Example sentences of "or [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I argue that the alternative formulation situates jobs in a general theory of social structure , whereas the sociology of the professions has either been confined to ‘ middle range ’ theorising and ignored this problem or sought to bridge the gap between jobs and the social order by empirical statements based on implicit and ( therefore ) ill-formulated theories . |
| 2 | James either ignored or failed to notice the undercurrent of mockery in Peter 's voice . |
| 3 | The punishers were determined on the basis that when Olwyn produced the PB or failed to produce the CB a disincentive must be provided . |
| 4 | The applicant sought relief on the grounds that ( 1 ) at the time the coroner took his original decision there was considerable evidence before him that the death would not have occurred but for delays experienced by the deceased 's family in contacting the ambulance service and later delays by the ambulance service in responding to repeated calls by the police for an ambulance to come to take the deceased to hospital as a matter of urgency ; ( 2 ) in reaching the conclusion that an inquest was unnecessary the coroner had misdirected himself in law for the reasons , inter alia , that ( i ) section 8(1) ( a ) of the Coroners Act 1988 required a coroner to hold an inquest where there was ‘ reasonable cause to suspect ’ that the deceased had died a ‘ violent or unnatural death ; ’ ( ii ) there had been clear and uncontradicted evidence before the coroner that avoidable and culpable delays by the ambulance service might have been the reason why the deceased 's asthma attack , which could have been treated in hospital , proved fatal , giving rise to a ‘ reasonable cause to suspect ’ that the cause of the deceased 's death was ‘ unnatural ; ’ and ( iii ) against that background , the coroner had erred in law in treating the pathologist 's conclusion as conclusive and had either misdirected himself as to the meaning of ‘ unnatural death ’ in section 8 of the Coroners Act 1988 or failed to apply the law properly to the facts of the case . |
| 5 | We assume that contractions were totally absent or failed to occlude the intestinal lumen . |
| 6 | Adventures past , or planned filled the fireside chatter as Harry kept the fire roaring with bellows made from a converted siren , whose reed had fortunately been removed . |
| 7 | Ward had not lied or misled anyone about the nature of the payment or tried to conceal the money he had received . |
| 8 | It is important for national courts to use all proper aids to the interpretation of Community legal texts ( such as the preamble ) even if they are not accustomed or allowed to do the same in relation to their own national texts . |
| 9 | In no instance had any person recently vaccinated or re-vaccinated contracted the disease . |
| 10 | Many no doubt sincere Christians continued to celebrate the first day of January in defiance of their clergy 's disapproval , or liked to greet the rising sun from the steps into the church , and , most of all , to attend the great festive games and shows . |
| 11 | The village was almost deserted : only the old stayed behind — some were too sick or weak or crippled to climb the path to Jimale . |
| 12 | Any earlier wheel-pit on this site could however , either have been demolished and rebuilt , or enlarged to take the new wheel . |
| 13 | If , therefore , the King had turned to Henderson after MacDonald had proffered his resignation , or had sought the views of Labour Privy Counsellors as suggested by Herbert Morrison , he could have been accused of wasting valuable time . |
| 14 | Although the proceedings reinforced Castro 's dominance of the PCC , some decisions ratified by the congress , in particular accepting direct election of all delegates to the National Assembly of People 's Powers , were interpreted as signs that he had either made tactical concessions or had recognized the need for gradual change . |
| 15 | He emphatically denied that he had acted improperly or had manipulated the system to his advantage . |
| 16 | Once , there must have been a single core-vessel which had lost its way or had lost the use of its warp-vanes so that it could no longer jump back into truespace . |
| 17 | In 1881 , the leader of the Blue Ribbon Mission came to town and it was estimated that a quarter of the 32,000 population were ‘ blue-ribboners ’ , or had taken the pledge . |
| 18 | It appeared from the poor showing of the pro-CPSU communists in the elections that a surprisingly large number of Russians had voted for Sajudis-backed candidates , or had boycotted the voting in overwhelmingly Russian-populated constituencies where only a pro-CPSU communist was standing . |
| 19 | No pupils refused to participate in the study , and as pupils were not warned about the administration of the survey we assumed that those registered pupils who did not complete the survey were either absent or had left the school . |
| 20 | Under the amended election law the president was provided with the power to appoint new deputies to replace those who had died or had left the Assembly since the last elections in 1972 . |
| 21 | As of July 1991 over 80 Assembly members , mostly from the NLD , had died , been imprisoned or had fled the country . |
| 22 | Foreign aid is so important in conservation policy-making in lesser developed countries because , with a few exceptions , most newly independent lesser developed countries had either no official conservation organisation whatsoever ( as in Latin America with the exception of a couple of Southern Brazilian states ) or had experienced the colonial model mentioned above , principally in Africa , South and South-east Asia . |
| 23 | They were also content to leave the whole affair as far as they knew it , understood it or had allocated the blame for it . |
| 24 | Though there was never-ceasing change , each movement was not a chance occurrence in a hotch-potch of bewildered uncertainty , but part and parcel of a pre-conceived plan , trimmed down or adorned to suit the particular circumstances of the moment … |
| 25 | And when he felt he could n't walk another step , or wanted to question the wisdom of setting off down an unlit passage , he could always say Elaine 's so tired or Elaine 's a bit nervous . |
| 26 | Because of the association between ‘ peace ’ and ‘ quiet , ’ there is a natural tendency to suppose that a breach of the peace is ‘ any behaviour that disturbed or tended to disturb the tranquility of the citizenry . ’ |
| 27 | The officer who investigated the accident said he found no tyre marks , suggesting that Rose Patterson , who was driving , had n't even braked or swerved to avoid the back of the lorry . |
| 28 | On four occasions the appellant accosted a woman in the street , threatened her with violence , on three occasions carrying a knife , and stole or attempted to steal the victim 's purse . |
| 29 | The American-born former wife of the Scottish peer denies three counts of doing acts tending or intended to pervert the course of justice . |
| 30 | Surveys showed that ninety-three per cent of Canterbury 's tourists visited or intended to visit the Cathedral . |