Example sentences of "or [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This collection is arranged by family , sub-filed by genus and species , but it is not indexed or listed in any way . |
| 2 | In September several senior officials were dismissed or reprimanded for poor work in the consumer goods sector . |
| 3 | Legitimate : ( a ) etymologically , the word expresses a status , which has been conferred or ratified by some authority ; ( b ) conformable to law or rule . |
| 4 | On farms where severe outbreaks have occurred pigs should be houses , dosed , and the infected pasture cultivated or grazed with other stock . |
| 5 | By this approach invasive fetal sampling techniques may be avoided entirely or limited to those cases where confirmation of a positive diagnosis is desirable . |
| 6 | Such rules of change may be very simple or very complex : the powers conferred may be unrestricted or limited in various ways : and the rules may , besides specifying the persons who are to legislate , define in more or less rigid terms the procedure to be followed in legislation . |
| 7 | This joy is not questioned or limited in any way . |
| 8 | To complete this discussion of exclusion clauses it should be noted that , by section 7 of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 , liability for defective products under Part I of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 can not be excluded or limited by any contract term . |
| 9 | By virtue of s41 of CPA 1987 , breach of a safety regulation , as distinct from the general safety requirement , is also grounds for a civil action by any person affected which can not be excluded or limited by any contract term or notice . |
| 10 | Moreover , the inside of walls and ceilings must either be washed or painted at regular intervals . |
| 11 | All types of bradyarrhythmia and tachyarrhythmia , whether supraventricular or ventricular , can be worsened or provoked by antiarrhythmic drugs . |
| 12 | Essential oils can be used alone or blended with other essences to make delightful perfumes . |
| 13 | However , it was reported on May 7 that 35 leading officials in the newly established intelligence service department of the Interior Ministry had been removed following leaks of secret information , and the screening of various sections of the security services was reported to be well advanced or completed by early May . |
| 14 | Often they are recruited or assigned at short notice to an unfamiliar school and are expected to instantly mould themselves to its systems of operating and style . |
| 15 | Illness is identified or diagnosed by medical practitioners . |
| 16 | Separate beads can be sewn on individually or gathered into little chains to be attached . |
| 17 | Others were baffled , not able to believe that free people , famous and rich too , could say what they saw printed or heard on Romanian television or radio . |
| 18 | That any of our pubs can , at a stroke , be shut down or altered by uncaring owners , without any proper consultation with users or the community , is little short of a continuing national disgrace . |
| 19 | Inevitably , few Georgian beerhouses or coaching inns survive in anything like their original form , having been comprehensively extended or altered in subsequent decades . |
| 20 | Text can be scaled from 4 points to 108 points without loss of quality and can be rotated , bolded , kerned or filled with any pattern . |
| 21 | The Children 's Act emphasises we have to do what is best for the child , and that has tended to mean more children are taken into care or placed in foster care , ’ he added . |
| 22 | Eventually , after considerable friction , an uneasy agreement is concluded between James and Paul , but Paul , soon after , is arrested — or placed in protective custody . |
| 23 | They must also take steps to reduce the need for children to be brought before a court ( whether in care , wardship , or criminal proceedings ) or placed in secure accommodation ( Sched 2 , para 7 ) . |
| 24 | In the stock room there is usually a system of storing goods so that new deliveries are stacked or placed behind older stock . |
| 25 | His car has been stolen or broken into 7 times , his home in Swindon has seen numerous burglaries . |
| 26 | It has a soft texture but is firm enough in lump form to be sawn or broken into smaller pieces as required . |
| 27 | In the late nineteenth century the Jersey colours included tawny red , yellow , pale fawn , lemon fawn , smoky fawn , grey fawn , silver to frosty grey , brown , dun or black and these could be whole-coloured or broken by separate patches of white , large or small . |
| 28 | Both of these are frequently mixed or compounded with other minerals such as copper or lead and so a virtual monopoly was held by the old Mines Royal Company , and its permission was needed . |
| 29 | NIGEL BENN 's arrival on the world championship stage may have to be delayed or diverted to another country . |
| 30 | At the launch at Darlington Arts Centre , Miss Armstrong said women should not be ‘ side-lined , marginalised or treated as second class citizens . ’ |