Example sentences of "or [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All day and all night he would be there loitering in the streets of Chichester , either surrounded by hoards of admiring people or dismissed as a dirty scavenging wretch , ruining the ornate Georgian Streets . |
| 2 | WHAT a ridiculous idea for parents to be fined or punished for the bad behaviour of their children . |
| 3 | Finally , whatever the future of state schools ' funding , whether it be grant maintained or devolved under the local management of schools , all schools must be fairly and adequately resourced . |
| 4 | It can be sold mild when young , or matured to a greater depth of flavour . |
| 5 | The Empire army includes many devices invented or developed by the Imperial Engineers , including such strange machines as the Steam Tank and Helblaster volley gun . |
| 6 | To the fields brought in by IPC had been added others , discovered or developed by the national oil company INOC , under new-style arrangements , notably the Brazilian discovery Majnun , prominent in the fighting near Basrah in the 1980s . |
| 7 | Presently consuming or consumed in the previous 12 months . |
| 8 | Each small request is invariably met , each question carefully considered , points either debated with an academic botanist or explained to an amateur gardener with patient thoroughness . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The reasons for demanding that expressions output on one channel , or assigned to the same variable , be uniformly ordered have already been explained . |
| 11 | If , on the other hand , he was not genuine in writing the letters and had connived or conduced to the fraudulent behaviour of the son , or was even aware of it and consented to it , then he would not under any logical analysis have written the letters in these terms . |
| 12 | Erm , what we have tried to do at , there are You 've probably seen or heard in the last five or six years , the influence of Japanese technology . |
| 13 | Prices tend to be omitted from publishers ' catalogues ( or given in a separate leaflet which becomes detached from the main catalogue ) . |
| 14 | Indeed , here one can detect a good example of how rich one has to be to be poor : precisely because a poor family can not afford expensive but once-and-for-all repairs ( assuming such repairs to be feasible ) , household maintenance must either be neglected , or undertaken in a cheap but piecemeal fashion , where any improvement is partial and temporary in its effect . |
| 15 | The following description of Consideration was given by the Exchequer Chamber in 1875 : ‘ A valuable consideration , in the sense of the law , may consist either in some right , interest , profit , or benefit accruing to the one party , or some forbearance , detriment , loss , or responsibility , given , suffered , or undertaken by the other ’ : Currie v. Misa ( 1875 ) L.R. 10 Ex. at 162 . |
| 16 | The tentacle scales may be distinct from the oral papillae being either separated by a gap or placed at a higher level as viewed from the ventral side as in the genera Ophiotoma and Ophioblenn . |
| 17 | Volunteers are naturally eager to know how well the event has done so it 's best that the cash is totalled before they leave then either banked straight away or placed in the safe keeping of the headteacher or the deputy until the bank opens on the following day . |
| 18 | This theme , the ties between city and colony , and the ways they were reinforced , weakened or broken in the great war , is important to Thucydides , and it is not accidental that it occurs thus early . |
| 19 | Thus ‘ abstract ’ is opposed to ‘ concrete ’ , ‘ explicit ’ to ‘ implicit ’ , ‘ elaborated code ’ to ‘ restricted code ’ , ‘ extensional structure ’ to ‘ in tensional structure ’ , and these types are taken to be related to differing kinds of social experience mediated or formed by a literate organization of reality , on the one hand , and an oral organization of reality , on the other . |
| 20 | After last summer 's trouble 's at Blackbird Leys some roads were narrowed or treated with an anti-skid surface . |
| 21 | Women had either been ignored or treated as the deviant half of humanity . |
| 22 | Many subjects are represented in a standard form or treated in a standard way and , to cater for this , each edition of the Dewey system lists standard sub-divisions that are never used alone but may be added to any number from the general subject tables . |
| 23 | I need to emphasize two points here : firstly , most textbooks represent a misleading view of reality in which women are neglected or treated in a cursory manner and this is their ideological function . |
| 24 | These restrictive measures , sponsored by Ramsay MacDonald , which are never to be forgotten or forgiven by the Labour party , were defended as the inevitable product of the continuing economic crises of the 1930s . |
| 25 | The ARR did not require the reporting accountant to report on controlled trust accounts , although Part II of the SAR contained rules determining how a solicitor should deal with the movement of controlled trust money , ie the circumstances in which money could be paid in or withdrawn from a controlled trust account , and the records that had to be kept . |
| 26 | When asked to put their minds and bodies at rest , no one ever visualized themselves in the middle of Piccadilly waiting supermarket , or crushed in an underground train . |
| 27 | On the front , you have a picture with a jigsaw-shaped piece missing which you have cut out and either put it on their back or hidden in a little flap on the costume , which can be seen if people lift the flap up . |
| 28 | Some Romanians claim ( not unreasonably though without evidence ) that Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu were diabolists who had arranged for certain black magical and other superstitious figures to be carved in the decorations of the Casa Republicii or hidden in the overall design and visible only to other satanic initiates of the occult . |
| 29 | Bureaucracy , for example , interdigitates with the social reality of individuals and communities , penetrating some spheres of life deeply , others not at all : in each , it may be invited , welcomed , kept at bay , questioned , resented , taken for granted , or regarded as a closed book . |
| 30 | 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 . |