Example sentences of "or [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The frames can be painted , papered or covered in with the walls or painted a contrasting colour or white . |
| 2 | He might begin with between one and four different sizes of tesserae — separated into heaps or placed a partitioned box — and would make more than he intended to use ( manufacture continuing as the pavement was laid ) . |
| 3 | ( 9 ) A listed company may have given or made a prior undertaking or statement not to issue further shares in certain circumstances without the approval of shareholders in general meeting ( see para 17.6 below ) . |
| 4 | During the last 13 years we have cut , simplified or abolished a whole range of direct taxes . |
| 5 | In both the reported cases the patients stated that they had inhaled or ingested a foreign body . |
| 6 | It is not only the child of a broken marriage who feels this , but even when , sadly , one parent has died or spent a considerable amount of time in hospital . |
| 7 | When she came to an intersection , she had ignored it or taken a new direction without bothering to think about it . |
| 8 | Has the next generation of unemployed white youth followed in the footsteps of their elder brothers or taken a new route ? |
| 9 | Anyway , by the time Stevens ' book was published in 1987 , the network had devised or discovered a whole new pharmacopoeia with strange-sounding names . |
| 10 | I teach students who are often illiterate , who do not know how to use a hand-held calculator , who have never seen a film with subtitles or read a classic work of literature , and who can not spell even the name of important people in their field ( for example , psychology majors who spell Freud as Frued ) . |
| 11 | In 1822 , following Macquarie 's departure , he was dismissed from the post , but during his short period of office he had carried out or initiated a remarkable number of substantial projects in Sydney and its neighbourhood , the most important being the Macquarie lighthouse ( c .1816–18 , demolished ) , the churches of Windsor ( c .1817 ) , Liverpool ( 1818–24 ) , and St James 's Sydney ( c .1820 ) , the stables at Government House ( 1817 ) , Fort Macquarie at Benelong Point ( c .1817 , demolished ) , and the Hyde Park convict barracks ( 1817 ) . |