Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] the [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | He walked around the stage , perfecting his stunts , or just slept in his dressing-room or paced the empty corridors . |
| 4 | Later Ben Shermans followed other makers ( Brutus , Jaytex ) & moved the second button up to almost between the collar point buttons . |
| 5 | or used the wrong form of his name ? |
| 6 | If that were the case , it would n't make sense to ask who , or what , caused or created the big bang . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The growth of the ‘ displacement ’ model would be understandable if it resolved individual difficulties or reduced the general incidence of difficulty . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | There is no point in arguing who cast the first stone or threw the first bomb , destroying a church hall or a GAA club . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Turning now to those carers who said in their first interview that they wanted their relative to remain at home , one would expect that those in the action sample would be more likely to have retained that preference than those in the control sample ( assuming that the project has provided extra home care when needed and therefore indirectly or directly assisted or relieved the principal carers ) . |
| 14 | Knitters unpicked old jumpers , washed or seamed the unravelled wool and reknitted it . |
| 15 | He described local people dropping dead from starvation or being torn apart by Serb shelling as they sought shelter or scoured the snowy terrain for anything edible . |
| 16 | Where the person is present or represented the following wording may be used : Unless by [ 4 pm on Friday 13 June 19 ] The defendant [ serves his list of documents ] the defence be struck out and judgment entered for the plaintiff with costs . |
| 17 | Within that first fraction of potential benefit , I classified the endorsement of ‘ science ’ in place of the separate sciences that have for so long unbalanced or distorted the secondary curriculum ; the opportunity to rethink the nature and role of technology ; and the challenge to begin planning , for all secondary students , a foundation course in a foreign language . |
| 18 | Beckett 's characters ‘ begin and end their fictional journey at the same place , in the same condition , and without having learned , discovered , or acquired the least knowledge about themselves and the world in which they exist ’ ( Federman 1965 : 4 ) . |
| 19 | Whatever your kind of break , the abundance of things to see and do makes Brighton & Hove the right place to head for any time of year . |
| 20 | No one impeded or questioned the two fugitives . |
| 21 | If there was a very large output , perhaps from some other part of the world , and buyers would offer only a lower price , such as £110 per tonne , the EEC either paid their farmers the difference , of £16 , or bought the surplus grain and stored it for future use . |
| 22 | ‘ But if you made a bad decision , or gave the wrong judgement against someone in a dispute , then some of your people might suffer . ’ |
| 23 | Or did the 1991 Geneva show provide the cheer we all needed ? |
| 24 | Or did the partial substitutions usually fail causing dead-ends in the lattice ? |
| 25 | Or did the white men vanish from the tribe 's memory as completely as the tribe vanished for the white man ? |
| 26 | As they approach the viewer whether from right or left the far-side wing , perspective wise , will lead the near wing . |
| 27 | This is not to say that workers necessarily believed or accepted the new image of employers especially as during the 1950s memories of the pre-war era were clearly resonant . |
| 28 | Fitzgerald found that for some books , an increase to six or even nine samples actually produced means which systematically departed even further from the population mean — the true overall difficulty level , Only after the number of samples taken approached or exceeded the critical number did the mean of the samples agree with the population mean . |
| 29 | We had failed to locate a single prahu master , or " nakoda " , who had been anywhere near them , or had the slightest interest in doing so , and it was now so late in the west monsoon that there only remained another six weeks before we would no longer be able to depart without risking the winds dying and starting to reverse themselves before we had reached our destination . |
| 30 | It was recognized that a work of literature might employ , to advance its serious purpose , a style which resembled , or had the same effect as , the pornographer 's : here the jury was to be assisted to draw the line by experts who would offer judgments as to the degree of importance the article represented in its particular discipline . |