Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | He is telling the church to stick to its principles and not get side tracked or become hypocritical . |
| 5 | Questions were also asked about what guidelines the Social Work Department had or had not used . |
| 6 | Despite her outrage and hurt , Isabel knew she did care if fitzAlan lived or died . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And everywhere the sun streamed or lay in golden pools or rainbow spots or squares made by windows patterned with the shadows of leaves . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A business must be kept profitable into the long-term future , but at the same time short-term profitability must be maintained to avoid the danger that the long term will never be reached , and the business liquidated or taken over . |
| 12 | It hardly mattered what her own husband did or did not do when his wife languished in bed , an invalid . |
| 13 | Successive Secretaries of State have stated that only by the unvarying observance of this practice is it possible to ensure that in no circumstances is anything said or not said which , by comparison with what was said on a different occasion , might imply that a warrant had or had not been issued . |
| 14 | They were interested in the way that the connections between an eye and a cortical neuron were affected by whether that eye had or had not been used , so first they measured the numbers of cells establishing these connections in normal animals . |
| 15 | The rest of the group hardly moved as if absorbed in everything the coroner said or did . |
| 16 | You 've said in the past that you thought the band stood or fell purely by your music , that your personalities had nothing to do with it . |
| 17 | The real answer is to fit the valve seats suitable for lead free petrol as previously stated , either having your own cylinder head reconditioned or fitting an exchange head available now from many sources . |
| 18 | They suggested that pollution stresses combined to weaken the trees so that , when a ‘ normal ’ stress such as frost or drought came along , the tree died or went into a rapid decline , before succumbing to competition from neighbours or invasion by fungal pests or other disease organisms . |
| 19 | But it is useless to start deciding which aspects of behaviour did or did not have their origin in sex . |
| 20 | As a final safeguard on their position , Chemco insisted on Virgin Atlantic taking out a forward-currency contract to protect the buy-back agreement against fluctuations in the pound against the dollar and to protect themselves if Virgin defaulted or went bust . |
| 21 | Thus ‘ abstract ’ is opposed to ‘ concrete ’ , ‘ explicit ’ to ‘ implicit ’ , ‘ elaborated code ’ to ‘ restricted code ’ , ‘ extensional structure ’ to ‘ in tensional structure ’ , and these types are taken to be related to differing kinds of social experience mediated or formed by a literate organization of reality , on the one hand , and an oral organization of reality , on the other . |
| 22 | ‘ did proceed across ( or along ) the carriageway ’ This point means that the pedestrian tried or succeeded in walking across the carriageway i.e. from footpath to footpath or along the carriageway in the same direction as the traffic flow . |
| 23 | If observation is broken down into seeing and hearing this would mean that the observer watched or listened to ( or both , of course ) a social scene which was completely natural and unaffected by his presence . |
| 24 | A great hush fell over the entire Wolfwood , as if , thought Snizort , every living creature knew or heard or sensed what had happened and was waiting to see what the Trees would do . |
| 25 | no my Lord that 's right , but , but , that does n't mean to say that if your Lordship did n't stayed there would be any , if your Lordship did or did n't stayed or any part of it does n't compute a validity of section fourteen until one 's got a judgment saying , it 's bad for example , I mean that 's what we 're arguing about until such and the |
| 26 | The petition must state : ( i ) the debtor 's name , address and occupation ( if any ) ; ( ii ) the name in which the debtor carried on business if other than his own name and if the business is carried on jointly with others ; ( iii ) the nature and address of the debtor 's business ; ( iv ) the name in which the debtor carried on business when the debt was incurred ; ( v ) the address at which the debtor resided or carried on business at or after that time and the nature of that business . |
| 27 | Few people in the West knew or cared very much if they did . |
| 28 | Misunderstandings about the nature of the recordings contributed to some confusion in the early 1960s about whether the eye movements of dreaming sleep did or did not actually follow the action of the dream . |
| 29 | Rachel cut the connection as though burnt , then sat there , staring at the phone , wondering why she felt such intense and inexplicable reactions to everything this man did or said . |
| 30 | It suggests that your vehicle was once petrol engined or has had the wrong springs fitted at some point . |