Example sentences of "or [adv] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many Koreans went voluntarily or forcibly to Japan , mostly to engage in the most menial of jobs . |
| 2 | Novacrylic is a top surface which can be laid directly on to a macadam sub base or on to layers of Novacushion or the new Ultracushion . |
| 3 | None of the Regulations refers to the possibility of translations into Braille or on to cassette to facilitate access to information by the many people who have a sight impairment . |
| 4 | Goods would be unloaded at Lindau , taken across the Bodensee to Rorschach , and from there go on through the passes to the south , to Milan or on to Venice for further shipment . |
| 5 | Follow the road back to Llanover where you can get a bus back to Pontypool or on to Abergavenny . |
| 6 | In East Anglia people either in the on their pub lunches they either throw themselves on to that or on to treacle pudding . |
| 7 | These are called trans-shipment points , where extra costs are involved if goods have to be loaded on to other types of transport , such as from ships on to lorries , or on to railway waggons to go further inland . |
| 8 | Their anxiety may be displaced on to the actual ceremony , making the responses correctly , being the centre of attention , or on to details of the reception or party to be held afterwards . |
| 9 | They come in a great many varieties and can be mounted straight on to a ceiling , on to walls or on to tracks , and then pointed towards whatever needs special lighting . |
| 10 | Reports come from Sudan , where the harshness of nature is compounded by man 's inhumanity to man — or rather to women and children ; and from Zimbabwe , where drought is putting many lives at risk , especially , as usual , those of young children . |
| 11 | She 'd leave early and go to Les Eyzies as Mademoiselle Lavaux had suggested , or perhaps to La Roque-Gageac , said to be the most beautiful village in France . |
| 12 | Last year small river craft were brought in by air or overland to Kalewa and driven down the Chindwin to the Irrawaddy . |
| 13 | Nolan and Sam Yaeger often bed the same girl , more or less to spite each other , it seems . |
| 14 | ( Eligible liabilities are sterling deposits with two years or less to maturity held by UK residents , plus a number of other items . ) |
| 15 | The Bank stands ready to buy from market makers , and at a price of its own choosing , any stock with three months or less to maturity ; it is also usually prepared to quote a price for stocks with between three and twelve months to maturity . |
| 16 | This observation corresponds more or less to Jacobsson 's list ( pp. 60-2 ) of the ten types of context where need can be used as a modal : Type 1 Need I be present ? |
| 17 | The contrast between the view that moral distinctions are detected by sense and feeling and the view that they are revealed as necessary truth to reason was a central theme in the moral philosophy of David Hume ( 1711–76 ) , whose philosophy is recognized as empiricism brought more or less to perfection . |
| 18 | Rest days from Ullapool were really out of the question so we either had to take the ship on the long sea passage to Aberdeen or down to Ardrossan . |
| 19 | George Wood had hinted , and not too darkly , about the ‘ lads ’ who knew how to get past the guards and into the mines at night : he had intimated that there was a prosperous smugglers ' route through the highest mountain passes to the coast where the ore would be taken over to Ireland or down to Liverpool and Swansea . |
| 20 | From this point , individual circuit cables wend their way around the house , crossing ceilings and floors , and running up or down to light switches and socket outlets at convenient points . |
| 21 | Parsys does n't expect to have the SN9000 ready until ‘ late 1992 ’ — it will take three months or so to bed the new chip in when it does arrive . |
| 22 | They may take a week or so to work , but can kill most deep-rooted perennial weeds without being persistent . |
| 23 | The Iznik pottery from Turkey dating from the fifteenth and sixteenth century explodes with colour on more sophisticated white grounds ; Iznik is now highly sought after by Turkish yuppies and prices run from £2,000 or so to £15,000 . |
| 24 | He sat in the back with him , for company , and chatted soothingly of nothing as the driver did the eight miles or so to Kirton , and swept into the riding-school yard . |
| 25 | Half an hour or so to dinner . |
| 26 | The official plan is for oil 's share of consumption to rise from its present 50% or so to 60% in 1990 , then to drop back to 40% by the year 2000 through increased use of natural gas both in the home and for electricity generation . |
| 27 | Or only to people . |
| 28 | Then Macbeth seems to have a change of heart and says he is leaving whether he becomes king or not to chance . |
| 29 | The young people had gone upstairs , to bed , or not to bed : strains of music drifted from the upper regions plaintively . |
| 30 | In deciding whether or not to relist an appeal , it could be said that the Court of Appeal is not hearing an appeal but is exercising an autonomous jurisdiction relating to its own procedures . |