Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] or [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 As the vehicle is 30 years old they have probably been repainted or changed in the past unless your L.R. was a fire engine .
2 Elements of the design are developed or resolved in a series of local activities .
3 Furthermore , where either depression or schizophrenia are provoked or triggered by an event , disorder typically follows so rapidly that intervention after the event and before the emergence of disorder is unlikely to be a practical possibility .
4 Courts may more readily accept that fiduciary duties have been modified or excluded in the context of a commercial agreement between parties of equal status28 than where the customer is inexperienced .
5 Enter A to view all process models which have been installed or deinstalled since the specified start date .
6 The use of a picture taken inside the Ministry of Sound club in our article on the drugs Ecstasy and Ketamine ( April 3 ) was intended merely to show young people in a club and was not intended to suggest that drugs are permitted or used at the Ministry of Sound .
7 which brings up the main point and that is we have got to make sure that those people who are nominated or delegated within the terms of the contract , are people who have the knowledge and experience
8 ( d ) details of existing shareholdings in the target which are owned or controlled by the offeror or its concert parties , or in respect of which the offeror has received irrevocable undertakings , or in respect of which the offeror or any member of its concert parties has obtained an option to purchase ;
9 Premises and equipment are owned or rented by the person carrying on the business .
10 More positively , we discover how problems that result from the shrinking of family ties to what we call the ‘ nuclear family ’ are alleviated or avoided in the more flexible kinship arrangements of many tribal peoples .
11 The pro-democracy student demonstrations subsided , but the issues raised had not been addressed or resolved by the party .
12 The very serious policy implications of decisions in this field make theory a major component , even if unacknowledged , of errors and successes that are suffered or enjoyed by the population of peripheral areas .
13 Everything we say or write is connected both with things which have been said or written in the past , and with things which may be said or written in response to it in the future .
14 On arrival at Smolensk , our peasant soldier discovers that all the equipment of his unit has been embezzled or stolen from the luggage-van .
15 That section is in the following terms : ( 1 ) Every one who by words spoken or written or by conduct represents himself , or who knowingly suffers himself to be represented , as a partner in a particular firm , is liable as a partner to any one who has on the faith of any such representation given credit to the firm , whether the representation has or has not been made or communicated to the person so giving credit by or with the knowledge of the apparent partner making the representation or suffering it to be made .
16 Constraints are imposed or recognized during the course of the design .
17 The only real element of surprise lay in the fact that little had been seen or heard of the extremists since the Republicans ' dramatic rise on the West German political scene in 1989 .
18 Little has been seen or heard of the V of R this year , but apparently there have been something of an upheaval in the Company at the end of the season and few people are now employed .
19 One lawyer at the French court observed that it had ‘ never been seen or known for the kingdom of France to be subjected to the government of the king of England ’ .
20 Among the eight examples drawn from the gallery 's stock are ‘ Life Death/Knows Does n't Know ’ , the great wheel of contradiction formerly owned by Charles Saatchi , and ‘ Seven Virtues Seven Vices ’ , in which corresponding pairs such as Hope and Envy or Lust and Faith are illuminated or dimmed in an apparently random sequence .
21 Schools typically send three or four staff to one or two of these events and these are met or accompanied by the appropriate DCSL .
22 ‘ The clauses probably have been misused or overused as a tool .
23 But none of these principles could have been exploited or pursued in the ways in which they were had there not been tacit approval and support on the part of the state .
24 We have seen that decisions and acts may be subject to judicial review if they are made or done in the exercise of public functions , whether those functions are conferred by statute or common law or neither .
25 In some cemeteries an annual or regular service is held to which all the families and friends of people who have been buried or cremated in the last year are invited .
26 The stock is , to the extent that it has not already been used or sold in the ordinary and normal course of trading in good condition and working order and capable of being used or sold in the ordinary and normal course of trading .
27 Their perseverance revealed the obvious : needs and capacities continue to change after a person has been de-hospitalized or moved from the parental home to a group home — and the developmental role has therefore to be seen as a permanent not a temporary one .
28 For example , children may have heard musical instruments but may not have considered how the sounds are produced or transmitted through the air .
29 If our beliefs have never been challenged or put to the test we may doubt their validity now .
30 Some have criminal convictions , all say they have been cautioned or warned by the police several times .
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