Example sentences of "[vb past] or [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of those 363 hotel pools , 31% were found to have inadequate or no rescue equipment and 21% lacked or had insufficient pool surround fitments . |
| 2 | Those companies between them owned or managed 95 fishing vessels which were until 31 March 1989 registered as British fishing vessels under the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 ( 57 & 58 Vict. c. 60 ) . |
| 3 | Partly no doubt because Bob had been brought up in Thornton Heath , he was popular with local fans , but his popularity also stemmed from the fact the he made or scored vital goals precisely when they were needed . |
| 4 | McIntosh is too much the diplomat to say what he really thinks about the firm 's three year spell inside the TSB empire , except to say two things — firstly that he doubts whether it either made or lost much money on its investment , and secondly that Hill Samuel was very supportive once the decision to sell had been taken in principle . |
| 5 | From 1828 to 1850 he acted as engineer to the Scottish Fisheries Board , in which capacity he built or improved numerous harbours , including Dunbar , Fraserburgh , Inverness , and Wick . |
| 6 | The question to resolve is the extent to which Nizan 's practical experience of the USSR confirmed or altered these preconceptions . |
| 7 | Allied forces completed on July 15 their withdrawal from northern Iraq ( temporarily suspended in late June — see p. 38308 ) , amidst clashes between Kurdish guerrillas and government forces which reportedly killed or wounded 500 people . |
| 8 | Marxist and elitists of course argue that expressed or perceived political preferences can he distinguished from ‘ objective ’ interests . |
| 9 | In the first half of 1853 he initiated or sanctioned three responses : " He appealed to Great Britain for support , and took out of the lumber room the forgotten agreement of 1844 " ; he sent an emissary to Constantinople for bilateral talks ; and he began to make plans for fighting . |
| 10 | When he saw or heard other people , he slowed to a walk until they were past , then he ran again . |
| 11 | The consequences for a purchaser of receiving an unlawful distribution are provided by CA 1985 , s277 and will essentially require a purchaser , who at the time of distribution , knew or had reasonable grounds for believing that it was an unlawful distribution sale , to be made liable to repay the distribution to the vendor . |
| 12 | People sang or played musical instruments at all times of the day and night . |
| 13 | Such analysis can be approached in two major ways : one can either take all those who were sustained at home for , say , six months or l2 months from referral in both action and control samples , and compare the two groups in order to see whether — as one would expect if the project were successful — those still at home in the control sample were less disadvantaged in home care terms , less poorly circumstanced or had fewer problems than those in the action samples . |
| 14 | Many of her friends had stepparents , and few of them were happy about it : in their rambling and interminable discussions they would deplore the stupidity and selfishness of their elders in introducing into their homes strangers who were not of their blood and who insisted on peculiar foodstuffs and liked or disliked various types of music — whichever was most inconvenient and painful to the children of the house . |
| 15 | He spoke once during the second reading debate , spoke or intervened thirteen times in committee , once on report , and once on third reading . |
| 16 | He asked Office minister David Mellor whether he still wished or instructed local authorities to enforce the law as it now stands . |
| 17 | Participants reported that most workshops were very useful as they stood or needed minor modification . |
| 18 | John fills in a gardening diary every day and often refers back to it to find out when they mulched or did other jobs . |
| 19 | To heighten comprehension , our information was presented using personal pronouns in deliberately short sentences that explained or avoided technical terms ; awareness could be further enhanced by issuing the information sheets ( customised for specific operations ) during the initial outpatient consultation , which would give patients more time to assimilate the facts . |
| 20 | The situation was made worse by the 1986 earthquake , which exacerbated the housing shortage and destroyed or damaged numerous schools . |