Example sentences of "or [verb] [to-vb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She was not a woman who would see both sides of a question , or want to analyse a given situation . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Braid can easily be attached to a chair with upholstery pins or Copydex to give a decorative edge |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | If it could not be consumed or made to serve a useful purpose , then it did n't get through the front door . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Or call to find a local stockist . |
| 17 | The national curriculum should do nothing but good if it is a means of ensuring that schools do not , for example , permit children to give up all science subjects at the age of thirteen , or fail to reach a reasonable competence in read g and calculating by the time they leave school . |
| 18 | During this time couples may have to buy the necessary equipment , reorganise the house , hand in a resignation , visit the child at the foster-parents ' or arrange to take a direct placement immediately at delivery and room-in on the postnatal ward . |
| 19 | ( 10 ) An applicant may appeal to the sheriff against a decision of a licensing board to refuse to affirm a licence under subsection ( 2 ) above or to refuse to declare a provisional grant of a licence final under subsection ( 4 ) above . |
| 20 | When I say I 've never , in my life , sold a telephone number or refused to help a fellow journalist , he says it is ‘ union policy ’ , and that I ‘ ca n't be a real journalist ’ if I find this surprising . |
| 21 | If appropriate , equipment should be moved or dismantled to conduct a full inspection . |
| 22 | Frequently , too , there are major structural changes to the volcano , with a large part of it being blown away or collapsing to form a gaping crater , up to several kilometres across . |
| 23 | Then the flowers were added in small groups and singly , along the garland or bunched to form a central group |
| 24 | Moreover it is unlikely that respondents would have either the time or experience to make a thorough appraisal of the information presented in the leaflet . |