Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [prep] a [noun] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | Designed to sit on a table or beside your bed , it contains a pad impregnated with natural oils that are warmed and released into the air ; three heat settings control the rate of vaporisation . |
| 2 | This 1938 Massey Harris model , designed to work with a horse or tractor , will take 2 days to harvest this 4 acre crop of wheat . |
| 3 | Designed to fit into a corner or against a wall . |
| 4 | Many churches in the West , however , have come to depend upon an organ or other instrument to lead , support , or even dominate , the use of voices . |
| 5 | A sleeping duck always runs the risk of being caught napping by a fox or cat . |
| 6 | The Antipodean visitor was VH–AQJ/A17–26 , which had been especially crated over to the UK for the event and was expected to spend about a month or so in the country before returning home . |
| 7 | Wings broad and rounded like a Goshawk , but flight more harrier-like , quartering the ground ; more often seen perched on a tree or post , often in a distinctive horizontal position . |
| 8 | My husband does n't feel ashamed to be seen sweeping with a broom or carrying the child and in El Salvador , those are new attitudes . |
| 9 | As we have seen , the laws of war do not consist only of what states have formally agreed to accept in a treaty or convention . |
| 10 | I could n't explain that I would have had to leave in a month or so anyway — but I pointed out that in fact I was n't well , had n't been for quite a while whatever he chose to think , and that a rest would do me good . |
| 11 | You 've all the enthusiasm needed to campaign for a cause or idea that 's near and dear to your heart . |
| 12 | Yeah , still it means you have n't got to get on a train or |
| 13 | needed to lay on a floor or |
| 14 | Whether all this adds up to Mr Winchester 's ‘ inchoate oneness ’ , scheduled to mature in a generation or so , is open to doubt . |
| 15 | Contestants who have finished relax with a drink or cheer on those struggling up the last stretch , some of them grasping frantically at disintegrating bales of straw . |
| 16 | The government is expected to take a decision on whether the plant will be allowed to open within a month or two of the ending of the latest round of public consultations on 4 October . |
| 17 | The patient should be encouraged to drink from a cup or glass with both hands clasped round it . |
| 18 | Anyone who has tried travelling in a bus or car on Euston road in the evening rush hour will know that it is bad enough at present ; to impose an additional 70 per cent . |
| 19 | In the meantime , it is clear that many judges consider that the Lord Chancellor 's Department has ceased to act as an intermediary or ‘ hinge ’ between themselves and the executive Government and has become as much a part of the governmental machinery as any other Department of State . |
| 20 | Before I am going to talk about er urodynamic evaluation of patients with symptoms of outflow obstruction , I think it 's a good time to be talking about this when , particularly in North America , we 're being encouraged to move towards a questionnaire or score in order to select patients for treatment , whether that treatment be surgical treatment or , or other treatment . |
| 21 | Some have ends which are hooked passing through a mount or through opposed holes in the vertical bands . |
| 22 | I like it better when I 'm sent to look after a baby or play with a kid like Mike . |
| 23 | Less than a block ahead the scatterings of low-caste colours had begun to solidify into a group or gauntlet . |