Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They must be used to that , or got out of practice . |
| 2 | During the first few weeks , check that they have n't been lifted by frost or pecked out by birds . |
| 3 | They argue new laws are needed as modern technology has made a mockery of the 1959 Obscene Publications Act with violent pornography easily ordered by telephone or beamed in by satellite , making enforcement of the law almost impossible . |
| 4 | Some of the American crop were typed but their tone matched those handwritten or made up of letters and words snipped from publications . |
| 5 | On occasion there were more serious charges where preliminary hearings were held and the case either dismissed or passed on for trial at a higher court . |
| 6 | Items recovered are either reused or passed on to recyclers . |
| 7 | Most off the shelf PCs these days come equipped with a graphics controller card which is either a card fitted into a vacant expansion slot or built in as part of the motherboard . |
| 8 | Apart from evaporation ( unlikely except in an unoccupied house in hot weather ) , the main problem is that water can be ‘ siphoned ’ or sucked out of traps if the system has not been designed properly to avoid pipes running ‘ full ’ and thus causing suction at the trap . |
| 9 | In Nanking also , they had to build them as a safety measure , but they have either been dismantled or moved out of sight . |
| 10 | Each house has a sophisticated meter attached to its TV set , which records exactly what is being played ( or played back on video ) . |
| 11 | Slower-acting than most artificials , it is best hoed or dug in during winter , some months ahead of renewed springtime growth and activity . |
| 12 | A further 42 per cent is spread on farmland and 23 per cent is dumped in landfills or piped out to sea . |
| 13 | A witness in the family proceedings court who refuses to give evidence or produce any document once he gets to court may be committed to prison for a term not exceeding one month or fined up to £1,000 or both ( MCA , s97(4) ) . |
| 14 | Under existing legislation , the youths could be sentenced to a maximum of two years in prison or fined up to $10,000 , if found guilty . |
| 15 | Mr Blunkett had been reviewing some of the scientific evidence about the connection between deprivation and ill health or premature death , and immediately before your intervention had referred to children in social class 5 being six times as likely to be burnt or knocked down in accidents as those in social class 1 . |
| 16 | Such bits and pieces considered as perquisites could either be disposed of directly or worked up into articles to be sold . |
| 17 | What are you shocked , frightened or disgusted by in others ? |
| 18 | The animals must now be slaughtered or sent back to Czechoslovakia , which he feels is a completely impractical and rather cynical suggestion . |
| 19 | It was quite coincidental that June , by her search for a new life in California , drew him towards what would be the hub of the rest of his life and it was touch and go whether he stayed or went back to Neptune . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'd far rather you waited until it 's light , or went down for Bob . ’ |
| 21 | The definition ‘ Bangladeshi ’ refers to infants whose mothers were born in Bangladesh , and the few mothers who were born or grew up in Britain . |
| 22 | This is easy enough with record sheets and drawings , which can simply be photocopied or put on to microfilm , but is far more of a problem with a photographic record comprising hundreds or thousands of slides and photographs . |
| 23 | There are also special plates printed by auctioneers when they are selling off the library of some eminent man , or put in by librarians to denote a special gift or legacy of books . |
| 24 | It can not be otherwise with the approach of death ; whether we go on pilgrimage with Raleigh or put out to sea with Tennyson , the metaphor of travel is one with which the poets have made us familiar . |
| 25 | These are long-winded phrases and can often be replaced by a single word or left out without loss of meaning . |
| 26 | Serve it as a delicious liqueur , or topped up with soda or tonic . |
| 27 | Helicopters were used to provide an airborne relay station but if they were shot down or ran out of fuel , soldiers on the ground often had to resort to the GPO telephone system . |
| 28 | Or melted down for soap . |
| 29 | or sounded off in spates of shooting , |
| 30 | It has a much ‘ saltier ’ taste than rock salt , which is mined or pumped up with water from underground layers of salt caused by pre-historic lakes drying up . |