Example sentences of "or [vb pp] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the normal form we are forced to accept only one of these representations ; we choose the left hand one by insisting that pairs of expressions unc output on the same channel or assigned to the same variable be ordered . |
| 2 | The reasons for demanding that expressions output on one channel , or assigned to the same variable , be uniformly ordered have already been explained . |
| 3 | AIthough the number of workers in the transport industries may have declined , it does not follow that the number of transport workers in the wider economy has also fallen or fallen to the same extent . |
| 4 | Most of the detailed factual material learned in the sixth form is forgotten or superseded within a few years . |
| 5 | Over the weekend of 21/22 September 1985 , for example , 60 protesters were arrested for wire-cutting at Molesworth and a further 55 were arrested or reported for the same action at RAF Sculthorpe . |
| 6 | If a message can be compressed one hundred times , it can be transmitted in one hundredth of the time , or transmitted at the same speed through a channel with one hundredth of the band width , and it can be stored in one hundredth of the volume of the original . |
| 7 | Another idea that uses a mirror image is to make a pair of pictures , either in separate frames or housed in the same mount , in which the colours of the flowers and foliage are transposed . |
| 8 | After his death many were given away or sold for a few pounds , and he was largely ignored as a painter until in 1987 six examples of his work were loaned to an exhibition entitled ‘ A Paradise Lost ’ at the Barbican Art Gallery , devoted to the neo-Romantic movement . |
| 9 | The navel , as the central feature of the body , is usually enlarged and emphasized and sometimes the entire stomach is thrust forward in a protruding shield-like form ; the limbs are shortened and seen as simple tubular forms , or reduced to a few incisive , sharply differentiated planes . |
| 10 | A nation owing money to other nations … is impoverished or burdened in the same way as a man who owes money to other men . |
| 11 | On at least a morning a week at ‘ family specialist ’ hotels , children are collected , given breakfast and taken on a trip or entertained for a few hours so their parents can enjoy a morning on their own . |
| 12 | I believe that the stricter interpretation above has to be preferred to the common-sense interpretation , because I believe the ASB was trying to follow the exemption in the Companies Act , so that cash flow statements would be included or excluded on the same criteria as group accounts . |
| 13 | In the British test-tube baby programme , viable embryos are either implanted or destroyed after a few days . |
| 14 | But particularly intriguing is the phenomenon of syncretisation itself , as an artistic process , and its relationship to meaning : the process whereby something new is created that can not simply be reduced to either side of two antagonistic forces , or returned to a former ‘ purity ’ . |