Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The six , among 55 individuals banned by a High Court judge from trespassing on or causing a nuisance at the site , joined 500 others in a peaceful invasion of the construction site ; 27 were arrested . |
| 2 | So is he to be he does n't know whether to just carry on or to put a stop to it now or what the hell to do |
| 3 | Allen Paulson , who sold a half share to Sheik Mohammed for ten million dollars , reasoned he 's either not trained on or needs a psychiatrist . |
| 4 | How do you spend the rest of your time when you 're not on or planning an expedition ? |
| 5 | Then either let your hair dry naturally or use a diffuser . |
| 6 | Do n't over-dry your hair — whenever possible , let it dry naturally or use a diffuser . |
| 7 | Community nurses and health visitors are paid a mileage allowance but you will also want to know who pays for what if you should break down or have an accident , and whether you can claim an allowance against income tax for general depreciation . |
| 8 | Some people think that holding the wing down or putting a tyre on the wing will stop the glider blowing over . |
| 9 | Whether the day follows a pattern of group discussion alone or involves an element of competitiveness by dividing the overall group into smaller groups with set targets to achieve , you should bear in mind a few good rules . |
| 10 | ( b ) Notwithstanding paragraphs ( 2 ) and ( 5 ) ( a ) of this rule , a registered foreign lawyer will not be in breach of these rules by virtue of setting up , operating , actively participating in or controlling a business outside England and Wales , provided : |
| 11 | Mr Jack Hayward , the wealthy benefactor , claimed that the article meant that he was guilty of participating in or condoning a murder plot . |
| 12 | There is an optional metering scheme , and if you do live in a higher rateable value property , and you do n't use er above average amounts of water , you 'd probably you 'd probably benefit from put a water in or have a water meter installed . |
| 13 | And then we can pull in or have a stop , probably at the delivery if it 's a delivery involved , we can have a little chat about any areas which we can discuss . |
| 14 | He had neither glanced down nor passed a fingertip over the edges of the leaves , to determine how far advanced in the book his page might be . |
| 15 | I can not do better than compare a shoal of bream to a troop of soldiers : a compact , neat , orderly and efficient body of fish that patrol a water when the business of feeding is foremost in their minds . |
| 16 | She was n't one of these poor deprived kids who slipped in through an open window or an inadequately locked door and then did not know better than to steal a television or a video . |
| 17 | I can not do better than quote a semi-paragraph from The Grail Legend by Emma Jung and Marie Louise Von Franz ( English translation 1971 ) : |
| 18 | Wirral 's heroin ‘ epidemic ’ ‘ incubated ’ unnoticed and in documenting this fact we can do no better than quote an epidemiologist ( Hughes 1977 ) working within a similar heroin outbreak in Chicago during the early 1960s : ‘ In this epidemic there was a tragic time lag between the contagious stage during which heroin use spread and the stage when the epidemic 's full impact was felt and reacted to by the host community . ’ |
| 19 | If you must , then you ca n't do better than to buy a plastic ‘ Snake ’ ; but we doubt if you 'll have the same degree of reverence for it as for our other suggestions in nylon . |
| 20 | Landgrebe , only the second graduate employed by the company , had taken over Peter Revers ' job when the latter went to New York and had responsibilities for scheduling and managing shops , but knew better than to express an opinion on artistic matters . |
| 21 | Perhaps that needs a stalk in the middle . |
| 22 | To this is often ( but not always ) added an idea that a cause makes its effect happen , implying perhaps that to find a cause is to show why the effect had to happen as it did . |
| 23 | Obviously that had a fire risk to it as well . |
| 24 | So that put an end to that … no more dances down at Cotherstone for me . |
| 25 | It 's not quite the pressure , I mean I always find those two pages which is facts and that 's it but that 's the new dimension to it so that helps a lot . |
| 26 | Mechanically , it works almost as well on land as it does in water , so that providing a creature can find a way of breathing , there is little to prevent it walking straight out of the sea and up the beach . |
| 27 | It is fair to say that in the last instance , it will not actually produce a design with the colours separated out into their appropriate rows , but will make a card design showing the colours so that punching a card from this is made easier . |
| 28 | So that creates a sub-directory , off your root directory , called put . |
| 29 | Fundamental to the development of headhunting was the general acceptance of the payment of fees on a retainer basis , so that employing a search consultant was rendered comparable with that of engaging accountants , solicitors , or any other outside professional advisers . |
| 30 | It also offers 3D spreadsheets so that changing a value on one spreadsheet automatically changes a related value in another one . |