Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many turnpike roads like the canals and railways after them , produced minor settlements or led to changes in existing ones . |
| 2 | Finally , as we discussed previously , even if primary productivity were to have increased , unless the increase was supported by nutrients external to the ocean , or led to depletion of the excess nutrients in the upper ocean , the effect on the drawdown of anthropogenic CO 2 would be insignificant . |
| 3 | In the first place , we can not say that the coins recovered from a site , whether by excavation or otherwise , represent a cross-section of coins in use on that site , even though it is generally true that coins are dropped in proportion to the amount of times they are handled or passed from hand to hand . |
| 4 | The sheet is then printed on one side with the sheet being turned or tumbled from front to rear to print the opposite side . |
| 5 | As the decade rushed on , as he saw or read about slaughter in Abyssinia , beatings and murder in Hungary , Romania , Albania , racial violence in the Memel , Carpatho-Ukraine , Slovakia , fascist killing in Italy , Germany and Spain , communist in the east , Edward Carrington grew more and more amazed , then horrified , by the country that he supposed his own . |
| 6 | To treat them simply as statements of objective fact , to be proved or disproved by appeal to observation of the world around us , to the speculations and arguments of metaphysical philosophy , or even to the authority of the Bible understood as a collection of ‘ divine truths ’ , is to misconceive their nature and function . |
| 7 | Most colleges are walled or fenced with guards at the gates . |
| 8 | Even today the older houses have gables and mullioned windows which show that they were built in the seventeenth century and some of the later cottages that were erected in rows or clustered in folds during John Hey 's lifetime retain their long ranges of upstairs windows which allowed the maximum amount of light to fall on the looms . |
| 9 | Or moved to tears by its same sound . |
| 10 | Within the chromosomes of a single individual , however , there are processes whereby pieces of DNA are duplicated , or moved from place to place . |
| 11 | On 4 August 1989 solicitors acting on behalf of the relatives wrote to the coroner repeating the facts as I have summarised them and requesting that an inquest be held to inquire whether or not the death had been caused or aggravated by failures of the emergency services to respond to the calls and to attend in proper time . |
| 12 | In order to avoid this result the draftsman should define a reference to an Act of Parliament etc as including a reference to that Act etc as amended or re-enacted from time to time . |
| 13 | A state marketing system gives derisory prices for commodities produced by peasants and later exported to earn foreign exchange spent by the bureaucratic bourgeoisie and other privileged classes , or consumed as foodstuffs at cheap prices . |
| 14 | Incremental — only transfer information which has been modified or added to LIFESPAN since the last transfer for that type |
| 15 | The cubes can be added to soups and sauces or thawed for use in puddings and cakes . |
| 16 | He said only a very small percentage of forests was used for furniture , the rest was wasted or burned as fuel by the local people . |
| 17 | However , even when legal principles are committed to one constitutional document , set out in legal codes or reiterated by judges over time , they tend to remain highly ambiguous and not worth the paper they are printed on until somebody — the judiciary — interprets and defers to them in their judgments , and somebody else — the executive — enforces those judgments . |
| 18 | The majority of these manned the parish churches and chapels of the diocese , or acted as chaplains to great laymen . |
| 19 | Domesticated buffaloes lumbered through the flooded fields , too , hauling tiny wooden plows , or wallowed at rest in deeper hollows with only their scimitar-shaped horns and noses showing above the water . |
| 20 | Prey buried or cached by predators under the surface of the ground is likewise protected , as are bones falling into or carried into caves . |
| 21 | We waited in the shed while rain boomed and clattered on to the metal roof , and no aircraft took off or landed for hour after hour . |
| 22 | Now in the eyes of the law , they have committed a crime , but if you put that situation before a jury , and even though the judge may instruct the jury , a crime has been committed , you must find them guilty , the jury 's inclination will probably be to say , natural justice , you , that you you done what was required of you , that you do n't deserve to be either convicted or sent to prison for it . |
| 23 | During that time he sought inspiration and enrichment of the texture of the story in the surrounding countryside , in the paintings of Turner ( ‘ What he paints chiefly is light as modified by objects ’ ) and Romney ( ‘ I am struck by the red glow of [ his ] backgrounds , and his red flesh shades ’ ) , in the faces of women he met at dinner parties or saw by chance in a passing omnibus . |
| 24 | Me , who never read a clock or went to work in my life . |
| 25 | Alongside the development of poor law hospitals many voluntary hospitals , assisted by charitable funds that enabled them to provide cheap or free services to the poor , were founded or grew in strength from their earlier origins . |
| 26 | The young people were draped about the furniture or lay in couples on the floor in utter silence whilst the firelight flickered . |
| 27 | The balustrade beside him looked like the shelves of a hosiery shop : dozens of pairs of silk stockings hung from it or lay in piles on the flagstones beside the brass six-pounder . |
| 28 | Income tax must be deducted or refunded in accordance with these : |
| 29 | We are not tempted to give an experiential explanation of the meaning of ‘ It 's afternoon ’ , or beguiled by answers to the ‘ Afternoon on the Sun ’ question like ‘ We mean the same by ‘ It 's afternoon on the Sun ’ as we mean by ‘ It 's afternoon ’ on the Earth' . |
| 30 | Unless otherwise stated , differences reported between teams were statistically significant at the 0.05 level , sometimes with variables collapsed or dichotomized in view of small cell sizes . |