Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That the classical wooden-bodied Pullman cars of earlier days had long since been split up and sold or scrapped was no deterrent . |
| 2 | They have pointed out that the existence of other remedies for wives in this situation is no reason for disentitling a wife to the protection of the criminal law and that the possibility of bringing charges for assault or wounding is an inadequate substitute for a rape prosecution which focuses upon the denial of another 's sexual autonomy and integrity . |
| 3 | Nothing better illustrates the impossibility of separating off the individual personality from the wider social groups of which he or she is or has been a member , than the analysis of the development of conscience , that is , in Freud 's terminology , the superego . |
| 4 | Indeed no one who is , or has been a police officer can be appointed . |
| 5 | that he or she is or has been a director of a company which has at any time become insolvent ( whether while he or she was a director or subsequently ) ; and |
| 6 | Similarly in section 1(3) : ‘ A person who is or has been a Crown servant … ’ |
| 7 | It is best if this person can be someone who is or has been a teacher and who can therefore understand and evaluate production proposals that come up . |
| 8 | ( a ) a director or member of the body is or has been a director or member of a recognised body which has been the subject of an order or direction under paragraphs 18 or 21 of Schedule 2 to the Act or the recognition of which has been revoked under Rule 10 of these Rules or has expired under Rule 9 of these Rules ; or |
| 9 | ( c ) the powers conferred by Part II of Schedule 1 to the Solicitors Act 1974 have been exercised in respect of the body or in respect of a firm or recognised body of which a director or member of the body applying for recognition is or has been a principal or a director or member as the case may be ; or |
| 10 | ( ii ) has had a bankruptcy order made against him or has made a composition or arrangement with his creditors or has made a proposal for a voluntary arrangement under Part VIII of the Insolvency Act 1986 or is or has been a director of a company in respect of which an administration order under Part II of the Insolvency Act 1986 or a winding-up order has been made or in respect of which a resolution for voluntary winding up has been passed or which has made a proposal for a voluntary arrangement under Part I of the Insolvency Act 1986 or in respect of which a person has been appointed receiver or administrative receiver ; or |
| 11 | The sentence is not related to the offence so much as whether the defendant is homeless , jobless , or has been the subject of a care order , and this is more likely to have happened to black youth . |
| 12 | Section 222 of the TCGA 1992 , provides that gains accruing on the disposal of , or an interest in , a dwelling house which is or has been an individual 's only or main residence ( together with garden or grounds of up to half a hectare in extent or other extent appropriate for the reasonable enjoyment of the residence according to the size and character of the dwelling house ) throughout the period of ownership ( but disregarding the last 36 months of that period ( TCGA 1992 , s223 ) are exempt from capital gains tax . |
| 13 | Usually such data are so extensive that considerable compression or smoothing is a vital preliminary to analysis . |
| 14 | ( 2 ) The denial that there is some one and the same quality of pleasantness and another of painfulness which mark all those experiences which it is desirable to promote or prevent is a more forceful objection to Benthamite utilitarianism . |
| 15 | One of the best major centres I have worked or seen is the International Congress Centre in Berlin , which has two auditoria with a stage in the middle . |
| 16 | If we believe that the deaf child begins life as communication-handicapped , then any development in the ability to speak or lip-read is an education success . |
| 17 | If we conduct an interventive experiment , and inject a drug which results in an animal not performing some task on which it has been trained ‘ correctly ’ ( I wo n't bother putting that word into inverted commas henceforward ; I have already spelled out that what we read as correct in an animal 's behaviour is interpreted by our criteria , not necessarily by its own ) , how can we be sure that what has been blocked or disturbed is the memory rather than the motor or sensory activity on which its expression depends ? |
| 18 | Export or perish was the message received by 98 countries from the IMF between 1980 and 19852 . |
| 19 | The people that we fall in love with , form an emotional bond with or marry are an integral part of our destiny . |
| 20 | The idea that the care you provide might be questioned or challenged is an entirely new experience for nurses ‘ trained ’ by traditional methods . |
| 21 | This chap with the leg or something who wants to see you said something about being or having been a patient , but not being here as one now , and as he 's loaded with flowers for you and I did n't know how Old Red would take it , I used the sterilizer . ’ |
| 22 | For women receiving Supplementary Benefit the thought of having their money ‘ cut-off ’ ( e.g. through the cohabitation ruling ) or of Giro orders being delayed or stolen is a constant worry . |
| 23 | * Presuppositions are sometimes embedded with particular verbs , including FACTIVE VERBS like " regret " or " know " , which presuppose that what is regretted or known is a fact . |
| 24 | Thus the only files a student can delete or change are the files concerned with the marking exercise . |
| 25 | Among those I met or saw were the Begum Aga Khan , who was with her very attractive daughter Princess Zahra Aga Khan ; the Director General of the British Equestrian Foundation Major Malcolm Wallace , two of our top Event riders Miss Karen Straker and Mrs Jane Thelwall ; and Mr Andrew Dixon , who had all come over from England with the Hermès party ; Mr Peter Laing , the Hon. |
| 26 | Second , it is commonly the case that what is highlighted or backgrounded is an attribute , or range of attributes , of the entity referred to . |
| 27 | Impoundments that went beyond that and involved policy change had occurred in the past , but these were either justified under the Commander-in-Chief clause in the Constitution , or had been the subject of consultation with congressional leaders . |
| 28 | But the emotional strain or working is a hospital , the drain on creative resources and the very common sense of isolation can have very positive repercussions on the artist 's own work . |
| 29 | The role of the tutor is that of trying to anticipate if the strategies selected or suggested are a realistic means of implementation . |
| 30 | It will not be as simple as that , but you will have got the idea : one of the most important aspects of the ‘ climate ’ in which a gene is favoured or disfavoured is the other genes that are already numerous in the population ; the other genes , therefore , with which it is likely to have to share bodies . |