Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb pp] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a good deal of conduct disorder could be prevented or successfully treated in childhood , it would seem that such intervention should have considerable impact on the prevalence of personality disorder and sociopathic behaviour among adults . |
| 2 | If A is of simple form ( e.g. sparse ) this characteristic may be partly or wholly destroyed in forming A1 ; on the other hand , A1 has a column of zeros , and thus its own simplicity . |
| 3 | All marched , or rather advanced in small steps , zigzagging as if intoxicated … |
| 4 | Expensive miss ; costly save , because just 4 minutes later , Derby had hit or rather rolled in the winner ; soft goal it was . |
| 5 | The first is that even if we concluded that a representative democracy was the best that could be achieved under modern circumstances , the idea or principle of representation is far from being fully or effectively embodied in existing political arrangements . |
| 6 | Among these fish are a number of vital breeding projects , containing fish like Skiffia francesae that are extinct or extremely threatened in the wild . |
| 7 | Wild plants growing well where never before seen , and growing very well where only found in small clumps . |
| 8 | They took to the path with gusto , he finding the line somewhere between the nearside bank and the middle ridge , while the other more or less followed in the wake , content to orchestrate himself around the camera with his umbrella . |
| 9 | Overlap in a given situation is more or less tolerated in some societies than in others . |
| 10 | But it was one more fact to add to the picture of Ted Mosse , that ambiguous figure who was heavily disliked in one street , a doubtful ‘ poor old fellow ’ in another , and more or less mistrusted in all three . |
| 11 | Elsewhere the effect of wave activity may be particularly intensely experienced by one size fraction which is either totally removed or greatly increased in proportion . |
| 12 | If the file is small , the cylinder index may be partly or entirely held in main storage , as explained earlier in this chapter ( see p. 228 ) . |
| 13 | The total number of Egyptian fighting men in Saudi Arabia is put at about 27,000 , with another 5,000 or so based in the United Arab Emirates . |
| 14 | Yet Roxborough Tower was kept well by its owners , who once every month or so gathered in the single room which occupied the top floor of the building in the name of the man who had owned this plot of land two hundred years before , and who had left |
| 15 | Stained preparations may fade rapidly when first examined but usually stabilize after a day or so stored in the dark at 4-C . |
| 16 | As the last wave periscoped up , with only a minute or so left in the heat , Pottz knew he had to take it : he needed a fourth wave to beat Carroll . |
| 17 | They usually manage to survive a day or so buried in a snowdrift . |
| 18 | Second , a court might interpret the rule restrictively so that it only permitted the replication of common law rights and duties or only operated in the regulatory sphere . |
| 19 | A number of well-known and controversial incidents involving the security services — among them the Benjamin Greene affair , the Hess mission , and the Tyler Kent case — are either omitted altogether or merely mentioned in passing . |
| 20 | The undeniable fact is that all worshipped ‘ gods ’ have in the past been man-made , either imagined or physically made in the form of idols . |
| 21 | But ten minutes spent relaxing flat on the floor , or comfortably seated in a darkened room , can do wonders to replenish energies as well as looks . |
| 22 | It follows , then , that since there is no presumption that the benefits of co-operative R&D ventures will be large or easily realized in every case , the design of policy is likely to be critical ( see Baumol and Ordover , 1988 , for a broad overview of policies towards licensing , merger , and co-operative R&D ventures in high-tech sectors ) . |
| 23 | The upper garment clings almost as closely to the forms as the under , which is carved without folds while those of the upper are flat and straight , or just indicated in light diagonals across the naked-seeming legs . |
| 24 | An actor remembers the ‘ feel ’ of all the feelings he ever felt or ever sensed in others . |
| 25 | Now in their late teens and twenties , most are either cramming for college exams or still stuck in cramming mode . |
| 26 | That is understandable , given the desire of those agencies to ascertain that the 3 years or more spent in higher education lead to some definite outcome . |
| 27 | The numbers of γ T cells in the spleen , lymph nodes and gut epithelium are similar or slightly increased in young mutant mice as compared to wild-type littermates ( an example for the spleen is shown in Fig. 6 b ) . |
| 28 | O. affinis is similar to O. vicarius Lyman , 1869 , from the West Indies but differs in the shape of the apical papilla which is simple blunt or slightly pointed in O. affinis as opposed to heart shaped in O. vicarius , though the occasional occurrence of heart shaped apical papillae in O. affinis throws doubt on the validity of this character , the degree to which the disk is constricted interradially , which is very pronounced in most specimens of O. affinis but not noticeably so in O. vicarius ; and the number of arm spines , 7–8 in O. affinis but as many as 10–12 O. vicarius . |
| 29 | But it must always be remembered that it is an assumption that body temperature and performance are parallel ( or oppositely phased in the case of short-term memory ) , an assumption that has not been tested under all conditions , and so , at times , might be wrong . |
| 30 | Instruments in this category may be ( but equally may not be ) subject to a statutory requirement of laying before Parliament or publication or both contained in the statute conferring the power to make rules . |