Example sentences of "are [vb pp] or [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elements of the design are developed or resolved in a series of local activities . |
| 2 | Other cable links to peripheral computer equipment are shielded or enclosed in magnetic toroids , The company also encases vital components in earthed metal housings . |
| 3 | In the stock room there is usually a system of storing goods so that new deliveries are stacked or placed behind older stock . |
| 4 | Yet the UKCC is impotent when nurses or midwives are disciplined or victimised for doing what it itself instructs . |
| 5 | The use of a picture taken inside the Ministry of Sound club in our article on the drugs Ecstasy and Ketamine ( April 3 ) was intended merely to show young people in a club and was not intended to suggest that drugs are permitted or used at the Ministry of Sound . |
| 6 | which brings up the main point and that is we have got to make sure that those people who are nominated or delegated within the terms of the contract , are people who have the knowledge and experience |
| 7 | ( d ) details of existing shareholdings in the target which are owned or controlled by the offeror or its concert parties , or in respect of which the offeror has received irrevocable undertakings , or in respect of which the offeror or any member of its concert parties has obtained an option to purchase ; |
| 8 | Premises and equipment are owned or rented by the person carrying on the business . |
| 9 | Elsewhere , Africa 's leading industrialists tend to be the chairmen or directors of companies which are owned or managed by multinational companies . |
| 10 | More positively , we discover how problems that result from the shrinking of family ties to what we call the ‘ nuclear family ’ are alleviated or avoided in the more flexible kinship arrangements of many tribal peoples . |
| 11 | Elections can be and are won or lost on television . |
| 12 | Remember that natural coral reefs are saturated or super-saturated with dissolved oxygen and this concentration is difficult to achieve , even in the best designs . |
| 13 | Where terms are contained or referred to in an unsigned document , the question whether or not they are incorporated into the contract is one of fact . |
| 14 | Most lone parents — both men and women — have been married and are separated or divorced from their former partners . |
| 15 | Some fungi , bacteria and viruses are likely to be present in most ponds and aquaria , but that these do not cause problems until fish are injured or weakened in some way . |
| 16 | The presence of an attachment figure is considered to be vital to the emotional and social survival of the individual , and when attachments are threatened or removed in any way it can lead to intense forms of attachment behaviour , such as clinging , crying and extreme grief . |
| 17 | Constraints are imposed or recognized during the course of the design . |
| 18 | Many seals are shot or killed with dynamite after being trapped in fishing nets . |
| 19 | Among the eight examples drawn from the gallery 's stock are ‘ Life Death/Knows Does n't Know ’ , the great wheel of contradiction formerly owned by Charles Saatchi , and ‘ Seven Virtues Seven Vices ’ , in which corresponding pairs such as Hope and Envy or Lust and Faith are illuminated or dimmed in an apparently random sequence . |
| 20 | The Centre was composed of 26 individuals , and was to report to the HCS president and to " initiate actions when contraventions of human rights are noticed or brought to its attention " . |
| 21 | Schools typically send three or four staff to one or two of these events and these are met or accompanied by the appropriate DCSL . |
| 22 | No donations are sought or accepted from outside sources and even gifts and legacies from members are restricted financially . |
| 23 | Shops that are vandalised or set on fire . |
| 24 | But this is seen to be the reason why forces or energies are transferred or transmitted across what has continually been regarded by so many scientists as ‘ empty space ’ . |
| 25 | We have seen that decisions and acts may be subject to judicial review if they are made or done in the exercise of public functions , whether those functions are conferred by statute or common law or neither . |
| 26 | Although protection of databases is reasonably effective ( there may also be issues of breach of confidence if parts of a database are used or published without permission ) , it may prove difficult to decide when the database was created , especially if it is subject to continual modification . |
| 27 | About a third of these scripts are , in turn , derived from BBC Horizon programmes which are bought or co-produced by Nova and shown in the series . |
| 28 | Seismic stratigraphy is a technique whereby seismic waves generated by.small explosions set off at the surface are reflected or refracted from discontinuities in the underlying sediments which represent changes in sediment properties . |
| 29 | Fish are unable to spawn as their breeding grounds are buried or destroyed by sand banks created by the dredgers , whose operations render water undrinkable as far as 60 km downstream . |
| 30 | Heterosexism lays down the rules and conditions under which all sexualities are valued or devalued in our society and penalties/benefits accordingly awarded . |