Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the movements in all three are classically based , they would look out of place in older classical ballets or danced to other music . |
| 2 | Er at least thirty percent of my business erm have either stopped their accounts or reached the limit of their patience . |
| 3 | Foals with meconium retention exhibit colic-type signs or continued straining . |
| 4 | These may be members of local community groups or unemployed centres and/or paid staff of particular projects or paid staff working in the community . |
| 5 | The enquiry looked at 1208 people who , in the application year ending 31 March 1980 , enquired , submitted application forms or dropped out at the various stages of the process of seeking to be matriculated , as well as those who matriculated and graduated . |
| 6 | As I changed from listening to walking mode , I tried to work out whether it had feet or flippers or ran on rollers . |
| 7 | Large numbers of men were employed , too , in growing vegetables and grain for the army ; but it was not they who were to reap the harvest , for their crops and granaries were either captured by the Russians or burned . |
| 8 | At his last exhibition at Sonne eighteen months ago , the artist used such inventions , laid out on stretchers , bound with iron chains or impaled on spikes , to show life-threatening wounds of which the injured themselves were unaware . |
| 9 | Decorative pendant lights which have chains or screwed brass rods can be supported in one of two ways . |
| 10 | As early as the 4th , when the Sun is at odds with Saturn in Aquarius , you 'll realise that employers or loved ones wo n't comply with your wishes as quickly as you 'd like . |
| 11 | They claimed that he had made and taken away copies or had memorised extracts from a book of secret formulae . |
| 12 | And the third tells you that it was Isaac Newton who wrote this equation down because it matched what happened every time he played billiards or threw apples around . |
| 13 | If a Simulium black fly is infected with nematode worms , their larvae migrate into its muscles , then into its salivary glands , and finally , when it feeds from a host , pass out of its mouthparts or burst out through them and into the mammal host . |
| 14 | Considerable skill in getting plants established was also required — it is only too easy for gaps to appear , or for an odd man out in flower colour to pop up , as anyone who has ever tried to grow a complete row of vegetables or lay out a bedding plan , will know . |
| 15 | ’ She lay on her bed for hours leading righteous riots of millhands against languid tophatted fops or hardfaced bowlerhatted men of iron and steel . |
| 16 | Few apparently have plots behind , perhaps indicating that their occupants were dependent upon specialized activities or farmed land elsewhere . |
| 17 | By writ dated 6 August 1991 the plaintiffs in the first action , Barclays Bank Plc. claimed £389,431 from the defendants , Glasgow City Council , being moneys had and received to the plaintiffs ' use as having been paid under void contracts ; or contracts for which the consideration had totally failed ; which were traceable by the plaintiffs into the hands of the defendants , the retention of which would be unconscionable ; which would cause the defendants to be unjustly enriched ; or which the defendants held upon an implied or resulting or constructive trust in favour of the plaintiffs ; or to which the plaintiffs were entitled on the grounds that the defendants had spent the money on their lawful activities or applied them towards the discharge of their liabilities . |
| 18 | Moreover , Corbett realised that if de Craon knew he was asking questions it was only a matter of time before the Council of Guardians intervened and either put a stop to his activities or expelled him from the country . |
| 19 | 15.34 ( i ) Pupils working towards level 5 should be encouraged to make more extended contributions to group or class discussions and to informal or formal presentations , eg dramatic improvisation , role-play activities or scripted scenes . |
| 20 | The section is dealing with contraventions or apprehended contraventions of section 3 , i.e. the carrying on of an unauthorised investment business . |
| 21 | There are presently around 600 active volcanoes on the continents or exposed above the sea as islands . |
| 22 | They led the dogs to a place where the river meandered and the shingle bank was broad and deserted , and they beat them with sticks or stoned them . |
| 23 | It should not be supported by sticks or hooped frames to form ‘ tunnels ’ as movement in the wind may wear holes in it . |
| 24 | The incidence of the Famine was in fact worse for those peasants who wandered into the nearby Volga cities or travelled much further afield . |
| 25 | Most of them had seen her at meetings or heard of her in connection with the ICO . |
| 26 | We have decided to hand them over ( Gen Keightley is in touch and on good terms with the Russian general on his right ) , but I suggested that the Russians should at the same time give us any British prisoners or wounded who may be in his area . |
| 27 | They 're just as flexible in the way they can be reused — whether by being refilled with products or incinerated to recover energy . |
| 28 | The models behind the sun-baked cellophane smiled with shining teeth or pushed out kissing pouts or let their dewy bottom lip drop ; they arched and twisted and perched , strategic stickers interrupted the full view of their parts , spotted animal skins here and there hinted at biting beasts on the loose . |
| 29 | Many others were involved in civil suits or attended court as spectators . |
| 30 | Preston had become a shoddy place to live , dominated by smoky factory chimneys and characterized by blackened rows of brick , terraced houses or crowded , insanitary courts and , worst of all , dark , damp cellars . |