Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tonight some of those workers … retired or still employed … may be worried about their future health . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Establishing the conditions under which plural reference is possible or even preferred has received relatively little attention until recently . |
| 4 | That is , as a piece of adaptive behaviour , whether wholly instinctual or partly learned , it may very well now follow as a causal consequence of the sighting ; but that precisely this sort of dance should have come to serve this purpose is , in a phylogenetic perspective , quite accidental . |
| 5 | Deep feelings are aroused by such activities in those who care , even though these are sometimes personally repressed or professionally suppressed . |
| 6 | Hulme , are either garbled or entirely passed over . |
| 7 | Early reports showed reduced concentrations of IgM , but later studies showed normal or even raised immunoglobulin concentrations . |
| 8 | These issues have been termed ‘ politicization ’ , contrary to the founding state 's intentions that the UN agencies should restrict their activities to closely defined and well managed scientific , and technical or so called ‘ functional tasks ’ . |
| 9 | A case in point is those forms of nationalism committed to policing not only actual geographic borders and literal or legally defined aliens , but symbolic and ideological boundaries ( both internal and external ) between the normal and the abnormal , the healthy and sick , the conforming and the deviant . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Workers who were too low or irregularly paid to be accepted by Friendly Societies and did not join a trade union , might contribute through the Post Office . |
| 12 | Their leader Lord Lovat thought their safe return was due to ‘ the opposition being half-hearted or badly trained ’ and not to any skill on the raiders ' part . |
| 13 | The fraction less than 2 µm , which varied between 3.0–4.9% by weight of the bulk sample , gave illite as the dominant clay with 70–85% in well crystallised form , kaolinite 10–25% either very poorly or well crystallised , and mixed layer 5% with illite and chlorite poorly represented . |
| 14 | Abnormalities that may occur in poorly or newly diagnosed diabetes are shown in Table 4.2 ; these include increased VLDL and LDL levels in all types of diabetes as already mentioned , but with good diabetic control both these abnormalities may completely resolve ( Nikkila & Hormila , 1978 ; Lisch & Sailer , 1981 ) . |
| 15 | In a study of metal development such as this it is essential to examine datable or chronologically ordered artefacts . |
| 16 | Among these fish are a number of vital breeding projects , containing fish like Skiffia francesae that are extinct or extremely threatened in the wild . |
| 17 | Osorio was finished at last , and on 16 October , a few days before his twenty-fifth birthday , he sent a copy of the play , ‘ complete & neatly transcribed ’ , to William Lisle Bowles in Wiltshire . |
| 18 | Four thousand years ago a funeral pyre like this one was built for a woman who was either heavily pregnant or recently delivered of a child . |
| 19 | Sometimes the album format can be tiresome but in this case the paperback book has been ideally balanced with previously unpublished or rarely seen pictures and an excellent array of maps and other illustrations . |
| 20 | They did this by developing game crops , game spinneys , small woods , and unsprayed or carefully sprayed headlands . |
| 21 | Although it can not be entirely free of period distortions , it shows more modest fluctuations in fertility than the TFR and in particular gives an estimate of fertility of over 2 children for most of the time since 1972 , not the 1.8 or so given by the IFR . |
| 22 | Most pineapples sold in Britain have come by sea , which means we are sometimes at risk from being offered unripe or partly ripened specimens . |
| 23 | That 's what it basically is , and whenever it gets too slick or too planned , we stop , in complete mid-stream if necessary , and just go back to being more primitive . |
| 24 | Film advertising ideas are usually presented to clients in the form of a storyboard — eight or more drawn pictures pasted down on a board with the written commentary set out beneath . |
| 25 | Rothschild and his successors tried to take a fresh look at issues too remote , politically inconvenient or otherwise ignored , and come up with clear , concise proposals for action , if possible on a single sheet of paper . |
| 26 | This is so notwithstanding the fact that the doctor may regard the patient 's decision as wrong or ill advised . |
| 27 | Erm for another reasons , which we shall get on to a bit later , there may be a great deal of confusion , er memories may not be clear or well formed , um people , according to some theories and ideas , people may be under-reporting because um y'know it helps them maintain their eq equilibrium a bit better . |
| 28 | The destructiveness is , so to speak , specialized or selectively directed , and a net ‘ product ’ is obtained ’ |
| 29 | Most of the major American universities ( whether public or privately endowed ) have grown in the post-war period due to large defence related expenditure . |
| 30 | Whether recovery sleep after two nights loss of sleep was restricted by excluding Stage 4 sleep or most of REM sleep seemed to make no difference — subjects returned to pre-sleep-loss levels of performance regardless of whether recovery sleep was uninterrupted or selectively deprived . |