Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] or [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Law of Property Act 1925 s84 makes provision for application to the court in such a case to modify or discharge the restrictions , and now , under the Law of Property Act 1969 , similar powers are given to the Lands Tribunal on grounds that the restriction impedes a use of the land that would be reasonable . |
| 2 | A decision to cut or pass the dividend will be especially painful for Costain because of the blow it will be for the 91 per cent of shareholders who took up last year 's rights issue and because Costain will be only the second major contractor , after John Laing , to cut the pay-out . |
| 3 | Do you know of any cases where the desire for success has led a scientist to falsify or misinterpret , either unintentionally , or deliberately . |
| 4 | A decision not to prescribe or an underestimate of need , with justified caution , may aggravate or precipitate a distressing withdrawal state , which a doctor has a responsibility to prevent or relieve and may make the prisoner unfit to be interviewed . |
| 5 | We 're half a mile long and young and old and white and black and girl and boy , looking for a monster to kill or create . |
| 6 | By the Criminal Law Act 1977 s. 6 , it is a crime to use or threaten violence for the purposes of securing entry to any premises occupied by another , except by a displaced residential occupier . |
| 7 | The court may allow a defendant to withdraw or amend a first admission at any time on such terms as may be just ( Ord 9 , r 2(4) ) . |
| 8 | Such a system could incorporate images to be construed ; hold relevant information to be drawn upon as required ; include a capacity to enlarge or select from the image under consideration ; provide cues aimed at stimulating a search for undiscovered features or ideas and be partially interactive in a non-verbal mode by means of direct pointing with a light pen . |
| 9 | In 1961 , while working as anaesthetics research registrar at the Westminster Hospital , Manley designed a machine to monitor or assist breathing during anaesthesia and other forms of unconsciousness . |
| 10 | His father had decided while his son was still very young to give him instruction in using a steerage-drill , a machine to drill or sow the corn : this was an operation that demanded a high degree of skill and also care not to jeopardize one 's own reputation because any mistake one made in the drilling would be visible to all when the crop came up . |
| 11 | In other cases there were no restrictions on numbers of temporary workers or the duration of their employment , merely a requirement to inform or consult about their use . |
| 12 | Each output pin of a can sink or source a current of 35mA. , provided that the chip 's total power dissipation does not exceed 750mW As the SRAM can draw about 70mA when fully active , power is supplied to it via two lines of IC3 , along paths A7/Y7 and A8/Y8 . |
| 13 | Federal funding for the arts occupies a tiny part of the national budget , but in the last administration became a cause celèbre when the question of National Endowment for the Arts ' occasional support for provocative and sexually explicit art aroused the fury of conservatives led by Senator Jesse Helms , who whipped up popular support for a move to curb or cut the N.E.A. 's budget . |
| 14 | the attaching or refusal to attach a condition under s.38(3) or 5.101(2) of the Act , the right of appeal being conferred on applicants and unsuccessful competent objectors who appeared at the hearing ( s. 17(6) ) , a refusal to affirm or declare final a provisional grant ( s.26(10) ) , the right of appeal being limited to the applicant , the making of a suspension order ( s.31(8) ) or a closure order ( s.32(7) , the right of appeal being limited to the licence-holder ) , the suspending of a licence under s.36 where the licence-holder fails to execute structural alterations , the refusal to cancel such a suspension ( s.36(8) , the right of appeal being limited to the licence-holder ) , the decisions referred to in 5.44 relating to seamen 's canteens ( the right of appeal being limited to the licence-holder or the applicant ) , the making of a restriction order ( s.65(8) ) , the right of appeal being limited to the registered club , or licence-holder concerned and any complainer who appeared at the hearing , the granting or refusal of an application by a public house licence-holder for Sunday opening at the premises ( the right of appeal being conferred on both an unsuccessful applicant and an unsuccessful objector ( Sched. 4 , Part I , paras . |
| 15 | A refusal to correct or apologise for an obvious mistake will enlarge the damages , as will the seriousness of the libel and the degree to which it is repeated . |
| 16 | Gandhi would regard it as a failure to preserve or maintain the function of symbols and a degeneration of their purpose . |
| 17 | as a place to visit or plan to visit |
| 18 | For a business to buy or sell goods within the Community without incurring EC VAT , the seller must obtain his customer 's VAT number . |
| 19 | 6.5 Each Party shall be entitled at the completion of the Project to require delivery up of all copies of any information originating from it except information which the recipient in each case has a right to retain or use for the purposes of clause [ Exploitation of Results ] . |
| 20 | No one has a right to foster or adopt . |
| 21 | The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this , namely , that Parliament thus defined has , under the English constitution , the right to make or unmake any law whatever ; and , further , that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament . |
| 22 | Parliamentary sovereignty , he wrote , meant that Parliament had " the right to make or unmake any law whatever ; and , further , that no person or body is recognized by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament . " |
| 23 | A horse lacking in sensory stimulation ( not necessarily a need to chase or chew cows ! ) is likely to become very depressed or anxious , will possibly go off its food , and even become ill . |
| 24 | Should there be a need to visit or receive advice from the clinic , arrangements should be made through the Personnel Department . |
| 25 | The offence must be a ‘ serious arrestable ’ one ; the investigation must be being ‘ conducted diligently and expeditiously ’ ; and there must be a need to secure or preserve evidence or ‘ to obtain such evidence by questioning him ’ [ emphasis added ] . |
| 26 | They should be encouraged by the tax system and give from a desire to share or spread pleasure rather than a sense of guilt or duty . |
| 27 | When you analyze their conscious , , you discover that all the changes and the rewritings level after a tendentious purpose to hide certain things and to keep certain things in the repressed and the same is true o of the Bible , in other words all these rewritings and were not just random , they were often motivated by a desire to hide or change certain things . |
| 28 | • I have also resisted the temptation to dose up the pond every time I saw a fish flick or flash . |
| 29 | The consequence could be a reluctance to enter or remain in hospital care or pressure to prematurely dispose of a home . |
| 30 | It may , in certain circumstances , be lawful for a person to kill or injure an animal belonging to another if this is necessary for the protection of his livestock or crops . |