Example sentences of "or [vb pp] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They must not be bought or sold or even taken or given as a present . |
| 2 | If the child has become lost or frightened as a result of parental neglect , then the adult in question may expect to be admonished by the fairy , who dislikes irresponsibility and carelessness . |
| 3 | 9.17 Frustration of reinstatement Landlords sometimes include a proviso that the landlord should have the right to terminate the lease in the event of reinstatement being frustrated or delayed as a result of circumstances beyond the landlord 's control . |
| 4 | Order 15 , r 1 provides that the court may at any time allow or direct any person to be added , struck out or substituted as a party to proceedings in accordance with the High Court practice ( see RSC , Ord 15 , r 6 ; Ord 20 , rr 5 , 8 ) . |
| 5 | For example , regular work has to be postponed or cancelled as a result and , because of the knock-on effects , there is never space for team members to take time off in lieu , in order to recuperate from overtime working dealing with highly stressful situations . |
| 6 | ‘ The clauses probably have been misused or overused as a tool . |
| 7 | In a broader sense it includes all relatives living together or accepted as a family , including adopted persons . |
| 8 | The application by a non-natural person must name the person who is to be responsible for the day-to-day running of the premises , and the licence granted or transferred as a result of the application must name both the non-natural person and the person who is to run the premises . |
| 9 | He stood diffidently to the side of a group , or featured as a background — the pair of legs clutched by baby Louise , a blurred figure in a field beyond Helen and Edward who sat on a rug eating sandwiches . |
| 10 | Once an elite has established itself , it may well find itself being emulated or used as a reference group by ‘ lower ’ social classes . |
| 11 | Several slices or plaquettes may be cut , which can be examined separately ( see Section 4.2 ) or used as a back-up , should there be a failure at some subsequent stage in the section-making process . |
| 12 | Lace made on a knitting machine can be whatever you want it to be ; it can be filmy and fine for evening wear , lightweight in fine wool for a layer of warmth or used as a break inserted into the stocking stitch of a warm , chunky sweater . |
| 13 | People must rely as far as possible on not being killed or used as a resource , and on having some space and objects and relations with other people they can count as their own … . |
| 14 | Stacked for six months this will provide a useful ingredient to dig into the ground in the autumn , either forked in when planting or used as a mulch . |
| 15 | How should today 's young Germans treat Hitler 's legacy — should his bunker be bulldozered for good , or preserved as a warning of the evils he stood for ? |
| 16 | A long debate has raged about whether the tip should be flattened or preserved as a monument of the ironstone industry . |
| 17 | If your car is stolen or damaged as a result of theft or attempted theft you will have to pay the first £100 of the cost . |
| 18 | A new Constitution , designed to usher in multiparty politics , was adopted after a " yes " vote recorded as 98.36 per cent in a referendum on Nov. 16 ; the new Constitution stipulated that the head of state " shall not be impeached , or called as a witness before , during and after his term of office " . |
| 19 | It is important to note that sexual violence , including rape , has a wider range of forms than is typically reported upon in the press or recognised as a crime . |
| 20 | ( 3 ) A retiring partner may be discharged from any existing liabilities , by an agreement to that effect between himself and the members of the firm as newly constituted and the creditors , and this agreement may be either express or inferred as a fact from the course of dealing between the creditors and the firm as newly constituted . |
| 21 | I doubt whether our predecessors in this place before 1914 thought that the powers of the House were compromised or undermined as a result . |
| 22 | The Act defines three types of offensive weapon : ‘ made ’ ( such as a bayonet ) for killing or wounding ; ‘ adapted ’ ( like a smashed milk bottle ) so that it becomes a weapon ; or ‘ intended ’ ( such as a penknife or empty bottle ) which was not designed or adapted as a weapon but could be used if the need arose . |
| 23 | It had never been fully constituted or trained as a squadron , but it had achieved most creditable results nonetheless , with over 100 victories plus many more probables and damaged . |
| 24 | It is the essential ingredient in much of the best Italian cuisine , whether it is cooked in the dish , sprinkled onto the food just before serving , or eaten as a table cheese . |
| 25 | Hostilities between the Chadian army and the Western Armed Forces ( FAO — the military wing of the MDD ) were to end , and people arrested in combat or detained as a result of membership of the MDD were to be released . |
| 26 | Up to the commencement of school life , the major gratifications of the child in its interactions with others have been based largely on the overt and tacit approval of its parents its activities have been categorised in part according to the extent by which maternal and paternal love has waxed or waned as a result of them . |
| 27 | ( 2 ) An instrument shall not be a deed unless — ( a ) it makes it clear on its face that it is intended to be a deed by the person making it , or , as the case may be , by the parties to it ( whether by describing itself as a deed or expressing itself to be executed or signed as a deed or otherwise ) ; and ( b ) it is validly executed as a deed by that person or , as the case may be , one or more of those parties . |
| 28 | This in turn rests on how we define the distinctiveness of each class and how we think this is blurred or enhanced as a result of broad socioeconomic processes . |
| 29 | This entails personal views and values , a judgement about the degree of respect in which one holds the view of other people and a sense of whether something is being sacrificed or enhanced as a result of making adjustments . |
| 30 | The ego introjects the object which is lost or renounced as a substitute for the object . |