all the princes to adhere or go over to the support of Otto . |
| 12 | ‘ Are you going to stay here or go back to the Villa Fiesole ? ’ |
| 13 | They accept however , that where an indemnity basis taxation has been ordered , the result of the taxation will , of necessity , quantify the sum that they are able to recover or retain out of the mortgage receipts . |
| 14 | To talk or confer together concerning a thing . |
| 15 | While the Germans presented their situation as a disaster , they overlooked the fact that one of Danzig s major and continual problems had been that it could not grow or thrive purely on the traffic of its immediate Prussian hinterland . |
| 16 | Mrs Duffy left at once , but Clare felt it would be more polite to linger for a while , rather than rush out after the couple , as if the wedding had been an annoying chore . |
| 17 | We have also fundamentally changed our manufacturing philosophy rather than manufacture here in the UK and sell abroad , we now , on the whole , manufacture where our markets are . ’ |
| 18 | Consequently increased emphasis needs to be placed upon the role of assessment , rehabilitation and transfer rather than discharge back into the community . |
| 19 | A minority government formed by Labour or the Conservatives would , he maintained , create instability and uncertainty rather than work constructively for a partnership government which would last for a parliament . |
| 20 | ‘ Qui plus fait , mie[u]x vault ’ ( ‘ Who does most is worth most ’ ) , the refrain in the Livre de chevalerie written in the middle of the fourteenth century by Geoffroi de Charny , the standard-bearer of King John II of France at the battle of Poitiers , who preferred to stand and die rather than run away in the moment of defeat , aptly sums up the chivalrous attitude to war . |
| 21 | The road began to wind rather than run straight between the dykes . |
| 22 | When she did finally reach for the food , or lure , all she would do was lean over and rip off a piece , rather than step on to the glove . |
| 23 | Whilst other people recognise that the alcohol-induced sense of unconditioned acceptance is a false sensation , the sufferers from addictive disease may cling to it even to death rather than face up to the reality of the need to accept any conditions in life . |
| 24 | There was a suggestion at the inquest that he sought to relieve himself out of the window rather than trudge down to the jakes in the basement , a distressing but not unprecedented recourse for chaps well gone in their cups . |
| 25 | Rather than delve more into the riches of Dinah 's more earthy blues recordings , it concentrates on her versions of all too familiar standards , the staple diet of supper club crooners the world over ; |
| 26 | On the other hand , rather than move away from an area where similar firms operate , some firms may consider that it is in their own particular interest to move into such a location . |
| 27 | It has a double effect : it reduces the fear in the cat itself and enables it to stay where it is , rather than move off into the distance ; it also prevents any counter-staring by the cat , which would spell defiance and possibly provoke further hostility . |
| 28 | Time is a great healer so , rather than press on with a manoeuvre that is repeatedly failing , leave it for a while and come back to it later . |
| 29 | ‘ I thought I 'd come and stay here for a bit . |
| 30 | It 's like the little one said last , she said , can we come and stay here for the weekend you know , and stay up in Aunty Bonnie 's room , they call upstairs , and Margaret 's face she said , well er , my god she 's got some good stuff up there you know , furniture |