Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adj] or [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defendant omitted to plead that he tendered the money in full satisfaction : ‘ And always the manner of the tender and of the payment shall be directed by him who made the tender or payment , and not by him who accepts it . ’ |
| 2 | The United States Senate voted by 75 to 25 on Oct. 19 to withhold half a US$85,000,000 military aid allocation for El Salvador in fiscal year 1991 , until the government of President Alfredo Cristiani ( i ) demonstrated its " good faith " in pursuing peace talks with the guerrillas of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) ; ( ii ) stopped the military or security forces abducting or assassinating civilians ; and ( iii ) effected a professional investigation into and prosecution of those responsible for the murders of six Jesuits , including the rector of the University of Central America , Ignacio Ellauria , their housekeeper and her daughter on Nov. 16 , 1989 [ see p. 37038 ] . |
| 3 | Then , in 1954 , as the car passed under what seemed a mediaeval or Renaissance courtyard gate there was Frederica , brooding grimly about a personal failure in a dreamed , unreal competition . |
| 4 | The girl was already in England , but was brought back to Ireland by her parents , who faced a fine or imprisonment if they ignored the injunction . |
| 5 | SLEEPY Hugh O'Neil escaped a fine or jail for turning up two hours late at court yesterday — because cops searching his home had taken away his alarm clock . |
| 6 | The Glasgow Volunteers , disbanded after the Peace of Amiens in 1802 and then called back to the colours again , included the Fifth or Grocer 's Battalion , the Canal Volunteers , and the Royal Glasgow Volunteer Horse of 60 men and , presumably , 60 horses . |
| 7 | The principal one was that conversion and growth were particularly directed at the clerical-religious élite , where the annual retreat system formed the annual or biennial centre of the individual spiritual life . |
| 8 | I was talking to a civil servant in the Ministry of erm Energy the other day , and he said that he reckoned out of several hundred people working there there were about fifteen people who had a scientific or engineering background , and therefore were able to talk with some degree of expertise perhaps and certainly knowledge about the matters that they were discussing . |
| 9 | Although the rheumatological conditions associated with PBC are also associated with PHT , our patient had no clinical or laboratory evidence of a rheumatological disorder . |
| 10 | Hence when Irish clergymen stated that church and state were separate , they meant they themselves had no legislative or executive role in the state . |
| 11 | No electric shocks were actually being transmitted , and the experiment , rather than being about learning and punishment , was concerned with how far people would obey others who held an official or expert position . |