Example sentences of "or [to-vb] [pron] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People often ask questions to bolster your status as presenter or to bolster their own status in the audience . |
| 2 | It was only then , for example , that John Bright , busy Member of Parliament , revealed that his stepmother , who had lived alone as a widow for nearly thirty years to the age of 95 , the last ten years blind , was visited daily by his own wife ‘ to chat with her and to cheer with her in her solitude and blindness , or to render her any help in her power . ’ |
| 3 | Members have the opportunity to paint or sketch from still-life arrangements or a model or to choose their own subject matter . |
| 4 | In Rosa Luxemburg 's view this forced nations either to be assimilated into an existing empire or to create their own empire . |
| 5 | To make a profit , drug dealers sell you short measures or mix all sorts of dangerous materials in with drugs to give them a bigger share of the profits or to finance their own drug habits . |
| 6 | Do you prefer structure in your exercise or to do your own thing ? |
| 7 | If the tribunal decides that the dismissal was unfair then it has the power to order the employer to give the employee his old job back or to give him another job . |
| 8 | At the same time they have been reluctant to support the extension of legal aid in libel cases , or to put their own house in order by strengthening the Press Council ( see Chapter 13 ) . |
| 9 | Or to put it another way : on the representational theory of mind , all learning is the testing of hypotheses which are already represented in the mind in some form ( for instance as sentences ) . |
| 10 | Or to put it another way , it 's like a Birmingham City player when … |
| 11 | He put it as follows : ‘ Marxism is essentially atheistic , or to put it another way : it is atheism which provides the radical aspect of the Marxist philosophy of life . |
| 12 | Or to put it another way , let us see how badly Miss Honey has taught you the three-times table . ’ |
| 13 | Doctors are expected to assess medical needs ; nurses are themselves expert at assessing nursing need , or to put it another way , at assessing the need for nursing aspects of care . |
| 14 | The theme of mutual advantage rather than a sense of duty in financial relationships between kin again emerges from this example ; or to put it another way , it suggests that historically in Britain financial relationships between adult kin have been regarded typically as two-way exchange rather than one-way support . |
| 15 | Or to put it another way , he maintained that Marxism can only constitute its totality through its perpetual detours from itself . |
| 16 | Or to put it another way : is there an ‘ East German history of art ’ which is fundamentally different from our own ? |
| 17 | Or to put it another way : would you swap Albert Reynolds for a used Charlie Haughey ? |
| 18 | Or to put it another way , the analysis lacks both a sense of humanism and a theory of ideology . |
| 19 | In fact even if one succeeds in dissociating oneself from some of the more romantic claims that are made on its behalf it 's easy to get the discouraging impression that communication without words is after all a residual topic and that once orthodox language has been subtracted all that is left is a rubbish heap of nudges , shrugs , pouts , sighs , winks and glances — or to put it another way that non-verbal communication is simply the behavioural exhaust thrown out of the rear end of an extremely high-tech linguistic machine . |
| 20 | ‘ What the rule of compulsion seems to require is that there is no practical choice but to pay in the circumstances , or to put it another way , before a payment will be regarded as involuntary there must be some natural or threatened exercise of power possessed by the party receiving it over the person or property of the taxpayer for which he has no immediate relief than to make the payment … |
| 21 | Why was this allowed to happen ; or to put it another way , why were issues of distribution within society put into second place ? |
| 22 | Or to put it another way , an extra 6MB free on a 40MB disk . |
| 23 | Or to put it another way : a nude ( bar the dog-collar ) clergyman , a semi-undressed nun and a loud , blowsy tart fighting a losing battle to stay inside a Marks & spencer blouse at least two sizes too small . |
| 24 | This may be true , or to put it another way , this may be trew . |
| 25 | Perfect as a present for your mother or to complement your own wardrobe , each piece is fashioned in 9 carat gold and designed specifically to be co-ordinated within a Suite or worn on its own . |
| 26 | Also the plaintiff 's doctor may be present if he has some active part to play , for example to explain a long and complicated medical history , his own diagnosis or to bring his own evidence up to date . |
| 27 | When we advocate euthanasia is it to stop pain or to prevent our own distress at having to watch it ? |