Example sentences of "[vb pp] or [verb] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is persuasive in this case is a consistent series of answers given by the minister , after opportunities for taking advice from his officials , all of which point the same way and which were not withdrawn or varied prior to the enactment of the Bill . |
| 2 | The withdrawal of solicitors from a scheme can lead to increasingly unacceptable burdens on the rest , and a number of local schemes have collapsed or come near to collapse . |
| 3 | Apart from farmers , even the old petty bourgeoisie have grown or remained stable as a proportion of the labour force . |
| 4 | The number of persons injured or made ill at work far exceeds the number against whom indictable crimes of violence , including rape and indecent assault , were committed . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | With respect to the clinical aspects of the police surgeon 's duties , there is no reason to suspect that the medical practitioner in the UK who serves as a police surgeon would in any way be adversely biased against any patient for whom he cares merely because that person is in police custody , whether he has been injured or become ill during enforced loss of liberty , and however such conditions have been brought about . |
| 7 | The Intelligent Bus Interface Module is a data acquisition engine with a 40MHz 68030 processor , which resides on the VMEbus , enabling high volumes of data to be transmitted or received independent of the central host processor when it is used with the new input-output board . |
| 8 | The application may be refused , granted or granted subject to limitations . |
| 9 | If the genes affecting survival and fertility are to some extent age-specific in their effects , then those that influence later life will be subject to weaker selection because , by the time they take effect , more of the original carriers will already have died or become infertile for other reasons . |
| 10 | If permission to develop land is refused or granted subject to conditions , whether by the local planning authority or by the Secretary of State for the Environment , and the owner of the land claims that the land has become incapable of reasonably beneficial use in its existing state and can not be rendered capable of reasonably beneficial use by the carrying out of any development which has been or would be permitted he may serve on the Council , a purchase notice requiring the Council to purchase his interest in the land in accordance with the provisions of Part IX of the Town and Country Planning Act 1971 . |
| 11 | In certain circumstances , a claim may be made against the local planning authority for compensation , where permission is refused or granted subject to conditions by the Secretary of State on appeal or on a reference of the application to him . |
| 12 | A subsequent , independent study found that 7% of women in COLOMBIA , 8% in INDIA and 11% in GHANA regretted being sterilised or felt unsure about it . |
| 13 | We do not want to dictate what should be translated or get involved in negotiations between publishers . |
| 14 | But that does mean that we accept the movie myth that these forces are externalised or become absolute in some creatures or people . |
| 15 | Regarding training , the document said that food business operators must ensure that food handlers are fully trained or supervised commensurate with their work activity . |
| 16 | There are two types of ageing alcohol abuser ; those whose drinking started in much earlier years , and those whose drinking habits have started or become excessive in old age . |
| 17 | However , London Transport was unwilling to go to the expense of refitting proper external lighting and the headlamp masks were never removed , as they incorporated red slides for display at the rear end of the car and the combined side lamps-tail lamps and route numbers had been removed or rendered ineffective at the beginning of the war . |
| 18 | More urban patients attended a hospital based diabetic clinic and this may be one reason why such patients had less unrecognised retinopathy , although hospital attendance is not always welcomed or thought necessary by patients . |
| 19 | The judges know nothing about any will of the people except in so far as that will is expressed by an Act of Parliament , and would never suffer the validity of a statute to be questioned on the ground of its having been passed or kept alive in opposition to the wishes of the electors . ’ |
| 20 | Companies are also commissioning the testers to guide managers who are fired or made redundant into fresh employment . |
| 21 | Within a short space of time the data files are likely to be lost or become obsolete as the technology of the host institution changes . |
| 22 | Parcelforce Standard includes the basic compensation , up to a maximum of £20 per item , in the event of an item being lost or damaged due to the fault of Parcelforce , its employees or agents . |
| 23 | In 13 cases liver function tests improved or remained static from the time of diagnosis , and have remained normal in two of those still alive who had normal values at diagnosis . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , although the law may be the final arbiter and may rule on what is or may be obscene and indecent , in general terms it does not judge on every item published or made available for sale , since there is normally no censorship of obscene or indecent matter prior to publication in the UK . |
| 25 | Furthermore , the decompilation right does not apply if the information required has been previously readily available ( s.50B(3) ) ; for example , the interface details have been published or made available at reasonable cost . |