Example sentences of "[noun] [am/are] [vb pp] [adv] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reputations for beauty , grace , wit , intelligence or for strength , humour , kindness , honesty are made early or never made at all . |
| 2 | Watches whose cases are made wholly or mainly of precious metal . |
| 3 | It is generally accepted that privatisation will have the most favourable effect on competition when monopolies are broken up or when new competition is introduced . |
| 4 | When cars are parked on or near tables and pinch points . |
| 5 | Most books are ordered on or around publication date , and here a variety of different tools can be used as a base source . |
| 6 | In modern Germany there are more than a hundred spas offering the ‘ cure ’ , and programmes of hydrotherapy are taken once or twice a year by millions of Germans . |
| 7 | These images also interact with other texts , particularly newspaper accounts of similar conditions , and combine to confirm for many White spectators that the truth is that housing and employment problems and so on will not go away unless Blacks are sent away or at least have their entry to Britain severely restricted . |
| 8 | More significant is the fact that the actual rhyming words in each first half are repeated once or more in each second half , as for instance ‘ seen ’ in the first stanza , ‘ leaves ’ in the second , ‘ feet ’ and ‘ roam ’ in the third , and so on . |
| 9 | Numerous chapels are set in or added to the walls but the chief area for this is the chevet . |
| 10 | ( i ) any goods listed above are sold to a bidder for less than his highest bid or part of the price is repaid or credited to him ( or stated to be so ) ; or ( ii ) the right to bid for any goods listed above is ( or is stated to be ) restricted to persons who have bought or agreed to buy one or more articles ; or ( iii ) any articles are given away or offered as gifts . |
| 11 | The mutual recognition provisions apply where applications are made simultaneously or within a short interval of one another for admission of the same securities to official listing on stock exchanges in two or more member states . |
| 12 | In our society , there are conventions , usually quite clear cut , which determine whether messages are relayed orally or in writing and little choice is possible . ’ |
| 13 | Of course , not everyone lives in a nuclear family , and there are families where the costs are shared equally or nearly so , or where the housing tenure is held jointly by both partners , but they are not the norm . |
| 14 | Power was indeed divided , in such a way as to place restraints upon popularly elected assemblies ; and it was the view of Hamilton that a representative democracy avoided the dangers clearly inherent in " simple democracy " : When the deliberative or judicial powers are vested wholly or partly in the collective body of the people , you must expect error , confusion and instability . |
| 15 | These are common enough , since , as has already been mentioned , a large proportion of the world 's volcanoes are situated in or below the oceans . |
| 16 | This involves a criticality assessment of the problem as well , to decide if actions/measures are required immediately or they can be deferred . |
| 17 | When different substances are combined underground or burned , chemicals hazardous to human health can result . |
| 18 | Er and is the sort of standard one that we were using at Aston when these handouts were written erm but you should find that the same sorts of things are discussed in or in Atkinson . |
| 19 | If the Department of Energy believes that 17,000 people are employed directly or indirectly in the opencast coal sector , why did the Secretary of State for Employment recently say that 40,000 people were employed there ? |
| 20 | Structural models of hemisphere specialisation which posit that perceptual asymmetries arise because the brain structures that deal with a particular class of stimuli are lateralised exclusively or predominantly to one hemisphere rather than the other can not cope with this variability . |
| 21 | As Keane says ‘ How do we guarantee the survival and future growth of democracy … the troubling paradox is the growing respectability of democracy has turned out to be a disappointing affair — ; certainly if democracy means a pluralistic system of power wherein decisions of concern to collectives of various others within civil society and the state are made directly or indirectly by their members ’ . |
| 22 | Salt concentrations near the surface may make them especially inhospitable to vegetation ; only the soils of damper areas , in which salts are distributed evenly or concentrated at depth , are likely to support plant propagules . |
| 23 | A third problem with the " diglossia " approach is the notion that different languages are used mainly or exclusively in different domains . |
| 24 | Most conditioners are made up or waxes , oils and polymers and help to protect from pollution and control hair in excessive humidity and prevent moisture loss from the hair shaft . |
| 25 | ( h ) Windows The lease should make clear whether windows are included in or excluded from the demise , especially where the responsibility for repair is divided between landlord and tenant ( Reston v Hudson [ 1990 ] 2 EGLR 51 ) . |
| 26 | Whether these characteristic differences are judged positively or negatively will depend on the context and purpose of the task . |
| 27 | If rainforests are cut down or semi-destroyed , the ecological effect on the surrounding land can be disastrous . |
| 28 | 11.2 In relation to commercial exploitation the Non-academic Parties and the Academic Parties agree that the terms and conditions for exploitation of and licenses granted under intellectual property rights in results deriving from the Academic Parties shall have regard to the extent to which such results are incorporated in or applied to the manufacture of commercially exploited products ( particularly where there had been substantial product development outside the project ) and to the SERC guidelines which are set out in a letter from SERC dated 13 August 1984 , together with its attachments . |
| 29 | It tends to happen if too high a potency ( that is , too strong a potency ) is given , and the symptoms are brought out or exteriorized rather too quickly for the body to handle comfortably . |
| 30 | Various events such as Powerboat Races , Circuit of Ireland Rally , Carnivals , Mountain Bike Races and Fun Runs are held in or around the lake and farmlands and there are ample parking facilities . |