Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] or [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Weapons will be broken open and the plutonium and uranium stockpiled or processed . |
| 3 | At present , the CEGB has sufficient uranium stockpiled or guaranteed under contract to fuel the nuclear programme until the end of this decade . |
| 4 | It seemed from where I sat that she was in trouble whether Mahoney lived or died . |
| 5 | Normally Grimma shouted or argued , but this time she spoke quite calmly . |
| 6 | His blood vessels dilated or contracted in different parts of his body . |
| 7 | Reports about light aircraft landing accidents often say that the aircraft bounced or ballooned , pitched nose-down and then flew into the runway in a series of worsening crashes , smashing the nose gear and engine . |
| 8 | Within a week of the outbreak of war the co-operation of the National Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union was sought over the manning of merchant vessels requisitioned or chartered by the Admiralty and an agreement arrived at jointly with the Board of Trade . |
| 9 | He is telling the church to stick to its principles and not get side tracked or become hypocritical . |
| 10 | This was strong stuff , even if it was wrapped up as mere journalistic conjecture , and obviously Toby knew or suspected something . |
| 11 | As cities have always acted as the principal focus of political and socio-economic life in the Middle East , the study of Aleppo will show the way in which communal , sectarian and other allegiances did or did not permit the emergence of a wider ‘ national ’ outlook . |
| 12 | Marcion 's principle of exclusion gave sharp impetus to the early church 's need to define which books did or did not rank as authoritative documents to which appeal could be made . |
| 13 | The senior staff of the TANU press felt that , while they might not always be in agreement with everything the Government and its various ministries did or said , they were committed to its goals ; the same , they believed , could not be said of the Standard . |
| 14 | Like them or not , one could never be sure what Ken did or did not mean . |
| 15 | Questions were also asked about what guidelines the Social Work Department had or had not used . |
| 16 | No bones gritted or grated , even though his ankles now felt miserably weak , it was just that his muscles would n't firm up enough to keep him straight . |
| 17 | Despite her outrage and hurt , Isabel knew she did care if fitzAlan lived or died . |
| 18 | In an almost throw-away sentence the book gives one of the highest figures for the number of those whom Stalin killed or imprisoned during collectivisation and the purges : ‘ According to preliminary estimates , the total number of victims of the repressions was around 40 million . ’ |
| 19 | If you withdraw money using your card in a currency other than sterling , your account , will be debited in sterling and the conversion into sterling will be at a rate of exchange decided or authorised by the Bank . |
| 20 | She sometimes wondered afterwards whether Brigadier Smithson appreciated or had even organised the situation . |
| 21 | Vechey saw or heard something so he , also , was silenced . |
| 22 | Mr Baker said he was concerned solely with whether Miss Giles knew or believed she was infringing copyright by showing it . |
| 23 | And everywhere the sun streamed or lay in golden pools or rainbow spots or squares made by windows patterned with the shadows of leaves . |
| 24 | For instance , the last chapter may have inspired you to make some very definite statements based on things your parents did or did not do in their marriage . |
| 25 | Eva spoke or sang at all three funerals . |
| 26 | But why Mr. Mendez bothered or cared was something else . |
| 27 | SECTION OF VAS REMOVED OR BLOCKED |
| 28 | Then I remembered Stephen Roskill telling me not to believe a word Mountbatten said or claimed unless it was corroborated from other sources . |
| 29 | As a social group they could record both gains and losses from war , and there has been some debate among historians about how far a balance sheet can be struck for the country as a whole , whether England gained or lost from its military operations . |
| 30 | Edna often took Celia down there , carefully going first and waiting while the little girl slid or scrambled down the awkward parts of the cliff into her waiting arms . |