Example sentences of "[verb] or [to-vb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Insulin doses were not altered throughout the study except to ensure ( on the basis of the home blood glucose test results ) that glycaemic control was not altered or to avoid unacceptable hypoglycaemia ( mainly during the run in phase ) . |
| 2 | In terms of knowledge of design then , knowledge which merely describes , attempts to objectify or to naturalise this kind of practice does so in asocial terms . |
| 3 | Secondly , plaintiffs can not obtain an injunction against a libellous publication , where the defendant indicates an intention to justify or to plead fair comment . |
| 4 | How easy or how difficult does a partner find it to give or to receive physical care ? |
| 5 | He was too old to breed or to ride another Nicandra . |
| 6 | When called as a witness Mrs Wilson said : ‘ I did n't do anything to retaliate or to provoke that attack . |
| 7 | Sudanese radio reported on June 25 that the interim administration in Ethiopia had given SPLA forces based there a deadline ( unspecified ) before which they had either to disarm or to leave Ethiopian territory . |
| 8 | Labour injunctions are sought by employers or dissident trade unionists or others to prevent or to stop industrial action , including strikes , by trade unions or their officials which the plaintiff claims is illegal . |
| 9 | In Washington Mr Yeltsin 's foreign minister , Andrei Kozyrev , told an audience there was no reason ‘ to panic or to predict civil war ’ in Russia . |
| 10 | Can he tell the House a little more about any plans that he and the Government may have to recruit or to find peaceful employment for some of the rocket scientists and nuclear experts of Russia and , perhaps , even of the Ukraine ? |
| 11 | It does n't matter if the child grows up to be an adult whose logic tells him that he is n't stupid ; if those words have been repeated often enough , he will never have the confidence to realise how much he knows or to make proper use of that knowledge . |