Example sentences of "or [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The distinction between public law and private law can , therefore , be used either to accord government special privileges , or to impose on it special responsibilities and duties and to subject it to special controls . |
| 2 | Is the first aim to make money ( we must obviously avoid losing it ! ) or to provide for our personal needs ? |
| 3 | An issue that typically divides them — and caused the largest opposition group , the Democratic Party , to split at its congress last month — is whether to compromise with the Communists or to work for their complete removal . |
| 4 | To have heard Rachmaninov play hisown or any other Russian music or to listen to his orchestral works is to realise he was a passionate musician , loving his art and giving his all to express the joys and sorrows , the tender and brutal moods and all the emotions to which man is subject . |
| 5 | For any moment of weakness in the fortunes of a great house — the minority of William the Conqueror , the early years of Fulk le Réchin — provided the perfect opportunity for castellans to establish their hereditary rights , or to exercise for their own benefit prerogatives which had hitherto brought profit to the princes . |
| 6 | Or to look at it another way — we are little men , we do n't know the ins and outs of the matter , there are wheels within wheels , etcetera — it wold be presumptuous of us to interfere with the designs of fate or even of kings . |
| 7 | The removal of this will mean that thousands of residents will be unable to obtain the legal assistance in matters like arranging family visits or to look into their own circumstances . |
| 8 | ‘ I did n't ask to get hit on the head — or to intrude on your private property , Dr Vaughan . ’ |
| 9 | Dialogues are carried on to tell the reader something he must know , or to infuse into him some explanations of a writer . |
| 10 | Mr asked why we should close our homes and let private homes profit erm , if people choose either to go into the private sector or to stay into their own homes , what are we supposed to do tell them they 've got no choice but to keep our substandard homes going ? |