Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] be [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If your car is suitable , or has been adjusted to unleaded , you will notice no significant reduction in performance . |
| 2 | the package contains modules for which an active DC does not exist or has been raised through another package . |
| 3 | investment ) , tourism and weaving underpin the fragile economy which is or has been augmented by local centres of enterprise such as the oil platform fabrication yard at Arnish near Stornoway ( now closed ) , the rocket-range support base at Ballavanich , the military developments at Stornoway airfield and scattered small scale initiatives such as fish processing and , notably , salmon farming in sheltered bays and sea lochs . |
| 4 | This draft response indicates which DTAC responses he has taken into account , and any member whose DTAC 's response has arrived late or has been omitted for some other reason can ensure that relevant points are not missed . |
| 5 | ( Common sense reminds us that given the distribution of women in employment in Edinburgh , most of the mothers probably were or had been employed in some form of domestic service or in the clothing industry ; but in what proportions ? ) |
| 6 | ‘ The builder had either spent three weeks cleaning it or had been kept in pristine condition , ’ says Darren . |
| 7 | If coal was just another industry or a medium-sized company in the private sector whose product was not as much in demand as previously , or had been superseded by another product that it could not make or compete with it , that industry or company would slim down or might even close altogether — with the same tragic effect on families and communities as has been seen in the coal industry . |
| 8 | Enraptured by the celluloid screen , we revelled in the romance that had been denied to us , or had been put in cold storage ‘ for the duration , . |
| 9 | We excluded patients if ( i ) they had had an episode of pneumonia within the past 6 months , ( ii ) they lived in a nursing home or had been admitted to another hospital within the past 2 weeks , and ( iii ) there was subsequent clinical or laboratory evidence of a different diagnosis . |
| 10 | But before we jump to the conclusion that Pound had simply had a brainstorm , or had been trapped by misplaced compassion for Dunning as a lame duck , we ought to consider another possibility — that imagism , and Pound 's endorsement of Ford 's insistence on ‘ the prose tradition ’ , had never been for him more than an aberration , though in the short term a very profitable one , from a way of feeling that impelled him always toward the cantabile , a proclivity that would , in the interests of melody , tolerate notably eccentric diction . |
| 11 | In some regions the transformation had taken place much earlier , as in Kent , or Essex , or Devon , where it had taken a different form altogether , and most of the fields had been reclaimed direct from forest and moorland without passing through the open-field stage at all , or had been enclosed from open field at an early date . |
| 12 | Rather he had discovered , or had been forced by historical development , to discover the limitations of his anti-royalism . |
| 13 | Some memoirs , too , take us much further than official material ; those of de Gaulle are a case in point , while British official documents which in their original form remained hidden from the historian by the thirty-year rule were printed in the books of Winston Churchill and Eden , or have been unearthed in private collections by scholars able to disregard the consequences of publication . |
| 14 | This sounds simple enough , yet it does mean that the data subject ( to whom the information relates ) and the data user ( who puts it into a computer ) should each see the handling of the data in the same way , and this has not always been the case when data have been disclosed to third parties , or have been collected for one ostensible purpose and used for another . |
| 15 | We propose that inflammatory bowel disease patients who are or have been treated with systemic steroids and have articular complaints are investigated for osteonecrosis preferably by magnetic resonance scanning . |
| 16 | A number of other studies have also shown that non-traditional students who have been carefully selected on the basis of criteria which relate to the ability to meet the demands of higher education , or have been prepared for higher education , have relatively high completion rates when compared with all students . |
| 17 | Hospital studies on asthma attacks have concentrated on specific groups of patients ( adults or children ) or have been confined to specific geographical areas . |
| 18 | It has an illustrious past , first as a grand private mansion and then as a hotel and has been visited by many crowned heads of Europe and many great literary figures such as the poets Milton , Shelley and Keats . |
| 19 | It is easy to find , because it is usually visible with the naked eye at about magnitude 5 , and is in the same binocular field with Beta ; to either side of it are Tau ( 5.1 ) and Sigma ( 4.9 ) , which act as good comparisons , though Tau is of type K and has been suspected of slight variability . |
| 20 | Suitable for all solid fuels and gas , it meets BS 715 and has been certified by British Gas |
| 21 | Much more could be and has been written about this ‘ difference principle ’ ( 2a ) and its strengths and weaknesses , but enough has been said to , at least , give the flavour of the notion . |
| 22 | SCOTVEC 's Annual Report for 1987/88 is now available and has been sent to all centres and to other bodies with an interest in vocational education and training . |
| 23 | And has been imposed on old people of er Edinburgh and er . |
| 24 | 4 million quid for a guy that almost went to jail and has been injured for most of the season |
| 25 | Additional low intensity bands after major blockages , such as at 43 ( Fig. 2A ) , probably represents the ability of RNA polymerase to transcribe weakly for 3 or 4 nucleotides past stereochemically small blockages by a partial polymerase dissociation mechanism , and has been observed with other small DNA adducts ( 16 ) . |
| 26 | This process is known as EUTROPHICATION and has been observed in several places in the UK in the past . |
| 27 | The design of this study is now well known and has been analysed by other workers . |
| 28 | In this discussion , I will confine myself to discussing examples of sexism from the English language , though of course it exists and has been analysed in other languages too . |
| 29 | The ‘ flocculus hypothesis ’ is that a small area of the cerebellum , the flocculus , adaptively controls VOR by regulating signal flow from labyrinths to the flocculus to the relay cells of VOR , and has been challenged on several grounds . |
| 30 | It 's our biggest insurer of local authorities and has been hit by huge payouts , including those for schools burned down by young arsonists . |