Example sentences of "or [vb past] [prep] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further codes are added to indicate the functional groups that use the information , the source and/or destination of the information item , and whether it is generated from within the system , or received from an external source . |
| 2 | She sat or perched on an upright chair smiling like an angel just dropped from the skies . |
| 3 | Moreover , it may at any time be varied or revoked by an ordinary resolution even if that involves an alteration of the articles . |
| 4 | For repairs , improvements or adaptations to properties owned or tenanted by an elderly person over 60 . |
| 5 | She may have emerged from the burrow system unnoticed and either slipped away under cover or escaped into an adjoining burrow system . |
| 6 | In his view , the court could intervene only if the minister ( a ) failed or refused to apply his mind to or to consider the question whether to refer a complaint to the committee or ( b ) misinterpreted the law or proceeded on an erroneous view of the law or ( c ) based his decision on some wholly extraneous consideration or ( d ) failed to have regard to matters which he should have taken into account . |