Example sentences of "[vb pp] or [vb base] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two patients in each treatment arm refused to accept the treatment assigned or participate in the research study or both . |
| 2 | Against : NCM must standardise the components supplied or improve on the instruction manual . |
| 3 | Exceptionally , however , a peerage could be conferred or devolve upon a daughter or other heir . |
| 4 | However , there is rather less chance that girls will be detained or go on the run from the security forces , a factor which has increased male drop-out levels . |
| 5 | As heirs of the philosophical Enlightenment and the modern scientific world-view , they can not grasp the possibility that Evil could be personified or exist as a spirit opposed to God and his creation . |
| 6 | The fact that these costs can not readily be quantified or fall outside the fundholding sector does not mean that they should be overlooked . |
| 7 | The free wine really did put everyone in the right mood for the rest of the evening when you could sit back and be entertained or dance to the disco music outside on the terrace . |
| 8 | He must either go home and try to forget all that had happened or creep up the hill and find out what was going on . |
| 9 | Introduced in 1975 , ICA is intended to replace the earnings lost or forgone by a working-age carer who is providing full-time ( at least thirty-five hours a week ) care to a severely disabled person . |
| 10 | Films like Lady Audley 's Secret ( 1920 ) , the story of a bigamous marriage and a woman 's cold-blooded murder of her devoted husband , were sensational without being plotted or shoot with an eye to involving an audience . |
| 11 | Page 382 of ’ Erskine May ’ concerns the citing of documents not before the House and makes it clear that a Minister may not ’ read or quote from a despatch or other state paper not before the House , unless he is prepared to lay it upon the Table . ’ |