Example sentences of "or [vb base] their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or make their extra money . |
| 2 | Fewer people grow their own vegetables or make their own soup . |
| 3 | Lords of the manor would either flatten the encroaching village and build a new one some distance away , or build their new house on a different site in pastoral isolation . |
| 4 | Currently , real-time operating systems tend to be optimised for either low end , mid-range or high end applications , and customers either buy VRTX , go somewhere else or build their own system . |
| 5 | Add to this the fact that many people no longer have the time to bake their own bread and cakes or grow their own vegetables and you will see how the situation has changed even in the years since the end of the war . |
| 6 | When music historians coin or appropriate their own terms ( e.g. Ars Nova ) , they themselves can define the stylistic and chronological boundaries and guarantee that the two are congruent . |
| 7 | The largest group works full-time outside the home , while others work part-time or at home , or run their own businesses ( 8% ) , sometimes from home . |
| 8 | At the close of the Ecclesiastical History Bede wrote that such serious commotions had characterized the beginning and course of the reign that it was impossible to know what to say about them or anticipate their eventual outcome ( HE V , 23 ) . |
| 9 | There are those whose keenest pleasures in their job are to be found outside the class-room , in informal contacts with their pupils , where they may be able to exercise their own skills or pursue their own hobbies while helping others enjoy the same pleasures . |
| 10 | Work , at this level , becomes greatly affected by the new type of vertical integration which demands that knowledge workers manage or monitor their own activity to a much greater extent . |
| 11 | The Assembly resolved , for the first time , to eliminate leprosy as a public health problem by the year 2000 and called on the 93 countries where leprosy was endemic " to further increase or maintain their political commitment " to leprosy control . |
| 12 | Reminding the Assembly that the Soviet Union had stopped production of chemical weapons , Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze on Sept. 26 proposed that the Soviet Union and the United States bilaterally reduce or destroy their chemical weapons ; and that they renounce use of such weapons , under any circumstances , as the first step towards their global elimination . |
| 13 | When the Frankish armies entered Saxony , the Saxons usually hid in the endless forests or untracked marshlands ; there they simply waited until the Franks had marched through , and emerged either to harry from behind or continue their nomadic life in another area . |
| 14 | For this reason , our holiday prices are aimed to entice those who usually fly or use their own car to travel on superbly comfortable coaches as the means of reaching resorts and regions where tourism has not exceeded sustainable levels . |
| 15 | Their search in no way means that they are dissatisfied with their adopted home or love their adopted parents any the less . |
| 16 | We often ignore that aspect , but as people get older many return to , or strengthen their religious views . |
| 17 | How many people try to compensate for a sense of inadequacy or restore their personal confidence by going and buying themselves something whenever they feel miserable ? |
| 18 | Many pilots undershoot or overshoot their chosen spot by large margins . |
| 19 | ‘ Citizen advocacy ’ is a voluntary movement where coordinating staff train selected volunteers to represent the interests of specific individuals , and ‘ legal advocacy ’ is a specialized legal service directed at ensuring individuals exercise or defend their legal rights . |
| 20 | Some of the landowning agencies that are most restrictive are those which might be thought to be answerable to the public , or have their best interests at heart : the Forestry Commission , the Ministry of Defence and sometimes even the National Trust come to mind . |
| 21 | Some of the landowning agencies that are most restrictive are those which might be though to be answerable to the public , or have their best interests at heart : the Forestry Commission , the Ministry of Defence and sometimes even the National Trust come to mind . |
| 22 | To date , in certain areas of company law , minimum standards have been laid down at Community level , and apply to companies throughout the EC , irrespective of where they are incorporated or have their central administration . |