Example sentences of "or [vb base] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A cross spirituality will ensure that you and I are never tempted to follow fashions and fads in church life which , attractive though they may seem , ignore the cross or push it to one side . |
| 2 | What this argument suggests in Gandhi 's case is that he does not abandon his commitment to the principle of non-violence or qualify it in any way when he approves the destruction of life . |
| 3 | Taking orders without question removed the need to make decisions or involve himself with external matters . |
| 4 | Unlike Sam , or even me for that matter , he could admire a girl from afar , and leave it at that . |
| 5 | My Lord , erm those are , those are my submissions my Lord , I was going to say something about my learned friends somewhat unusual request to your Lordship to make disparaging comments in judgment about the defendants case , my learned friend wishes to make disparaging comments we save a proper place for those in his submissions when he comes to apply to strike out , or say anything about that , erm , my Lord erm perhaps erm as a , as a final point , erm Mr Bernard after having reviewed a piano recital once wrote , the only thing he enjoyed more than this directive performance was having his teeth pulled , I think your Lordship has not found that the last five and a half days are equally an under defended experience in relation to , to this mornings sir activity |
| 6 | All of that gives it a very encouraging sure-footedness once you try to throw it around a corner or two , or test it on poor road conditions . |
| 7 | Another stimulus to the market has come from issuers buying back bonds , to retire the debt entirely or swap it for new equity . |
| 8 | The embalmer helped them replace the planks , and then fussed about whether to sweep up and re-use the original natron , or replace it with fresh salt . |
| 9 | If anything happened to the computer and it proved impossible to get at the data inside , you could go to your back-up diskettes and simply copy the data back into the computer when it had been repaired , or replaced , or put it onto another computer . |
| 10 | Tear the slip out and hand it in at any Midland branch ; or put it in one of the AutoDeposit machines that have been installed at a number of our branches . |
| 11 | If it is emptying too slowly you can burn some of the holes a bit bigger with a cigarette end or cut them into wider slots with a knife or pair of scissors . |
| 12 | Are you going to use credit insurance , take your chances , use some of the methods already described or cover yourself by some other method ? |
| 13 | If you need to teach people or compel them in some other way to repress their natural demand for acknowledgement as rational , competent , authoritative human beings then you have no answer to the charge of some malefaction between bad faith and dreadful wickedness . |
| 14 | Indeed we no longer hang men for anything , or kill them by any other method . |
| 15 | Figs 3 and 4 were generated by a flexible PostScript generator , show , which can either summarize the entire data-set on a single page , or show it in greater detail spread over several pages . |
| 16 | If a fond mum sends you back after a weekend at home with your favourite fruit cake , do you keep it in a tin under the bed and eat it secretly , or demolish it at one swoop by sharing it with others ? |
| 17 | Plain white tiles are the cheapest : brighten them up with coloured grouting , or mix them with other plain tiles to build up an eye-catching pattern |
| 18 | Er Lewis and Ramprakash there , so the umpire 's view is somewhat impeded , Lawrence in from the pavilion end , bowls to , oh the full length , and he 's off the mark with four , steers that down to deep third man , there is no deep third man , and er he indulges in a little token trot to the other end , but no one was going to chase that or , or stop it by any stretch of imagination , four , the total a hundred and sixteen for three . |
| 19 | If you are planning to run the new cables temporarily on the surface up or down the walls , simply clip them in place with cable clips , or run them in slimline plastic minitrunking stuck to the wall surface . |
| 20 | If this is not possible , either cut a chase in the plaster ( horizontally or vertically , but never diagonally ) and bury the cable , or run it in surface-mounted mini-trunking , fixed to the top edge of the skirting board or to the wall surface . |
| 21 | Just because they are OK with you it does n't mean you are blind to their inadequacies or view them through rose-coloured spectacles . |
| 22 | For all its strengths , the game has a few flaws — you ca n't drop objects or give them to another character . |
| 23 | us fifty winters more or drop us at this one now |
| 24 | Alternatively , the exporter could seek a loan against it or negotiate it to another party in settlement of a domestic trade debt . |
| 25 | As well as good documentation and ‘ driving ’ information for the user , as described on page 35 , it is also very important to document the computer program as a further aid to those who wish to understand how the program works or modify it in some way . |
| 26 | But these two books do not contain new scientific or technical information or add anything to existing knowledge of the environment and medical consequences of Chernobyl . |
| 27 | In a smart purple and green gift box for £2.50 , they make a lovely present , or enjoy them with after-dinner coffee . |
| 28 | ( iii ) Where the notepaper of an English or Welsh office of the practice includes neither a designation of the practice ( see paragraph 6(b) above ) nor a list of the partners or directors , the statement required by sub-paragraph ( b ) ( i ) ( B ) above must also state that the partners or directors are ( as the case may be ) solicitors and registered foreign lawyers , or describe them in such other terms which , as applied to those partners or directors , would be permitted by paragraph 6(b) ( i ) or ( ii ) above . |
| 29 | Something within him seemed to collapse but he did n't outwardly fall to pieces or rant or rave or even again try to pull out the arrow or finish me in any other way . |
| 30 | The Profiles section gives some fleshed-out NPCs , but you can easily develop your own or import them from other WFRP products if you wish . |