Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] or [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The methods and processes differ but the equipment used consists basically of the original to be photocopied being exposed to light or heat , together with a special light or heat-sensitive paper , and a processing unit in which the copy paper is developed . |
| 2 | Since the track authority needs this information to access the capacity and other related constraints on the system , it is best placed to provide or sell timetable information nationally , regionally or at an individual service level . |
| 3 | They are human , and are acknowledged to be , they can think but they are not to be acknowledged as authoritative , and if their presence demands such acknowledgement , they are bad women who should have been taught to hide or repress such demands . |
| 4 | Ironically , Beveridge actually hoped that a pension which reduced income and gave a higher pension to those who stayed at work , would encourage people to defer retirement : ‘ Making receipt of pension conditional on retirement is not intended to encourage or hasten retirement . |
| 5 | H. L. A. Hart , who has recently added his voice in support of this kind of analysis , provides the following explanation : ‘ The commander characteristically intends his hearer to take the commander 's will instead of his own as a guide to action and so to take it in place of any deliberation or reasoning of his own : the expression of the commander 's will … is intended to preclude or cut off any independent deliberation by the hearer of the merits pro and con of doing the act . ’ |
| 6 | Soviet friendship and cooperation treaties with Third World states were intended to displace or counteract the existing alignments and alliances between these states and the Western powers . |
| 7 | Older siblings living in mainland Scotland were not permitted to see or communicate with their younger brothers and sisters , even though they were in no way involved or implicated in the allegations that had been made against the parents . |
| 8 | 9.1.3 undertakes that it will promptly disclose to the other Parties and to the Secretary of State any facts or circumstances which come to its attention indicating or suggesting any infringement or material risk of infringement of any patent or other Intellectual Property Right of any other person not being a Party to this Agreement through the expected mode of use or exploitation of its own results or background provided always that this undertaking shall not be deemed to impose or imply any specific obligation to undertake any patent searches of intellectual property rights or make any enquiries . |
| 9 | ‘ He genuinely had no idea whatsoever as to who I was , and nor should he be expected to know or care about me . |
| 10 | If that is what it turned out to be , it is certainly not what those most concerned to secure or prevent the passage of the Bill thought at the time . |
| 11 | Under the 1978 Act , which incorporates the terms of the Redundancy Payments Act 1965 , redundancy may arise if the work needed to be done by an employee gets less or becomes unnecessary ( in changed economic conditions ) or is expected to diminish or come to an end . |
| 12 | ( iii ) Persons shall not be permitted to stand or sit in any of the gangways intersecting the seating or to sit in any of the other gangways . |
| 13 | Staff are expected to work or attend training for up to four weeks a year during a break . |
| 14 | Guideline 17 : Consequences ( positive or negative ) should follow promptly the behaviour they are designed to encourage or discourage . |
| 15 | Together , these developments are expected to create or safeguard up to 1,200 jobs . |
| 16 | Technologies designed to replace or substitute for lost functions will also continue to improve , allowing if not complete recovery at least a greatly improved quality of life for patients . |
| 17 | Habitat improvement scheme : Designed to create or improve a range of valuable wildlife habitats , eg salt marsh in Suffolk . |
| 18 | Whereas women are expected to conceal or control whatever defects their bodies may have , Leapor puts hers on display , and even amplifies them . |
| 19 | This process of looking for individual points of agreement whilst demonstrating diplomatic skills , results in a piecemeal approach which is not targeted to handle or solve any specific problems , but addresses a wide range of problems poorly or inefficiently . |
| 20 | The effects of the treatment on the faecal flora were not reported but this poorly absorbed aminoglycoside would be expected to deplete or eradicate intestinal E coli . |
| 21 | For example , on the north Norfolk coast McLaughlin and Singleton ( 1979 ) found that only 15 per cent of visitors had come to birdwatch , compared to 27 and 19 per cent respectively who had come to walk or sunbathe . |
| 22 | Because over development , or an increase in developer dilution or strength , can not appreciably raise the density of the exposed shadow areas , ( in the region of lightly exposed silver halides there is almost nothing to actually overdevelop ) , the developer strength or developing time can be varied to lower or increase the highlight areas . |
| 23 | They must maintain a permanent presence in the pit at all times , provide continuous bid-ask quotes on the strike prices traded and be committed to buy or sell on request up to 20 contracts based upon current displayed prices . |
| 24 | This type of hypocrisy is often backward-looking , designed to retain or consolidate what one already owns — I think of Bulstrode in George Eliot 's Middlemarch , before his encounter with Will Ladislaw . |
| 25 | The bill was specifically designed to amend or overturn several Supreme Court rulings which had curtailed the ability of minorities to challenge employment bias through the courts . |
| 26 | Plans designed to solve or alleviate existing problems . |
| 27 | Authorities are expected to reduce or eliminate the risk of industrial accidents by requiring industrial plants to adopt specific pollution control equipment and practices . |
| 28 | These carriers of non-penetrant or late onset genes may be heterozygous at codon 129 since heterozygosity at codon 129 might be expected to delay or protect against the onset of clinical disease . |
| 29 | They were nimble-footed , lightly equipped for the in-and-out thrust over terrain where others might not be expected to beach or march . |
| 30 | People who had psychosomatic complaints were probably malingering ( if male ) and hysterical ( if female ) , and the appropriate treatment was a stiff talking-to , designed to exhort or scare them into ‘ stopping all this nonsense ’ and ‘ pulling themselves together ’ . |