Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a control , sections from all patient and control lungs were stained with ET-1 antiserum that had been immunoabsorbed with synthetic ET-1 overnight at 4°C , or incubated with normal goat serum instead of the primary antisera . |
| 2 | The return on money spent or lent in Eastern Europe can be expected to be better , politically and commercially , than those from similar outflows into the gurgling sink of Latin America and other parts of the South . |
| 3 | Er as far as out-sourcing is concerned , when we learned that there could be two thousand jobs lost or out-sourced from British Aerospace , it was my opinion in line with those of our representatives that we ought to convene a meeting immediately of all shop stewards and representatives who would be covered er through those discussions and arrange and organize a strategy to oppose it . |
| 4 | Rapeman 's brief British college tour was a shambles , every show either cancelled or picketed by irate student unions . |
| 5 | Some trilobites lost their eyes , probably those that burrowed in mud or lived in lightless parts of the ocean . |
| 6 | For buildings which were not faced with marble or made of ashlar blocks , a marble stucco generally covered the brick and concrete walling . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He is one of the few people I have ever met who has never been either inflated or deflated by personal possessions . |
| 9 | Some are intersected with elegant stripes or studded with radiant spots ; others affect to be genteelly powdered or neatly fringed . |
| 10 | The fund managers have said that any investors who have suffered because they bought or sold at incorrect prices will be compensated . |
| 11 | stood round in groups or knelt on half-bald knees |
| 12 | As Goffmann points out these signs have been neglected or disparaged as trivial items . |
| 13 | Except 176 , the other eight care remained in service until 1960–1 , when they were broken up or used as Illuminated feature cars . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Also , lifts that are open to all and sundry seem to be readily vandalised or used as public toilets . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In the last fifty years there have been problems for the fishermen and most have become unemployed or moved to other jobs . |
| 18 | Metal products and refined oil are exported or moved by coastal shipping . |
| 19 | It is usually women who have left work , or moved from full time to part time employment , to care for a sick or frail elderly relative . |
| 20 | A BTEC Business and Finance Course committee which included a well-briefed bank manager , company accountant or finance director would be able to devise assignments which reflected or drew upon genuine business examples . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The vagaries of French history in the following decades meant that the principle of parliamentary control was ignored or rejected by successive regimes . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | All agreements must be notified to the Director-General of Fair Trading , who will refer them to the Court unless they are voluntarily abandoned or judged of trivial significance . |
| 27 | For all these people the first Sunday of Lent marked the time when Bishop Brewer , in the name of the Church , called them to journey with the Church towards Easter when they will be baptised , or received into full communion with the Church . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Many fairly recent objects can be found at home , bought cheaply in second-hand shops or borrowed from local people . |