Example sentences of "or [vb pp] at [art] " in BNC.
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1 | This is because , at appropriately applied voltages , many organic compounds are reduced or oxidised at the electrode surface , thus producing a current . |
2 | But Llewellyn denied his players had grabbed testicles or spat at the world champions . |
3 | Even the research listed by the ‘ independent ’ Police Foundation or undertaken at the University Centres for Criminological Research ( and largely dependent on government grants and funding by such bodies as the Economic and Social Research Council ) often comes up against the anti — intellectual bias which permeates all levels in police thinking ( Lewis 1976 ) . |
4 | The tentacle scales may be distinct from the oral papillae being either separated by a gap or placed at a higher level as viewed from the ventral side as in the genera Ophiotoma and Ophioblenn . |
5 | Trent could n't see whether the track ran on to the quarry or stopped at the cabin . |
6 | Brian , a cabbie for 25 years , could now face having his licence suspended or withdrawn at a tribunal . |
7 | The ‘ Effective Intervention ’ document says : ’ Parents should be informed or consulted at every stage of an investigation . |
8 | There was nothing in the cast of her features to suggest that she had been alarmed or frightened at the moment of her death . |
9 | In patients with oesophagitis Grade 0 , I , and II , this mucosal junction is very close or located at the proximal limit of the lower oesophageal sphincter . |
10 | The Hungarian Foreign Minister , Mr Gyula Horn , broke his country 's silence on the crisis to say that several hundred people had been killed or wounded at the weekend . |
11 | Lives have been ruined because people have read the wrong books or looked at the wrong pictures . |
12 | When you have finished with the artwork , it can be stored in a stiff envelope or a file , along with the component layout diagram , so that it can be modified or re-used at a later date . |
13 | Then , where δ is the fraction so that the Goldbach–Rehage formula above becomes or This can be written in terms of , the relaxation time at the glass temperature , since where is a shift factor and Hence or , if the material is being heated or cooled at a rate we have where is the decrement of the expansion coefficient of the glass and , as before . |
14 | Every actual utterance is spatiotemporally unique , being spoken or written at a particular place and at a particular time ; and provided that there is some standard system for identifying points in space and time , we can , in principle , specify the actual spatiotemporal situation of any utterance act . |
15 | Yes , but you 'd been to the flat at about ten thirty in the evening before was there anything you heard or seen at the flat to indicate it might be a hostage situation ? |
16 | If a message can be compressed one hundred times , it can be transmitted in one hundredth of the time , or transmitted at the same speed through a channel with one hundredth of the band width , and it can be stored in one hundredth of the volume of the original . |
17 | The court may give him help , certainly ; for instance by discovery of documents inter partes … ; by allowing evidence to be obtained or presented at the trial in various ways … ; and by the issue of subpoenas … |
18 | If the package is to contain modules which already exist , then each one must be referenced as LATEST , PREFERRED or SELECTED at a specified issue , resulting in ‘ MODULE-RELATIONS-ARE ’ references of the form : |
19 | That is why it is possible for a Christian in particular to feel at one and the same time joyful because the person who has died has entered eternal life , and overwhelmingly sad , or guilty , or relieved at the thought that they have died and the survivor is left with vast changes to absorb into their life pattern . |
20 | Well , they had hardly brought her up a tea-tray ( with the most delicious things to eat ) when she was told that there was someone downstairs to see her : it turned out that most of the young men , her one-time tutors , were dons now or curators or secretaries to cabinet ministers and apparently asking for nothing better than to take her about , and there were Anna 's English friends , all those people who had dined or wintered at the palazzo . |
21 | All the way across not one stone moved or even trembled as she jumped on to it or swayed on top of it or clutched at the sides of it ! |
22 | Only the marked files will then be printed or copied at the prompt . |
23 | This information can then be used to test experimental reconstructions of furnaces found in excavations in order to establish whether or not the metal could have been smelted in a particular type of furnace , or forged at a particular type of hearth . |
24 | The use of a picture taken inside the Ministry of Sound club in our article on the drugs Ecstasy and Ketamine ( April 3 ) was intended merely to show young people in a club and was not intended to suggest that drugs are permitted or used at the Ministry of Sound . |
25 | You could even press the flowers that were worn or used at the event and then use them as the decoration . |
26 | The cost of his travels and his books ( many of which were distributed free or sold at a subsidized price ) was heavy . |
27 | The second principle used in tone-unit boundary identification is a rhythmical one : it is claimed that within the tone-unit , speech has a regular rhythm , but that rhythm is broken or interrupted at the tone-unit boundary . |
28 | Depending on the target species , the net is set at the bottom and anchored , or set at the surface and left to drift with the wind and current . |
29 | It makes no difference whether the current is distributed within a radius a or concentrated at the axis ( only the enclosed current counts ) . |
30 | Where a driver says ‘ I was blinded by the sun ’ or ‘ There was a patch of fog ’ or ‘ The road was covered with black ice ’ , he should have stopped , reduced his speed or driven at a speed which was safe . |