Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] or [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All attempts to heal or tend him failed |
| 2 | Scholars , disciples , stone-carvers and holy artistic men of every kind taught or studied at Clonmacnoise over the centuries . |
| 3 | An increase from fifty to a hundred members would allow greater flexibility for our regional committees in the regions to decide whether they allow the branch to continue or to amalgamate with another branch . |
| 4 | A person who throws a missile at a football match can clearly be guilty of violent disorder ( provided always that there are three or more present using or threatening violence ) , since his conduct can be regarded as violence by virtue of the extended definition of ‘ violence ’ in the Act . |
| 5 | There was no rule of the charity that the accused had to hand over the notes and coins received or to maintain a separate fund . |
| 6 | The latter may be due to inability to shop or cook , for example because of limited mobility or language problems . |
| 7 | In addition to the standard required contents of periodic statements , statements relating to portfolios including futures and other derivatives must include additional matters including : ( 1 ) Each payment received or made by the firm in respect of the account during the relevant month . |
| 8 | The Crown accepted that the income of the settlement arose or accrued to the three trustees jointly and not jointly and severally so that none of them was entitled , in law , separately to any particular share or fraction of the income . |
| 9 | He says that he 's looking for birds preening or doing something which makes a good composition . |
| 10 | Essentially it is the ultimate perfection — a hostile critic might say ‘ emasculation ’ — of Netherland polyphony , its florid elements pruned , its dissonances disguised or mollified by preparation and other devices which so lend themselves to codification that ‘ the style of Palestrina ’ has become the ideal model for students of sixteenth-century composition . |
| 11 | A user can perform Boolean operations to include or exclude clones which hybridise to particular probes or classes of probes . |
| 12 | If male doctors have difficulty accepting or understanding this it is probably because they have not been in such powerless positions since childhood . |
| 13 | For the Town to win the Championship , they needed to win and Cardiff to lose or draw . |
| 14 | The terminal , known as the operator terminal , which the operator will use to monitor the offline run and to indicate success or failure of requests to mount or dismount the appropriate offline media items . |
| 15 | Every P-40 has a unique set of teeth and those teeth make or break the fearsome look which sets this fighter apart . |
| 16 | No executions had been carried out since 1984 , and there were currently 287 people in prison waiting for parliament to confirm or commute their death sentences ( mostly handed down in the early 1980s ) . |
| 17 | In terms of knowledge of design then , knowledge which merely describes , attempts to objectify or to naturalise this kind of practice does so in asocial terms . |
| 18 | With the support of the committee , the librarian had attempted to keep track of books specifically purchased with the project funds by asking users to mark " P " against titles consulted or borrowed . |
| 19 | The records must contain day-to-day entries of all money received or expended and of the matters to which that related and a record of the company 's assets and liabilities . |
| 20 | Unless the court otherwise directs , money received or paid into court in respect of persons under disability shall remain in court and be invested or dealt with as the court thinks fit , which in many cases may be its transfer to the High Court ( Ord 10 , r 11(1) — ( 3 ) ) . |
| 21 | Their inability to see or echolocate over longer distances undoubtedly contributes to their frequency of net entanglement . |
| 22 | But what does the word curriculum denote or connote that ‘ course ’ does not ? |
| 23 | It 's a high-risk enterprise for us to , to pontificate about local radio , particularly as we have three as it were local radio representatives here , and we shall give them ample opportunity to confirm or deny the sort of things we 're saying . |
| 24 | Members have the opportunity to paint or sketch from still-life arrangements or a model or to choose their own subject matter . |
| 25 | Robyn has only the dimmest memories of the country of her birth , and has never had the opportunity to refresh or renew them , Professor Penrose 's characteristic response to any suggestion that the family should revisit Australia being a shudder . |
| 26 | Leicester , of course , will claim an automatic place in the Premier League if they win and Middlesbrough lose or draw at Molineux the same dramatic last day scenario from which Brian Little , their manager , emerged with promotion honours at Darlington the previous two seasons . |
| 27 | Leicester , of course , will claim an automatic place in the Premier League if they win and Middlesbrough lose or draw at Molineux the same dramatic last day scenario from which Brian Little , their manager , emerged with promotion honours at Darlington the previous two seasons . |
| 28 | Hamburg , for example , has about 30–40 per cent of its road system designated as 50 km/h main streets , with all of the remaining non-industrial roads designated or planned as Tempo 30 . |
| 29 | Did the drug decompose or spread through the body or accumulated in certain organs ? |
| 30 | The sale of this group represents an opportunity to establish or consolidate a position in this niche area of the UK [ sector ] industry . |