Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the old tradition of pilgrimage , peregrinatio , spawned or became united to the new kind of military adventure we call the crusade ; and the resources of the roads and waterways of Europe and the Near East were strained to the uttermost to meet the insatiable demands of these adventurous travellers . |
| 2 | No description of the ammonoids is complete without mentioning the heteromorphs These are forms which abandoned the usual plane spiral mode of coiling , and instead became partially or even completely uncoiled , or became twisted in some other fashion . |
| 3 | So , being unused , they progressively deteriorated and caved in and the entrances filled in or became overgrown with vegetation . |
| 4 | Either he could wait until the pod splashed down at which point it would start to sink , and if the water was deep enough and he had difficulty in escaping from the safety envelope , or became entangled with the chute , he might drown before he was able to struggle to the surface — or else he could blow the hatch prior to landing , risking being either injured or knocked unconscious during an unprotected impact . |
| 5 | Few ever recovered their status in society , he said , or got rid of the bad habits they contracted while there . |
| 6 | They plunged into lakes , crashed into busses , flipped over like turtles or got jammed between lampposts . |
| 7 | It 's high time you either changed your own personal world of beliefs and ethics or got to work on reforming your community or neighbourhood . |
| 8 | Paige was glad of her strong boots , but she would gladly have thrown her bag away , for it either kept falling off or got caught on stray branches . |
| 9 | Mona was quiet , hardworking and extremely stubborn , anxious to be agreeable ; but once she took up a position — or got caught in one — she was obstinately immovable and this had often brought her into conflict with Moran . |
| 10 | Ethics have been downgraded or diluted or made to fit into narrow understandings . |
| 11 | The threshold time is therefore automatically raised or lowered to compensate for the reader being swept too slowly or too quickly . |
| 12 | Their accuracy still depends upon the correctness of our assumptions about causal order and the operation of other variables ; if we had either specified the causal order incorrectly , or failed to control for other important variables , the coefficients would be meaningless . |
| 13 | Spelt out slightly more fully ( and at the risk of oversimplification ) , this means that a decision is open to review where it has been arrived at as a result of a mistaken view of the law , or where the decision is one that could not reasonably have been arrived at , in the sense that the person deciding must have taken into account irrelevant considerations , or failed to take into account relevant ones , or where he has failed to observe the dictates of natural justice which require him to give the parties a hearing before arriving at his decision . |
| 14 | Cells came together ( or failed to separate after cell division ) to form many-celled bodies . |
| 15 | If no list has been registered , or the persons named have died , or ceased to reside in Great Britain , or refuse to accept service on the company 's behalf or for any reason can not be served , a document may be served on the company by leaving it at , or sending it by post to , any place of business established by the company in Great Britain . |
| 16 | Everything Golitsin claimed could be proved or disproved according to which set of arguments one wishes to accept . |
| 17 | As for informal movements , they may be more creatively productive but they also tend to exclude those who are less confident or advantaged to begin with . |
| 18 | She was n't sure she could cope if he became sentimental or tried to pry into her past . |
| 19 | More than half of the children were ignored whatever they did — whether they cried , played or tried to talk to the adult . |
| 20 | Marshal Piłsudski ordered the Polish destroyer Wicher to greet , salute and escort the British as if the Accord were still in effect , and Tadeusz Morgenstern , the commander of the destroyer , was instructed that if the Danzig authorities insulted the Polish flag or tried to interfere with the visit in any way , he was to bombard designated targets in the city centre . |
| 21 | However , Brahim Ghali , a member of the Polisario Executive Committee , had stated in an interview given to the Madrid newspaper El País of Oct. 22 , 1990 , that if the Moroccan government decided not to agree to the holding of the referendum , or tried to interfere in the running of it , then the armed struggle would be renewed on all fronts . |
| 22 | The new switching angle is accepted or rejected according to whether the acceleration increases or decreases , indicating an increase or decrease in motor torque . |
| 23 | A vote given or poll demanded by proxy or by the duly authorised corporate representative of a recognised body shall be valid notwithstanding the previous determination of the authority of the person voting or demanding a poll unless notice of the determination was received by the Company at the office or at such other place at which the instrument of proxy was duly deposited before the commencement of the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the vote is given or the poll demanded or ( in the case of a poll taken otherwise than on the same day as the meeting or adjourned meeting ) the time appointed for taking the poll . |
