Example sentences of "or [vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of other allegations made by Higgins against Kruger were either not proceeded with or found not to constitute conduct bringing the game into disrepute . |
| 2 | This is certainly true of the two middle-class women who said they liked or did n't mind housework but were dissatisfied with it . |
| 3 | Papers that did not include a control group , were not randomised , did not allow calculation of ‘ intention to treat ’ results , or did not collect information on mortality or the incidence of respiratory or gastrointestinal infection were excluded . |
| 4 | There was no significant difference in the duration of remission between patients who did or did not identify food sensitivities . |
| 5 | He denied all the charges against him except possession of the literature which he said was either on sale in public bookstores or did not advocate violence . |
| 6 | Other women did not want to adopt the ‘ unemployed ’ label associated with registering for work or did not want confirmation of their unemployed status . |
| 7 | In the WFS , however , those women were considered " fecund " who were either pregnant or did not report fecundity impairment . |
| 8 | Clearly , fact and fiction become intermingled in such a process , but , as Chapter 4 points out , the idea that ‘ treatment equals methadone ’ developed at this time in Wirral , as did native knowledge concerning which agency or GP did or did not prescribe methadone . |
| 9 | Thus , in the present study we evaluated gastric clearance of indigestible markers , orocaecal transit time , colonic transit time , and gall bladder contraction in two groups of diabetic patients who differed as to whether they had or did not have signs of autonomic neuropathy affecting the cardiovascular system . |
| 10 | Curiously , while there was no marked difference in opinion about bad language or violence between those who did or did not have children , viewers without children were almost twice as likely to be offended by sex scenes . |
| 11 | It is relevant to recall in this connection that Younger did envisage situations where mere observation could seriously impair privacy — where , for example , the person observed had a reasonable expectation that he would not be subject to observation , or had deliberately taken steps to prevent surveillance , but special technical devices , either optical or electronic ( bugging ) , were used to spy upon him . |
| 12 | Paragraph 610 of the Bar code provides , first : ’ Counsel must not make statements or ask questions which are merely scandalous or intended or calculated only to vilify insult or annoy either a witness or some other person ; counsel must if possible avoid the naming in open Court of third parties whose characters would thereby be impugned ; counsel must not suggest that a witness or other person is guilty of crime , fraud or misconduct or attribute to another person the crime or conduct of which his lay client is accused ’ |
| 13 | Megaliths were smashed to make gate-posts or road-stone , blown up or pushed aside to clear space for the plough . |
| 14 | The models behind the sun-baked cellophane smiled with shining teeth or pushed out kissing pouts or let their dewy bottom lip drop ; they arched and twisted and perched , strategic stickers interrupted the full view of their parts , spotted animal skins here and there hinted at biting beasts on the loose . |