Example sentences of "or [vb base] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have cleared their shelves of anything that could offend the public or bring down the wrath of the tabloids . |
| 2 | The spiritual resources of patients can do a great deal to help in their recovery or bring about a peaceful death . |
| 3 | From Iago , too , Othello has caught the habit of repeating a word , dwelling on it to debase it or bring out a sinister double meaning ( compare Iago on ‘ virtue ’ and ‘ blest ’ : I.iii.318ff. ; II.i.245ff . ) . |
| 4 | This tool can be developed to help nurses scrutinise their work or evaluate quantitatively the effects of change within a ward on nurse activity . |
| 5 | Cookery book instructions to " de-seed " tomatoes or squeeze out the watery parts before cooking are unrealistic ; the water content of tomatoes is 94 per cent and the sole effective way to get rid of it is by evaporation . |
| 6 | No one 's going to make me buy a postcard with a baby otter on it , or pick up a leaflet on alpine lichens . |
| 7 | Many of the difficulties children get into as they begin to explore the immediate environment of their home happen because they do not know enough to realize what will occur if they , for example , put their hands in a rose bush or pick up a shining splinter of glass . |
| 8 | To help , just contact Sight Savers at 21 The Strand , Bromsgrove , Worcestershire B61 8AB ( tel : 0527 579226 ) or pick up a leaflet from Sound Control at 61 Jamaica Street , Glasgow G1 4NN for a sponsorship form , and then go along to either the Birmingham Town Hall on Sunday September the 20th between 2.00pm and 4.00pm , or our Scottish Music Show at the SECC in Glasgow at the same time . |
| 9 | For competition leaflets please contact ‘ Streetwise ’ , or pick up a leaflet from your local Woolwich branch . |
| 10 | To find out more about how Regional Railways have changed their ways , telephone Darlington ( 0325 ) 355111 or York ( 0904 ) 642155 or pick up a folder and timetable from your nearest staffed station . |
| 11 | Or pick up a cheap one . |
| 12 | So a female researcher is more likely to recognise , and pick up certain cues , or pick up the ways in which she 's not actually being addressed , than a male researcher necessarily . |
| 13 | After sewing the neck shape I either overlock the shoulders or pick up the stitches on a darning needle using the same colour yarn . |
| 14 | Richard Coleman , managing directors of Compass Commercial Services , agreed that the MoD was a significant marketplace , although most of the contracts were now being let on a retender basis and a new insecurity in what was already a high risk business had recently presented itself — the application to the public sector of Transfer of Undertakings legislation , when incoming contractors are obliged to retain staff at current rates of pay , terms and conditions , or pick up the redundancy liability . |
| 15 | or pick up the aesthetics of road-haulage . |
| 16 | Yet even the most productive thoughts and even the bravest of responses to the new dimensions of my predicament could not wholly keep the chill out of my bones or push away the icier gloom from above my head . |
| 17 | The primary teacher can draw upon many of these to provide a lead in to a topic , or to develop a theme or push forward an enquiry . |
| 18 | However , the use of pig fat in the enfleurage process will be off-putting to the vegetarian who may have to forgo the pleasures of jasmine and tuberose or track down a supplier of the even more elusive vegetable oil absolutes . |
| 19 | But for the interested amateur the travel companies offer trips which include opportunities to follow the grey whales of the San Ignacio Lagoon , view tigers in India , search for orchids and birds of paradise in Papua New Guinea , or track down the gorillas in the Mountains of the Moon . |
| 20 | You might want to add to a set of chairs that you already possess , or make up a matching chair to one at home . |
| 21 | Or Make up a story about meeting a sea monster . |
| 22 | Erm there is a further implication in this conception , and again I quote whosoever therefore out of a state of nature unite into a community must be understood to give up all the power necessary to the ends for which they unite into a society to the majority of the community unless they expressly agreed in any number greater than the majority and this is done where are we by barely agreeing to unite into one political society which is all the compact that is or needs to be between the individuals that enter into or make up a commonwealth . |
| 23 | Secondly , the exporter could insist on payment or make out a bill of exchange in DMs and thus transfer the foreign exchange risk to the importer . |
| 24 | City analysts expect it to pass its final dividend , or make only a token pay-out . |
| 25 | He had never been in a wood in his life ; but he was sharp enough to know that he might hide in a bush , or swarm up a tree … ‘ . ) |
| 26 | These worms have a similar food-gathering strategy to the more familiar filter-feeding tubeworms , but instead of the feathery heads of fanworms have long , sticky tentacles which they wave in the current or drag over the substrate in search of food particles which are then carried back to the mouth as the tentacles are drawn in . |
| 27 | Thus there is no net loss or gain over the period of time . |
| 28 | Direct capitalist control or influence over the communication of ideas ( mass media , publishing , universities ) , and capitalist influence over the state , both structure ‘ debates ’ in liberal democracies . |
| 29 | It is absolutely essential to ensure that , so long as the possibility of control or influence over the Russian republics remains , steps are taken to bring about a strategic arms reduction . |
| 30 | He continues pouring from one container to another , and after lots of experience and conversation with the adults around him can begin to estimate how much he is going to need to fill the guinea pig 's water bowl or top up the vase of flowers . |