Example sentences of "or [adv] [vb pp] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Legends about the Babylonian and Persian period were revived — or perhaps invented for the first time — to encourage faithfulness to the Mosaic Law in the new conditions . |
| 2 | first the base budget , an this and return to give increase the expenditure is the five million pounds or so needed for the increased number of pupils . |
| 3 | Apart from programs designed for vertical markets or specially written for a particular job , most of the products you 'll find are ‘ pen aware ’ which means they can recognize a pen as both a mouse and an input device , but do n't have any other facilities to take advantage of the pen . |
| 4 | There will also be about 20 contemporary masks , bought or specially made for the display , and dozens of comics featuring masked characters . |
| 5 | The walls were lined with bookshelves , each shelf crammed with books , mostly in long sets of leather-bound volumes that looked as if they had not been read , or touched , or even dusted for a very long time . |
| 6 | The other conditions of an effect , by which I again mean particulars or tokens rather than types — it would again be more accurate to speak of individual properties and relations — are also required or alternatively required for the effects . |
| 7 | We began with the idea that a causal circumstance consists in a set of conditions including a cause or causes-more precisely a set of individual properties-each being ( 1 , 1a ) required or alternatively required for the effect . |
| 8 | From this it followed ( 2 , 2a ) that the circumstance too is required or alternatively required for the effect . |
| 9 | These seem to have been designed to be worn on the finger , although the oval design-disc was so big as to he unwieldy ; possibly they were normally worn on a string round the neck , or simply reserved for a leisured elite . |
| 10 | Thus Vmw175 is directly or indirectly required for the normal expression of all other HSV-1 genes . |
| 11 | It is we who want broad motorways , cheap coal , instant electricity , subsidised food , and protection from alleged enemies without care for the past or indeed thought for the future . |
| 12 | Once proceedings have been commenced a child can not be medically or psychiatrically examined or otherwise assessed for the purpose of preparing expert evidence without the leave of the court ( FPCR , r18(1) ; FPR , r4.18(1) ) . |
| 13 | In these circumstances it is essential that a direction is sought as the child can not be medically or psychiatrically examined or otherwise assessed for the purpose of providing expert evidence without the leave of the court ( FPCR , r18(1) ; FPR , r4.18(1) ) . |
| 14 | This sexism was traced in the stereotyping of women ( the madonna/whore dichotomy of classic Hollywood is a well-known example ) , and critics implicitly or explicitly called for an authentic women 's cinema which would portray real women as they really are . |
| 15 | Bull was always , first and foremost , a virtuoso both of technical invention and obviously of performance , even in compositions probably or certainly intended for the organ where he appears as the direct heir of Preston and Blitheman . |