Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE substances could have been contaminated or tampered with . |
| 2 | And building society , anybody who has a building society account prior to ninety one two if they had n't income really i they were silly to have money in the building society account because they were having tax deducted but could n't get it back and at the same time as the independent taxation they changed the er tax system for building societies and banks which meant that banks and building societies were then deducted tax at the standard rate of twenty five percent and it could be refunded or repaid or not deducted in certain circumstances , so back to your question , anybody who has money in a building society now , or is n't taxable , should ask the building society not to deduct tax , as they 're entitled to do , fill a form and , and where people can state that they do n't , they 're not liable to pay tax , building societies and banks will not now deduct income tax . |
| 3 | What they did not foresee was that people got the impression they were going to be crushed or trampled underfoot and , though the 30,000 portions of pie were eaten , many people opted to stay away . |
| 4 | Among those I met or saw were the Begum Aga Khan , who was with her very attractive daughter Princess Zahra Aga Khan ; the Director General of the British Equestrian Foundation Major Malcolm Wallace , two of our top Event riders Miss Karen Straker and Mrs Jane Thelwall ; and Mr Andrew Dixon , who had all come over from England with the Hermès party ; Mr Peter Laing , the Hon. |
| 5 | Going round the stands I met or saw Lady Grierson whose husband Ronald , received a knighthood in the Birthday Honours , and her son Mr Jacob Grierson ; . |
| 6 | After that she came to expect a kiss whenever we met or parted — if we were alone , of course . |
| 7 | Of those 363 hotel pools , 31% were found to have inadequate or no rescue equipment and 21% lacked or had insufficient pool surround fitments . |
| 8 | Over the centuries the title of Count has passed from family to family as old dynasties withered away , intermarried or perished in battle . |
| 9 | If future league tables report disaggregated profiles for resources and costs for each study then the costs may be validated or recalculated for the decision maker 's own setting . |
| 10 | General browsing is associated with public library users " who look over books in order to decide which to borrow or read . " |
| 11 | 10.1 If either you or we are delayed or prevented from performing our obligations under this order , by circumstances beyond the reasonable control of either of us , ( including without limitation any form of government intervention , strikes and lock-outs relevant to this order , breakdown of plant or delays by sub-contractors concerned ) such performance shall be suspended , and if it can not be completed within a reasonable time after the due date as specified in this order , this order may be cancelled by either party . |
| 12 | The bill also cut the SDI budget by almost $2,000 million , delayed or reduced the development of a whole range of advanced weapons systems — including the Advanced Tactical Fighter , the Seawolf attack submarine programme and the navy 's A-12 attack aircraft — and reduced active troop strength by 129,500 . |
| 13 | As a result , in each instance , the harm that might have been done to the environment was at least delayed or controlled . |
| 14 | Or did he think Or did he think it was pneumonia ? |
| 15 | The aborigines were not consulted or compensated ! |
| 16 | consulted or asked or involved or anything like that |
| 17 | With the support of the committee , the librarian had attempted to keep track of books specifically purchased with the project funds by asking users to mark " P " against titles consulted or borrowed . |
| 18 | Could n't Dersingham leave it to someone he designated or adopted , something like that ? ’ |
| 19 | The records must contain day-to-day entries of all money received or expended and of the matters to which that related and a record of the company 's assets and liabilities . |
| 20 | By receiving accounts of invoices received or paid , they could easily overcommit their budgets . |
| 21 | Since the price system achieves Pareto efficiency by inducing each individual to equate marginal cost or marginal benefit to the price received or paid , and hence to one another , taxes that imply that buyers and sellers face different prices ensure that the marginal cost to a seller no longer equals the marginal benefit to a buyer . |
| 22 | Often on a business transfer , parties to contracts with the vendor will need to consent to or agree to the contract being assigned or novated to the purchaser . |
| 23 | They are also assigned or denied privileges to limit the types of access open to them — this can restrict access to particular directories or prevent users deleting files . |
| 24 | Roles may be assigned or deassigned by a user with Project Administator privilege using option 7.2.2 — Update User Details . |
| 25 | Instead of being coerced or bludgeoned into submission , the Celtic Church was simply subsumed . |
| 26 | The edge of the road near the bowling green where a tree blew down is still not reinstated or fenced . |
| 27 | LASMO Oilers ' captain , Peter Coote from graphics , explained : ‘ The problem was that bubbles began to appear in the ice — one of the refrigerant pipes had leaked or burst . |
| 28 | On the question of provenance the V&A 's acquisition policy states : ‘ Every effort must be made to prevent the acquisition of objects illegally excavated , appropriated or exported ’ . |
| 29 | In the ‘ additional note ’ to Guy Mannering , Sir Walter Scott [ q.v. ] states that Billy was ‘ pressed or enlisted in the army seven times , and deserted as often ; besides three times running away from the Naval Service ’ . |
| 30 | As unification approached many of the 4,250 prisoners in East German prisons rioted or went on rooftop protests or hunger strike in support of demands for a general amnesty on Oct. 3 . |