Example sentences of "or [verb] [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course refineries can be modified or adjusted to produce the necessary product range given time , but the idea that this can be done to every refinery simultaneously and instantaneously is ludicrous . |
| 2 | In the old popular court , the suitors declared the law and gave judgement , or else passed judgement over to God by making one of the parties submit to an ordeal : to being thrown into a pool , for instance , or made to grasp a red-hot iron ; if he sank , or was soon healed , he was innocent ; otherwise , he was guilty . |
| 3 | A group of 33 officers were charged on Feb. 18 with leading or helping to stage the attempted coup . |
| 4 | We assume that contractions were totally absent or failed to occlude the intestinal lumen . |
| 5 | They may be concentrated naturally as in animal tissues like bone , blood , hoof and horn , or processed to contain a high proportion of one or more nutrients , or they may be bulky and contain very little as in plant tissues like peat , compost and leaf mould . |
| 6 | She was not a woman who would see both sides of a question , or want to analyse a given situation . |
| 7 | Distinction Awards are Postgraduate studentships which are open to students ordinarily resident anywhere in the UK , who hold or expect to obtain a 1st class Honours degree and who have not previously obtained a postgraduate research award . |
| 8 | If an investigation is failing to produce results , it is , of course , not in the best interests of either police or press to maintain a high profile in such cases . |
| 9 | Braid can easily be attached to a chair with upholstery pins or Copydex to give a decorative edge |
| 10 | And er I note that Selby has accepted or resolved to accept the increased allocation from ten thousand to eleven thousand five hundred , subject to the District Council satisfying itself that the level of growth envisaged can be achieved without compromising the established structure plan strategy or the environment of the district . |
| 11 | The restaurant changed , as did the maître d' , but he still watched like a hawk and swooped with a pained query if you did n't savour every mouthful or tried to hide a tough end of meat under your lettuce . |
| 12 | The adoral shields are large with lateral projections making them appear wing-like ; they separate or appear to separate the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 13 | Modern electronic indicators have a probe in each exhaust pipe , and can show temperature individually or scan to give an average reading . |
| 14 | There was nothing Penny could say or do to convince the angry farmer that she was n't an apple-thief . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ This is all beautifully rosy but he has not mentioned his plans to tax companies by half a per cent on the payroll for a training tax or plans to enforce a minimum wage on small and medium sized companies which will be particularly badly hit . ’ |
| 16 | You will also need curtain heading tape or stiffening to equal the total width of your fabric . |
| 17 | If it could not be consumed or made to serve a useful purpose , then it did n't get through the front door . |
| 18 | That is because later generations do not wish to follow their parents into physically demanding , socially unacceptable or otherwise disagreeable occupations ; they escape or seek to escape the heavy lifting to a more comfortable and rewarding life . |
| 19 | This idea is used in an electronic clock or watch to produce the 1 second pulses for the display . |
| 20 | Whenever they reached one of these rifts the rabbits huddled together , waiting for Hazel or Bigwig to climb the further side and find a way forward . |
| 21 | If you prefer to keep your wine consumption to one or two good glasses , or like to try a different wine with each course when dining à deux , think about half bottles . |
| 22 | Baroness Wootton tabled an amendment that , had it been accepted , would have made it no longer an offence ‘ to procure or conspire to commit a homosexual act which by virtue of this Act is not itself an offence ’ . |
| 23 | I can not describe anything , any more than you can ever describe or wish to describe a loved person , because that love strips them of possessing characteristics . |
| 24 | Since the newcomers are dependent upon them for neither employment nor housing , they are not inhibited by a web of economic and social ties from expressing their opposition to the opinions and activities of farmers or landowners hitherto considered locally omnipotent , Middle-class and well-educated , they even compete with farmers and landowners for positions of authority and local responsibility , disrupting or threatening to disrupt the customary hierarchy of dominance and status in the village . |
| 25 | Should you , for the screen , attempt to find some equivalent visual pastiche or try to carry the original concept through dialogue ? |
| 26 | They would be from Canada , from her sister Louise who would suggest that she might put up various old acquaintances passing through London , or find a suitable family for a darling Austrian boy , not so very much older than Martha , whose father was a kind of Count , but was also in the import-export business , or try to recall a splendid person , the friend of a friend of hers who had had a very , very sad story . |
| 27 | Imagine what it is like to sit through a meeting , go to the theatre or try to follow a further education class if it is essential to see the speaker 's face in order to understand what is said . |
| 28 | Both people entering unemployment as a result of losing a temporary job and people taking temporary jobs as a way out of unemployment seemed more likely to have taken a number of jobs , to have experienced a number of spells of unemployment , to have had less time in work and more time in unemployment than people becoming unemployed for other reasons , or managing to obtain a permanent job on leaving unemployment . |
| 29 | Many no doubt sincere Christians continued to celebrate the first day of January in defiance of their clergy 's disapproval , or liked to greet the rising sun from the steps into the church , and , most of all , to attend the great festive games and shows . |
| 30 | Or call to find a local stockist . |