Example sentences of "or [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may well run a car repair business or sell cheap jewellery on the side , in which case his dealing will lack single-mindedness . |
| 2 | Warner v. Browne ( 1807 ) 8 East 165 there was an agreement to lease at a rent of £40 per annum and it was agreed that the landlord , W. Warner , should not raise the rent nor turn out the tenant ‘ so long as the rent is duly paid quarterly , and he does not expose to sale or sell any article that may be injurious to W. Warner in his business . ’ |
| 3 | They are human , and are acknowledged to be , they can think but they are not to be acknowledged as authoritative , and if their presence demands such acknowledgement , they are bad women who should have been taught to hide or repress such demands . |
| 4 | Improv for Windows also offers unparalleled flexibility to : * Create multiple views of the same worksheet , * Expand summarised data to show detail , and * Hide or display any part of a worksheet for greater clarity . |
| 5 | US officials admit that they knew about the coup plans as early as last Saturday , but say they were given little time to judge its chances of success or to plan any US involvement . |
| 6 | Large numbers were forced into tenancy or became agricultural labourers . |
| 7 | The industry used local resources ; charcoal and other articles were made from wood ; iron and silver ores were processed and fashioned ; and flax , hemp and wool were spun and woven into clothing , the Italian Chimney sweeps came to symbolize the migration at its most miserable , but other persons repaired watches or became itinerant vendors of fabric , haberdashery , and other items . |
| 8 | These families may be described as a traditional élite ; in the twentieth century they either found new sources of wealth and influence or became local notables . |
| 9 | The threats to children to silence colleagues who , far braver than he had ever been , asked the uncomfortable question , or asked any question at all . |
| 10 | The end labelled probe was mixed with 20µg of protein extract which had been preincubated with 5µg poly ( d ( I-C ) ) and single stranded or doubled stranded competitor DNA . |
| 11 | Wearing out our good clothes or wasting hot water to wash them ! ’ |
| 12 | ‘ It shall be the duty of any person who manufactures , imports or supplies any substance for use at work — |
| 13 | A person who manufactures , imports or supplies any substance for use at work must ensure that , so far as is reasonably practicable , it is safe and without risk to health ; there are requirements for testing , examination and research . |
| 14 | ‘ It shall be the duty of any person who designs , manufacturers , imports or supplies any article for use at work — |
| 15 | RBS has taken a hard look at its branches in England , and decided to shut isolated outposts or develop new outlets to support them . |
| 16 | It can not respond to unfamiliar challenges or develop new opportunities . |
| 17 | The remainder is used to set up new bureaux or develop existing ones , with grant tapering down by year 3 or 4 . |
| 18 | Basically , he must be endowed with or develop certain characteristics of character . |
| 19 | Good grooming reaps instant benefits and , while you ca n't change your looks overnight or develop instant muscle , a sophisticated scent will speak millions for your confidence . |
| 20 | The current generation of older women were more likely to have contracted poliomyelitis , are more likely to have strokes or develop multiple sclerosis . |
| 21 | Some young men , who had only experienced farming and had had little opportunity to further their education or develop wider skills , showed some bitterness and frustration . |
| 22 | And , by reforming the health insurance market , my plan assures that Americans will have access to basic health insurance even if they change jobs or develop serious health problems . |
| 23 | Why does n't Ferry ask instead why some Western companies did n't buy these companies or develop those ideas ? |
| 24 | Flowers and leaves , being natural materials , have a mind of their own and regardless of how carefully you follow my instructions on how to press , some of the petals will decide to bend before the press is shut , or develop brown patches for no reason at all . |
| 25 | At least 28 companies in the United Kingdom are developing or producing mains-signalling equipment . |
| 26 | According to the ideas outlined in Chapter 6 , the language processing system is made up of a number of information-processing modules , each responsible for a specific information-processing task ( such as recognising letters , for example , or producing spoken words ) . |
| 27 | Most current procedures for recording the electrical activity of the brain , or producing radiographic images of the living human brain , or investigating the accuracy and timing of behaviour are dependent on computing capacity which was not available twenty years ago . |
| 28 | They argue that causation involves one event ( the cause ) generating or producing another event ( the effect ) , and that we can obtain direct knowledge about this causal generation : we do not have to infer causality on the basis of temporal priority . |
| 29 | Tasks of this kind may need extensive practice by children with defective vision , since using their vision for learning may present difficulties in terms of blurring and distortion or a reduced or interrupted visual field . |
| 30 | This , I should stress , was a successful conversation — and the example could of course be extended , to include the times when we talked simultaneously , or interrupted each other , or gave multiple answers to the same question , as well as the times when there was unintelligibility , resulting from two of the four participants talking with their mouth full — but I leave all these to your imagination . |