Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 There are several other systems , regionally important , ethnically , culturally and/or theologically based but none has , as yet , had the pervasive success that capitalism has enjoyed in the twentieth century .
2 on which the windscreen wiper was not maintained in good and efficient working order , and/or properly adjusted .
3 ‘ on which the windscreen wiper was not maintained in good and efficient working order and/or properly adjusted ’ .
4 ‘ on which the windscreen wiper was not maintained in good and efficient working order and/or properly adjusted ’ .
5 Copernicus had shown that the apparent movements of the planets as observed from the earth can not be satisfactorily or coherently explained on the assumption that the earth itself lies immobile at the centre of the universe .
6 the proletarian party must first of all advocate the proclamation and immediate realization of the complete freedom of secession from Russia of all the nations and peoples who were oppressed by Tsarism , or who were forcibly joined to or forcibly kept within the boundaries of the State .
7 There was also a link through to Archie McIndoe , one of the finest plastic surgeons of his day , who was based at the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead , where badly burned pilots were sent for treatment .
8 On Ruth 's bed lay a brown-haired whimpering female child , also draped in a shawl and with dabs of make-up less hectically or successfully applied to its face .
9 Erm there have been erm , I should have written it down actually because I 've I 've just gone a complete blank , there was that erm that famous case in the States ah and there were two people who 'd erm I think the main impetus for the abuse of their child came from the came from the man came from the husband and there was a great deal of er debate as to why the woman had n't successfully protected the child or successfully done something about it er and I 've forgotten the names of the people and I 've forgotten when it was .
10 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 .
11 Toxic algae has previously been confined to lowland shallow lakes surrounded either by an increasing population or intensively farmed land .
12 Vines can be lifted high off the ground to avoid frost ; dropped as low as possible to benefit from heat reflected by stony ground at night ; generously spaced along the rows to attract the sun and avoid humidity ; or intensively cultivated into a canopy of foliage to avoid too much sun and encourage humidity in dry areas .
13 Medical expenses and repatriation costs to the UK ( where medically certified as necessary ) .
14 But it is not so easy for the new or little known candidates .
15 These results are similar to those of Heyderman et al , who found that 20 out of 22 primary pancreatic tumours focally or weakly stained for carcinoembryonic antigen .
16 We see action in one area not as self-contained or hermetically sealed , but as spilling over to affect and be affected by what goes on elsewhere under the same roof .
17 Copyright protects your work from being copied or commercially exploited by someone else without your consent .
18 Again , many solicitors are incompetent , and leave important matters to unsupervised articled clerks or inadequately trained legal executives .
19 It is important that adequate pre-discharge assessment takes place to ensure that patients do not go home to situations where they are unable to cope or inadequately supported .
20 In much sociology women as a social group are invisible or inadequately represented : they take the insubstantial form of ghosts , shadows or stereotyped characters .
21 Rainwater pipes and gutters missing or inadequately jointed
22 By the middle decades of the century the " old diplomacy " as it had evolved over the last three hundred years , with its easy-going and cosmopolitan atmosphere , its often short hours of work , its extensive use of unpaid or inadequately paid diplomats , its almost complete immunity from effective public scrutiny , was under increasing pressure .
23 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 .
24 The high rates of known opioid use in Wallasey Village and Bebington may be partly or wholly explained by microdiffusion processes .
25 Social relations typical of the integrated professional market persisted into this phase , but there was also a significant development of new social relations , for some kinds of writer , who were now effectively or wholly employed within the new corporate structures .
26 William and Andrew Smith invented an ingenious machine for printing tartan paper and from then on many of the products were partly or wholly covered with the paper , making them unique in the souvenir trade at that time .
27 Areas of crustal subsidence usually form topographic features with minimal local relief because they become partly or wholly filled by sediment transported from surrounding highlands ; examples include the Lake Eyre Basin in southern Australia , the Kalahari Basin in southern Africa and the Ob Basin in the USSR .
28 On the other hand , if two components are to relate in some way to provide a desired function , it must take place in an intersection zone ( which includes touching areas — zones of zero depth or wholly inserted spaces ) .
29 Yes , but there are quite a few partly or wholly centred around hotels .
30 The corporate power-brokers who dominated Los Angeles a decade ago when the Olympics were about to be staged — the oil moguls , the aerospace kings , the old movie-studio emperors — have now mostly left the scene : their firms broken up , in the hands of bureaucratic managers or wholly owned by foreigners .
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