Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] or [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other situations a rumour or suspicion may with great care be reported if its existence ( irrespective of its truth ) has some significance , if its victim is allowed to reply and renounce the allegation and if the publisher is scrupulous not to indicate expressly or impliedly that the allegation is true . |
| 2 | They would have to meet sooner or later . |
| 3 | Perhaps more important , since memories of the bad old days were bound to fade sooner or later , was the progress he had made towards transforming the strong presidency from a crisis expedient into a permanent and widely accepted feature of French political life . |
| 4 | There was no point in kid gloves ; she had to know sooner or later . |
| 5 | ‘ Just Cause ’ was a carefully planned invasion just waiting to happen , poised at the starting gate for the kind of justification that the macho thug in Panama City was bound to provide sooner or later . |
| 6 | ‘ I had to come sooner or later and I thought it 'd be easier with someone else here . ’ |
| 7 | The X-25 gateway to link Payroll to Chessington has been found to demand more or less exclusive use of a fast , large-memory machine . |
| 8 | In such circumstances , it is clearly easier to establish more or less uniform procedures on a more or less informal basis , and to disseminate to the general public the sort of information which will generate trust . |
| 9 | 11.2 undertakes , during the continuance of this Agreement , to provide directly or indirectly an efficient and effective help line to deal with fault calls relating to the Licensed Software made by end-users who have entered into the Software Licence Agreement described above . |
| 10 | Slope : what proportion of the farm is too steep to work safely or economically ? |
| 11 | It 's a relaxation to me , although one 's nerve is bound to go sooner or later . ’ |
| 12 | Briefly , Cloward and Ohlin argue that there is greater pressure on members of the working class to behave criminally or delinquently due to the fact that they have less opportunity to succeed by legitimate means . |
| 13 | ‘ … any advertisement inviting persons to enter or offer to enter into an investment agreement or to exercise any rights conferred by an investment to acquire , dispose of , underwrite or convert an investment or containing information calculated to lead directly or indirectly to persons doing so ’ . |
| 14 | " Investment advertisement " is widely defined in s57(2) to mean any advertisement inviting persons to enter or offer to enter into an investment agreement or to exercise any rights conferred by an investment to acquire , dispose of , underwrite or convert an investment or containing information calculated to lead directly or indirectly to persons doing so . |
| 15 | Marx never interested himself in how individuals arrive at their sense of themselves or in what motivates them to behave well or badly . |
| 16 | The Commission 's proposed interim measures took the form of requiring bidders not to purchase jointly or separately further shares in Irish Distillers unless the purchase was conditional on a favourable Commission decision under Article 85 ; the bidders were also required to refrain from exercising the votes attached to the shares already acquired . |
| 17 | I used to go more or less t'my grandparents , almost every day … |
| 18 | The proportion of the population over pensionable age is projected to remain more or less level between now and the end of the century , indeed to decline somewhat around the turn of the century and then to rise again in the early years of the twenty-first century when the larger birth cohorts of the war and post-war years move into their sixties ( see figure 5.1 ) . |
| 19 | Instead , they are inhabited and the economic and social activities of the rural communities are expected to continue more or less normally . |
| 20 | I have n't done , I 've been invited to go once or twice and I |
| 21 | He had given up dashing through to adjoining rooms running to look downstairs or above , craning his head out of windows to look for hovering helicopters , but he knew they were there somewhere all right , he knew what they were up to . |
| 22 | As discussed earlier ( p. 101 ) , a patient thought to require further or more prolonged help may be referred for another kind of treatment . |
| 23 | By taking into account and weighing these and any other relevant circumstances , the court will ensure that it does not seek to exercise oppressively or unreasonably the very wide jurisdiction conferred by the sections . |
| 24 | As this is the latest in a series of serious breaches of security at prisons , will the Prime Minister call upon the Home Secretary , who has clearly lost control of his own Department and no longer enjoys the confidence of the public , to resign now or else sack him ? |
| 25 | Since cannibalistic tadpoles feed preferentially on partially metamorphosed or weaker individuals , there would be a tendency for those likely to hatch earlier or later to be weeded out . |
| 26 | Moving closer to home , on the offence of causing death by dangerous or drunken driving , the hon. Member for Huddersfield referred to the Road Traffic Act 1991 , whereby an offender will be found guilty if he drives dangerously , thereby causing someone 's death , whether or not he intended to do so or even knew about it . |
| 27 | But then , what would he do if Viola got time off from her play and came to see him , as she was surely bound to do sooner or later ? |
| 28 | Joffre , calm and impassive — still enjoying his two massive daily meals , consumed at leisure and followed by deep slumber — planned to counter-attack sooner or later . |
| 29 | In most insects , however , the greater part of the cuticle undergoes a process of sclerotization whereby it becomes hardened and darkened to form more or less tough , rigid sclerites separated from each other by membranous zones of unchanged soft cuticle . |
| 30 | ACCURACY It is the duty of newspapers not to publish deliberately or recklessly inaccuracies or statements designed to mislead and to correct promptly and with due prominence significant inaccuracies which they have published , apologising for these where appropriate . |