Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] or [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , if the buildings can not be used for such purposes ‘ other uses are preferable to allowing the buildings to remain empty or grossly under-occupied ’ . |
| 2 | The vast bulk of these acts involved insecure or improperly adjusted fencing of dangerous machinery , inadequate precautions against fire and explosion , as well as failure to inspect equipment and maintain healthy work conditions . |
| 3 | Labour support tended to be concentrated in already safe seats while the Tories swung many of the southern marginals , as many of the managerial , professional and small business strata registered Tory votes where they had previously voted Liberal or not voted at all ( Bonham , 1954 ) . |
| 4 | They are playing on the fact that most of us do not like to appear ignorant or ill informed . |
| 5 | Regular reports required by individual locations are obtained by using standard or specially written programs produced by the team . |
| 6 | The most obvious exploitation of biomass is the manufacture of alcohol by fermenting surplus or specially grown crops — e.g. sugar , corn , bananas ( see Latin America and Synthetics sections ) . |
| 7 | If capital transfer to other countries was also made illegal or tightly controlled , this would also help to prevent corporations evading the law by exporting those behaviours which would be illegal in one country to another where they are not . |
| 8 | Most pineapples sold in Britain have come by sea , which means we are sometimes at risk from being offered unripe or partly ripened specimens . |
| 9 | Early reports showed reduced concentrations of IgM , but later studies showed normal or even raised immunoglobulin concentrations . |
| 10 | As a result , the initating member has been asked to contact the participating member to elicit general or specifically defined acquisition advisery assistance , which could take the form of : |
| 11 | are registered blind or partially sighted |
| 12 | The woodlands everywhere would have provided game , animals for meat and other resources like bone and leather , fruit , berries , nuts , fungi , and so on , while the uplands may have provided natural or artificially created grazing for horses , deer , wild cattle , wild pigs , and a host of smaller animals . |
| 13 | Those who place orders will not normally accept any great degree of risk that the supplier will go out of business before the order is delivered , nor will they place large orders with firms whose working capital and liquidity appears unsound or badly managed ; * the placing of Conditions on Potential orders such that suppliers : must conform to specified quality control Procedures such as those specified by the UK quality standard BS 5750 . |
| 14 | A further example is contained in an edition of the Evening Standard in 1976 where a news item reported ‘ at least 20 people were killed and many more feared dead or severely injured ’ in a train crash in Holland . |
| 15 | The conflict was discussed at a meeting in Osh city on June 11 between Dzhumagulov and his Uzbek counterpart Shakurulla Mirsaidov , the latter denouncing calls during the conflict by Uzbek nationalists for the areas of Kirghizia with a majority Uzbek population to be declared autonomous or even ceded to Uzbekistan . |
| 16 | In Britain it would appear that the percentage of those aged 65 + defined as living in some form of institution has remained constant or perhaps decreased slightly . |
| 17 | You may have to remain with an unsatisfactory state of affairs through most of 1993 , which means that any planned moves will prove heavy-going or much resented . |
| 18 | Under the reforms the FDA will continue to use its own inspectors to review innovative or badly needed drugs , but will use outside contractors ( from the pharmaceutical industry ) to review more routine products such as antibiotics . |
| 19 | She thought she 'd only get commended or highly commended . |
| 20 | Certainly most small organizations can not afford elaborate or rigidly devised appraisal schemes . |
| 21 | Did he get beatified or secretly strangled ? |
| 22 | In a study of metal development such as this it is essential to examine datable or chronologically ordered artefacts . |
| 23 | The narrowing is caused by a fatty deposit called atheroma and if it gets too thick and the coronary arteries too narrow , the blood supply to the heart becomes restricted or even blocked . |
| 24 | Everywhere there were reminders of Buddhism : on almost every hill there would be a small pagoda , its graceful , tapering spire coloured white or occasionally gilded with gold leaf ; in every village there would be a monastery , usually with several monks , though sometimes with a single bhikkhu living more as a hermit . |
| 25 | Since then it had been showing a worrying tendency , when Rincewind was feeling rundown or especially threatened , to try to get itself said . |