Example sentences of "or [adv] [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The patron of the third kind , offering social reputation and protection , often worked within conditions where the work was being partly or wholly offered to a paying public ; the Elizabethan public theatres were in that sense fully commercial institutions . |
| 2 | But ten minutes spent relaxing flat on the floor , or comfortably seated in a darkened room , can do wonders to replenish energies as well as looks . |
| 3 | Some companies insist that journalists or other borrowers should sign a form to say that they will be responsible for any photographs borrowed and that they will pay for it in the event that a photograph is lost or not returned before a certain date . |
| 4 | Apart from programs designed for vertical markets or specially written for a particular job , most of the products you 'll find are ‘ pen aware ’ which means they can recognize a pen as both a mouse and an input device , but do n't have any other facilities to take advantage of the pen . |
| 5 | In his description of melody , Otto Károlyi states that analysis of large numbers of melodies shows that an ascending melodic line is sooner or later balanced by a descending one , and vice versa . |
| 6 | To put the problem more concretely , the idea of style implies that the words on the page might have been different , or differently arranged without a corresponding difference in substance . |
| 7 | As the child 's mobility increases , accidents are often related to play , and when constant adult surveillance can not be assured , young children can at least be protected by being put in a playpen or securely fastened in a bouncing cradle ( placed on the floor ) , highchair or pram . |
| 8 | As one lies basking in the sun , it may be pounced upon by a hawk or even grabbed by a human being . |
| 9 | The Commission for the Transformation of the LCY not only had to contend with the opposing Slovene and Serbian proposals , but also with proposals that the party be reconstituted as a Socialist Party of Yugoslavia , or even split into a communist and a socialist party . |
| 10 | Such inherent problems tend to be discounted , ignored , or even interpreted in a favorable light at times when the political system appears to be successfully meeting the demands and expectations of the populace . |
| 11 | These seem to have been designed to be worn on the finger , although the oval design-disc was so big as to he unwieldy ; possibly they were normally worn on a string round the neck , or simply reserved for a leisured elite . |
| 12 | It was they who would decide whether such rites should be prohibited as too economically wasteful , or else encouraged as a possible attraction to the future tourist industry . |
| 13 | In broad terms it may be stated as being whether an original tenant under a lease containing a rent review clause is bound by privity of contract to pay the landlord for the time being of the premises a rent agreed or otherwise determined with a subsequent assignee of the term . |
| 14 | If water is privatised , franchised , or otherwise converted into a money-making scheme for a minority , it will be as a result of an act of the Westminster Parliament . |
| 15 | In other insects the clypeus is partially or completely divided by a transverse suture into two sclerites — the postclypeus and the anteclypeus ( Fig. 304 ) . |
| 16 | Gower , when 7 , was given not-out to a caught-behind appeal against Mushtaq , and substitute Rashid Latif suddenly took off down the middle of the pitch like some Keystone Kop , arms waving , perhaps stung by a bee or heavily influenced by a certain West Indies captain who patented an onfield war-dance . |