Example sentences of "[noun pl] or [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A higher proportion of the CSW team 's notional ‘ elderly ’ time was devoted to work with people not yet clients , or ‘ not exactly ’ clients ( whether they were regarded as open cases or not seemed to be a matter of chance ) . |
| 2 | Now in their late teens and twenties , most are either cramming for college exams or still stuck in cramming mode . |
| 3 | ‘ This is one of the Australian birds ’ , noted Gould in his Handbook , ‘ which particularly attracted the notice of the earlier voyagers to that country , by nearly every one of whom it is mentioned as being very plentiful on all the islands in Bass 's Straits , and so tame that it might be easily knocked down with sticks or even captured by hand ; during my sojourn in the country I visited many of the localities above mentioned , and found that , so far from being still numerous , it is almost extirpated ; I killed a pair on Isabella Island , one of a small group near Flinder 's Island , on the 12th January 1839 . ’ |
| 4 | They will exchange opinions , becoming united in their views or strongly opposed to each other . |
| 5 | The results of a study carried out by Johns ( 1991 ) suggest that in this genre simple verbs without modals or closely linked prepositional phrases are regularly fronted while long and syntactically complex subjects are not . |
| 6 | Many were wearing their Sunday best , the ladies in hats or newly pressed headscarves , the gents in overcoats and polished shoes . |
| 7 | There might be three candidates or so left , bulling into clients . |
| 8 | Then she turned to speak to all the eagles there , for most were listening in silence to her except those , and there were some , who had been so long in the Cages or so affected by them that they showed interest in nothing but food , their spirit killed by imprisonment . |
| 9 | Appropriate amounts of partially purified DNA binding domain peptides or nuclear extracts were incubated on ice with 0.1ng of end-labelled DNA fragment probes or freshly made ‘ prime cut ’ probes in buffer giving final concentrations of 10mM Tris.HCl pH8.0 , 1mM EDTA , 100mM NaCl , 1µg polydI.polydC , 0.1% NP40 and 50µg/ml BSA . |
| 10 | Documents must not be handed to drivers or otherwise issued with blank spaces for recording particulars of tare weights or net weights . |
| 11 | Its function is basically to cover a woman 's hair and hide the shape of her breasts but it can be worn in a variety of ways , draped round the top half of her body and head , folded over her chest and hanging over her shoulders or loosely placed round her neck . |
| 12 | Test factors which are either positively related to both the other variables or negatively related to both of them are called enhancer variables . |
| 13 | Some idea of relative size and hierarchical organisation is important , although without earthworks or clearly defined areas of finds this is often difficult to assess . |
| 14 | The aristocracy had long chosen to immure its dead in church vaults or specially constructed mausoleums , and this practice reached its peak in the royal mausoleum at Frogmore , built by Victoria after the death of Albert . |
| 15 | Tracker balls , either production models or specially adapted versions , can be much easier to control than a mouse . |
| 16 | Poisoned by pollution , hunted for meat , drowned in fishing nets or simply bored to death in captivity , the toll is growing by the day . |
| 17 | While some policies contain few features that their opponents can interfere with — laying down , for example , a clear duty to provide a particular service or benefit — others , such as the DHSS commitment to the development of community care for the mentally ill , depend heavily upon the commitments of implementers , and are relatively easily diverted in other directions or even rendered ineffective . |
| 18 | Like the makhilas or elaborately worked sticks made of medlar , with a sharp goad concealed in the handle ; these look decorative enough but they were weapons before they became art forms and Basque men always carried them when they went to markets or cattle fairs and often fought with them . |
| 19 | Protection from the prevailing wind can often be provided by rock outcrops or carefully planted shrubs in the background . |
| 20 | Second , a court might interpret the rule restrictively so that it only permitted the replication of common law rights and duties or only operated in the regulatory sphere . |
| 21 | ‘ Nevertheless the fact remains that disciplinary action against officials who may have exceeded their duties or wilfully abused the position of responsibility with which they have been entrusted is a purely internal matter which will be carried out , should the situation warrant it , by the appropriate authorities at the appropriate time . |
| 22 | The assets of these schemes are held in trusts or separately administered funds . |
| 23 | Firstly , NHS funded care in trusts or directly managed units is identified by way of the contract minimum data set . |
| 24 | The hon. Lady has failed to understand that the ring-fenced money held by the regions is for the trusts or directly managed units . |
| 25 | Slipping was registered when there was a distinct gastric pouch above the narrowing caused by the folds of the wrap , and disruption implied no visible folds or only distorted , loose folds at the oesophagogastric junction . |
| 26 | The vertical column is filled with glass beads or randomly orientated short pieces of glass tubing . |
| 27 | Or the curious dentelle de cire or literally ‘ wax lace ’ : mourning candles resembling strings of pasta which could be wound tightly into packages or else extended and draped . |
| 28 | Many like them have raised money for local charities or simply made a genuine and lasting contribution to their communities . |
| 29 | Launched in 1957 , it claimed 25,000 supporters by 1958 and by 1960 pacifist members had sailed into the Pacific testing grounds , boarded nuclear submarines or missile bases or simply refused to take shelter during bomb drills . |
| 30 | However , recent spacecraft voyages have dissuaded astronomers from being too ready to categorize objects as satellites , asteroids , comets or even failed suns ; or to neatly itemize inter-planetary debris , with planets being bigger than moons , asteroids bigger than meteors , and so on . |