Example sentences of "or [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As in the case of a Customer Agreement , there is an exemption dispensing with the need for a signed copy from a private customer ordinarily resident outside the UK where the firm believes on reasonable grounds that he does not wish to receive it or to consent in writing . |
| 2 | British Rail 's diesel stock was coming up for replacement and we needed to decide whether to reinvest in diesel equipment or to invest in electrification . |
| 3 | But in many cases boys and girls leave home at around eighteen to get work , for further training , or to go to university . |
| 4 | They express current mood , state of finance , preparation to take part in sport , or to go to work . |
| 5 | So Zuwaya said it was indecent for a father and his sons to listen together to women drumming at circumcisions , or to go to weddings together — even to speak about weddings to each other . |
| 6 | If they did set out on a journey , it was usually on business or a pilgrimage or to go to war . |
| 7 | Or you may be a carer looking for help to enable you to take a break , either for regular short spells , or to go on holiday or in an emergency . |
| 8 | According to Foujita , the dealer 's ‘ method ’ was ‘ to sit reading a paper on the esplanade or to go into hotels , presumably with a rendezvous with a duke or some important person , but nothing came of all this ’ . |
| 9 | Goschenen then is the place of decisions : whether to take the tunnel through to Italian-speaking Ticino and southern climes , or to proceed to Andermatt on the old Gotthard road which now climbs sharply up to cross the Reuss tributary and after some hairpin bends enters the forbidding rock walls of the Schollenen gorge which took centuries for road builders to master , first by bridle paths on suspended plank bridges and in more modern days by tunnels and galleries as well as daring bridges Emerging from the gorge the road crosses the Reuss waterfall on the " Devil 's bridge " and enters the wide Urseren valley in which Andermatt lies , occupying the strategic position at the " crossroads of Switzerland " or even of Europe — where the main west-east route carved out of the high alpine massif by the Rhine and Rhone rivers crosses the north-south route gouged out by rivers Reuss and Ticino . |
| 10 | His suggestion that one is always ‘ at liberty to go and incorporate himself into any other community , or to agree with others to begin a new one … in any part of the world , they can find free and unpossessed ’ has been ridiculed , and is even less plausible now than when he made it . |
| 11 | I find the textual basis for this interpretation very flimsy , in fact there is clear erm erm erm textual evidence for precisely the opposite and let me cite erm one instance Locke is here talking about tacit consent and the purchase of property and erm he says whenever the owner who has given nothing but such a tacit consent to the government will by donation , sale or otherwise quit the said possession , he is at liberty to go and incorporate himself into any other commonwealth or to agree with others to begin a new one in any part of the world they can find free and unpossessed whereas he that has once by actual agreement in any expressed declaration given his consent to be of any commonwealth is perpetually and indispensably obliged to be and remain unalterably a subject to it and can never be again in the liberty of the state of nature . |
| 12 | One also wonders whether it is wise to smoke or to smell of perfume when handling horses . |
| 13 | Moreover , the lack of precision and the subtlety of the overall vision of the city development strategy , as Holford outlined , was not all that easy to articulate either , or to communicate to others with conviction ( Cherry and Penny , 1986 ) . |
| 14 | This , of course , is very unfair : it is just not reasonable for me to flounce about in the bathroom for hours and then make a man feel inadequate when I catch him using my dental floss. or to bellow in disgust when I find out he blow-dries his hair . |
| 15 | Dunning ( 1901 ) left it unclear whether fascist demonstrations could be construed as a genuine attempt to convert people to a point of view or to provoke by insult . |
| 16 | The most obvious conclusion to draw here once again goes back to women 's domestic role , and in particular their tendency not to work outside the home , or to work part time , or to work in isolation ( home working , cleaning and so on ) . |
| 17 | My colleagues and I , therefore , are agreed that as a general rule it is undesirable for members of the judiciary to broadcast on the wireless or to appear on television … |
| 18 | It would not be lawful for a grant maintained school to reject children with special needs who were otherwise eligible for admission but it is impossible to legislate against the temptation to work towards greater academic activity or to concentrate on subjects which are regarded as prestigious by the potential client group . |
| 19 | To touch a dead man or to come into contact with the blood of an injured person would make them unclean and mean that they could not carry out their duties . |
| 20 | In milder manifestations , counselling in its true sense may help the individual concerned either to overcome or to come to terms with the tendency . |
| 21 | The Sylvie he had failed to help or to come to terms with . |
| 22 | Added to this , a company may wish to cut its costs or to benefit from Government or local authority financial assistance . |
| 23 | A handful of people crossed the harbour square , dawdling on their way home or to drink after work . |
| 24 | It is easy to see how such behaviour could originate out of necessity ( if B is bilingual , but A monolingual in L ) and be extended even to cases where both speakers are bilingual , out of a need to show solidarity or to conform to norms of politeness within the community . |
| 25 | The Microfiche and catalogue of Contemporary Women Artists published by Emmett Publishing is now available to order from Emmett Publishing or to view at WASL . |
| 26 | But with the market price another 1p lower after Tuesday 's 7p fall , Hoare 's own market-makers were offering to buy Midland shares from the rest of the market at 362p or to sell at 367p . |
| 27 | Parents are generally supportive and regularly visit the school both as adult helpers or to talk to staff . |
| 28 | To this hour we ca n't judge with any certainty whether they really intend to slip by us into Derbyshire or to march to Wales through Cheshire … |
| 29 | Consequently in 1510 these were bracketed with squires of the body and other court officers , while the 1533 act specifies in addition esquires or gentlemen eligible for knighthood or to serve as knights of the shire . |
| 30 | In this atmosphere , it was understandable that commercial television should be placed under the close scrutiny of a licensing body , empowered by what is now s4(1) of the Broadcasting Act 1981 to ensure : ( a ) that nothing is included in the programmes which offends against good taste or decency or is likely to encourage or incite to crime or to lead to disorder or to be offensive to public feeling … ( b ) that due impartiality is preserved on the part of persons providing the programmes as respects matters of political or industrial controversy or relating to current public policy . |