Example sentences of "or [verb] it [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A cross spirituality will ensure that you and I are never tempted to follow fashions and fads in church life which , attractive though they may seem , ignore the cross or push it to one side . |
| 2 | What this argument suggests in Gandhi 's case is that he does not abandon his commitment to the principle of non-violence or qualify it in any way when he approves the destruction of life . |
| 3 | The minister told a questioner later : ‘ To somehow suggest that this incident of 1,000MBq released into the atmosphere is somehow responsible for massive contamination of the food chain … it clearly is nonsense to suggest that or to compare it in any way with Chernobyl . ’ |
| 4 | Many cities run the trees through chippers , paying for the operation by selling the mulch or using it in public parks . |
| 5 | I must ask you to stop this quarrelling instantly , or to continue it in another place . " |
| 6 | Thus , in addition to the general process in which the market registers people 's choices and these feed back into selected or discontinued types of production , there is an evident pressure , at or before the point of production , to reduce costs : either by improving the technical means of reproduction , or by altering the nature of the work or pressing it into other forms . |
| 7 | All of that gives it a very encouraging sure-footedness once you try to throw it around a corner or two , or test it on poor road conditions . |
| 8 | Another stimulus to the market has come from issuers buying back bonds , to retire the debt entirely or swap it for new equity . |
| 9 | The embalmer helped them replace the planks , and then fussed about whether to sweep up and re-use the original natron , or replace it with fresh salt . |
| 10 | If anything happened to the computer and it proved impossible to get at the data inside , you could go to your back-up diskettes and simply copy the data back into the computer when it had been repaired , or replaced , or put it onto another computer . |
| 11 | It was no longer possible for casual thieves to take an animal for their own use , or to sell it for agricultural purposes in a village five or ten kilometres distant . |
| 12 | Double-vault composting toilet : If people wish to reuse excreta in their gardens or to sell it to local farmers composting toilets can be built as long as users agree to follow strict rules of maintenance . |
| 13 | Figs 3 and 4 were generated by a flexible PostScript generator , show , which can either summarize the entire data-set on a single page , or show it in greater detail spread over several pages . |
| 14 | If a fond mum sends you back after a weekend at home with your favourite fruit cake , do you keep it in a tin under the bed and eat it secretly , or demolish it at one swoop by sharing it with others ? |
| 15 | In seeking to be innovative and adventurous , church musicians will need to be careful not to abandon the traditional repertoire or to relegate it to second place . |
| 16 | Er Lewis and Ramprakash there , so the umpire 's view is somewhat impeded , Lawrence in from the pavilion end , bowls to , oh the full length , and he 's off the mark with four , steers that down to deep third man , there is no deep third man , and er he indulges in a little token trot to the other end , but no one was going to chase that or , or stop it by any stretch of imagination , four , the total a hundred and sixteen for three . |
| 17 | If this is not possible , either cut a chase in the plaster ( horizontally or vertically , but never diagonally ) and bury the cable , or run it in surface-mounted mini-trunking , fixed to the top edge of the skirting board or to the wall surface . |
| 18 | Alternatively , the exporter could seek a loan against it or negotiate it to another party in settlement of a domestic trade debt . |
| 19 | As well as good documentation and ‘ driving ’ information for the user , as described on page 35 , it is also very important to document the computer program as a further aid to those who wish to understand how the program works or modify it in some way . |
| 20 | When a record turns out to be a synonym , there are two alternatives : these are to store the synonym at once , in which case the process is called a one-pass load , or to load it in two passes , which is called a two-pass load . |
| 21 | Alternatively , by resting pasture or grazing it with another host , such as sheep , which are not susceptible to O. ostertagi , until most of the existing L3 on the pasture have died out . |
| 22 | To taste for seasoning , either fry a teaspoonful of the pate or poach it in simmering water ( it will taste less strong when cold ) . |
| 23 | Textbooks on research methods rarely mention the problems that arise when undertaking research on controversial topics or conducting it in sensitive locations . |
| 24 | Service may be effected on the solicitor : ( 1 ) if by delivering the document at , or sending it by first-class post to the solicitor 's address for service , service by post is deemed to have been effected at the time the letter would have been delivered in the ordinary course of post ( s 7 of the Interpretations Act 1978 ) : or ( 2 ) where the solicitor 's address for service includes a numbered box at a document exchange in a county court , and the document is left at that exchange or at an exchange which transmits daily to the first exchange , it is then deemed to have been served on the second day after the day on which it was left , but any day on which the court office in which one or both exchanges is situated is shut shall not be taken into account ( Ord 1 , r 3 ; Ord 2 , r 5(1A) ; Ord 7 , rr 1(1) ( b ) , 1(3) , and ( 4 ) ) . |
| 25 | Subject to the requirements of any act or particular rule ( as to which see below ) any document may be served , if the person to be served is acting in person , by delivering it to him personally or by delivering it at , or sending it by first class post to , the address he has given for service . |
| 26 | If he has given no address for service , service may be effected by delivering the document at his residence or by sending it by first class post to his last known residence , or in the case of a proprietor of a business , by delivering the document at his place of business or sending it by first class post to his last known place of business ( Ord 7 , r 1 ) . |
| 27 | If the person to be served is represented by a solicitor , the document may be served by delivering the document at , or sending it by first class post to , the solicitor 's address for service ( Ord 7 , r 1(b) ) . |
| 28 | ‘ I have no doubt , ’ comments Stewart , ‘ that one or two of those medical symptoms are genuine ; but the main problem for these youngsters collapsing and feeling very ill is just plain exhaustion , or to put it in simple mountaineering jargon — physically knackered . ’ |
| 29 | Or to put it in another way , for Gandhi the stone partakes of the nature of that which it represents . |
| 30 | Or to put it in another way Truth is God . |