Example sentences of "[to-vb] or [to-vb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is an offence to demolish or to alter a listed building unless listed building consent has been obtained . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ To be neutral … is to do one 's best to help or to hinder the various parties concerned in an equal degree . ’ |
| 4 | The Christian church had never set up its own system of education to rival or to parallel the available secular educational provision . |
| 5 | Within the UK it remains ultimately the prerogative of a politically accountable minister to decide , acting upon the advice of the bureaucracy , whether to permit or to forbid a particular merger . |
| 6 | By contrast , within EC policy the element of political discretion is much less , since the decision to permit or to forbid an investigated merger is a matter for the administration . |
| 7 | A petition can only be presented in respect of a debt if ( s 267(2) ) : ( i ) the amount of the debt or the aggregate of the debts is equal to or exceeds the bankruptcy level ( defined in 5267(4) as £750 but subject to change by the Secretary of State ) , ( ii ) the debt of each of the debts is for a liquidated sum payable either immediately or at some future time and is unsecured , ( iii ) the debtor appears unable to pay or to have no reasonable prospect of being able to pay the debt or debts , and ( iv ) there is no outstanding application to set aside a statutory demand served under s 268 ( see section 4 ( c ) below ) . |
| 8 | A range of policy innovations were needed to overcome or to moderate the urban problems . |
| 9 | Even Francis Fairlie , the man they all joke about because he can never make up his mind to marry or to start a serious career or to buy a house or to do anything else that may define and announce his character to the world — even Francis Fairlie has managed to get himself here ! |
| 10 | This knowledge can direct decisions to attempt or to abandon a particular opportunity . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |