Example sentences of "or [vb -s] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poverty huddles in corners or squats by pitiful displays of chocolates long past their sellby date . |
| 2 | He was already a canon of Notre-Dame-de-Paris , and was to be given the first vacant prebend at Bordeaux or Bourges by papal provision . |
| 3 | Many had to borrow money , a need that had grown since last year 's replacement of social security single grants for urgent needs or repairs by social fund loans . |
| 4 | So anything that the landlo er the rich peasant owns and works himself or cultivates by hired labour you 're going to allow to keep . |
| 5 | It is presumed that the legislature does not intend to make any change in the existing law beyond that which is expressly stated in , or follows by necessary implication from , the language of the statute in question . |