Example sentences of "[noun sg] or [to-vb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether you prefer to sell 100% for an immediate cash payment or to receive a smaller upfront payment and a deferred payment , determined by an earnout or retention or a minority stake with a pre-arranged exit . |
| 2 | That you do n't take it upon yourself to plead my case or to point an accusing finger at Sandra . ’ |
| 3 | Hence it is difficult to derive accurate and spatially-representative predictions of the impact of future land-use change or to examine the long-term stability of lake ecosystems in the face of repeated episodes of accelerated nutrient input . |
| 4 | So he declined to strike out paragraphs 11 and 13 of the prayer or to make the alternative orders that were sought . |
| 5 | This new dynamic competition comes from products and processes which threaten a firm 's knowledge base and challenge its dominant competence to enhance its current knowledge base or to establish a new one . |
| 6 | But , if you want the cash buy a car or to make a major home improvement we have special tailormade schemes . |
| 7 | It is usually the responsibility of the engineer to approve the alternative offered by the contractor or to suggest a possible solution . |
| 8 | In the Fourth Duma ( 1912–17 ) the government showed little concern to defuse opposition or to exploit the deep divisions between its more moderate critics and the small minority of radical Left deputies . |
| 9 | It will be impractical , for example , to go to the market too often for new equity or to get the debt-equity ratio too far out of line . |
| 10 | ‘ Setting ’ , the grouping of children of like ability together to follow a particular study or to master a particular skill is little different from traditional streaming . |
| 11 | They may be used purely for pleasure or to back-up the healing potential of other aromatherapy treatments — particularly helpful for stress-related problems . |
| 12 | In every case that I have examined , the police were involved at a very early stage , before any serious attempt had been made either to assess the reliability of the allegation or to give the accused teacher a chance of refuting it . |
| 13 | It is produced solely to answer a defined question or to solve a defined problem . |
| 14 | Others had so mismanaged their own social work departments that they no longer had sufficient staff to fulfil their minimum statutory responsibilities to children at risk of abuse or to operate the Mental Health Act . |
| 15 | Business decisions whether to buy equipment or to build a new factory depend on the relationship between the rate of interest and the expected rate of return on the project . |
| 16 | It is also important to determine which activities and functions should be housed in the new and old locations especially if the organisation plans to carry out either a phased move or to keep a small presence in the old site after the main move has taken place . |
| 17 | The lines remain constant almost as if in defiance at the narrowing down of life in the actual theme or to provide a strong medium for the subject of the weakness of old age . |
| 18 | This latter tactic often succeeds because of the unwillingness of the deaf person to try to force the point or to contradict the hearing person . |
| 19 | According to comments made by Hurd , this might not necessarily involve the PLO as a negotiating partner and Israel would not be forced to attend a peace conference or to accept an independent Palestinian state as part of any ultimate solution . |
| 20 | may well , well what was the company 's policy , to update in the sales period or to use the same brochure ? |
| 21 | No effort was made to quantify the need or to address a major issue with public sector legal services generally . |
| 22 | An advancement means a sum of money paid to a child to start him in business or to make a permanent provision for him ; it does not include casual payments given as a present or to help to tide over temporary difficulties . |
| 23 | Experts believed that the death toll could have been much higher but for the recently installed early warning system which had allowed time for many people to move to safety or to use the 300 concrete cyclone shelters built under the Cyclone Preparedness Programme , run mainly by the Bangladesh Red Crescent . |
| 24 | Initially , I had to decide how to use the space : whether to place a separate work in each room or to accept the perceptual boundaries of the Duveen Galleries as a given and conceive a work which would deal with the space in its entirety . |
| 25 | It is well worth visiting just as a tourist or to do the five-hour walk along the bottom of the gorge . |
| 26 | An honest belief will always defeat an allegation of malice , unless the plaintiff can prove that the honestly mistaken defendant was activated mainly by a desire to injure the plaintiff or to obtain an improper personal advantage . |
| 27 | Hurdles of metal , split oak , or wattle are very useful for quick repairs to a hedge or wall or to fold a few sheep on rape or turnips ( although they are laborious for the latter . |
| 28 | Just under two-thirds , 63% , agreed that they would use training to prepare themselves either to tackle a new enterprise or to intensify an existing one . |
| 29 | If you have good technique you are free to do whatever you wish … to move your opponents around the court or to use a certain kind of tactic . |
| 30 | Be careful that you do not continue to reject fields at the same time as getting lower and lower until it is too late either to have any selection or to achieve a good approach . |