Example sentences of "[vb pp] or [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Insulin doses were not altered throughout the study except to ensure ( on the basis of the home blood glucose test results ) that glycaemic control was not altered or to avoid unacceptable hypoglycaemia ( mainly during the run in phase ) . |
| 2 | You must wait until the current work has completed or perform this work in the package/packages where the active DC already exists . |
| 3 | With the best will in the world many cases have to be withdrawn or discontinued each year . |
| 4 | It appears to be an inescapable fact that regardless of whether a nation is developing , developed or experiencing economic decline , the indigenous population will experience differing degrees of economic prosperity depending on their particular location in the economy . |
| 5 | Reaching an appropriate sociability and the business to be won or lost short space of time and wanted to set the scene and make a right , a right impression at the right . |
| 6 | The local crab industry is lucrative and expanding , as are the dolphin kills , and an estimated several thousand are being harpooned or shot each year . |
| 7 | Until recently , they were killed in their thousands by Turkish hunters in the Black Sea and they are still being actively hunted in Greenland , where about 1000 porpoises are harpooned or shot each year . |
| 8 | How many people have owned or handled this object ? |
| 9 | More than that : he had himself sprung from the upper working class and naturally despised as unclean the lower working class : his life was made a misery by their proximity , and he longed for them to be evicted or murder each other in one of their not infrequent rows . |
| 10 | She did n't face Christina when she said through clenched teeth , ‘ I 've never expected or received any help from you anyway , Christina . ’ |
| 11 | It is suggested that we send the Secretary copies of the final grades awarded by sending a photocopy of the sheets as returned by the Moderators , as well as a clearly written or typed composite sheet ( example included ( *2 ) ) . |
| 12 | Where problems associated with water penetration have occurred on mastic asphalt roofs , it is usually as a result of failure from one or more of the following : incorrectly detailed or ignored movement joints , penetration through parapet walls , wrongly positioned or damaged damp proof courses , blocked rainwater outlets , condensation , failure to provide a suitable finish , or physical damage in use . |
| 13 | A total of 87 per cent of those surveyed had not seen or heard any information on recent warnings across the country . |
| 14 | And no one had seen or heard any struggle , although Joanna went missing shortly before 7pm last Tuesday , when she was due to take an aerobics class — and when the car park would have been busy . |
| 15 | E here have you seen or heard any advertising for British special stamp issues ? |
| 16 | She had never before seen or felt such vitality . |
| 17 | RASA : Drink eaten by a rare Talahari tribe that no one has ever seen or found any evidence to prove that they exist . |
| 18 | Since my own cancer , I have met or heard many cancer sufferers who appear to see ‘ God ’ as a help in their affliction . |
| 19 | The highlighted section is ready to be cut , copied or given special text attributes and styles . |
| 20 | I I hope this is not a mischievous comment , but I I think it 's very questionable , whether the Christian faith would be known as it is today , down two thousand years , had it not been for an innocent man , Jesus , being unjustly punished and crucified , and so many of the great reformers in the history of man , men and women have died or suffered grave imprisonment because of injustice , and in a paradoxical way , injustice in a way , yo you almost seem as if we need injustice to drive us on , to get things done in a , in a better way . |
| 21 | The study will also collect data from a small sample of next of kin of those who have died or entered residential care to try to understand how these events affected the network and how family and friends cope with crises . |
| 22 | The full debate over the relationship of the economy to public spending is complex , and the issues are not easily understood or proven either way . |
| 23 | Bitumen coated or wax coated paper , |
| 24 | Its potential use was limited because it was not absorbed from the gut and so was ineffective if given by mouth , and because tyrocidine , in concentrations liable to occur during therapeutic use , damaged or destroyed red blood cells . |
| 25 | Thus if the goods are damaged or stolen this loss falls on the seller if it occurs before property has passed ; otherwise it falls on the buyer . |
| 26 | As amended in 1965 , it covered any person who in any public place or at any public meeting used threatening , abusive , or insulting words or behaviour or distributed or displayed any writing , sign , or other visible representation which was threatening , abusive , or insulting . |
| 27 | They can be manually set or use automatic sensing for exposure . |
| 28 | Sometimes diplomats stretched or abused this right to support dissident religious minorities , to the annoyance of the governments with which they had to deal . |
| 29 | Well I mean that is i i something that well to the best off my knowledge , the government has not announced or taken any sort of decision on . |
| 30 | Even if this were so , the implication has been made by catholic school supporters that catholic schools have not promoted or reinforced any measure of prejudice , and that no other possible type of school could improve on them ( Daly 1975 ) . |