Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 The assumption was that later information would allow some of these paths to be eliminated ; the graph would ‘ narrow ’ because hypotheses at some point were acoustically clearer and/or limited by top-down information .
2 Women who have maintained and/or developed an extensive network of personal relationships in middle age are held to be most favourably placed in coping with the problems of old age .
3 This heater may or may not be calibrated and/or pre-set to a useful fishkeeping temperature .
4 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 .
5 But it seems likely that more than four million disabled people and full-time carers are discouraged , disenfranchised and/or discriminated against when it comes to voting .
6 They should be lined and/or interlined to match accompanying curtains .
7 There is no record of John having been apprehended and/or fined at that time , but it is almost certain that he would be dealt with in some way .
8 The plaintiff argued that the prior disclosure was irrelevant as the share sale agreement contained clauses stating that the warranties were given subject to the matters set out in the disclosure letter but that no other information whether actual , constructive or imputed would affect any claim made by the plaintiff or reduce any amount recoverable .
9 Those who hold or have held a professorship in the British Isles are not eligible , and any publications cited or listed in connection with a previous successful candidature for an RSC award will not considered by the assessors .
10 This collection is arranged by family , sub-filed by genus and species , but it is not indexed or listed in any way .
11 His nasogastric tube has from time to time to be removed or re-inserted .
12 The APLA is believed also to have carried out Friday 's attack in Johannesburg in which white motorists where riddled with automatic weapons fire by black gunmen .
13 In September several senior officials were dismissed or reprimanded for poor work in the consumer goods sector .
14 One other official has gone , two demoted or reprimanded .
15 Torts committed by the wife during marriage render her liable , but , since 1935 , impose no liability on her husband unless he has authorized or ratified them .
16 Legitimate : ( a ) etymologically , the word expresses a status , which has been conferred or ratified by some authority ; ( b ) conformable to law or rule .
17 This is defined as the average for each period ( during which the optimisation takes places ) of the sum of wives ' net earnings ( where received ) , other state benefits such as Child Benefits , rent and rate rebates , Family Income Supplement , free school meals and milk , and other private sector income ( receipts such as from lodgers , occupational pensions , and insurance schemes ) .
18 A good rule of thumb is that a model may be considered a potential hit if at least half its base area lies under the template , while models whose bases are only touched or grazed can be ignored .
19 The station had to have yards large enough for hundreds of such vehicles to be marshalled , areas where the animals could be tethered or grazed , perhaps for days .
20 On farms where severe outbreaks have occurred pigs should be houses , dosed , and the infected pasture cultivated or grazed with other stock .
21 Copyright comes into force immediately on completion or publication of the work and does not normally have to be recorded or registered .
22 ( ‘ I.B.C. ’ ) , was not formed or registered under the Companies Acts .
23 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 .
24 Of course refineries can be modified or adjusted to produce the necessary product range given time , but the idea that this can be done to every refinery simultaneously and instantaneously is ludicrous .
25 But pouring fertilizers on to the fields does not help the situation , for the processes of nature are too complex to be so simply overridden or adjusted .
26 Aged residents were suddenly objects of pilgrimage from such far-off places as America , and soon there were few people over sixty who did not have some hastily dusted-down anecdote , remembered , borrowed or adjusted , ready for eager visitors .
27 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 .
28 Similarly children have been spaced or limited when required by a variety of means ( e.g. abstinence after the birth of a child , or delaying the age for cohabitation ) .
29 This joy is not questioned or limited in any way .
30 Some people feel restricted in their choices or limited to their present station in life , because their birthcharts declare that they are unlikely to better themselves .
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