Example sentences of "or [verb] [noun] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the manager lacks the chance to engage in a fully collegial approach , if he or she can only find or make time for the essential step of ingesting or thinking new ideas in an atmosphere of enforced professional seclusion , does this obscure his or her clarity of mind ? |
| 2 | Hannah Arendt has linked the rise of both pan-Germanism and pan-Slavism with the ‘ triumphant imperialist expansion of the Western nations ’ in the 1880s , but it is clear that while pan-Slav ideas were confined in the main to the idea of restoring or gaining independence for the Slav subjects of Prussia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire , pan-German ideas ran in a quite different direction . |
| 3 | So far we have looked at exclusion clauses which exclude or restrict liability for a particular type of breach arising from a particular cause . |
| 4 | Senior civil servants , the privileged connoisseurs of prime-ministerial style and procedure , tend not to be purist about the operational implications of Cabinet conventions , except when routinely deploying them in the occasional public lecture or dismissing requests for the early declassification of harmless material . |
| 5 | the company does not commence business within one year from incorporation or suspends business for a whole year ; |
| 6 | In the context of a head 's report dealing with special needs the decision required could relate to anything from the building of a new unit to the provision of additional welfare or teaching assistance for an individual pupil . |
| 7 | It created a statutory offence of riot — 12 or more people using or threatening violence for an unlawful purpose . |
| 8 | This meant that , even with daily case conferences , it was not possible for one nurse either to supervise or take responsibility for the individualised care of each client . |
| 9 | The fact of taking charge or taking responsibility for a vulnerable elderly relative requires considerable moral courage which tends to fall to women ( Graham , 1983 ; Ungerson , 1987 ) . |
| 10 | Santa Special trains travel the full five miles of the line , customers can join trains at Keighley , Haworth or Oxenhope stations for a one-hour return steam train journey . |