Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fair-haired Jews from Moscow and Leningrad mingled with olive-skinned Georgians to read the Cyrillic slogans welcoming them and then sank down in rows of plastic chairs or gazed at the panoramic photograph of Jerusalem covering an entire wall . |
| 2 | Or got on the same bus . |
| 3 | ( 1 ) Premises shall be disqualified for receiving a licence if they are situated on land acquired or appropriated by a special road authority , and for the time being used , for the provision of facilities to be used in connection with the use of a special road provided for the use of traffic of class 1 ( with or without other classes ) . |
| 4 | On this canal poundlocks were used for the first time in England , i.e. , an upper and a lower gate fitted with sluices and enclosing a chamber into which boats passed to be raised or lowered to the next level . |
| 5 | When it rained they played squash or swam in the indoor pool . |
| 6 | For two summer holidays my parents took a Prep school outside Westerham and from here we bicycled over half of Kent with our Father or played on the small school fields or swam in the local swimming bath . |
| 7 | No candidate , including himself , faced an opponent or disagreed with the Communist Party line . |
| 8 | With few exceptions , labor violence was the result of isolated and usually unplanned acts on a picket line , or occurred on a prohibited parade or demonstration protesting employer obduracy or police brutality . |
| 9 | For in one follow-up meeting after another , in Belgrade and Madrid and finally Vienna , the human rights standards laid down at Helsinki were refined and tightened , while Romanian internal policies either stood still or moved in the other direction , that is to say downhill . |
| 10 | Their perseverance revealed the obvious : needs and capacities continue to change after a person has been de-hospitalized or moved from the parental home to a group home — and the developmental role has therefore to be seen as a permanent not a temporary one . |
| 11 | Any interesting or amusing incidents , photographed or recounted in a short article will be welcome . |
| 12 | The passage also shows that Freemantle sometimes misunderstood or disapproved of the social content in her friend 's verses . |
| 13 | Looking at the particular issue of derelict areas erm within this area , er Hambledon does n't erm believe that there are any areas which could be reclaimed or enhanced by a new settlement . |
| 14 | Although these are sometimes slavishly historical , or played at a frenetic tempo ( as if over-eager to cast off the stately past ) , the benefits of such experiments are clear . |
| 15 | For two summer holidays my parents took a Prep school outside Westerham and from here we bicycled over half of Kent with our Father or played on the small school fields or swam in the local swimming bath . |
| 16 | Further codes are added to indicate the functional groups that use the information , the source and/or destination of the information item , and whether it is generated from within the system , or received from an external source . |
| 17 | Bank current account loan or ordinary loan Cash loan usually for specific purpose ( like buying expensive durables or cars ) for people with bank accounts , usually without security ( unless it 's a large sum or borrowed for a long time ) ; usually fixed , regular payments over two or three ( occasionally up to seven ) years ; interest on what is owed fluctuates in line with but rather higher than bank base rate . |
| 18 | It no longer supervised , as in the seventeenth century , the administration of certain Russian provinces , or acted as a tax-collecting body . |
| 19 | She sat or perched on an upright chair smiling like an angel just dropped from the skies . |
| 20 | If the new issue is for cash , shareholders ' statutory pre-emption rights ( CA 1985 , s89 ) must be honoured or disapplied by a special resolution . |
| 21 | He padded through the hall , up the four flights of stairs to the little landing where you either went straight ahead and out onto the battlements , or ducked through the wee door into the observatory . |
| 22 | In the shower cubicle , water hissed on ceramic tile or clattered on the green plastic curtain , according to the gyrations of the nude body within . |
| 23 | Moreover , it may at any time be varied or revoked by an ordinary resolution even if that involves an alteration of the articles . |
| 24 | Of the newspapers consulted , two-thirds ( 66% ) were national , a quarter ( 25% ) were local , and the remainder were either foreign ( 2% ) or belonged to a miscellaneous group of newspaper-type publications , such as trade newspapers ( 7% ) . |
| 25 | Or defected to the Soviet Union … |
| 26 | An amendment then added unless the ball has been played or touched by the other side . |
| 27 | At school , she had been considered something of a ‘ character ’ — a freak by her enemies , an eccentric by those loyal to her , or touched by the high voltage of her need . |
| 28 | For repairs , improvements or adaptations to properties owned or tenanted by an elderly person over 60 . |
| 29 | She may have emerged from the burrow system unnoticed and either slipped away under cover or escaped into an adjoining burrow system . |
| 30 | They can dispense with the claim that science must start with unbiased and unprejudiced observation by making a distinction between the way a theory is first thought of or discovered on the one hand , and the way in which it is justified or its merits assessed on the other . |