Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a tribute I suppose to the English language that there are so many forms of circumlocution that it is remarkably easy to persuade yourself that you have made a bold statement , or conveyed the bad news , whilst in reality there is no conceivable possibility that the recipient has actually understood what you are talking about . |
| 2 | It was seen that the traditional system , in which the patients were at the bottom of a communication and status hierarchy and were denied autonomy or participation in the running of the institution , exacerbated the problems many patients had , or produced the characteristic ‘ institutionalization ’ which was to be deplored . |
| 3 | However , when I took to hanging about in the new house , when I watched her while she chatted to her staff and guests , or entertained the local burghers , or genteelly remonstrated with her suppliers and various tradesmen over the phone , I began to see this seeming tact as an extension of that complicity I had long been aware of . |
| 4 | About eighty per cent of the users are students and they 've normally been told to read this , or read that , or read the other , and if they now use one of our computer terminals , which has got a little video screen on the top and a little keyboard , they can look up the books , they can look them up by title , by the title of the book as well as by the traditional author approach , and when they 've found it the computer tells them how many copies are in the library , or whether they 're all on loan . |
| 5 | About eighty per cent of the users are students , and they 've normally been told to read this , or read that , or read the other and if they now use one of our computer terminals , which has got a little video screen on the top and a little keyboard , they can look up the books . |
| 6 | He walked around the stage , perfecting his stunts , or just slept in his dressing-room or paced the empty corridors . |
| 7 | or used the wrong form of his name ? |
| 8 | If that were the case , it would n't make sense to ask who , or what , caused or created the big bang . |
| 9 | And er when it come to a vote to try and get anything passed or changed the wee branches were solid voting for the national agreement . |
| 10 | Using the debates between German chemists who supported or rejected the new chemistry , he paints a convincing picture to support and amplify Kuhn 's views . |
| 11 | The growth of the ‘ displacement ’ model would be understandable if it resolved individual difficulties or reduced the general incidence of difficulty . |
| 12 | To one side , just in view , stood a magnificent funerary couch , the grey stone of its side engraved with images of gardens and pavilions in which ancient scholars sat enthroned while the women of the household wove and prepared food , sang or played the ancient p'i p'a . |
| 13 | When the opportunity presented itself some Arab states , for example Egypt ( which formally repudiated its treaty in 1976 ) and Iraq ( 1952–3 ) , discarded or downgraded the Soviet Union in their foreign relations and cultivated the United States . |
| 14 | Goodman 's Thirties portraits taken in the studio often relied on specially-painted backdrops , such as John Banting produced for his work with Ker-Seymer , or echoed the classic compositional motifs pioneered by Hoyningen Huene and adapted by Wildman . |
| 15 | Turning now to those carers who said in their first interview that they wanted their relative to remain at home , one would expect that those in the action sample would be more likely to have retained that preference than those in the control sample ( assuming that the project has provided extra home care when needed and therefore indirectly or directly assisted or relieved the principal carers ) . |
| 16 | Knitters unpicked old jumpers , washed or seamed the unravelled wool and reknitted it . |
| 17 | He described local people dropping dead from starvation or being torn apart by Serb shelling as they sought shelter or scoured the snowy terrain for anything edible . |
| 18 | Where the person is present or represented the following wording may be used : Unless by [ 4 pm on Friday 13 June 19 ] The defendant [ serves his list of documents ] the defence be struck out and judgment entered for the plaintiff with costs . |
| 19 | Within that first fraction of potential benefit , I classified the endorsement of ‘ science ’ in place of the separate sciences that have for so long unbalanced or distorted the secondary curriculum ; the opportunity to rethink the nature and role of technology ; and the challenge to begin planning , for all secondary students , a foundation course in a foreign language . |
| 20 | Whatever your kind of break , the abundance of things to see and do makes Brighton & Hove the right place to head for any time of year . |
| 21 | To discover what difference the action project made ( that is , whether it delayed or prevented admission to an institution ; whether it delayed deterioration in or improved the physical , emotional or mental well-being of dementia sufferers or their carers ; whether it delayed deterioration in or improved family relationships ; whether it increased , decreased or had no effect on people 's receipt of statutory or other voluntary services ) . |
| 22 | If there was a very large output , perhaps from some other part of the world , and buyers would offer only a lower price , such as £110 per tonne , the EEC either paid their farmers the difference , of £16 , or bought the surplus grain and stored it for future use . |
| 23 | ‘ But if you made a bad decision , or gave the wrong judgement against someone in a dispute , then some of your people might suffer . ’ |
| 24 | Or did the partial substitutions usually fail causing dead-ends in the lattice ? |
| 25 | Or did the thin , eerie song come from that lopsided , blue-eyed elf sitting on top of a cotton bale and staring down at her ? |
| 26 | Or did the white men vanish from the tribe 's memory as completely as the tribe vanished for the white man ? |
| 27 | As they approach the viewer whether from right or left the far-side wing , perspective wise , will lead the near wing . |
| 28 | Neither the exactions of the Versailles Treaty nor the creation of a republican form of government rooted out the nationalist old guard or revolutionised the German social structure ; within 15 years , Germany was set on a course of revanche . |
| 29 | This is not to say that workers necessarily believed or accepted the new image of employers especially as during the 1950s memories of the pre-war era were clearly resonant . |
| 30 | Fitzgerald found that for some books , an increase to six or even nine samples actually produced means which systematically departed even further from the population mean — the true overall difficulty level , Only after the number of samples taken approached or exceeded the critical number did the mean of the samples agree with the population mean . |