Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only member of the squad who could ; the others hammered or pecked with two fingers , swore picturesquely , and reached for the erasing fluid . |
| 2 | Some trilobites lost their eyes , probably those that burrowed in mud or lived in lightless parts of the ocean . |
| 3 | For buildings which were not faced with marble or made of ashlar blocks , a marble stucco generally covered the brick and concrete walling . |
| 4 | Secondly , unlike the definition in ( 8 ) , it does not make the distinction between semantics and pragmatics along the encoded/unencoded line ; this is important because , as we shall see , there is still controversy over whether such pragmatic implications as presuppositions or illocutionary force are or are not encoded or grammaticalized in linguistic forms . |
| 5 | He is one of the few people I have ever met who has never been either inflated or deflated by personal possessions . |
| 6 | Some are intersected with elegant stripes or studded with radiant spots ; others affect to be genteelly powdered or neatly fringed . |
| 7 | The fund managers have said that any investors who have suffered because they bought or sold at incorrect prices will be compensated . |
| 8 | stood round in groups or knelt on half-bald knees |
| 9 | As Goffmann points out these signs have been neglected or disparaged as trivial items . |
| 10 | There is no evidence that pearls were sought or used as precious substances before the emergence of civilized states , and when pearls were adopted they were commonly used in jewellery together with precious stones . |
| 11 | Also , lifts that are open to all and sundry seem to be readily vandalised or used as public toilets . |
| 12 | From an intricate system of pipes , water flowed everywhere , in fountains and little artificial streams , irrigating a profusion of plants , set in the earth or clustered in countless pots , whose unaccustomed variety and colour dazzled the eye . |
| 13 | In the last fifty years there have been problems for the fishermen and most have become unemployed or moved to other jobs . |
| 14 | As reported in the newspaper El Diario of March 21 , 1989 , Samaniego had announced that former President Stroessner and his son , Col. Gustavo Stroessner , both of whom were in exile in Brazil , would be dismissed from the military and that those generals who had supported the previous regime " until the last minute " would be retired , dismissed or tried by military courts . |
| 15 | The vagaries of French history in the following decades meant that the principle of parliamentary control was ignored or rejected by successive regimes . |
| 16 | That great insight — lost or rejected throughout 2000 years of western history , save for its occasional stirring in the minds of rare individuals uncrippled by centuries of projected dogma — became the touchstone of eastern philosophy . |
| 17 | The most toxic residues from industrial society are rarely successfully neutralised or excreted by living organisms , and they tend to be increasingly concentrated in animal tissues as they are passed up the food chain . |
| 18 | Opponents lucky enough to escape Malawi to live in exile have sometimes been hunted down and assassinated or abducted by Malawian agents in Zambia or Zimbabwe . |
| 19 | Beyond that I believe we can not go , although there are occasionally tantalizing groups of poems on related themes , either brought together by the editor/printer or composed as deliberate variations on a theme , and perhaps copied out on a ‘ sheet ’ of paper , folio size , folded ( which we know was a unit of composition and occasionally payment in Elizabethan poetry and drama ) . |
| 20 | For the latter , at least three-quarters of the partners must be either registered under the Architects ( Registration ) Act 1931 or recognised as chartered engineers or chartered surveyors . |
| 21 | It says that , in that short space of time , 317 historic settlements had been affected , 241 heavily or lightly , while 76 had been destroyed or burned down ; 358 individual monuments registered or filed as cultural treasures , including 26 museums , seven archives and 13 library buildings , had been damaged . |
| 22 | The Auvergnat evidence , thus , shows us bishops in context , some managing to dominate their diocese , others at odds with their clergy , or hampered by secular figures , most clearly by the outsider Chramn . |
| 23 | His blood vessels dilated or contracted in different parts of his body . |
| 24 | Flowers can transform the appearance of drinks , desserts and salads when they are sprinkled with petals , or garnished with whole flowers . |
| 25 | Three other mills , of which little of interest remains ( either demolished or turned into private dwellings ) are Silver Mill , and on leaving Gloucestershire , Pepper Mill at Bromsberrow , and Clencher Mill . |
| 26 | Hospitals might be privatised or turned into voluntary hospitals , as the Conservatives had favoured before 1946 . |
| 27 | If you have had a licence refused or revoked for medical reasons your application may still be considered . |
| 28 | Many of her friends were in politics or belonged to political families , it was the era of the Liberal reforms and that was what fired her most : she went to dinner-parties where she sat next to men who were going to make a speech that night and there were weeks when she went to the House every day , it was what she had always wanted , it was history , it was important , immensely important and she was seeing it , seeing it happen and that was important to her . |
| 29 | These included soya products , dried haricot beans , baked beans , dried eggs which were very popular and tinned pressed meats of vague origins branded Spam , Prem and Tang somebody 's grinning there , do you remember those which could be eaten cold or cooked in various ways . |
| 30 | Thus , intertidal zones and estuaries in particular tend to be extremely rich , even though they are battered by waves or scarified by rapid waters , are sometimes dry and sometimes wet , and pose all kinds of chemical problems as the salinity may swing from fresh to super-saturated . |