Example sentences of "to buy or [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Football was used as a way of encouraging working people to buy or hire televisions in the 1950s with the slogan ‘ When they are talking about the big match on TV will you have to remain silent ? ’ |
| 2 | Similarly , it 's no good discovering that you are going to need an autocue and a slide projector when there 's no money left to buy or hire them , or that your guest speaker will only fly first class when you 've allocated £200 in your budget for his travel costs because someone vaguely remembered that £200 was the ‘ Apex fare ’ . |
| 3 | The Video book was never intended for broadcast ; it is made from library film footage transferred to disc and tape for video issue , and aimed at the relatively limited number of people who will want to buy or hire it . |
| 4 | Bishop , never one to duck a challenge , agreed to cooperate in a South African-led venture which enables anybody with the cash to buy or hire a small walkman-like receiver to tune into the ref during the match . |
| 5 | Recognised junior equipment is also available to buy or hire at many RYA centres . |
| 6 | ‘ In the last year some of the rooms have been transformed , because we actually encourage clients to buy or bring in their own beds . |
| 7 | This is a trading practice ( more common on the Continent than in the United Kingdom ) whereby a trader organises a coach or boat trip and then during the trip gets the travellers to buy or offer to buy goods or services . |
| 8 | That is like making people fork out VAT for goods they ca n't afford to buy or pay income tax on wages they have n't had . |
| 9 | Under ‘ mass-production ’ conditions the industry was obliged to keep its labour-teams steadily employed , moving in a planned succession from one undertaking to another , and progressively brought down its costs to reach an ever-widening circle of demand for homes to buy or rent at economic figures . |
| 10 | More important was the status of loans raised to buy or rent land and erect a stadium . |
| 11 | Other people may decide to buy or rent a house or flat in a modern purpose-built sheltered or clustered estate . |
| 12 | There are few 8mm table-top VCRs around simply because there are as yet virtually no pre-recorded tapes in this format to buy or rent . |
| 13 | Mr Smith said : ‘ People should enjoy , as a right of citizenship and not as a privilege of wealth , the opportunity of a good education , the chance to find a decent job with decent pay , the opportunity to buy or rent a decent home . |
| 14 | A fundamental question to be considered when embarking on any form of business is whether to buy or rent the business premises . |
| 15 | Next month I 'll be looking at how to use you 're spreadsheet to work out whether its more cost effective to buy or rent property . |
| 16 | Consumer-orientated , it invited listeners to write in about anything they had found difficult to buy or do and were wanting to know why . |
| 17 | Like other companies we would not be allowed to buy or lease in our own right and so we would have to take on non-producing quota holders to encourage farmers who regularly lease quota themselves to join our supply pool , ’ said Mr Ross , whose aim is to secure some 15 per cent of Scottish milk production . |
| 18 | Department of Social Security mobility payments to buy or lease a car . |
| 19 | They are n't cheap to buy or send , and they clutter up the house . |
| 20 | The Ercoupe/Aircoupe , call it what you like , is a simple , safe , sturdy and economical little two-seater that flies nicely , wo n't break the bank to buy or operate , and could , with a bit of arm-twisting at CAA and PFA headquarters , go on to a Permit to Fly — especially the older versions . |
| 21 | If you fancy your chances at bigger shows but ca n't afford to buy or keep a top class horse , think about a registered Mountain and Moorland for a fraction of the price . |
| 22 | Following his failure to buy or seize Socotra , Haines convinced the government of Bombay that Aden could be made into both a strategic and a great commercial centre . |
| 23 | This bearish tactic does not work as well as in a stock market , for art works are widely dispersed , and decisions to buy or sell may be thoroughly unpredictable . |
| 24 | No miller was allowed to buy or sell grain or flour except surplus toll corn until after the reign of Elizabeth I and although the influence of the soke began to wane during the seventeenth century , toll-in-kind was not replaced by a monetary charge until an act of 1796 . |
| 25 | Each contract covers the right to buy or sell 1,000 Dixons shares at a given price in the future . |
| 26 | Should an instrument come with an option attached allowing investors to buy or sell at particular prices ? |
| 27 | There is plenty of choice for the investor who wants to dispense with a broker 's advice and simply issue specific instructions to buy or sell shares and deal with settlement . |
| 28 | For a business to buy or sell goods within the Community without incurring EC VAT , the seller must obtain his customer 's VAT number . |
| 29 | Central banks agreed to buy or sell unlimited amounts of currency at points 1 per cent either side of their established par values , although the mere fact that they were prepared and willing to do this was often sufficient to limit the extent to which they had to intervene in practice . |
| 30 | The parity grid arrangement is similar in its operation to the snake in that absolute intervention points are set for each member currency against every other at which central banks are obliged to buy or sell their own currencies . |