Example sentences of "[verb] or [vb infin] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | The picture improver attempted to restore or remove some of these points , with the possibility of an improved correlation between true area and A-measure . |
| 2 | As far as I could see , every one of those off-worlders was an owner ( or the employee of one ) , there to claim or deposit some personal valuables . |
| 3 | In practice they are those cases in which the plaintiff seeks to enforce or protect some right vested in him ( eg , an injunction to restrain a breach of contract ) rather than those where he merely invites the court to exercise its powers to grant him some statutory relief ( eg an application by a debtor for a " time order " under Consumer Credit Act 1974 , s 129(1) ( b ) ) . |
| 4 | He also suggested that quite apart from the accountant 's employer or client , he owed a duty to any third person to whom he shows the accounts or to whom he knows the employer will show the accounts with a view to persuading that person to invest or take some other action . |
| 5 | When a pet cat has started scratching the fabric of a valuable chair , for example , or has begun to make messes on an expensive carpet , it would be helpful to be able to sprinkle or smear some hated odour there to keep the animal away . |
| 6 | The balance between self and majority interests sometimes conflict and a balance must be maintained even if this means sacrificing the opportunity to attract or retain some families . |
| 7 | The problems mostly arose from lack of capital and only in a few cases had any action been taken — two had recently purchased houses in nearby villages for their sons and some had been able to purchase or rent some more land . |
| 8 | New drugs and agrochemicals are often developed by direct modification of an existing compound to mimic or enhance some aspects of its biological behaviour . |
| 9 | Most wish to retain or promote some form of local participation . |
| 10 | We must relax or remove some of the rules on private sector leasing . |
| 11 | ‘ Nothing , ’ said Comfort , who had been unable either to forget or justify some of the things she had said to Julia during the war . |
| 12 | Where calcareous soils are widely found , as in north China , airborne particles of calcium carbonate ( CaCO 3 ) , which produce high Ca 2+ cation concentrations , can neutralize or buffer some of the acidity . |
| 13 | The significance of Rookes v. Barnard was that it made it clear that a threat of a breach of contract was unlawful for this purpose but the criticism has been made ( and this indeed was the opinion of the Court of Appeal ) that if intimidation is extended to threats to break contracts ‘ it would overturn or outflank some elementary principles of contract law , ’ notably the doctrine of privity of contract , which holds that one who is not a party to a contract can not found a claim upon it or sue for breach of it . |
| 14 | Although they have an individual stamp , they are really only accessories — and we can change or discard some of them . |
| 15 | In at least the last three types of valid cluster the motivation is to overcome or exploit some kind of market failure . |
| 16 | So is the constant need to maintain them , and to re-energize or replace some of them . |
| 17 | They picture women gathered together to dance or perform some apparently ritualistic act of worship . |
| 18 | The adventurers may be able to beg or buy some badly needed pieces of equipment from Bardul here . |
| 19 | Under this modern view , contractual obligations may only be justified in order to deter or compensate some harm to the interests of another person . |
| 20 | Even so , it is possible for a court to interpret a statute as covering what looks at first sight as a casus omissus if it can find or invent some plausible general principle of interpretation , an exercise that may call for a little ingenuity . |