Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [verb] or [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They also criticized the evident lack of contingency plans to prevent or respond to accidents of this kind . |
| 2 | We find it useful to have someone available as a stock figure to represent or stand for certain kinds of person . |
| 3 | It is certainly true that the huge costs of new model development , including the cost of meeting higher environmental standards , have forced many European car manufacturers to collaborate or merge . |
| 4 | After a positive test result the family practitioner and health visitor are contacted when the baby is about six weeks old to develop a social profile of the family and decide how best to approach them to offer a venous blood test to confirm or refute the screening test . |
| 5 | Storm/Dba allows management information system ( MIS ) department staff to create or modify all parts of the database schema from a graphical environment . |
| 6 | Police Force decisions to caution or prosecute juvenile offenders , however , show a wide variation with some areas cautioning twice the proportion of juveniles as others . |
| 7 | The research examines to what extent this is the case and what , ( if any ) strategies are being adopted by British clothing manufacturers to restore or maintain international competitiveness . |
| 8 | Because the presentation is diagrammatic , needing no specialist knowledge to construct or discuss , it encourages discussion between workers of different disciplines and backgrounds who are collaborating on a project . |
| 9 | Department of Social Security mobility payments to buy or lease a car . |
| 10 | EDIT : - Starts editor program to create or change ASCII files . |
| 11 | 3 ) Using the up and down arrow buttons to increase or decrease the highlighted value . |
| 12 | The question here is what must a firm disclose to its customers in order to permit its broker/dealer department to sell or buy stock off its own book to or from a " fiduciary customer " ( ie a customer to whom fiduciary duties are owed , eg where a broker acts as agent ) ? |
| 13 | There are no sand deserts or snowfields or rain forests to lift or deflect the breezes , or raise or lower the temperature . |
| 14 | We deplore present day attempts to belittle or destroy it , and in particular we object to the propaganda of disbelief , doubt and dirt that the BBC projects into millions of homes through the television screen . |
| 15 | Any party to proceedings may appeal to the High Court against a magistrates ' court decision to make or refuse to make an order under the Children Act ( s94(1) ) . |
| 16 | Hardly a colour combination to enhance or blend with the pinks and reds of roses by underplanting ( see question number 15 on page 160 ) , but a nearby border or patch of it is widely being reported as being responsible for clearing out all the greenfly ! |
| 17 | The sun , the clear sky , the bright colours , the prosperous look of this lively , airy university town and wine-growing capital ; the stalls massed with flowers ; fresh fish shining pink and gold and silver in shallow baskets ; cherries and apricots and peaches on the fruit barrows ; one stall piled with about a ton of little bunches of soup or pot-au-feu vegetables — a couple of slim leeks , a carrot or two , a long thin turnip , celery leaves , and parsley , all cleaned and neatly bound with a rush , ready for the pot ; another charcuterie stall , in the covered part of the market , displaying yards of fresh sausage festooned around a pyramid-shaped wire stand ; a fishwife crying pussy 's parcels of fish wrapped tidily in newspaper ; an old woman at the market entrance selling winkles from a little cart shaped like a pram ; a fastidiously dressed old gentleman choosing tomatoes and leaf artichokes , one by one , as if he were picking a bouquet of flowers , and taking them to the scales to be weighed ( how extraordinary that we in England put up so docilely with not being permitted by greengrocers or even barrow boys to touch or smell the produce we are buying ) ; a lorry with an old upright piano in the back threading round and round the market place trying to get out . |
| 18 | A user can perform Boolean operations to include or exclude clones which hybridise to particular probes or classes of probes . |
| 19 | Like the logico-linguistic and behaviourist enterprises , causalism and functionalism attempt to define or analyse consciousness by looking elsewhere . |
| 20 | Desperate attempts to find wriggle room to justify or excuse bad decisions are a waste of time and creative energy . |
| 21 | Delegates also expressed concern that western companies would try to take advantage of lax legislation in East European countries and the weakness of local enforcement agencies to use or sell environmentally damaging technologies which are banned in Western Europe and North America . |
| 22 | The access times considered in this chapter have been simply the time taken to position the device access mechanism to read or write a selected record . |
| 23 | Let us take the variable x to cover or range over certain conceivable events or conditions or whatever — in fact individual properties or sets of them — which in fact did not occur . |
| 24 | To question the ‘ real-ness ’ of the events reported , as Callaghan did , is to strain one 's credibility since it demands the viewing public to ignore or disregard media imagery . |
| 25 | It might also be argued that this provision of free sterile needles might even encourage some drug users to experiment or continue with intravenous use . |
| 26 | This section operates where the clause attempts to exclude or restrict business liability as defined in s. 1(3) . |
| 27 | So , will Hoddle stay or go ? |
| 28 | In principle that must imply the abandonment of any attempt by member governments to use competition policy to protect or promote their domestic industry ( just as other industrial and trade policy measures have had to be progressively abandoned ) . |
| 29 | Dr Mowlam wrote to the regulatory body Lautro , which has told Abbey Life to withdraw or amend the circular . |
| 30 | Several studies have suggested that HMG 1 and 2 facilitate transcription by binding to specific DNA conformations to create or preserve structures necessary for transcription initiation ( 48-53 ) . |