Example sentences of "[verb] or [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The choice of wood depends , to some extent , on whether you wish to have the new door painted or finished with a decorative stain . |
| 2 | In the British test-tube baby programme , viable embryos are either implanted or destroyed after a few days . |
| 3 | When you have finished with the artwork , it can be stored in a stiff envelope or a file , along with the component layout diagram , so that it can be modified or re-used at a later date . |
| 4 | Most of the detailed factual material learned in the sixth form is forgotten or superseded within a few years . |
| 5 | Yet it is known that between one third and one half of mentally handicapped people currently resident in mental handicap hospitals should not be in hospital and could be either immediately discharged or discharged after a short period of training . |
| 6 | For in each instance the problem of expansion was solved or evaded in a different way , and produced as a result towns with very different characteristics . |
| 7 | Under the plan , Prescot Leisure Centre would be split into three independent business units with the bar , kitchen and function rooms leased or sold to a private business . |
| 8 | A survey of the over 75s living in South Wales revealed that 86 per cent had either visited or stayed in a general hospital ward compared with 33 per cent for a geriatric ward ( Salvage et al . |
| 9 | There were other legits she might have bribed or bullied into a similar sharing , but the stairs and the other dusty corners of the World were safer for someone who lived by her knife and her wits . |
| 10 | However , there are cases ( such as property specially built or adapted for a particular occupier ) where modifications are needed . |
| 11 | Thus four of the leading experts in this field — Knight , Sugar , West and Mant — with a combined experience of more than 100 years of forensic medicine , have never seen or read of a single case of an injury like the one which the jury were told knocked out Jonathan Lewis . |
| 12 | Ensure broken glass and other sharp items are thoroughly wrapped or left in a marked open box . |
| 13 | No offence against section 8 of the Vehicles ( Excise ) Act 1971 is committed where the vehicle is used or kept on a private road , i.e. a road which is not repairable at public expense . |
| 14 | ‘ It is an accepted practice in dire situations such as this that the board is replaced or supplemented by a new board charged with the function of restoring the fortunes of the company and the confidence of customers , ’ the letter says . |
| 15 | Again , coloured plastic shopping bags will offer a wide range of decorative strips which can be tied or glued to a central strip . |
| 16 | Every actual utterance is spatiotemporally unique , being spoken or written at a particular place and at a particular time ; and provided that there is some standard system for identifying points in space and time , we can , in principle , specify the actual spatiotemporal situation of any utterance act . |
| 17 | its compatibility with a mandated curriculum , whether this is governmentally set or determined by a public examination system ; |
| 18 | Thus ‘ abstract ’ is opposed to ‘ concrete ’ , ‘ explicit ’ to ‘ implicit ’ , ‘ elaborated code ’ to ‘ restricted code ’ , ‘ extensional structure ’ to ‘ in tensional structure ’ , and these types are taken to be related to differing kinds of social experience mediated or formed by a literate organization of reality , on the one hand , and an oral organization of reality , on the other . |
| 19 | These were followed or interspersed by a windswept Starmer-Smith standing on the touchline , microphone in hand , sporting a selection from his extensive wardrobe of scarves and neckties , and promising delights which were sure to come next week but which had unaccountably failed to materialise this week . |
| 20 | In addition , member states are allowed to exempt from the notification requirement what are termed ‘ professional dealers in securities ’ if they do not use the securities acquired to interfere in the company 's management ; the expression ‘ professional dealers in securities ’ may be confined to market makers ( as under the 1985 Companies Act ) but the expression does seem wide enough to include own account dealers as well and this is supported by the fact that the exemption applies even to professional dealers who are not members of a stock exchange , provided that they are authorised or supervised by a competent authority ( an investment bank , for example ) . |
| 21 | How , one wonders , is the concept of good government to be defined or applied to a particular issue ? |
| 22 | 7.7.9.2 To pay to the Landlord on demand with Interest ( where the Landlord has rebuilt and reinstated the Premises out of its own money ) the amount of such insurance money so irrecoverable in which event the provisions of clauses 7.5 and 7.6 shall apply and clause 7.7.9 should contain the following amendment : … anyone at the Premises expressly or by implication with the Tenant 's authority while under the Tenant 's control and in the employment of the Tenant wholly or partially irrecoverable … 7.8 Increase or decrease of the Centre If at any time during the Term the Centre shall be increased or decreased on a permanent basis the Insurance Rent Percentage shall be varied with effect from the first premium or additional premium payable in respect of a period after such a change by agreement between the parties or in default of agreement within [ 3 ] months of the first proposal for variation made by the Landlord in such a manner as shall be determined to be fair and reasonable in the light of the event in question by the Surveyor acting as an expert and not as an arbitrator This requires no comment . |
| 23 | The Forest courts were accordingly revived or infused with a new spirit of severity . |
| 24 | The satisfaction may be deflected or inhibited after a certain degree of it has been obtained , and then Freud speaks of ‘ instincts which are inhibited in respect of their aim ’ . |
| 25 | Place items being promoted or featured in a prominent position in the window . |
| 26 | Unreasonable or excessive demands can sometimes be removed or reduced by a forceful and rational challenge , preferably one that commands widespread support and which can be backed up , if necessary , with an effective threat . |
| 27 | For instance , as far as young women are concerned , we can trace the development of friendships through an early adolescent period when emotional commitments are minimal and the focus of friendship is common activities , a period in mid-adolescence when young women become most anxious about being rejected or excluded from a same-sex friendship . |
| 28 | This law states that matter can not be created or destroyed in a chemical reaction . |
| 29 | The Schema Builder will enable all parts of the database schema to be created or modified in a graphical environment . |
| 30 | He has respect for the almost tribal traditional wisdom of those whom he later called the ‘ quiet-voiced elders ’ and their ‘ dead secrets , , but in the end these are to be renounced or incorporated in a higher Christian scheme and vision . |