Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one envied or imitated the family . |
| 2 | ‘ Would you rather I simply agreed or told the truth ? ’ he asked . |
| 3 | Confusion peaked with the arrival of the rescue teams but they led or carried the survivors to the relative peace of the sick-bay . |
| 4 | Into the uneasy silence , while brother looked most earnestly at brother , and wondered , and sought or evaded the eyes of his neighbours , Brother Cadfael said : ‘ Brother Abbot , I have thoughts to share that never visited me until this morning , but are become very relevant now . |
| 5 | But qualified privilege exempts the person who made or published the statement without malice in the course of their work to a person with a duty or interest to receive it . |
| 6 | What a coup for the bastards , if they kidnapped or murdered the wife of a Cabinet Minister . |
| 7 | And er when it come to a vote to try and get anything passed or changed the wee branches were solid voting for the national agreement . |
| 8 | Holme Marsh patchy , a draw below 30 prefered or blank a possibility . |
| 9 | They stripped these books down to their narrative skeletons , then scattered a string of incidents on to the screen without caring whether they moved or excited the audience . |
| 10 | They either furthered or retarded the aim of evolution , which was and always will be , the constant increase in the ability of the being at the head of the evolutionary chain , that is man , to enjoy the experience of life . |
| 11 | And all the rime you knew that you would never take the risk of getting shot which this involved or have the necessary patience to carry it out . |
| 12 | Mossad proposed that to conceal the plan they would send TOW missiles to Iran from their own stocks and America would ship them replenishments . |
| 13 | In addition to demonstrating the ease with which rats substitute one movement for another in reaching their goal he also demonstrated that cutting the nerve fibres that join the visual to the motor cortex does not interfere with associative learning , as Pavlov had predicted it would . |
| 14 | Just as the regime had decided , by 1859 , to make land available to serfs ( not merely to emancipate them ) , so now it grasped that strengthening the centre 's authority in the countryside ran counter to the policy of increasing the freedom of its subjects . |
| 15 | Statements in favour of the ‘ freedom of the press ’ and the ‘ freedom to publish ’ — from Milton 's Areopagitica of 1644 onwards — were , therefore , intended as replies to those who maintained that granting the press its freedom would pose threats to the stability of the state . |
| 16 | He let that rest a while , then , ‘ Where were you ? ’ |
| 17 | He also found that moulding the right shape was more important than pecking up loose stuff , and that they would mould in a bean bag as well as in straw . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , we soon found that producing a publication of the required length , and assembling a representative group of writers , was no easy task . |
| 19 | We found that using a Western model across cultures has potential . |
| 20 | In his study of Portuguese and English versions of Brazilian academic abstracts , Johns ( 1991 : 6 ) found that abandoning the thematic organization of the source language , in this case Portuguese , ‘ often gives a perfectly acceptable English text ’ . |
| 21 | He also found that sitting a person inside for a period each day helped the processes of healing . |
| 22 | Researchers in Sheffield analysed the contents of several popular brands and found that giving a baby the recommended dose of eight 5ml spoons a day is equivalent to an adult drinking five tots of whisky ! |
| 23 | Composers such as the late Luigi Nono , with the most exemplary of avant-garde pedigrees and a long-standing commitment to the Italian Communist Party , found that to package a political content in his music demanded more explicit dramatic support than contemporary thinking allowed . |
| 24 | ‘ And after that , ’ Woolley said , ‘ you will come back here and stop the German air force from examining the hole which their artillery has just blown in the British Line , a hole about the size of Lancashire , and that will be the biggest waste of time of all , because the German Army found that hole an hour ago , and is now galloping through it as fast as its little legs will carry it , heading in the direction of … ’ he snipped the final toe-nail and straightened his leg to study the fault' … us . ’ |
| 25 | I found that raising the volume helped to improve the realism but I would have like more presence and crisper definition . |
| 26 | And , by extending this line of argument , he found that surrounding the flame by a wire gauze had the same cooling effect . |
| 27 | WWF found that finding a cuddly plant equivalent of the panda was difficult , so instead it focused on the value of plants to mankind , particularly medicinal plants . |
| 28 | This is a device we used that created a vacuum over the mother 's abdomen for regular periods during the pregnancy . |
| 29 | The Times of June 8 reported that following the riots the government had granted Belgian nationality to 40,000 immigrants , most of whom came from north Africa , and had made it easier for those born in Belgium of foreign parents to gain citizenship . |
| 30 | We went to the museum with all aspects of the Great Western Railway and finally to the gift shop , the only one we visited that had the Bishop 's Castle Railway book on sale . |