Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] " 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 | As a top physiotherapist , she is more than used to stretching and flexing the muscles of people who have tortured their frail frame , or endured a bad tackle on the football field . |
| 3 | I went to the er conference that we had at Stokewatchford , which together with er , John , er my Vice Chairman er on Europe , the other week , and there is so much mythology , er , that has been dispensed by people who are half-hearted towards Europe or got a vested interest in no has not been committed to Europe , and and they use this , and in fact the classic example was , that , one of our own Lincolnshire M P's claimed that he had saved , Lincolnshire 's from the ravages of Europe . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | On many occasions we have increased the sensitivity of our measurements or made a new class of observations , only to discover new phenomena that were not predicted by the existing theory , and to account for these we have had to develop a more advanced theory . |
| 6 | No member of the household has made more than two claims or made a single claim above £2,500 on home insurance in the last two years |
| 7 | She had crossed it once before , but she knew it would be much more risky today , because the recent heavy rains would have made the surface gluey , and if she slipped or made a false step she might find herself caught and held in the treacly morass of the marsh . |
| 8 | And Audrey has never been on the stage , or left her husband , or made a false move in public in any direction . " |
| 9 | Or read a funny book . |
| 10 | He walked around the stage , perfecting his stunts , or just slept in his dressing-room or paced the empty corridors . |
| 11 | Later Ben Shermans followed other makers ( Brutus , Jaytex ) & moved the second button up to almost between the collar point buttons . |
| 12 | It means around 24 million current account holders would have to pay a fee every time they drew a cheque or used a hole-in-the-wall cash machine . |
| 13 | or used the wrong form of his name ? |
| 14 | If that were the case , it would n't make sense to ask who , or what , caused or created the big bang . |
| 15 | Tenacious and long-memoried , they had not allowed themselves to be uprooted or changed a second time . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The fastest growing economies since 1945 have been those very economies which have not indulged in the purchase of nuclear weapons or devoted a disproportionate share of their budgets to military expenditure . |
| 18 | Any females which are not ripe will either stay away or beat a hasty retreat . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The growth of the ‘ displacement ’ model would be understandable if it resolved individual difficulties or reduced the general incidence of difficulty . |
| 21 | ‘ All we do know , ’ he concluded , ‘ is that the assassin must have been a member of the community at the Tower who knew Sir Ralph had changed his bed chamber , and he or she either committed the murder or hired a professional assassin to do it for them . ’ |
| 22 | By the time you 've booby-trapped your car , or hired an armed guard for it , walked miles , found the crag and avoided the most polished routes you might not consider it worth the hassle . |
| 23 | They may have received some college training , participated in in-service training provided by government agencies or employers , or received no specific training for their jobs . |
| 24 | Students held secret meetings and there were rumours of plots to assassinate Mussolini , but these always failed , and It was said that those involved were given long prison sentences or suffered a worse fate . |
| 25 | These defective viruses have usually lost a portion of their genetic material or suffered a single mutation that prevents them completing the full replicative cycle . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | His name was Joe Jack , and after my first visit I went back many times to hear him talk as he carved out the shape of a leather sole or polished a repaired shoe on his rotary machine . |
| 28 | There is no point in arguing who cast the first stone or threw the first bomb , destroying a church hall or a GAA club . |
| 29 | The winter of commissions that promoted or predicted a sovereign Quebec has faded . |
| 30 | Wine was decanted against the flame of a candle , and pouring would be stopped as soon as the wine started to get cloudy or showed the first signs of deposit . |