Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Suspicion and hostility towards the law in working-class London at the turn of the century drew on much deeper funds of popular feeling than can be usefully or relevantly summed up as the work of ‘ Hooligan ’ gangs or ‘ Hooliganism ’ .
2 The final tally was 41 , with 12 reported for possible prosecution , six cautioned , and 23 others either talked to or extremely worn out after a long chase .
3 The final tally was 41 , with 12 reported for possible prosecution , six cautioned , and 23 others either talked to or extremely worn out after a long chase .
4 She lived in one of those streets running from the Old Brompton Road more or less parallel with the edge of Brompton Cemetery , a territory that seems more or less taken over by typists ' collectives , where groups of girls band together to share flats whose rents none of them could afford individually .
5 They have n't been as much part of my life as I would like , because for the last year or so it has been more or less taken up by the future of the channel .
6 My English friend Annie was more or less brought up by her nan in a back-to-back in Manchester .
7 The swimming section was more or less brought back to mind to me the other day when they showed the old Stoke bathing place .
8 The bungalow had been more or less cancelled out by mother 's renovations .
9 It is very much a system 's search mechanism as opposed to a search strategy initiated or purposefully carried out by the user .
10 Diving below the dusky water 's surface I see twenty chairs or so strewn about on the pool floor .
11 I can wear it up or down , teased and back-combed out or just brushed back with a headband .
12 ‘ She could have gone to friends , or just driven up to London , ’ Fraser defended himself .
13 The Spirit of Romance is undertaken on the principle that Pound never ceased to hammer home , notably in How To Read and The ABC of Reading : the principle that no one can understand the history of poetry in English unless he or she takes note of poetry in , or responsibly translated out of , other languages than English .
14 Of the pieces on offer at Christie 's the most important is a gold and Columbian emerald cross set with sixty-six stones with a highly distinctive engraved reverse which would once have been enamelled or possibly filled in with niello ( est. £150–200,000 ) .
15 Christine , who had gained the Brownie Highway Badge , was an excellent writer and reader , and she felt rather grown-up as she wrote out notes for Miss Miggs or carefully read out to her a letter from her nephew .
16 The Union 's decisions on defence could " be wholly or partially carried out through the WEU " but this could be reviewed in 1996 in a general revision of the treaty .
17 Present them with a vision of a world in which meals were eaten at a table instead of on the knees before the flickering screen ; in which conversation was commonplace ; political and social ideas worked out by individuals , not spoon-fed into the mind by paid commentators ; a TV-less world in which we danced and sang and played charades to entertain ourselves or even popped round to the neighbours ; in which our children were not fed visions of death and dead bodies on the daily news , their infant imaginations no longer turned feverish and fearful by the sobs and sorrows of the bereaved ; nor subject to the cruel , disagreeable and frequently morbid fictional fantasies of others — would we not really vote for this ?
18 For example , people working here in acoustics and radiation physics never know which SERC committee will finally examine their applications — some of our recent applications have been to the committees for Biology , Chemistry , Chemical Engineering , Mechanical Engineering , Polymer Engineering , the joint SERC/SSRC committee or even sent off to ARC .
19 This drama is often now confused with , or even rendered back to , types of religious ritual in which some of its elements indeed originated .
20 Alluvial gold , which most commonly occurs as dust or fine flakes , the residue left behind when lighter materials have been removed by the flow of natural waters , can be won by simple sluicing or washing , or even picked up on the surface in the form of nuggets shaped by the compression of fine particles into compact masses by natural forces .
21 The thirty-year rundown of the Great Central Railway terminus at Marylebone ( a prelude to seemingly inevitable total closure ) , was dramatically slammed into reverse gear on 30 April when BR admitted blossoming Chiltern Line services could not possibly be handled by Paddington , Euston , or even handed over to London Transport .
22 She would have been locked up in a mental hospital , or alternatively taken off for parapsychological testing and Rachel would have been unforgiving .
23 Under careful examination , moccasins , Navajo patterned rugs , and costumed kachina dolls often turn out to be woven or simply stamped out by factories in Taiwan or the Philippines .
24 But those on the list who actually applied , as opposed to expressing vague interest , had no way of knowing whether their completed application forms had been weeded out or simply thrown on to the paper mountain along with everyone else .
25 He placed his own mantle on Elisha 's shoulders , who said his farewell to his parents , and became Elijah 's companion and understudy , following him faithfully on a journey of farewells , and finally inheriting the mantle which fell off Elijah 's shoulders as he was actually or mystically carried off in ‘ ’ a whirlwind into heaven ’ .
26 It is approached along a forty-mile-long fiord and the approach instructions are that the pilot should turn left at the entrance by the sunken freighter that sticks up in the fiord , or else run out of airspace and crash into the sheer mountains that rise to seven thousand feet at the end of it .
27 Hyam believes that the sexual activities of imperialist manpower have been erased from the historical record , or else written about in stereotyped ways which had little to do with reality , and that we are therefore left with an incomplete understanding of the colonial experience .
28 Somehow he managed to make it fun , the way he made so many things fun , and , now he was either dead or else taken over by some force I could not even begin to understand , there was nothing whatsoever to keep me in the Church .
29 or ( e ) The way in which goods are packed or otherwise got up for the purpose of being supplied .
30 I walked along , trembling with anger and misery , not through the London of beautiful houses and clean streets that I 'd dreamed of , where people wore only elegant , expensive clothes , nor between buildings that soared into the clouds , but in the darkness past trees planted at infrequent intervals and council houses with their unlit windows , all alike ; I passed people asleep , protected from the cold in cardboard boxes , and rubbish in untidy heaps or neatly tied up in black plastic bags and empty milk bottles with traces of sour milk lingering in them , and I marvelled once again that the dairies were trusting enough to leave them lying about .
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