Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If the assurances were not given or subsequently broken , the firm could be taken to court . |
| 32 | The first experiments assess how subjects ’ recognition of photographs of familiar faces is affected if these are disguised or otherwise altered in various ways , and clarify which features of faces are important for their recognition . |
| 33 | Provided there is no physically damaging effect , it would seem that what is seen , said , done , heard or physically felt by the mother has no effect whatever , but that emotional factors during pregnancy can have good or bad effect . |
| 34 | Some degeneration can be treated or even reversed and doctors and researchers in our hospitals have made great strides forward . |
| 35 | In practice , prayer in common , above all within a non-Catholic church , theological dialogue and practical co-operation were all either forbidden or highly restricted until the Council . |
| 36 | Was pocket money earned or just given ? |
| 37 | Business therefore expanded at a great rate and labour was not as well organised or well informed as it is today . |
| 38 | It similarly defines " seller or supplier " as " any natural or legal person who , in contracts covered by this Directive , is acting for purposes relating to his trade , business or profession , whether publicly owned or privately owned " . |
| 39 | The government also announced that it would be selling shares in enterprises owned or partly owned by the state and would be asking others to sign performance contracts . |
| 40 | That alone makes the patterns in social relations more complicated , but in addition we must analyse processes of change to judge how far the character of these structures is being modified or even transformed . |
| 41 | The home was the quintessential bourgeois world , for in it , and only in it , could the problems and contradictions of his society be forgotten or artificially eliminated . |
| 42 | A bricoleur was a handyman who , by using bits of machinery or equipment , the original purpose of which had been forgotten or never known , was able to solve immediate mechanical problems . |
| 43 | The decision came after a year-long test to ensure that packaging made from pulp mould was strong enough to protect cameras should they be dropped or roughly handled during transport . |
| 44 | There is an important stage at which the person-centred world is superseded or rather supplemented by the world of which the person is one part . |
| 45 | It must NOT be deleted or otherwise removed by the Hard Copy Manager . |
| 46 | Text to be moved , copied , deleted or otherwise reformatted must usually be selected ( or highlighted ) using the cursor . |
| 47 | Jeffrey had apparently either been rescued or cruelly done to death . |
| 48 | The dominant culture may well be one that has been fostered or actively imposed by the Organisation in the person of its managers . |
| 49 | In response to the recent devastation caused by gales and to a lesser degree late spring frosts , there is an ever-increasing galaxy of trees and shrubs waiting to take the place of those uprooted or severely damaged . |
| 50 | Several countries , especially in eastern Europe , reported further increases in forest damage during 1989 but in others the rate of defoliation appeared to have stabilized or actually decreased . |
| 51 | These are the professional women , the graduates , the well educated or highly trained who can command full-time salaries . |
| 52 | Problems are individualized or even suppressed rather than openly explored with all the possible difficulties that this entails . |
| 53 | If anyone thinks my language exaggerated or highly coloured — and such there might well be , considering that no one here under pensionable age can have any recollection of a world without rent restriction or subsidised rents — let him recall another upas tree which we only managed to cut down in the nick of time ten years ago . |
| 54 | Not to be trusted or even understood but to be treated with caution and sometimes indulged . |
| 55 | The second is to ensure that as many products as possible can be re-used or easily repaired instead of being thrown away after just ‘ one trip ’ . |
| 56 | He may find the home which he has regarded as his Englishman 's castle invaded , occupied or even demolished about his ears . |
| 57 | They are condemned as signs of unclear or lazy thinking — and , indeed , when they are overused or inappropriately used ( as in a wall of political hedging erected by a defensive politician ) — they are widely and justifiably attacked . |
| 58 | If , as seems likely , the trend continues for the curricular domination of individual subjects to be supplemented or indeed replaced by a more fluid organization of learning in terms of either modular units or work-related competencies , this is also likely to strengthen the support for records of achievement with or without a component of external examination . |
| 59 | The camera can be preset or remotely controlled to cover the subject or area to be photographed , and provision made for a sequence of pictures or a single exposure , according to the camera type and its shutter release . |
| 60 | Some bodies would be downgraded or even abolished , and personnel levels would be cut , from 3,500 to 2,500 . |