Example sentences of "were [verb] or [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some were given or sold to favoured high-ranking officials and court favourites , a practice developed by Constantius II . |
| 2 | If facilities were not provided or routes were withdrawn or changed at short notice consumers should have a statutory right to go to a statutory body to seek redress . |
| 3 | In September several senior officials were dismissed or reprimanded for poor work in the consumer goods sector . |
| 4 | If industries in other countries were weakened or depleted by German domination , and if the single currency removed the competitiveness of weaker economies while the Social Charter , with its minimum wage , insulated German workers from competitively low wages abroad , then one could well imagine economic decline and rising unemployment on the periphery of the EC financing the German stranglehold . |
| 5 | There is no evidence that pearls were sought or used as precious substances before the emergence of civilized states , and when pearls were adopted they were commonly used in jewellery together with precious stones . |
| 6 | ( 6 ) Whether the goods were made or adapted to special order for the customer . |
| 7 | They were executed or sentenced to long periods of forced labour . |
| 8 | Payments were withheld or recovered in full or in part in 39 cases . ’ |