Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This heater may or may not be calibrated and/or pre-set to a useful fishkeeping temperature . |
| 2 | Departmental submissions developed in liaison with committee members and/or communicated to the committee by departmental representatives provided a picture of the " nitty-gritty needs " which the committee then processed into a coordinated final plan . |
| 3 | ( ‘ I.B.C. ’ ) , was not formed or registered under the Companies Acts . |
| 4 | L 24 , p. 1 ) , whereby only fishing vessels flying the flag of or registered in a member state may fish against the quotas allocated to that member state , which in other words are reserved to ‘ national ’ vessels to the exclusion of vessels from other members states . |
| 5 | For example , Gumperz identifies the following functions ( 1982 : 75 – 84 ) : quotations ( using a different code to mark a stretch of quoted speech ) , addressee specification ( choosing a code to pick out one 's intended addressee ) , interjections ( " sentence fillers " offset from the the main content of the sentence by a code switch ) , reiteration ( the message content is emphasised by repeating it in the other code ) , message qualification ( the main content of the message is " qualified " or adjusted by a clause in the other code ) , personalisation versus objectivisation . |
| 6 | The authority conferred by the resolution may be general for that purpose or limited to the purchase of shares of any particular class or description , and may be unconditional or subject to conditions ( s166(2) ) . |
| 7 | Although I recognise that for obvious reasons the Secretary of State will not want to be locked or painted into a figure of 512 as the maximum , which is what it would be , will he tell the House whether , in the light of last week 's discussions with President Yeltsin and the changes that have taken place since Christmas , the Government are now considering the minimum deterrent to be somewhat lower than they had previously considered it necessary to be ? |
| 8 | Week two , an analysis written , hand or drawn or painted of an example of pre-Raphaelite work . |
| 9 | No political action may be undertaken or justified on the ground that it promotes an ideal of the good nor on the ground that it enables individuals to pursue an ideal of the good . |
| 10 | All day and all night he would be there loitering in the streets of Chichester , either surrounded by hoards of admiring people or dismissed as a dirty scavenging wretch , ruining the ornate Georgian Streets . |
| 11 | Walker ( 1981 ) , for example , has shown how psychology regards the male as ‘ norm ’ ; any results which show that women behave differently tend to be either ignored or dismissed as an anomaly . |
| 12 | The training committee continued to advise the training officer , but all real initiatives were overturned or dismissed by the management committee . |
| 13 | WHAT a ridiculous idea for parents to be fined or punished for the bad behaviour of their children . |
| 14 | Finally , whatever the future of state schools ' funding , whether it be grant maintained or devolved under the local management of schools , all schools must be fairly and adequately resourced . |
| 15 | Remember that once a design is either drawn on screen or recalled from the disk into the working memory , it will remain in the working memory as long as the controller remains switched on , or until you erase it from the screen with the ERASE DRAWING option from within the FUNCTION menu in the menu bar at the top of the design screen . |
| 16 | But like many articulate and intelligent people , even those trained to search out the hidden structures of literature , even those who have been moved by great art or fascinated by the most remote biographical details from the lives of writers ( such as the information that Ibsen on occasion wrote with a scorpion in a jar on his desk ) , he nonetheless had little or no access to the springs of his own emotions . |
| 17 | It can be sold mild when young , or matured to a greater depth of flavour . |
| 18 | This general conclusion applies whether the sites had Iron-Age antecedents or developed during the course of the Roman occupation . |
| 19 | Individuals can only exceptionally bring claims against States in the international arena through mechanisms granted by treaty , or developed through the practice of international organisations . |
| 20 | The Empire army includes many devices invented or developed by the Imperial Engineers , including such strange machines as the Steam Tank and Helblaster volley gun . |
| 21 | To the fields brought in by IPC had been added others , discovered or developed by the national oil company INOC , under new-style arrangements , notably the Brazilian discovery Majnun , prominent in the fighting near Basrah in the 1980s . |
| 22 | This is because , at appropriately applied voltages , many organic compounds are reduced or oxidised at the electrode surface , thus producing a current . |
| 23 | Odd pieces of broken and split machinery were strewn about or propped against the walls . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Constraints are imposed or recognized during the course of the design . |
| 26 | Presently consuming or consumed in the previous 12 months . |
| 27 | In personal injury cases that element of damage which is common to all , physical injury , can not as such be eliminated or ameliorated by an award of money . |
| 28 | Each small request is invariably met , each question carefully considered , points either debated with an academic botanist or explained to an amateur gardener with patient thoroughness . |
| 29 | Professional ( demographic , sociological , statistical and some medical ) terms or terms that are used in everyday conversation but having specific meaning in the context of the report as well as some abbreviations are concisely defined or explained in the Glossary . |
| 30 | And it is itself always also paradoxical , for it discloses what can not be scaled down to be contained , proved , measured , demonstrated or explained within the framework of finite human reasoning . |