Example sentences of "or [vb pp] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since my own cancer , I have met or heard many cancer sufferers who appear to see ‘ God ’ as a help in their affliction . |
| 2 | And no one had seen or heard any struggle , although Joanna went missing shortly before 7pm last Tuesday , when she was due to take an aerobics class — and when the car park would have been busy . |
| 3 | E here have you seen or heard any advertising for British special stamp issues ? |
| 4 | No it is n't no no It 's not special but it 's just Where have you see or heard any advertising for British special stamp issues ? |
| 5 | A response to the gender inflection or masculinism of philosophical theories should involve , I think , neither merely the assertion that women too should be seen as included under or capable of whatever norms are suggested by the theory , nor merely the assertion that what is seen as feminine should be valued too , or given equal status with what is male . |
| 6 | that objectives should determine methods : therefore no methods should be arbitrarily excluded , ignored , or given undue prominence . |
| 7 | Pat Palmer is asking everyone to co–operate — if you have not yet filled in a pink form or given verbal class details to your Area Organiser will you please forward these details to the Office by early August so that we can have a comprehensive up-to-date class list ready to meet all enquiries for the new season . |
| 8 | Pat Palmer is asking everyone to co-operate — if you have not yet filled in a pink form or given verbal class details to your Area Organiser will you please forward these details to the Office by early August so that we can have a comprehensive up-to-date class list ready to meet all enquiries for the new season . |
| 9 | The highlighted section is ready to be cut , copied or given special text attributes and styles . |
| 10 | He could remember a period of engagement with art — with Greek statuary and the young gods of Renaissance paintings , those bodies officially sanctified on the page or given sexual neutrality as museum displays . |
| 11 | Through the centuries politicians , protestors and agitators of every sort found them invaluable for smiting the public eye ; and , in their most debased form , they were used by such printers as James Catnach ( 1792–1841 ) of the Seven Dials , London , to convey to sensation seekers scaffold speeches by murderers and other criminals , often before the rogues had uttered a word or given any sign that they intended to . |
| 12 | No person or group has claimed responsibility or given any reason for the attacks . |
| 13 | Accordingly , obedience to the demands of ‘ profit maximisation within the law ’ prevents the full range and texture of third party interests from being taken into account or given sufficient weight in corporate decision making . |
| 14 | Indeed , the editors of this book argue that men in retirement are often viewed as potential social problems while women 's experiences are either ignored or given less significance . |
| 15 | She did n't face Christina when she said through clenched teeth , ‘ I 've never expected or received any help from you anyway , Christina . ’ |
| 16 | If it is lost or broken this week the Tories will lose by 100 seats . |
| 17 | The full debate over the relationship of the economy to public spending is complex , and the issues are not easily understood or proven either way . |
| 18 | The third category comprises those cases in which child outlook or behaviour which presents problems for parents or society at large itself has an evident or hidden sexual content . |
| 19 | Surely the corollary of his great ‘ mythopoeia ’ discussion with Dyson and Tolkien was that the story of Christ was much more important than any doctrine which a fallible or fallen human mind could extract from it ? |
| 20 | A relatively small number of people , about 180 to 200 , are admitted or discharged each year , compared with the 200,000 or so people admitted to ordinary Health Service psychiatric units . |
| 21 | When the arrangement of the mechanism is straightforward and the constraints imposed are only those of required or forbidden spatial position , the direct insertion approach is the easiest to apply . |
| 22 | That would revive its forbidden or forgotten German history . |
| 23 | I I hope this is not a mischievous comment , but I I think it 's very questionable , whether the Christian faith would be known as it is today , down two thousand years , had it not been for an innocent man , Jesus , being unjustly punished and crucified , and so many of the great reformers in the history of man , men and women have died or suffered grave imprisonment because of injustice , and in a paradoxical way , injustice in a way , yo you almost seem as if we need injustice to drive us on , to get things done in a , in a better way . |
| 24 | It would have been a problem for me if the bloody sergeant had come along and seen me drinking beer or seen that bottle beside me . |
| 25 | But they themselves could be self-centred , and often ignored or misunderstood well-meant advice . |
| 26 | At second hand we could have enjoyed the thrill of dangerous living or shown magnanimous sympathy with the victims of oppression . |
| 27 | Few men can have done more to relieve human suffering , or shown less interest in profiting from the process . |
| 28 | So a rich peasant will be able to keep all of the land he was working himself , all the land he was working by hired labour and land that he hired , er that he rented out as long as the amount he , he rented out did not exceed all of the land that he worked himself or used hired labour . |
| 29 | Because of their frontality African figure sculptures are commonly photographed or drawn full face , concealing the fact that the sculptor has paid a great deal of attention to the profile view . |
| 30 | We will not include the value of any message or information , but we will give sympathetic consideration to your request for a refund of the reasonable costs you have had in making enquiries about a lost or damaged postal packet . |