Example sentences of "[verb] or [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This might explain Shell 's reluctance to commercialise or even patent the reaction . |
| 2 | Since the airline is not a party to such contract it is not bound to carry or even to store the goods referred to in the house air waybill . |
| 3 | Never rinse reusable filter materials in tap water and never use detergents or you will damage or totally destroy the beneficial bacteria that have built up the efficiency of the filter unit . |
| 4 | One can only start to amend , delete or even discuss the relevance of particular standard' provisions once their basic purpose is understood . |
| 5 | Indeed , Moscow entertained some hopes that the growth in interest in non-alignment in Latin America , a phenomenon which had induced Soviet writers in the mid 1970s to talk of a ‘ Latin American stage ’ of the Non-Aligned Movement , could weaken or even undermine the military treaty system which bound this continent to the United States . |
| 6 | There was a real fear that an amendment which satisfied developers would seriously weaken or even wreck the planning machine ; the scheme was part of a complex of planning controls which might easily be upset and result in a return to the very problems which the 1947 Act was designed to solve . |
| 7 | Within them , the companies either owned or effectively controlled the services , so that the miners and their families shopped at company shops , drank at company pubs , and played sports at colliery clubs . |
| 8 | He was so often in Lucca 's , tasting a slice of salami , cutting off a sliver of cheese to try or speculatively pinching the melons . |
| 9 | In view of the problems , over time many regions have modified or even abandoned the RAWP cross-boundary flow adjustment method for their subregional allocation . |
| 10 | During periods of change such as this , what he refers to as ‘ status movements ’ may emerge which attempt , through symbolic rather than instrumental means , to increase or simply maintain the prestige or honour of a particular social group . |
| 11 | In particular , what effect will it have on patrolling officers ' discretionary decisions ( whether to prosecute or verbally advise an offending motorist ) , what consequences may there be for the management and monitoring of these discretionary enforcement practices by supervisory officers , and what implications are there for Force training |
| 12 | Modern legislation had increasingly vested quasi-judicial powers in officials and excluded or indirectly diminished the authority of the courts . |
| 13 | Can you take easy exercise — walking or gently cycling a few miles , running up the stairs , carrying a heavy suitcase a distance — without becoming puffed or stiff ? |
| 14 | She knew that he had two grown-up daughters of his own and would scarcely have approved of aiding and abetting or even allowing a girl of Liza 's age to be left in any compromising situation with a young married man . |
| 15 | However , her lack of confidence was shown in her reluctance to exhibit or even sign the work she sent to the London Group , where it was seen and admired by André Derain . |
| 16 | Finally , may we emphasise that this letter is not intended to restrict or otherwise affect the quality of our products or service . |
| 17 | A large proportion of these vital exports pass through the Straits of Hormuz , yet despite attempts by the participants in the Iran-Iraq war to restrict or even stop the movement of tankers this has not occurred and the earlier fear of a serious disruption to supplies has largely abated . |
| 18 | The disruptions and abuse preceding adoption may cause some children to be disturbed or even to reject the adopting family . |
| 19 | They are also responsible for endeavouring to eliminate or safely manage the risks inherent in our business . |
| 20 | Employers should not , without good cause , behave in a manner that is likely to destroy or seriously damage the employment relationship . |
| 21 | During the Eighties the cosmetics industry invested millions in developing skin-care products which claimed to halt or even reverse the ageing process . |
| 22 | This was at Gloucester Road , or near it , and though the tall buildings are very close to the line here , they are not close enough for anyone inside to reach or even touch a passing train . |
| 23 | I would also like to erm ask that erm that we do have everything we can to ensure that where this council has the possibility as erm landowner or property owner or whatever that we prevent or certainly discourage the use of such property for car boot sales and I had in mind sales that are taking place based on erm education property and in the case of Hatfield we were able to persuade the relevant authorities to er cause the car boot sale to cease but that particular car boot sale was causing great damage to the legitimate traders in both the Hatfield market and the Hatfield town centre . |
| 24 | I have never met or even seen a member of the Royal Family . |
| 25 | This conservatism , however , often leads to conscious revolt , by artists with different purposes , who then either confuse or even omit the known signals . |
| 26 | On the magazine publishing front it is hard to find publishers who are not investigating or actively using the technology . |
| 27 | Further , one after another these theories either overlooked or actively disallowed the erotics of other kinds of difference ; as Mandy Merck observes , in such theories ‘ no non-genital differences ( of race , class , age , etc ) can signify such total Otherness , no genitally similar object can be legitimately eroticised ’ ( Merck , ‘ Difference and its Discontents ’ , 5 — 6 ) . |
| 28 | In practice , unless the employer can show that the employee has copied or physically removed a list of names or the details of a process then it may be very difficult to establish that the knowledge of the employee is exclusively due to confidential information . |
| 29 | This duty might vary according to the nature of the contract of employment but would be broken if the employee copied or deliberately memorized a list of customers . |
| 30 | Tolerates or even prefers a small amount of salt in the water . |