Example sentences of "[to-vb] or [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any conscript who may have wanted to go to the Gulf would have had to volunteer or to join the Foreign Legion , the paratroops or the naval infantry — units which are all made up entirely of volunteers . |
| 2 | ‘ To be neutral … is to do one 's best to help or to hinder the various parties concerned in an equal degree . ’ |
| 3 | The Christian church had never set up its own system of education to rival or to parallel the available secular educational provision . |
| 4 | A range of policy innovations were needed to overcome or to moderate the urban problems . |
| 5 | Upon receipt of such written , telefaxed or telexed claim , or its agent or representative shall have the right to test or to inspect the Licensed Software at its then location or to have the Licensed Software despatched to a point designated by or returned to carriage pre-paid . |
| 6 | In all these societies there are contradictory movements , either to limit or to expand the social services ; movements which take place in what are still substantially free market economies , but raise the question whether there can be any further development of the welfare state without restricting still more the operation of the market and eventually creating a more socialist type of economy in which public ownership of some major productive resources and financial institutions , and more extensive planning , would have a larger role . |