Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly children have been spaced or limited when required by a variety of means ( e.g. abstinence after the birth of a child , or delaying the age for cohabitation ) . |
| 2 | Wood needs to be stained or painted but with new microporous paints and preservatives , the finish will last much longer . |
| 3 | You might say " I am no artist " , or " I ca n't draw a straight line " , or " I have n't drawn or painted since I left school . " . |
| 4 | Alcoves like this can also be treated like separate small rooms and lined with mirror ; or with the curtain or shade fabric ; or painted or papered in a colour from the room scheme which is at the same time different from the main walls . |
| 5 | The walls were bare and whitewashed ; they might be distempered or painted and a few bright prints could be added and hung high enough to be out of the patients reach . |
| 6 | Old dressers and chests of drawers , if you can still find them , can be stripped and polished or painted and decorated . |
| 7 | If you can not have any natural material for some reason , keep your bare boards , scraped , sanded and sealed , or painted if the boards are in bad condition or have vinyl or composition tiles . |
| 8 | Although he was a fully qualified pilot , he never to my knowledge ( certainly not whilst he was with No 7 Squadron ) was ever captain of an aircraft ; he had been second pilot , or flown as mid- upper , or rear gunner or had taken some other crew function , but at the same time he would be researching and demonstrating some aspect of a project that he was currently engaged with at the Institute . |
| 9 | Is the water in your paddock stale or contaminated and therefore not attractive to her ? |
| 10 | The purpose of this study is to determine whether accounting practices need to be adjusted or developed if they are to be of use to firms operating in the highly changeful high technology sectors . |
| 11 | Thus , any demonstrated effects upon surpluses may be exacerbated or ameliorated as the industry progresses , and so welfare losses which occur over time may cancel out immediate gains or vice versa . |
| 12 | ‘ I have never seen or heard since my knowledge of things , ’ wrote a British admiral in 1745 , ‘ that one of our ships alone , singly opposed to one of the enemy 's of equal force , has taken her , and I have been in almost every action and skirmish since the year 1718 , and yet we are daily boasting of the prowess of our Fleet . ’ |
| 13 | Third , the worrying suspicion that amongst the evidence already accumulated , the statements taken , the people interviewed , the personal relationships observed , the obiter dicta , the geography of North Oxford — that amongst all these things somewhere there was a fact that he had seen or heard but never fully recognised or understood . |
| 14 | But the majority of policemen and women we encountered were not like this and did not engage in little acts of subterfuge to limit what the field-worker saw or heard because either they had nothing to hide or , more rarely , they were not concerned to conceal it . |
| 15 | I 've always treated everything I 've seen or heard as absolutely confidential . |
| 16 | Equally , a doctor need not respect a parent 's or legal guardian 's demand that treatment be continued or altered if in his view it is pointless , and the treatment would be categorized as ethically not indicated . |
| 17 | Values are maintained or altered because education is one of society 's mechanisms of socialisation . |
| 18 | ( 2 ) The High Court , or a judge thereof , or a county court , may , on the application by summons of any judgment creditor of a partner , make an order charging that partner 's interest in the partnership property and profits with payment of the amount of the judgment debt and interest thereon , and may by the same or a subsequent order appoint a receiver of that partner 's share of profits ( whether already declared or accruing ) , and of any other money which may be coming to him in respect of the partnership , and direct all accounts and inquiries , and give all other orders and directions which might have been directed or given if the charge had been made in favour of the judgment creditor by the partner , or which the circumstances of the case may require . |
| 19 | It must also be satisfied that the adopter has not received nor agreed to receive , and that no person has made or given or agreed to make or give to the adopter , any payment in consideration of the adoption , except such as the court may sanction . |
| 20 | The condition is treated with sulphonamides or tetracyclines and the inguinal bubo may be aspirated or drained before it bursts . |
| 21 | Outdoor lighting should not cause any glare and even low-power lights should be fitted with diffusers or placed so they bounce their light off trees , shrubs or walls . |
| 22 | When the scales are lifted or broken because of damage , hair looks porous and dull . |
| 23 | S 357(3) ( b ) , ICTA 1988 makes the position quite clear : ‘ Where interest is payable on more than one loan or treated as made to the borrower and the loans were made simultaneously , it should be treated as payable on one loan . ’ |
| 24 | Even the work published in English by people like Norman , Halliday , Moore or Steven is often ignored or treated as misguided . |
| 25 | Their brief will be to design everyday objects of the kind normally overlooked or treated as necessary evils : plastic bags , scouring pads , floor cloths , lavatory brushes , and so on . |
| 26 | Increasingly , research evidence shows that , in mixed-sex schools , girls are consistently subjected to harassment , sometimes sexual , by boys , and that this harassment is either ignored or treated as harmless . |
| 27 | Broadly , the parties can choose what liabilities are to be taken over or treated as taken over , although liabilities to employees and liabilities attaching to specific assets pass automatically . |
| 28 | They are also the end-product of a prolonged exercise where a variety of root definitions and conceptual models were developed , then discarded or amended as the analysis progressed . |
| 29 | But then , unexpectedly , he finds that his fault has been overlooked or forgiven and at once the world reappears in brilliant colours , full of delightful prospects . |
| 30 | Such ventures , however , left out those who were most disturbed or withdrawn and hence who found it most difficult to work ; these were left to idle their time away on the wards , and it was always a struggle to find sufficient financial investment in equipment and raw materials to establish and maintain occupational ventures . |