Example sentences of "or [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a tribute I suppose to the English language that there are so many forms of circumlocution that it is remarkably easy to persuade yourself that you have made a bold statement , or conveyed the bad news , whilst in reality there is no conceivable possibility that the recipient has actually understood what you are talking about . |
| 2 | Common-sense , or rhetorical , thinking involves the raising and dropping of anchors , not to mention the continual arguments about whether to raise or lower the metaphorical anchor at any given moment . |
| 3 | The monograph and exhibition catalogue , broadly discussing the same group of pictures selected from Magritte 's oeuvre , adopt rather different approaches to their subject , and will be favoured , respectively , by a readership enjoying the labyrinthine mind of a great scholar or preferring the clean presentation of information and explanation in a sequence of numbered catalogue entries . |
| 4 | The government found it impossible to refute such charges or change the overwhelming climate of opinion which believed the NHS to be seriously underfunded . |
| 5 | The point that I made to the Committee is that if we wish to reduce the hours of the House or change the sitting times — that is still an open question — it is important that we consider how the time of the House is used at present and to make reductions pro rata . |
| 6 | Re-assign the manager of the package temporarily to the specified user or change the specified user . |
| 7 | No one is going to thank you if you end up making changes which either cause real hardship or bring the political roof in — or manage to do both . |
| 8 | This may involve clearing out the clogged-up holy well , weeding round the markstone so that it can be seen , or encouraging the old tree species and companion plants where a clump is threatened . |
| 9 | Whilst we recognise that the Government does not want local authorities to use development plan policies to limit change of use rights , we believe the final guidance should indicate the special circumstances in which such constraints may be justified , for example , in order to avoid environmental problems or to sustain the traditional employment base of a particular locality . |
| 10 | The objective in doing so is to identify their ‘ true ’ nature or ideal character and distinguish or highlight the corrupt forms which have entered modern political consciousness as a result of rationalistic errors . |
| 11 | Never under-estimate the power of the mind-body , which can either trap or liberate the spiritual aspect of self . |
| 12 | It is often said , persuasively , that men entered into social relations in the course of using or transforming the non-human material world . |
| 13 | Any special educational provision for a child provided with a statement under the 1981 Education Act may exclude or modify the national curriculum . |
| 14 | A group like U2 should be chart material , playing new pop that does n't falsify or perpetuate or enhance the bright fantasy . |
| 15 | When you do not live with anyone else there is no one to nag you about smoking , drinking , eating too much , or eating the wrong things . |
| 16 | Or eating the wrong things ? |
| 17 | In any case , the vacuous character of ( 14 ) and ( 15 ) can apparently be reduced or even made to disappear by various means without changing the elements or touching the intensional relations which bind them together . |
| 18 | Soviet friendship and cooperation treaties with Third World states were intended to displace or counteract the existing alignments and alliances between these states and the Western powers . |
| 19 | The possession of good health is increasingly equated with moral virtue : those who continue to " choose " to smoke , drink or eat the wrong foods are irresponsible and deserving of their fate . |
| 20 | If none of the candidates is suitable or fulfils the basic requirements of the job/personnel description think twice before appointing the best of a bad bunch . |
| 21 | Temperature can be remedied by using hotter solutions , changing hot solutions more frequently , using greater volumes or preheating the soiled surface . |
| 22 | However , when I took to hanging about in the new house , when I watched her while she chatted to her staff and guests , or entertained the local burghers , or genteelly remonstrated with her suppliers and various tradesmen over the phone , I began to see this seeming tact as an extension of that complicity I had long been aware of . |
| 23 | However , they did not always have control over the money or make the key decisions over how it was spent and distributed . |
| 24 | These status relations can interact with , reinforce , or undermine the speaker-hearer relationship . |
| 25 | … the major use of texts which ignore or belittle the traditional interests of girls . |
| 26 | So this is an area where no sort of remedy is obtainable from the attempt to invoke or elicit the natural response of a community to an attack upon its health . |
| 27 | Thus , the issue arose between redistributing work to the inexperienced solicitor or maintaining the experienced trial advocate , the ‘ Baron ’ , who was already in the dominant role . |
| 28 | Dearlove considers the whole pressure for increased scale simply as a cover for regaining or maintaining the influential position of business interests in local government ( Dearlove 1979 ) . |
| 29 | I would be pleased if Council could consider this matter and endorse or amend the proposed approach . |
| 30 | As Banderas struggles to come to terms with the choices being offered him — remaining a serious but relatively obscure actor in European films , or accepting the international stardom Hollywood dangles seductively before him with its accompanying riches and loss of privacy — the roles currently being offered seem eerily appropriate . |