Example sentences of "or [verb] [to-vb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reckless driving , contrary to section 2 of the Road Traffic Act 1972 , is committed where D 's driving creates an obvious and serious risk of causing physical injury to some other person or of doing substantial damage to property , and where D either saw the risk or failed to give any thought to the risk . |
| 2 | ‘ The justices however failed to make any determination , or failed to make any finding or state any reasons for finding as to whether ( i ) there was any genuine alternative to the making of a secure accommodation order ; ( ii ) all other alternatives had been comprehensively considered and rejected . |
| 3 | Request earliest information whether approved policy is to despatch to SHAEF or to endeavour to secure direct return to Russians by Eighth Army negotiations . |
| 4 | When you need a quick change of role — or want to take extra time to look stunning — start with your hairstyle . |
| 5 | But if you want a specific remedial programme for one child , or want to find one pupil 's strengths and weaknesses , the analysis is the best way . |
| 6 | 5.1.1 to pay the rents on the days and in the manner set out in this Lease and not to exercise or seek to exercise any right or claim to withhold rent or any right or claim to legal or equitable set-off |
| 7 | thought or expect to demonstrate one point |
| 8 | Applicants should hold , or expect to obtain this year , a degree of at least good second-class honours standard in an appropriate Arts or Social Sciences subject . |
| 9 | I watched as my veiled friends chatted busily to each other or rose to greet some relative , touching burgah to burgah , then fluttered down again like so many birds of paradise . |
| 10 | However , many passages have been updated , or changed to reflect modern thinking , in accordance with my greater experience of a wider range of model types . |
| 11 | This system has produced violently fluctuating interest rates , and one suspects that it is either the result of incredible stupidity or designed to discredit monetary policy . |
| 12 | Smith allocated orders to bring in new manufacturers where the existing ones proved excessively unreliable in breaking delivery promises or refusing to build new capacity . |
| 13 | He asked parliament whether he should proceed to assert his own authority over Scotland , or seek to persuade one side or the other there to acknowledge English superiority . |
| 14 | In British terms that means reflecting the multifarious ways in which speech and gesture reveal or seek to conceal social status and social pretension : and in a fast-shifting , highly unrigid world like the British , status is far more often a matter of pretension than of birth . |
| 15 | A ministry that enjoyed royal confidence could generally take the House of Lords for grated , and provided it did not prove incompetent or seek to impose excessive taxation , " its position was unassailable in the Commons . " |
| 16 | ( ii ) on either party assigning or attempting to assign this Agreement other than to a subsidiary or associated company . |
| 17 | There appeared to be little difference between broad subject areas in the propensity of research students to be in or waiting to enter arranged employment . |
| 18 | If it is invested in physical capital for the public sector or used to retire outstanding government debt , it is not at all imprudent . |
| 19 | Typographically highlighted phrases , whether unqualified or used to mark linguistic emphasis , foreign words , titles etc. ; |
| 20 | Mainly it will be the mathematics , science or computer studies teachers or the keen sixth-formers who are intrigued or stimulated to write such software . |
| 21 | For most people this introduction took place in early childhood , and the failure is made manifest by the steady disillusionment which , all too often as the years go by and adulthood brings the inevitable struggle of innate common sense to prevail , leaves them either cynical and faithless , or constrained to join some form of sectarian cult . |
| 22 | Also called virgin or extra virgin , according to acidity Oils , olive , grapeseed , sesame etc p29/ Culinary oils with characteristic flavours for various culinary uses Olives p42/ The fruits of the olive tree , eaten when ripe or crushed to make olive oil Olives , Marinated Green p44 Organic Foods p85/ Foods produced without the use of chemical at any stage , either to fertilise the land or to treat the crops or the food Oriental Beef p54 Osso Bucco p58 |
| 23 | A child or adult may need special training or retraining to overcome physical disability arising from developmental fault or injury , which may entail learning to use artificial limbs or other prosthetic aids . |
| 24 | We could modify either LA or SEGLAB to reduce this problem . |
| 25 | The child may gravitate to the parent that is easier to manipulate or try to play one parent off against the other . |
| 26 | Taking things for granted or failing to seek new understanding indicates a lost opportunity for adding to the store of experience . |
| 27 | Gabriel 's use of colour is sublime , often radiantly transparent , and occasionally accentuated by the addition of sand or tar to give full impact to the overall artistic image . |
| 28 | 1.6.1 not to incur any liability on behalf of or in any way pledge or purport to pledge 's credit or purport to make any contract binding upon ; |
| 29 | Anything in writing is a guarantee if it " contains or purports to contain some promise or assurance " ( s5(2) ( b ) ) . |
| 30 | The choice for us was whether to take a strike unprepared or to live to fight another day . |