Example sentences of "[verb] or [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One advantage of secondary sources is that they are often easy to understand ; but a problem which can arise is that they may have altered or distorted the original idea . |
| 2 | Since the membership rapidly dwindled , there is a surreal possibility that the number of those planted by the police or the Communist party may have equalled or outnumbered the genuine British Nazis . |
| 3 | Kosa sees this charismatic character as peculiar to medicine and clergy , although he notes that some Protestant denominations have weakened or eliminated the charismatic authority of the clergyman . |
| 4 | Further , the table reveals 10 subjects where the university jobless rate ( this time including short-term employment ) has risen or stayed the same while the poly rate has fallen . |
| 5 | Following a day out by the river , the class were asked in pairs to make a picture or a model of something they had seen or done the previous day . |
| 6 | A plaque and certificate was presented by our branches to thirteen local projects each judged to have successfully protected or enhanced the visual appearance of the countryside . |
| 7 | The survey showed also that the majority , 92 per cent. , felt that the service had improved or stayed the same . |
| 8 | Marjorie Perloff has remarked that young American academics and students have a shared culture based on having read or studied the same books : ‘ they have , by and large , taken courses that expose them to writers like Freud , Nietzsche , and Marx , whereas the odds are that they have not taken a course in , say , the lyric poetry of Goethe , the fiction of Stendhal , or the theatre of Molière . ’ |