Example sentences of "[coord] [vb pp] [prep] a " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It can be sold mild when young , or matured to a greater depth of flavour . |
| 7 | It has a curved hemline and can be worn outside or tucked into a skirt or trousers . |
| 8 | To make sure he asked Mr Litmus if he had seen or heard of a scientist being found coming out of the corridors . |
| 9 | They must not be bought or sold or even taken or given as a present . |
| 10 | Prices tend to be omitted from publishers ' catalogues ( or given in a separate leaflet which becomes detached from the main catalogue ) . |
| 11 | Indeed , here one can detect a good example of how rich one has to be to be poor : precisely because a poor family can not afford expensive but once-and-for-all repairs ( assuming such repairs to be feasible ) , household maintenance must either be neglected , or undertaken in a cheap but piecemeal fashion , where any improvement is partial and temporary in its effect . |
| 12 | All the traffic , every single vehicle which passed him was equipped with lasers in its axles ; they could register a hit on his legs unless he was above them , or shielded by a wall , or between the wheels of a parked car , or holding his breath . |
| 13 | When a book is opened , and either held in the hand or placed on a table , the front cover and hinge are immediately subjected to strain , especially if the volume is a thick and heavy one . |
| 14 | Samples can be hung on a rod , in slotted pockets or placed on a lectern . |
| 15 | The tentacle scales may be distinct from the oral papillae being either separated by a gap or placed at a higher level as viewed from the ventral side as in the genera Ophiotoma and Ophioblenn . |
| 16 | But my main priority is making the animals look real with a lot of life in them , rather than the staid and stiff specimens cast in bronze , sitting on top of a television or placed in a town square . |
| 17 | The baby would be handed into the care of one of her " other family " , or placed in a basket or drawer to sleep . |
| 18 | As a matter of good practice copies of the documents should either be attached to the disclosure letter or placed in a file of documents delivered with the letter . |
| 19 | 25 shelf units each 6m long × 3m deep ( these can be free-standing or placed against a wall ) |
| 20 | Thus ‘ abstract ’ is opposed to ‘ concrete ’ , ‘ explicit ’ to ‘ implicit ’ , ‘ elaborated code ’ to ‘ restricted code ’ , ‘ extensional structure ’ to ‘ in tensional structure ’ , and these types are taken to be related to differing kinds of social experience mediated or formed by a literate organization of reality , on the one hand , and an oral organization of reality , on the other . |
| 21 | I need to emphasize two points here : firstly , most textbooks represent a misleading view of reality in which women are neglected or treated in a cursory manner and this is their ideological function . |
| 22 | Many subjects are represented in a standard form or treated in a standard way and , to cater for this , each edition of the Dewey system lists standard sub-divisions that are never used alone but may be added to any number from the general subject tables . |
| 23 | The bottom and topsides were payed or stopped with a putty like composition . |
| 24 | Brian , a cabbie for 25 years , could now face having his licence suspended or withdrawn at a tribunal . |
| 25 | The ARR did not require the reporting accountant to report on controlled trust accounts , although Part II of the SAR contained rules determining how a solicitor should deal with the movement of controlled trust money , ie the circumstances in which money could be paid in or withdrawn from a controlled trust account , and the records that had to be kept . |
| 26 | Vinyl is practical , so is vinyl-coated cork , and linoleum , which now comes in all colours and can be inlaid or arranged in a pattern in various shades with quite spectacular results . |
| 27 | If the child has become lost or frightened as a result of parental neglect , then the adult in question may expect to be admonished by the fairy , who dislikes irresponsibility and carelessness . |
| 28 | On the front , you have a picture with a jigsaw-shaped piece missing which you have cut out and either put it on their back or hidden in a little flap on the costume , which can be seen if people lift the flap up . |
| 29 | She seemed always to be squinting into the sun , or shielding her face with her hand , or hidden by a straw hat or something . |
| 30 | Bureaucracy , for example , interdigitates with the social reality of individuals and communities , penetrating some spheres of life deeply , others not at all : in each , it may be invited , welcomed , kept at bay , questioned , resented , taken for granted , or regarded as a closed book . |