Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The industry used local resources ; charcoal and other articles were made from wood ; iron and silver ores were processed and fashioned ; and flax , hemp and wool were spun and woven into clothing , the Italian Chimney sweeps came to symbolize the migration at its most miserable , but other persons repaired watches or became itinerant vendors of fabric , haberdashery , and other items . |
| 2 | The threats to children to silence colleagues who , far braver than he had ever been , asked the uncomfortable question , or asked any question at all . |
| 3 | Oh , I suppose I could have written off and got a new length of rubber , or got old Cameron in the ironmonger 's shop to find me something , but it would never feel right again . |
| 4 | By suggesting that the ‘ fun-loving ’ woman lodger shunned or avoided sexual intercourse with the landlord begins to suggest that the ‘ normal ’ occurrence is for women lodgers in such situations to allow sexual intercourse to take place . |
| 5 | Even when the working party has produced its final report as for History , or made strong recommendations after wide consultation , as for modern foreign languages , the Secretary of State may well have a strong influence on the final version that becomes part of legislation . |
| 6 | Even if this were so , the implication has been made by catholic school supporters that catholic schools have not promoted or reinforced any measure of prejudice , and that no other possible type of school could improve on them ( Daly 1975 ) . |
| 7 | Around a million kitchens are purchased or upgraded each year in Great Britain . |
| 8 | Unfortunately it has not paid for the creation of a large modern high-tech manufacturing sector or created permanent jobs in the service sector on anything like the scale required for the future . |
| 9 | Working Paper 4 states that new patients on a list or changed clinical conditions of existing patients will bring corresponding adjustments to the drugs budget , but it is not clear whether these adjustments will have to be made within the overall regional allocation to the FPC , or whether new funds can be made available during a year in recognition of patient migration . |
| 10 | The so-called " multinational force " , mobilized following the lead of the USA , had been widened by the end of August to include not only troops from certain Arab countries [ see above ] , but also some actual or promised military participation from the UK , France , several other West European countries , Canada , Australia , Pakistan and Bangladesh [ see below ] . |
| 11 | But nothing in the response of the Al Fayeds ' advisers , for all its bluster and menace , rebutted my basic case or added one jot of information to explain the origins of the brothers ' wealth . |
| 12 | He spoke once during the second reading debate , spoke or intervened thirteen times in committee , once on report , and once on third reading . |
| 13 | So ‘ men are going to get off on women anyway , just walking down the street ’ and of course magazines whose raison d'etre is the presentation of the naked or seminaked female body as a spectacle are n't contributing to this state of affairs , are they ? |
| 14 | Field naturalists collected in the local countryside or explored distant parts of the world and sent specimens back home . |
| 15 | People sang or played musical instruments at all times of the day and night . |
| 16 | My ward is Braintree East and the only person who came round or dropped any literature in was Mr Elwyn Bishop for the Labour Party . |
| 17 | The GUSTO trial assessed the risks and benefits of immediate intravenous heparin or delayed subcutaneous heparin in addition to streptokinase ( and found no mortality benefit ) , but did not make such comparisons for tPA or anistreplase nor provide any mortality comparison of intravenous heparin and no heparin . |
| 18 | No infant developed polycythaemia or suffered adverse effects on Apgar scores or temperature . |
| 19 | For most of us , some evidence of increased or decreased neural activity after the onset of some experimental condition seems sufficient evidence that something is being encoded , but as Burns and Lennie have pointed out ( Burns 1968 ; Lennie 1981 ) , the brain has no knowledge of these outside events . |
| 20 | If you 've got rid of a doorway , or turned two rooms into one , round it off with an arch kit which you plaster over ; add stylish fibrous plaster arch mouldings and corbels ; or frame it in wood . |
| 21 | ‘ We very rarely upgraded machines before , perhaps added more memory , or reallocated old machines as a word processor , ’ he claims . |
| 22 | Blissfully unaware that the full panoply of America 's military might was about to deliver him up to the majesty of American justice , President Reagan 's token terrorist was welcomed aboard Skunk Kilo by an undercover FBI team that was so wrought up by the occasion that in placing Younis under arrest they managed to break both his wrists , though he offered no resistance or showed any enthusiasm for the 12-mile swim back to Limassol . |
| 23 | Slave masters strode through the crowds of men and women whipping them if they slowed down or showed any interest in the travellers . |
| 24 | Various thoughts on a particular problem therefore gave rise to a variety of images , which might appear to contradict each other , but which either simply revealed the complexity of the problem or displayed several ways of stating the same answer . |
| 25 | A total of 87 per cent of those surveyed had not seen or heard any information on recent warnings across the country . |
| 26 | ( b ) The payer has the opportunity of contesting his liability in proceedings , but instead gives way and pays : see e.g. , Henderson v. Folkestone Waterworks Co. ( 1885 ) 1 T.L.R. 329 , and Sargood Brothers v. The Commonwealth , 11 C.L.R. 258 , especially at p. 301 , per Isaacs J. So where money has been paid under pressure of actual or threatened legal proceedings for its recovery , the payer can not say that for that reason the money has been paid under compulsion and is therefore recoverable by him . |
| 27 | ‘ Some had not seen daylight or sniffed fresh air for four months , ’ he says . |
| 28 | Many players retained part-time jobs or worked odd shifts at the pit . |
| 29 | Mr Brezhnev was infuriated when Ceausescu used to call for lower Warsaw Pact defence budgets , or established diplomatic relations with Israel , or restored party-to-party relations with China 's Communist party . |
| 30 | Graceful white swans — the resident mute swan , and the wintering Bewick 's and whoopers with their black and yellow bills — sailed to and fro , or upended to feed , or preened ruffled feathers on islands . |