Example sentences of "or [to-vb] [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Known as ‘ the little onion ’ , this herb is best used raw in salad dressings , or added to dips and sauces , or to flavour savoury butter and egg dishes . |
| 2 | His remarks came as Labour employment spokesman , Mr Henry McLeish , denied reports that the party was considering replacing the automatic payment of welfare benefits with a policy which would require many unemployed either to find a job or to accept full-time training or higher education . |
| 3 | One consequence of the breadth of this definition is that it has been held to cover psychological harm — where D causes V to become hysterical or to suffer substantial fear or fright , for example . |
| 4 | He learnt how to make love in complete silence or to talk all night if that was what the other man wanted . |
| 5 | In an eloquent speech he dwelt on the reluctance of the adult deaf to attend divine service or to receive moral instruction and on the " appalling " lack of religious knowledge amongst the younger generation . |
| 6 | Alright , so his friends call him ‘ Borrie ’ and he believes he has a God-given right to opine on any subject and be published , or to criticise any work and be broadcast . |
| 7 | It is a grim indictment ( and I do apologise to him if I am wrong ) but he seems not to read Latin or to use any source except in translation . |
| 8 | He cautions against assuming that the only ways to implement effective reform are to start from scratch ( as with McMaster 's course , utilising problem based learning in small groups ) or to adopt wholesale change as at Harvard . |
| 9 | Thus the teacher-in-role can decide from moment to moment whether to carry the burden of the pupils ' protection — ‘ My men ( a group of ‘ passive ’ children ) have this to say to you' is to be totally protective — or to remove that protection and hand over the power : ‘ My men have something to say to you … ! ’ |
| 10 | Those who claim to see the past or future or to have clear sight or understanding of present events without the use of normal senses . |
| 11 | Or to say one thing while he was thinking another . |
| 12 | He has no power to order discovery of documents or the attendance of witnesses or to make any order as to costs ( unless such power is expressly conferred on him by the lease ) ; and if he dies or becomes incapable or unwilling to continue , it is doubtful whether another expert could be appointed under the lease . |
| 13 | erm certainly numerically controlled machine tools , they 've been with us for a number of years now and there 's no doubt about it that micro-electronics is having an influence , or advances in micro-electronics are having a way in which they are implemented , but I feel applications of that type it requires quite a large amount of flexibility in being able to program it to set up one machine , program it differently to set up another machine , say , or to produce one component and another component and so on , so that I think there one is thinking and looking at a more sophisticated type of computer than , say , a simple microcomputer that we 've been talking about earlier . |
| 14 | Skegg , though putting it differently , argues that there is a justification available to the doctor , provided two conditions are satisfied : ‘ first that the procedure is necessary to save the life of the child , to prevent permanent injury to his health , or to prevent prolonged pain and suffering . |