Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] or [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could no doubt be taught to sew or clean things . |
| 2 | A total of 79,498,240 ballots were cast , of which 1,716,757 ( 2.16 per cent ) were deemed spoilt or invalid and 1,525,410 ( 1.92 per cent ) were not counted because the names of all six candidates had been crossed out . |
| 3 | Others , less directly committed to change or worried as to how their institutions would cope with its demands , would , nevertheless , have been finding it increasingly difficult to regard school mathematics as fixed and unchangeable . [ … ] |
| 4 | Have you given written or oral feedback to all interested parties ? |
| 5 | He was a quiet man , not much given to open or abandoned laughter , mainly because he thought laughing made him look like a horse — which it did rather ! |
| 6 | Although there is no shortage of childless couples in Britain , there is a shortage of couples prepared to adopt or foster handicapped children , and as a result the numbers of fostered and adopted children remain small . |
| 7 | When ‘ scarce anything [ was ] more likely to mar a … man 's reputation than to be thought opposed or indifferent to the cause of abolition , but when slavery was a distant and foreign institution , the urge to respectability could predominate over the vital flame in antislavery . |
| 8 | Third , that certain factors in avant-garde culture , and especially the conscious breaks from ‘ traditional ’ styles , have to be analysed not only in formal terms but within the sociology of metropolitan encounters and associations between immigrants who share no common language but that of the metropolis and whose other ( including visual ) received sign-systems have become distanced or irrelevant . |
| 9 | It was claimed in 1803 that no less than 90 out of 165 canal acts obtained since 1758 had been concerned primarily with coal carriage , while a further 47 had been linked to iron or non-ferrous metal works or mines . |
| 10 | b ) Immediately after aerobatics , particularly prolonged spinning or rolling manoeuvres . |
| 11 | By far the most widespread activity of PNP staff in the general area of home-school links involved reading or other language work with parents and their children . |
| 12 | Thus two of the individual contributions which tile children were asked to make or able to make were put in this way : |
| 13 | When she was dressing to go out Sally was invariably unable to find the belt she wanted , one shoe had gone missing or one stocking developed a ladder . |
| 14 | Many are forced to double or triple parts , as if in a Brian Rix farce . |
| 15 | It can be fitted to front or rear seat belts ; there 's a fitting kit ( £10.99 ) for cars without rear belts . |
| 16 | Example 3:1 Limitation on liability of original tenant ( 1 ) in this clause " the original tenant " means the said … only and this clause applies to any period after the term hereby granted ceases to be vested in the original tenant ( 2 ) if and so often as the tenant fails to pay the rent or any other sum properly due under this lease or commits any breach of covenant known to the landlord then the landlord shall forthwith notify the original tenant of that fact ( 3 ) the landlord shall not be entitled to recover from the original tenant any arrears of rent or other sums payable under this lease where the rent or other sums claimed became due earlier than three months before the original tenant was notified under sub-clause ( 2 ) above ( 4 ) the original tenant shall not be liable for any arrears of rent or other sum falling due after the date upon which this lease is expressed to expire or any breach of covenant committed after that date Example 3:2 Limitation on liability of tenant ( 1 ) In this clause ( a ) " the original tenant " means only ( b ) " the original assignee " means a person to whom the original tenant lawfully assigns this lease ( 2 ) upon a lawful assignment of this lease by the original tenant the original tenant ( a ) shall be released from further personal liability for any breach of any of the tenant 's obligations under this lease occurring after the date of the assignment but ( b ) shall guarantee performance by the original assignee of those obligations until the expiry or other determination of the term or ( if sooner ) a lawful assignment of this lease by the original assignee Example 3:3 Restriction on landlord 's ability to sue original tenant at any time after the lawful assignment of this lease by [ name of original tenant ] the landlord shall not be entitled to enforce against him the tenant 's obligations under this lease unless the landlord shall have first ( 1 ) recovered judgment against all other persons against whom the landlord is or has become entitled to enforce those obligations either as principal or surety and ( 2 ) attempted to levy excution upon such judgment and upon payment by [ name of original tenant ] of any sum due under such judgment the landlord shall assign to him the benefit of it Example 3:4 Definition clause making tenant liable for rent during holding over period " the term " includes not only the term expressed to be granted by this lease but also any period after the date on which the term is expressed to expire during which the tenancy continues under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 Example 3:5 Clause making the tenant liable to pay rent and interim rent promptly to pay the rent reserved by this lease without any deduction or set-off and any rent substituted for it either as a result of a rent review under this lease or the agreement or determination of a rent payable by virtue of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s24A |
| 17 | This warning message will be output until the DC DETAILS transfer mode is changed to BULK or INCREMENTAL , or until the list of users at the DC ACCESS keyword is returned to its previous state . |
| 18 | This warning message will be output until the DC DETAILS transfer mode is changed to BULK or INCREMENTAL , or until the list of users at the DC ACCESS keyword is returned to its previous state . |
| 19 | This warning message will be output until the MODULE DETAILS transfer mode is changed to BULK or INCREMENTAL , or until the list of users at the MODULE ACCESS keyword is returned to its previous state . |
| 20 | This warning message will be output until the MODULE DETAILS transfer mode is changed to BULK or INCREMENTAL , or until the list of users at the MODULE ACCESS keyword is returned to its previous state . |
| 21 | This warning message will be output until the USER DETAILS transfer mode is changed to BULK or INCREMENTAL , or until the list of users at the USER ACCESS keyword is returned to its previous state . |
| 22 | This warning message will be output until the USER DETAILS transfer mode is changed to BULK or INCREMENTAL , or until the list of users at the USER ACCESS keyword is returned to its previous state . |
| 23 | Carpenter kept track of the birds ' weight changes by means of perches attached to spring or electronic balances ( Figure 7.6 ) . |