Example sentences of "[vb pp] or [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no rule of the charity that the accused had to hand over the notes and coins received or to maintain a separate fund . |
| 2 | One advantage of secondary sources is that they are often easy to understand ; but a problem which can arise is that they may have altered or distorted the original idea . |
| 3 | Would his lungs bake , and his eyes poach , and his skin crisp to crackling before he had even fallen or slid a hundred metres ? |
| 4 | ( 9 ) A listed company may have given or made a prior undertaking or statement not to issue further shares in certain circumstances without the approval of shareholders in general meeting ( see para 17.6 below ) . |
| 5 | Since the membership rapidly dwindled , there is a surreal possibility that the number of those planted by the police or the Communist party may have equalled or outnumbered the genuine British Nazis . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Tenacious and long-memoried , they had not allowed themselves to be uprooted or changed a second time . |
| 9 | He can do nothing , though , because the stuffing is coming out of the armchair he is sitting in , and before anything else can happen he has to decide whether to get it re-covered or buy a new one . |
| 10 | Kosa sees this charismatic character as peculiar to medicine and clergy , although he notes that some Protestant denominations have weakened or eliminated the charismatic authority of the clergyman . |
| 11 | Where possible , material which could be salvaged from old buildings or walls was recycled into the new fortifications , while in many places no indemnity was paid to those who were forced ‘ pro bono publico ’ to surrender property on which walls might be built or to provide the open ground , outside a wall , vital for effective defence . |
| 12 | Further , the table reveals 10 subjects where the university jobless rate ( this time including short-term employment ) has risen or stayed the same while the poly rate has fallen . |
| 13 | Following a day out by the river , the class were asked in pairs to make a picture or a model of something they had seen or done the previous day . |
| 14 | It is not only the child of a broken marriage who feels this , but even when , sadly , one parent has died or spent a considerable amount of time in hospital . |
| 15 | The common name is a corruption of the word febrifuge , from the Latin febris , fever , and fugo , put to flight , but it does not seem in the past to have been used or considered a specific remedy for high temperatures . |
| 16 | Those who had entered the country before May 15 , 1991 , were entitled to present documentation showing tthat hey either were employed or had a viable project to set up a business . |
| 17 | This is usually to throw light on the character being played or to create the right atmosphere for the location of the action and for the expressive action required for the unfolding of the plot or theme . |
| 18 | It was not scheduled or given an elaborate countdown and fanfare . |
| 19 | In both the reported cases the patients stated that they had inhaled or ingested a foreign body . |
| 20 | A plaque and certificate was presented by our branches to thirteen local projects each judged to have successfully protected or enhanced the visual appearance of the countryside . |
| 21 | An institution which is already well capitalised or faces a low cost of capital will thus have an advantage . |
| 22 | If that were the case , it would n't make sense to ask who , or what , caused or created the big bang . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | And also you need to be coloured or have a good degree to get the job . |
| 26 | Anyway , by the time Stevens ' book was published in 1987 , the network had devised or discovered a whole new pharmacopoeia with strange-sounding names . |
| 27 | These can be displayed , cleared or have the four basic operations performed on them allowing eleven different sums to be carried out simultaneously . |
| 28 | This section is amended as follows : General Accident will pay the cost of replacing keys and locks for external doors , safes and alarms where the keys of such locks have been lost or stolen No Special Exclusions ( But see General Exclusions on Page 30 ) The Limit of the amount payable under this section is $500 . |
| 29 | constitute a demonstration that an aversive CS will interfere with further ( appetitive ) conditioning , whether the context is changed or stays the same . |
| 30 | They took their seats on canvas chairs which were placed side by side on the strip of red tiling , as if they were about to be photographed or to review a marching column . |