Example sentences of "[vb past] or [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As recording and video costs can rise with the artist 's gradual development , there will be an evaluation of every record 's sales figures to ascertain why a record failed or achieved only marginal success . |
| 2 | The assessment has included RBGE equipment , plus that owned or operated by BTC , SAPS , research projects , and Edinburgh University students on RBGE premises . |
| 3 | In addition to sending military units , the USA also imposed a complete trade embargo on Iraq which included the prohibition of exports to any entity operated from Iraq or owned or controlled by the government of Iraq . |
| 4 | The tourist or business or conference traveller will more often than not travel on a plane manufactured by one of the few aerospace TNCs that dominate the civil airline industry , occupy a hotel room subcontracted to or owned or managed by the local affiliate of one of the few chains that dominate the global hotel industry , hire a car from an agency of one of the international firms that dominate the car rental industry , and will pay for all this with one of the credit cards issued by the few TNCs that control global personal finance . |
| 5 | Text can be scaled from 4 points to 108 points without loss of quality and can be rotated , bolded , kerned or filled with any pattern . |
| 6 | Bricks should be sealed with a masonry stabiliser , while wood should be waxed , varnished or painted . |
| 7 | The Crown accepted that the income of the settlement arose or accrued to the three trustees jointly and not jointly and severally so that none of them was entitled , in law , separately to any particular share or fraction of the income . |
| 8 | ( 3 ) All other estates , interests , and charges in or over land take effect as equitable interests ; ( 4 ) The estates , interests , and charges which under this section are authorised to subsist or be conveyed or created at law are ( when subsisting or conveyed or created at law ) in this Act referred to as " legal estates , " and have the same incidents as legal estates subsisting at the commencement of this Act ; and the owner of a legal estate is referred to as " an estate owner " and his legal estate is referred to as his estate . |
| 9 | " Collection " covers " a collection got together for a temporary purpose " , but not one " made or exhibited for the purpose of effecting sales or other commercial dealings " . |
| 10 | You go and get Tristram out of durance vile , helped or handicapped by Jeremy — for the sake of his talent , if nothing else . |
| 11 | At present , the CEGB has sufficient uranium stockpiled or guaranteed under contract to fuel the nuclear programme until the end of this decade . |
| 12 | the Carrier shall be entitled to require proof of the value of the whole of the Consignment and of any part thereof lost , misdelivered or damaged ; |
| 13 | ( FCA ) of having been found to be in breach of Investment Business Regulation 6.03 in that the firm at Shipley between 16 March 1989 and 12 March 1991 sent business letters relating to its investment business without bearing the legend ‘ Authorised by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales to carry on investment business ’ contrary to Investment Business Regulation 2.02 and in that the firm at Shipley between 9 September 1988 and 1 October 1989 entered or required its Principal to enter into an association or arrangement with a person which might result in the defendant being constrained or induced to refer or introduce a client to a person who was not an independent intermediary with a view to that person giving investment advice contrary to Investment Business Regulation 2.03 and in that the firm at Shipley between 16 March 1986 and 31 October 1989 failed before recommending or effecting for a client a transaction in units in an authorised unit trust or a recognised collective investment scheme , to take reasonable steps to establish that other more advantageous or suitable policies or units were not available contrary to Investment Business Regulation 2.11 and in that the firm at Shipley between 1 November 1989 and 16 October 1991 having given advice to a client which was such that when acted upon it resulted in commission being received by the defendant , failed to notify the said client in writing of the amount and terms of such commission as soon as that information was available , contrary to Investment Business Regulation 2.32 was reprimanded , fined £3,000 and ordered to pay £500 by way of costs . |
| 14 | Between 1879 and 1912 Matcham built or rebuilt over 150 theatres , an achievement approached in Great Britain only by C. J. Phipps [ q.v. ] , who designed seventy-two theatres . |
| 15 | Fergus , who had stormed castles and laid siege to fortresses and who knew the arts of infiltration as well as he knew the Twelve Books of Honour , found himself summoning every shred and every tag-end of legend and myth and lore ever whispered or recounted or imagined about the Prison . |
| 16 | The C[atholic] C[urate] was sent out to patrol the roads and anybody found or seen on the roads had to give their names . |
| 17 | The product is tack-free within 20 minutes of applying , and can be cut , sanded , plastered or painted after only two hours . |
| 18 | Being a representative of a national race committee , I 'm often dismayed at the ne the lack of black people demonstrated or portrayed in Direct . |
| 19 | a false indication that a price is expected to be increased or reduced or maintained ( whether or not for a particular period ) ; |
| 20 | This was fished either freelined or anchored from the bottom . |
| 21 | Single genes ( the units of heredity ) can now be transferred , added or deleted by manipulating the genetic material . |
| 22 | 5.14 Indemnities To be responsible for and to keep the Landlord fully indemnified against all damage damages losses costs expenses actions demands proceedings claims and liabilities made against or suffered or incurred by the Landlord arising directly or indirectly out of : |
| 23 | We need a more active approach to the promotion of new knowledge provided by research … to carry out large numbers of research projects and then put them on shelves and in pigeon holes is appallingly wasteful , as is also the vast amount of information available in hundreds of central and local government reports published each year and then forgotten , and never collated or analysed within an overall framework of reference . |
| 24 | H'eye tech — mascara is the one make-up item few women would be without and we 've come a long way since the days of mascaras that smudged or flaked around the eyes . |
| 25 | By the end of April over 30 people were reported to have been killed in the violence and many hundreds injured or arrested . |
| 26 | Mechanical defect : The defence of any mechanical defect that caused or contributed towards the offence is normally good . |
| 27 | If the first shot hits you can fire again , regardless of whether you wounded or killed with your first shot . |
| 28 | If the first shot hits you can fire again , regardless of whether you wounded or killed with your first shot . |
| 29 | — the one nobody photographed or painted ; |
| 30 | ‘ shall have effect as if it granted or provided for the grant of a tenancy for a term of 10 years , subject to a right exercisable either by the landlord or the tenant to determine the tenancy , if the war ends before the expiration of that term , by at least one month 's notice in writing given after the end of the war ; … |