Example sentences of "buy or [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With this in mind , the BBC has bought the rights to a clutch of old black-and-white feature films , which it hopes people will buy or rent for lazy Sunday afternoon viewing . |
| 2 | Neither , if you value your privacy and security , should you buy or rent a house on the end of a road where the public pavement runs alongside your house and garden . |
| 3 | Should you buy or rent equipment ? |
| 4 | Something like seventy five percent or sixty six or seventy five percent of the , of the units which we actually let , of the houses that we actually let , go to homeless families you know , it is a complete fiction to suggest , or even try and suggest as this does that somehow or other houses are being allocated willy-nilly to people who have massive resources who could go out and buy or rent in the private sector . |
| 5 | ‘ Consumers do not confuse the availability of good physical facilities with good quality ; such facilities may tempt a consumer to choose a particular shop , but it is the quality of the staff which will determine whether the consumer will buy or return a second time . ’ |
| 6 | She , on the other hand , top to toe , comes out at well over two thousand ; as for structural costs … does one buy or hire her , I wonder ? |
| 7 | Would you not be highly suspicious of the mechanic who services your car , if you found that he did not buy or borrow his most important tools , did not know how to use them , never looked into a tool-shop window and had had no instruction in the use of the tools from the foreman ? |
| 8 | Based at Domodeovo , Moscow 's main internal airport , Air Russia will buy or lease brand new Boeing 767s and hopes to start flying them by 1994 . |
| 9 | No deduction is made in respect of the joint portion because , for example , one can not buy or drive half a motor car . |
| 10 | Check the prices against what you can buy or install yourself before ordering . |
| 11 | Council Houses are a valuable asset for those who can not buy or afford private rents . |
| 12 | Why should you buy or sell shares and other financial instruments through them ? |
| 13 | And he does not buy or sell heroin ! |
| 14 | So , given the set-up of the model , in particular given that in any one period people can only buy or sell in the island on which they are located , different equilibrium prices can be established for the same good . |
| 15 | It might well be Miriam asking him to ask the Chancellor whether she should buy or sell . |
| 16 | Rights to either buy or sell at a specified price within a specified period ( 3 months ) . |
| 17 | This means they must always be prepared to either buy or sell securities when approached to do so by one of the banks . |
| 18 | At the present time , the illiquidity of gamma stocks means that it is difficult to make a market in them , and also brokers find that they can not buy or sell without prices swinging widely in reaction . |
| 19 | Dr K C Reddy , an urologist in Madras , India , reopens the argument for allowing people to sell their kidneys for transplants through a state-controlled system of ‘ rewarded gifting ’ , asserting that in a country with no cadaver transplant programme and where long-term dialysis is impracticable , there is no alternative for those with renal failure but to ‘ buy or die ’ . |
| 20 | Football was used as a way of encouraging working people to buy or hire televisions in the 1950s with the slogan ‘ When they are talking about the big match on TV will you have to remain silent ? ’ |
| 21 | Similarly , it 's no good discovering that you are going to need an autocue and a slide projector when there 's no money left to buy or hire them , or that your guest speaker will only fly first class when you 've allocated £200 in your budget for his travel costs because someone vaguely remembered that £200 was the ‘ Apex fare ’ . |
| 22 | The Video book was never intended for broadcast ; it is made from library film footage transferred to disc and tape for video issue , and aimed at the relatively limited number of people who will want to buy or hire it . |
| 23 | Bishop , never one to duck a challenge , agreed to cooperate in a South African-led venture which enables anybody with the cash to buy or hire a small walkman-like receiver to tune into the ref during the match . |
| 24 | Recognised junior equipment is also available to buy or hire at many RYA centres . |
| 25 | ‘ In the last year some of the rooms have been transformed , because we actually encourage clients to buy or bring in their own beds . |
| 26 | This is a trading practice ( more common on the Continent than in the United Kingdom ) whereby a trader organises a coach or boat trip and then during the trip gets the travellers to buy or offer to buy goods or services . |
| 27 | That is like making people fork out VAT for goods they ca n't afford to buy or pay income tax on wages they have n't had . |
| 28 | Under ‘ mass-production ’ conditions the industry was obliged to keep its labour-teams steadily employed , moving in a planned succession from one undertaking to another , and progressively brought down its costs to reach an ever-widening circle of demand for homes to buy or rent at economic figures . |
| 29 | More important was the status of loans raised to buy or rent land and erect a stadium . |
| 30 | Other people may decide to buy or rent a house or flat in a modern purpose-built sheltered or clustered estate . |