Example sentences of "be [verb] or [adv] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor did it support the ‘ geographic fiction ’ that evidence to be produced in the United States was not ‘ abroad ’ even though it was in fact located in a foreign country or must be gathered or otherwise prepared abroad . |
| 2 | The second is to ensure that as many products as possible can be re-used or easily repaired instead of being thrown away after just ‘ one trip ’ . |
| 3 | Tree branches , whole trunks , were blasted into the air , then fell to the ground , only to be interred or repeatedly thrown upward by further explosions ; likewise mangled machinery and dismembered human bodies and those of horses . |
| 4 | PRUDENTIAL has launched a new range of flexible pensions products which can be converted to a free-standing additional voluntary contribution and vice versa , and allow contribution levels to be reduced or even suspended altogether for up to five years . |
| 5 | Under careful examination , moccasins , Navajo patterned rugs , and costumed kachina dolls often turn out to be woven or simply stamped out by factories in Taiwan or the Philippines . |
| 6 | Why should not ‘ middle-class values ’ — loosely articulated as industry , honesty , thrift , ambition , prudence , civility — be encouraged or even imposed more widely ? |