Example sentences of "or [vb pp] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In September several senior officials were dismissed or reprimanded for poor work in the consumer goods sector . |
| 2 | Other ingredients can be added or substituted for different applications . |
| 3 | They may be precipitated locally ( Thompson , 1959 ) or carried for some distance in solution ( Bathurst , 1975 ; Wanless , 1979 ) . |
| 4 | Ideally the information which is suppressed or grouped for contemporary research should be retained for historical research . |
| 5 | In addition , orders may define circumstances in which the application of the National Curriculum provisions to individual pupils might be modified or lifted for any foundation subject … . |
| 6 | " Capital sum " for these purposes has the same meaning as in s677. ( b ) Associated payments In relation to any capital sum paid to the settlor by a body corporate the expression " associated payment " means : ( i ) any capital sum paid to that body by the trustees of the settlement ; and ( ii ) any other sum paid or asset transferred to that body by those trustees which is not paid or transferred for full consideration in money or money 's worth being a sum paid or asset transferred in the five years ending or beginning with the date on which the capital sum is paid to the settlor ( s678(3) ) . |
| 7 | Smoothed or polished slices can also be observed directly under cathodoluminescence ( see Chapter 6 ) ; they may be etched or stained for this purpose . |
| 8 | Sun is so flush with cash that it plans to buy in up to 7.5m of its own shares , 7.5% ; the purchases will be funded from available working capital and the shares will be held in treasury or used for ongoing stock issues for its employee share ownership plans . |
| 9 | I am reminded that when I suggested that the £7 billion of expenditure on the European fighter aircraft might be better spent — it seems dodgy anyhow — or used for civilian aircraft , his contribution to planned change was to suggest that nobody wants single-seater civilian aircraft flying at 750 mph . |
| 10 | The Trust is also uniquely empowered , under its Act of Parliament , to declare its properties inalienable , which means that they can not be compulsorily acquired or used for any purpose against the Trust 's wishes without specific parliamentary consent . |
| 11 | Others are smuggled abroad for circuses or tourist entertainments or sold for medical research : there are 1,500 chimps in American labs . |
| 12 | The vessels that sailed in and out of the Minoan harbours , whether bay-hopping round the Cretan coast or bound for far-distant ports , were generally rather small . |
| 13 | For further acquisitions Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza intends to draw on the so-called third rank of paintings in the Thyssen Collection , bought in order to be sold on or exchanged for better works . |
| 14 | They suggest that tropical forests be translated into zonal parks or exchanged for poor-world debts . |
| 15 | Culyer et al ( 1988 ) stress that ‘ care will have to be exercised to ensure that very sick and elderly patients are not treated or cared for long distances away from their homes and families ’ . |
| 16 | ( 1988 ) stress that ‘ care will have to be exercised to ensure that very sick and elderly patients are not treated or cared for long distances away from their homes and families ’ [ … ] |
| 17 | Both Central News and ITN World News make full use of authentic material ; no story has been invented or truncated for these videos . |
| 18 | Many are incurable strays which wander off time and time again , many are untrustworthy or dangerously aggressive dogs who may have been thrown out or dumped for this reason . |
| 19 | Opposition sources also claimed that a number of senior civil and military officers had recently been detained or executed for anti-government activities . |
| 20 | The Breakthrough to Literacy materials ( published by Longman ) contain a useful piece of equipment which can be used or adapted for any age of pupil . |
| 21 | The arms can be almost closed together to support single-stemmed plants such as lilies or gladioli , or widened for bushier plants such as poppies , dahlias , or chrysanthemums . |
| 22 | On current spending education was essentially stabilised in real volume terms for over a decade , and the rates of growth in health and personal social services slowed down or ceased for some periods . |
| 23 | It is usually stopped from six to fifteen inches from the hook , but this can be increased or decreased for special situations that demand either a longer or shorter tail . |
| 24 | For instance , pupils might be asked to decide whether an object belonged to a wealthy or a poor person , whether it was an everyday object or kept for special occasions . |
| 25 | It comes from critics who imagine themselves penning formidable papers which , like those of Gregor Mendel , are hidden away or ignored for many years — and do not fare too well , therefore , in ISI 's listings . |
| 26 | It is also supposed that comparison between welfare gained or lost for different people is , though still difficult , less intractably so , if what is in question are not qualities of feeling but the satisfactions of behaviourally manifested preferences . |
| 27 | In addition , the inclusion of academics from a broad range of subjects or chosen for particular expertise ( in student learning , for example ) means that a wider range of critical questions are more likely to be explored . |
| 28 | Around 75 per cent of China 's energy comes from coal — either via power stations , or burned for domestic heating . |
| 29 | An older horse may be quite fit , maybe having been hunted or hacked for long distances . |
| 30 | In the table below ( Table 1 ) , which shows data for the years 1973–79 , the combined number of employees dying from fatal accidents or occupational diseases ( most of which are avoidable if employing corporations obeyed government regulations and designed safe production schedules or paid for hazard-free work environments ) far exceed the number of homicide cases recorded by the police . |