Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Copyright protects your work from being copied or commercially exploited by someone else without your consent . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The high rates of known opioid use in Wallasey Village and Bebington may be partly or wholly explained by microdiffusion processes . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Yes , but there are quite a few partly or wholly centred around hotels . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The patron of the third kind , offering social reputation and protection , often worked within conditions where the work was being partly or wholly offered to a paying public ; the Elizabethan public theatres were in that sense fully commercial institutions . |
| 16 | It has already been made clear that the definition of a ‘ professional ’ degree course being adopted here is an operational rather than conceptual one : it is a course which has a consistent and fairly exclusive relationship with a particular occupation , exclusive in that graduates from such courses tend not to go into other occupations , and in that entry to that occupation is largely or wholly restricted to graduates from such courses . |
| 17 | Position your partner on his or her front , head to one side , arms relaxed at the sides or loosely bent with the hands at shoulder level . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He could see that the singer was n't especially old or badly dressed under the coat . |
| 20 | THE number of people killed or badly injured on England 's roads in 1991 has fallen by almost a third to 47,404 since the early 1980s . |
| 21 | 8.2 No failure , delay or indulgence on the part of either party to the other in exercising any power or right conferred upon that party in this Agreement shall operate as a waiver of such power or right . |
| 22 | All marched , or rather advanced in small steps , zigzagging as if intoxicated … |
| 23 | Expensive miss ; costly save , because just 4 minutes later , Derby had hit or rather rolled in the winner ; soft goal it was . |
| 24 | There is an important stage at which the person-centred world is superseded or rather supplemented by the world of which the person is one part . |
| 25 | The agitation section of the town 's Communist Party committee decided , or rather passed on a directive probably originating in Moscow , that the Paris Commune of 1871 should be celebrated on 18 March . |
| 26 | The ORTF had become too big to be effectively controlled politically by the Information Minister or effectively managed by DGs ( three between 1958 and 1964 ) ; the latter , whether top civil servants , ‘ conseillers d'etat ’ or not , were not broadcasting professionals and had too short a ‘ run ’ to master the vast and complex , heavily unionized and bureaucratic juggernaut that the ORTF had become . |
| 27 | The first is that even if we concluded that a representative democracy was the best that could be achieved under modern circumstances , the idea or principle of representation is far from being fully or effectively embodied in existing political arrangements . |
| 28 | The constitutional authorities were mindful of the constraints imposed by elections and trade unions , but the Left sees democracy in Britain as constrained , not by these things , but by the presence of unaccountable economic power and by the independent power of those closed and secret parts of the state machine that are not popularly elected and that are not even truly accountable to , or effectively controlled by , that part of Parliament that is subject to regular election by the people . |
| 29 | Among these fish are a number of vital breeding projects , containing fish like Skiffia francesae that are extinct or extremely threatened in the wild . |
| 30 | In part these various proposals reflected the circumstances of the areas concerned , whether they were densely or sparsely populated for instance ; but in part they represented the different emphasis in the proposals on the objectives being pursued . |