Example sentences of "be [verb] or [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The appearance in the Tripoli courtroom of the two suspects , Abdel Baset Ali Mohammed al-Megrahi and al-Amin Khalifa Fhimah , disproved persistent US suggestions that they had been hidden or even executed by the Libyan authorities . |
| 2 | A control contract is subject to shareholder approval by a majority vote ( including any shares held by the dominant undertaking : but , in the case of a company whose shares are listed or publicly traded , the domestic regulatory authority may — as the Stock Exchange presently does — ban an interested shareholder from voting in this type of situation ) ; such a contract may therefore allow predators who have obtained board control of a company to make that company effectively subservient to an external body without the formalities of a takeover . |
| 3 | As many as 60 political parties were believed to have been legalized or freshly created during the 13 months following the publication in December 1989 of the draft joint constitution for a unified Yemen . |
| 4 | [ No shares or other securities of the Company have been registered or otherwise qualified for sale or resale under Federal or State laws in the United States of America or Canada . |
| 5 | The first experiments assess how subjects ’ recognition of photographs of familiar faces is affected if these are disguised or otherwise altered in various ways , and clarify which features of faces are important for their recognition . |
| 6 | A bricoleur was a handyman who , by using bits of machinery or equipment , the original purpose of which had been forgotten or never known , was able to solve immediate mechanical problems . |
| 7 | Problems are individualized or even suppressed rather than openly explored with all the possible difficulties that this entails . |
| 8 | The dominant culture may well be one that has been fostered or actively imposed by the Organisation in the person of its managers . |
| 9 | They are condemned as signs of unclear or lazy thinking — and , indeed , when they are overused or inappropriately used ( as in a wall of political hedging erected by a defensive politician ) — they are widely and justifiably attacked . |
| 10 | Jeffrey had apparently either been rescued or cruelly done to death . |
| 11 | Feelings have often run high , especially where learning opportunities are perceived to have been mismanaged or ineptly handled . |
| 12 | Moreover , every member of every discipline has a right , even a duty , to challenge , disprove or modify what has earlier been agreed or just taken for granted . |
| 13 | ( That is why , in Task 2 , although one may make a pretty good guess on the basis of past experience , there is no sure way of knowing whether the sentences which are grammatically correct ike ( 1 ) , ( 3 ) , and ( 5 ) — have been used or just invented . ) |
| 14 | They have never been shown or even reproduced . |
| 15 | or ( e ) The way in which goods are packed or otherwise got up for the purpose of being supplied . |
| 16 | Once it is suspected that the archaeological levels have been reached or almost reached , the excavation area is cleaned up using hand tools , and all the loose earth is removed so that any differences in the colour and texture of the soil can be distinguished . |
| 17 | The section provides that the Secretary of State may make provisions by regulations in relation to revised accounts and reports which , in particular , may : — make different provisions according to whether the previous documents are replaced or merely supplemented by a statement of corrections ; deal with the functions of the auditors ; require the directors to take specified steps in relation to circulation to members and others entitled under section 238 ; laying before a general meeting and delivery to the Registrar ; and the application of provisions of the Act ( including penalties ) . |
| 18 | Will the Secretary of State confirm that fully two thirds of the costs of Trident have already been spent or contractually committed by the present Government ? |
| 19 | Since the second world war , but especially since the 1960s , the role of ‘ national economies ’ has been undermined or even brought into question by the major transformations in the international division of labour , whose basic units are transnational or multinational enterprises of all sizes , and by the corresponding development of international centres and networks of economic transactions which are , for practical purposes , outside the control of state governments . |
| 20 | First , if the cause of the purchaser being unable to return the goods within the approval period is something which occurs entirely without his fault and beyond his control ( e.g. if the goods are stolen or accidentally destroyed ) he can offer that as an excuse and property will not pass , Re Ferrier ( 1944 Ch. ) . |
| 21 | A spokesman at Darlington police station said : This was a despicable act and someone could have easily been hurt or even killed . |
| 22 | Many rural branch railway lines disappeared in the early 1960s , while the bus services that have replaced them have in many cases been abandoned or severely curtailed . |
| 23 | Deals that might have been deferred or even lost got closed . |
| 24 | I had queried his dose of Dexamethazone with a nurse earlier , and she assured me he was getting it in his drip , but I have a suspicion that it had been reduced or even forgotten . |
| 25 | Not without opposition from other sections of the bureaucracy especially those.in Finance ministries , MITI argued that long-term self-reliance for Japan would be delayed or even undermined by following its apparent comparative advantage into labour intensive sectors . |
| 26 | Again , because treasures served to denote prominent persons , they are most likely to be listed or even described in written records , as well as featuring in works of art . |
| 27 | This is evident not only from the fact that the jurisdiction of the Legal Services Ombudsman under sections 21 to 26 of the Act stops at the moment when a complaint enters into the jurisdiction of a disciplinary tribunal : section 22(7) , but also from the fact that in section 27(3) Parliament refers to the process by which a barrister may be disbarred or temporarily suspended from practice by order of an Inn of Court without any hint that it disapproves or wishes to alter in any way the manner in which for centuries the Inns have made orders for disbarment subject to the visitorial jurisdiction of the judges . |
| 28 | Nor did it support the ‘ geographic fiction ’ that evidence to be produced in the United States was not ‘ abroad ’ even though it was in fact located in a foreign country or must be gathered or otherwise prepared abroad . |
| 29 | Townsend asserts that the extent of that dependence is unnecessary and that ‘ the process can … be revised or least modified ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ Smoking tobacco , drinking excess alcohol and taking drugs of dependence … should be stopped or severely curtailed . |