| 24 | A vote given or poll demanded by proxy or by the duly authorised corporate representative of a recognised body shall be valid notwithstanding the previous determination of the authority of the person voting or demanding a poll unless notice of the determination was received by the Company at the office or at such other place at which the instrument of proxy was duly deposited before the commencement of the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the vote is given or the poll demanded or ( in the case of a poll taken otherwise than on the same day as the meeting or adjourned meeting ) the time appointed for taking the poll . |
| 25 | All information held by or reasonably available to you regarding any potential hazards known or believed to exist in the transport handling or use of the goods supplied shall be promptly communicated to us prior to delivery . |
| 26 | The empty houses would be demolished and empty areas fenced off ; they would either be landscaped , or allowed to return to ‘ nature ’ . |
| 27 | Some would say her hair is her finest feature , though Robyn herself secretly hankers after something more muted and malleable , hair that could be groomed and styled according to mood — drawn back in a severe bun like Simone de Beauvoir 's , or allowed to fall to the shoulders in a Pre-Raphaelite cloud . |
| 28 | On market-days and fair-days the cattle were driven along the streets or allowed to rest on the roadway . |
| 29 | Points are awarded or deducted according to the impact of the crime on the victim , for example , and whether the offender is genuinely remorseful . |
| 30 | Example 4:7 Side by side rent sharing SCHEDULE ( 1 ) In this schedule : ( a ) " rental income " means the aggregate of : ( i ) any yearly or other periodical sums payable under an occupational lease including sums payable by virtue of any enactment ; ( ii ) any sums payable by way of interest under an occupational lease ; ( iii ) any sums payable by way of damages or compensation for any breach of a tenant 's obligation under an occupational lease ; ( iv ) any sum payable by a guarantor of a tenant 's obligation under an occupational lease pursuant to his guarantee ; ( v ) any premium paid or other capital payment made by a tenant under an occupational lease in connection with the grant assignment variation or surrender of an occupational lease ; ( vi ) any sum payable under a policy of insurance in respect of loss of rent or other income ( b ) " permitted deductions " means the aggregate of : ( i ) expenses reasonably incurred by the tenant in order to comply with its obligations as landlord under an occupational lease ; ( ii ) legal costs incurred by the tenant in enforcing obligations under occupational leases except to the extent that the tenant recovers those costs from a party to an occupational lease ; ( iii ) the amount of any compensation or damages which the tenant is liable by statute or ordered to pay to any party to an occupational lease whether for non-renewal of a tenancy breach of covenant breach of obligation compensation for improvements or otherwise ; ( iv ) the cost of management and rent collection not exceeding … per cent of rental income ( c ) " notional rental income " means the rack rental value of any lettable unit which is either unlet or vacant or occupied by the tenant or by a group company the value to be determined as at the date on which the unit in question ceased to be let or occupied or as the case may be become occupied by the tenant or a group company and redetermined every year ( d ) " lettable unit " means a part of the property which is designed constructed or adapted for letting to an occupying retail trader ( e ) " occupational lease " means a lease under which physical possession of a lettable unit was granted by the tenant ( f ) " rack rental value " of any lettable unit at any time means the rent at which that unit might reasonably be expected to be let in the open market for a term of not less than ten years with an upwards only rent review on every fifth anniversary of the beginning of the term and on such other terms as would be expected to be negotiated in the open market ( including such financial inducements and concessions as are usual in the market at that time ) ( g ) " group company " means a company which would be treated as a member of the same group of companies as the tenant for the purposes of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 ( h ) " divisible income " means the difference between : ( i ) rental income plus notional rental income ; and ( ii ) permitted deductions but divisible income shall never be less than nil ( i ) " the first slice " means such part of divisible income as does not exceed £ ( j ) " the second slice " means such part of divisible income as exceeds £ but does not exceed £ ( k ) " the top slice " means such part of divisible income as exceeds £ ( 2 ) The rent payable by the tenant is the aggregate of : ( a ) … per cent of the first slice ; ( b ) … per cent of the second slice ; and ( c ) … per cent of the top slice to be paid by equal quarterly payments on the usual quarter days |