Example sentences of "or [noun] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further , although after the initial period the prosecutor may direct police investigation , it is doubtful that prosecutors will have the time or expertise to give more than general directions , thus leaving the police to do the job according to their lights . |
| 2 | Few of us have the time , training , or expertise to do this job properly , even if it were possible to do it for a population as small as 10 000 people — which it is not . |
| 3 | The Environmental Protection Act requires the installation of new pollution abatement equipment , and despite assurances by David Trippier , Minister of State for the Environment , the federation is concerned that neither HM Pollution Inspectorate nor local authorities have adequate staff or expertise to advise individual companies on how the legislation will affect them . |
| 4 | The masses just do not have the information or expertise to interpret social problems , let alone to propose solutions for them . |
| 5 | He recorded verdicts of accidental death and urged anyone who dumps a fridge or freezer to make sure the door hinges were smashed so the tragedy could n't be repeated . |
| 6 | If , for instance , guests used a swimming pool at a hotel after dark , it is clear that they have by so doing stepped outside the scope of their invitation or permission to use that part of the premises , and a duty is not owed to them . |
| 7 | This is because activities that run counter to expected norms need seclusion or invisibility to permit unsanctioned performance , and because the peculiar identities are sometimes impossible to realise in the absence of the appropriate setting . |
| 8 | It 's important when communicating with people of other races or cultures to use simple language and make sure they can understand you . |
| 9 | A main remedy for croup , especially if it follows taking cold or exposure to dry cold winds I or 2 days previously . |
| 10 | Hence the confusion evident in situations where superior military might has little utility — the economic challenge of Japan , the European Community 's recalcitrance in negotiations over the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) or attempts to agree global policy on environmental issues at the June 1992 Earth Summit . |
| 11 | Similarly , equalisation of wage rates or attempts to impose common conditions in labour markets through mechanisms such as the Social Charter might also have this same effect ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 12 | The possibility of mutually advantageous trade which standard competitive theory would associate with point A is devoid of operational significance , not through any unwillingness on the part of workers or employers to exploit such an opportunity , but through their impotence to affect the only price that matters in this market , the real wage rate . |
| 13 | However , in order to take advantage of such guarantees , the customer would have to sign and return a portion of the guarantee form or certificate to signify that , in consideration of the granting of the guarantee , he would accept that his legal remedies against the manufacturer were limited to the express ones contained in the guarantee . |
| 14 | It provides for these organisations or groups to put forward proposals for academic research . |
| 15 | I do n't think there is any shortage of venture capital or money to back good propositions . |
| 16 | But there needs to be a commitment on the part of the college or course to give more time and greater attention to music 's role in worship . |
| 17 | ‘ I have always been interested in woodwork but do n't have the artistic skills or patience to make fine furniture , ’ he said . |
| 18 | So evidence ( whether behavioural or biological ) of a creature 's ability or inability to perform certain computations could count as theoretical grounds for ascribing or denying experiences of certain types to it . |
| 19 | As Darwin knew , the usual criteria for specific rather than mere varietal distinctions were those that Swedes and Italians do not satisfy , but lions and tigers do : namely , true breeding , lack of intermediate forms and unwillingness or inability to produce fertile hybrids on crossing . |
| 20 | And that may take a week or two weeks in the school or college to get that done . |
| 21 | Emma rose without flurry or distress to clean this up . |
| 22 | Some children grasp the idea of standing on a box or steps to become higher than a tower or other object that is taller than themselves , so that , intuitively at least , they have some idea of the distinction between taller than and higher than . |
| 23 | The gains and losses for the new dialect learner are therefore mostly social , and the incentives or disincentives to acquire particular linguistic forms are directly related to the symbolic value of those forms within the community . |
| 24 | to provide unemployed people , particularly those who have been unemployed for longer than six months and those in the inner cities , with job opportunities and help in job search skills , or opportunities to become self-employed or to find appropriate training ; |
| 25 | To provide unemployed people , particularly those who have been unemployed for longer than six months and those in inner cities , with job opportunities and help in job search skills , or opportunities to become self-employed or to find appropriate training . |
| 26 | A poetic context can also condition the reader or hearer to accept grammatical deviance , especially if syntactic well-formedness is clearly being sacrificed to some higher aesthetic end , such as the maintenance of rhyme , or metre , or some other patterning . |
| 27 | The hydroxyl radicals produced in reaction ( 2 ) can react with carbon monoxide or methane to yield peroxy radicals , for example HO 2 ; these can then react with ozone , as can hydroxyl , leading to further ozone destruction : |
| 28 | It broadcast the opening speeches on each day of the debate on the Queen 's Speech in 1989 ( when televising started ) ; it has stayed on after 3.50 pm on some Tuesdays or Thursdays to cover important ministerial statements ; and it has had special editions to cover the Budget and other major debates . |
| 29 | Some sufferers have such intense addictive disease or have sustained such significant emotional and other damage that they may require extended primary care lasting many weeks or months to gain gradual , gentle understanding of the disease process and of the beginnings of recovery . |
| 30 | The Greeks were too busy celebrating their victories against the Celts in verse or marble to give serious thought to the causes of such commotions . |