Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The money which is invested or lent is called the principal . |
| 2 | That the classical wooden-bodied Pullman cars of earlier days had long since been split up and sold or scrapped was no deterrent . |
| 3 | But why Mr. Mendez bothered or cared was something else . |
| 4 | Up until the Autumn of 1990 all money market instruments when bought or sold were physically delivered to the buyer , usually by messenger in the City of London . |
| 5 | ( The places we saw & visited were mind-boggling but it was really a family visit to see & , their daughters , sons-in-law & grand-children … all boys ) . |
| 6 | Held , dismissing the applications , that prior to 1873 judges sitting as visitors to the Inns of Court to hear appeals by barristers who had been ordered to be suspended or disbarred were acting as judges and performing judicial duties which were an essential part of the administration of justice in their courts ; that the disciplinary jurisdiction of the visitors in respect of fitness of persons to become or remain barristers , was a jurisdiction which was transferred to the High Court by section 16 of the Judicature Act 1873 and retained there by section 18 of the Judicature Act 1925 and section 10(3) ( b ) of the Supreme Court Act 1981 ; and that , accordingly , there was no jurisdiction to hear the applications for judicial review ( post , pp. 1007D–E , G — 1008A , 1010B ) . |
| 7 | All those killed or injured were working men going peacefully about their lawful occasions , yet the terrorists did not hesitate to murder or maim them . |
| 8 | In fact the prospects for some form of neutralised Germany , whether divided or united were no longer realistic in the 1960s . |
| 9 | After his re-election in 1972 Nixon asked for the resignations of all non career employees in the executive branch and took steps to ensure that all those appointed or reappointed were loyal to him and his policies . |
| 10 | That animals should be treated humanely , and with this proviso , that they may be killed , experimented upon , hunted , raced , or petted is both the legal , and a perfectly defensible , position to hold . |
| 11 | Among those I met or saw were the Begum Aga Khan , who was with her very attractive daughter Princess Zahra Aga Khan ; the Director General of the British Equestrian Foundation Major Malcolm Wallace , two of our top Event riders Miss Karen Straker and Mrs Jane Thelwall ; and Mr Andrew Dixon , who had all come over from England with the Hermès party ; Mr Peter Laing , the Hon. |
| 12 | The chairs upon which they sat or leaned were gilded or of shining chrome and glass ; bales of material were half unfurled to spill around more silk and satin ; jewellery was flung down in handfuls upon tables or simply on the ground . |
| 13 | The child who uses goed or comed is guilty of over-generalisation , while in sign the use of repetition to convey occurrence over a long time would be appropriate in WAIT-WAIT-WAIT , meaning ‘ wait for ages ’ but not in KEEP-KEEP-KEEP , where it would probably mean to ‘ keep three ’ things rather than to ‘ keep over time ’ . |
| 14 | However as the number of available school leavers began to rise , all those recruits who dropped out or left were more easily replaced . |
| 15 | Second , it is commonly the case that what is highlighted or backgrounded is an attribute , or range of attributes , of the entity referred to . |
| 16 | Everything he said or wrote was calculated for posterity , in her view , he sounded like a sheaf of notes looking for a history book . |
| 17 | But before we jump to the conclusion that Pound had simply had a brainstorm , or had been trapped by misplaced compassion for Dunning as a lame duck , we ought to consider another possibility — that imagism , and Pound 's endorsement of Ford 's insistence on ‘ the prose tradition ’ , had never been for him more than an aberration , though in the short term a very profitable one , from a way of feeling that impelled him always toward the cantabile , a proclivity that would , in the interests of melody , tolerate notably eccentric diction . |
| 18 | He admitted that some people in Hong Kong had been alarmed by reports of carnage in Peking but said this was only because they ‘ misunderstood ’ or had been misled by the ‘ false reporting and even rumour of some news media ’ . |
| 19 | Most working men claimed to know someone who had once been given a trial or had been ‘ on the books ’ of a club for a spell . |
| 20 | Mrs Morgan did think there was , or had been , something with her boss . |
| 21 | Nor had there been any talk of her — that she looked ill , or had been ill — nothing at all . |
| 22 | Even though she was walking normally I felt worried and thought maybe she was sick or had been hurt . |
| 23 | Whereas on earlier occasions where bad news or unfavourable developments had occurred , the view had prevailed — at least in public utterances — that the Führer had been badly counselled or had been kept uninformed , in the case of Stalingrad Hitler was directly implicated in the catastrophe . |
| 24 | All of these bodies had either been confined to MPs or had been expressions of ‘ Political Dissent ’ and had overlapped in membership , support and aims ; all had been shunned by most Methodists . |
| 25 | In a significant break with his predecessor , Mr Major offered junior and middle-ranking ministerial posts to several senior backbenchers who had been overlooked by Mrs Thatcher or had been kept out of her government . |
| 26 | Even Poole , the District 's own Organising Secretary in Norfolk and Norwich , had been asked by a Cambridge Board officer not to go ‘ … into towns or villages where there was or had been Extension work ’ . |
| 27 | This is a parish in the counties of Argyll , Inverness-shire , Ross and Cromarty , Sutherland , Caithness and the northern islands where there was in 1886 , or had been in the previous 80 years , holdings of arable land with rights of common pasture . |
| 28 | Enraptured by the celluloid screen , we revelled in the romance that had been denied to us , or had been put in cold storage ‘ for the duration , . |
| 29 | I have not succeeded in finding a clear-cut English instance [ excluding Swift ] in which a satirist , on an economic issue , was attacking a social group clearly higher than the one he belonged to or had been hired to serve . |
| 30 | Maggie had forgotten about them , but there were several — or had been several — in Heymouth , including one in the lighthouse . |