Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Conditioners will be necessary if the hair is extremely dry or damaged . |
| 32 | Soviet influence , moreover , was overwhelmingly concentrated among the poorest and least important countries in terms of population and GNP , whose support was often more of a liability than an asset ; the world 's major military and industrial powers , by contrast , were all allied or aligned with the United States . |
| 33 | We have kept records of their planting dates , source of supply whether grafted or raised from seed and as many other relevant factors as could be noted . |
| 34 | I can assure you that there is nothing sub-standard or left out of a home built machine . |
| 35 | Some argue that these effects may be weak or delayed because domestic activity is so weak . |
| 36 | Some people find this kind of face-to-face honesty difficult to cope with , especially if the individual feels in any way weak or threatened within the family group . |
| 37 | The birds hatched in an incubator can then be hand-reared or given back to their parents , who will rear any number of chicks as long as they have enough food . |
| 38 | Commercial and industrial property is usually subject to longer agreements , while by the time domestic rates were abolished most domestic property was either owner-occupied or rented from a local authority or other public agency . |
| 39 | It can be bought undyed , bleached or dyed in a variety of colours . |
| 40 | For practitioners , the most important issue is to seek to understand the norms of behaviour within different groups and the extent to which these are challenged , modified or overturned by families living in contemporary Britain , whose social and economic circumstances are vastly different from those which pertained in their land of origin . |
| 41 | The earliest evidence of stone tools — modified or used by hominids — does not appear in the archaeological record until 2 million years ago . |
| 42 | In the Companies Act 1981 an option was given for certain smaller companies ( provided they are not public companies ) to produce modified or shortened accounts for filing with the Registrar of Companies . |
| 43 | This definition may be confirmed , modified or changed depending on his or her perception of the interaction which takes place in the classroom . |
| 44 | What kid , home-grown or imported from a neighbouring household , could resist pulling a handle and watching all that water gushing out ? |
| 45 | Do n't let it get torn or worn . |
| 46 | The grey wolf is extinct or endangered in most other US states , but Alaska has a population of about 6,000 . |
| 47 | But , until such establishments successfully reestablish wild populations which have become extinct or depleted in their natural homes , that claim is not entirely true . |
| 48 | If SSP was due or paid before 6th April 1991 but you have not recovered it , you can still recover 100% of the SSP paid . |
| 49 | But if SSP was due or paid before 6th April you can still recover the NIC compensation . |
| 50 | A window is a screen display stored in the computer which can be created , recalled , modified , scaled , repositioned and combined or overlapped with other windows by user messages . |
| 51 | Frequently the tower had to be left unfinished or left on the drawing-board , awaiting more funds . |
| 52 | At the launch at Darlington Arts Centre , Miss Armstrong said women should not be ‘ side-lined , marginalised or treated as second class citizens . ’ |
| 53 | In many Hemiptera the wings are held together in flight by various small hooks or folds along the wing.margins ( Weber , 1930 ) while in the Psocoptera the costa of the hind wing is held by a spiny or hooked process of the node where the second cubital vein of the fore wing reaches the margin . |
| 54 | Cells and embryos can be viewed alive or fixed immediately after staining . |
| 55 | The miners who had escaped , knew immediately that John had been left behind but did not know whether he had been entombed alive or buried under the rock . |
| 56 | the availability of opportunities to study at a broad range of levels , of course lengths and of modes ( part-time , full-time or mixed ) ; |
| 57 | Shy where persecuted ; elsewhere comes out into open , often flirting tail , and climbs reed stems ; flight as Moorhen . |
| 58 | In truth , the Beirut front line could not be repaired , restructured , rebuilt or re-roofed because it had become necessary to the Lebanese . |
| 59 | Since we have no preconceived ideas about research fields , the programme is not coherent or balanced in terms of disciplines and there are very few areas where interests overlap , as was intended . |
| 60 | Wallace ( 1889 ) agreed that combat between males was an important source of selection pressures leading to sexual dimorphism but regarded this as a form of natural selection on the grounds that it increased ‘ the vigour and fighting power of the male animal , since , in every case , the weaker are either killed , wounded or driven away ’ . |