Example sentences of "or [vb base] [pron] [noun pl] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the day , make frequent checks of people who are likely to drop food down their fronts or soil their clothes in any way . |
| 2 | Conventional welding gives you a very large heat affected zone and that can distort the material or alter its properties in some way and potentially damage or weaken a structure . |
| 3 | If the makeup of the whole of a person 's being was represented by a frozen block of egg yolks and whites ( colour coded — dyed different colours ) then any other person wishing to investigate and make conscious or broadcast his feelings upon this being might have to take a sample or sliver through the block or might collect a number of such slivers , some from other people 's different angle scanning of that being , then I would suggest that the picture of flat slivers built up would in no way give the many complex proportions of shapes originally in the block . |
| 4 | The Spanish expelled the Muslims from the island , but were not able to bring it under their full control , or defend its inhabitants from Muslim raiders , until nearly the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | It is notable that public holidays have become established in most parts of the world either as religious feast days , still treated as such , or have their origins in such occasions . |