Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] or [vb infin] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Divergent influences may modify or dispel values imbued as a result of parental influence . |
| 2 | If you can not be contacted or do not make acceptable repayment proposals within a reasonable time , we may commence or continue procedures to enforce repayment . |
| 3 | The MEC usually meets for 1½–2 hrs and may discuss or note changes to around 50 student cases . |
| 4 | Should read or write errors occur , this database can be rebuilt from the image copy in conjunction with one of the log files . |
| 5 | However , the applicant must pay or reimburse costs occasioned by the use of the services of a judicial officer ( officier ministérial ) or of a person competent under the law of the state of destination or by the use of a particular method of service . |
| 6 | Generally they must save or enhance lives and offer an advance on current therapy . |
| 7 | President Clinton 's plans to bolster US industry — particularly the high tech sector , begin to look disturbingly corporatist , and the chief executive of the Baby Bells ' Bell Communications Research , George Heilmeier , seems to feel the same way : he told Reuter that the government should certainly spur industry to construct a national information highway but it should not build it itself : ‘ I do n't think the public sector should operate or control networks that are commercial , ’ he said , ‘ I am not in favour of the government building the national information infrastructure . ’ |
| 8 | A subject that always causes controversy is whether headteachers should advise or instruct members of staff on their dress and appearance . |
| 9 | Such visits may confirm or dispel anxieties about living conditions , climate and culture . |
| 10 | Similarly , the existence of an authoritative directive may prevent or delay processes which , but for it , would have undermined the convention . |
| 11 | Also , whilst trade union leaders might want or need laws to strengthen procedures or ‘ conciliation ’ , this might well rebound , since the management side of the dispute supported by the misnamed National Association for Freedom ( NAF ) , will also be pressing for laws — but to curtail workers ' rights . |
| 12 | There was a case for the introduction of much more systematic and thorough random checks : these might detect or deter wrongdoers , although the vast majority of solicitors would be unlikely to risk their livelihoods for trifling amounts ; ‘ more importantly they would … allay public concern and official suspicion about improper use of the green form scheme . ’ |
| 13 | Although his trousers might acquire or lose turnups and more or less leg width ; his shirt evolve from plain white to a variety of colours and patterns , along with minor ( but crucial ) alterations to collar cut ; and his ties perform similar minuets together with the length of his hair , he did not ever , unless actually appearing on stage in Swan Lake , have to make a big thing of — his big thing . |
| 14 | Interest rates could soar , asset prices could fall or cash flows could dry up . |
| 15 | During our rare separations we wrote letters in her manner , whenever we could find or construct conversations to report ; and I corresponded in this way with our friend , the excellent and long unjustly neglected novelist , Barbara Pym . |
| 16 | Improvements can be made in the light of performance and composers may discard or destroy compositions which are found wanting . |
| 17 | After the hectic middle years , couples may renew or begin activities together for which there had not previously been time . |
| 18 | Questions arose as to whether the new regulatory system introduced by the Act would permit or require practices inconsistent with common law fiduciary duties , and , to the extent that it did , the impact this would have on fiduciary duties . |
| 19 | This may seem to violate the definition of policy making as involving more than isolated decisions , yet individual professional judgements of this kind may cluster or have similarities that suggest implicit if not explicit policy decisions that are being made at the operational level . |
| 20 | ‘ When and if the TCCB tell me to resign or change things , then I will resign or change things . |
| 21 | Later , as the student becomes more proficient , she will provide her own feedback and the teacher may delay or withhold comments . |
| 22 | Substitution of specified material may increase or decrease costs to the employer and the engineer should ensure that the employer obtains a refund if a cheaper alternative is used . |
| 23 | the speaker may replace or refine expressions as he goes along : this man + this chap she was going out with |
| 24 | With 3% or 4% , they can make or break policies and governments , as Israel 's religious parties notoriously have done . |
| 25 | Thus UK residents , companies and private individuals can make or receive payments to or from abroad . |
| 26 | Experience in the United States shows that suppliers can evade or manipulate regulations through collusion between managers and clinicians and purchasers are usually in a weaker position to verify the claims suppliers make ( Light 1990 ) Effective enforcement is difficult and costly . |
| 27 | Criterion 5b The pupil can compare or order objects when the lengths are given . |
| 28 | He is the most important man in the wine lodge and can smoke or drink spirits only in moderation so as not to spoil his palate . |
| 29 | He was relying on the earlier case of Nichol v Martyn [ 1799 ] 2 Esp 732 , but in Wessex Dairies Ltd v Smith [ 1935 ] 2 KB 80 Maugham LJ cast doubt on both those judgments and so far as the modern law is concerned they should not be relied on to the extent that they indicate the employee can canvass or issue circulars to customers of his employer before he leaves . |
| 30 | This clause states that EC members can limit or ban imports on grounds including public morality , order , safety and health . |