Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Circles , straight lines and zig-zags can be chalked or painted on to a hard surface for children to walk , run , jump or skip along . |
| 2 | It was taken over by the British Transport Commission ( later to become British Rail ) in 1949 and much of the magnificent original decoration and marble was either taken away , covered up or painted over . |
| 3 | Backgrounds should be drawn or painted inextricably knit with the model , and pictures should be made from studies , not from imaginary sketches . |
| 4 | The medium in its various colours could be used for cloisonné work or painted thinly on metal surfaces . |
| 5 | To be fair , it is not dealt with by Nash either , but it is too important an aspect of children 's jokes to be ignored or dismissed lightly . |
| 6 | All these arguments , from people involved in different ways in the study of language , have weight , and should not be ridiculed or dismissed out of hand , as has become rather fashionable in some language teaching circles . |
| 7 | Old puppet institutions have been disbanded or shaken up . |
| 8 | We called it shacking [ feeding on the corn that had been shacked or shaken out of the ear during harvest ] . |
| 9 | clay , other than pottery , which has been deliberately subjected to heat ( e.g. walls and bases of kilns and hearths , metal-production debris such as tuyeres and furnaces , core material remaining in bronzes after casting on a clay core ) , or heated accidentally ( e.g. daub from a house burnt down in a fire ) |
| 10 | Romanian opposition leaders criticized his visit as " inopportune " but he maintained : " I feel there is a definite return to democracy in Romania and nothing I have seen or heard here can contradict this feeling . " |
| 11 | Quite probably they have failed , or given up trying after a time . |
| 12 | The workforce has fallen by 700,000 as people have retired or given up looking for jobs , but unemployment has risen by roughly 1.3 million , the EPI reports . |
| 13 | Other products and processes pioneered by Vlitos and his team — including the process of turning sugar into alcohol , now widely used in Brazil to power cars , and in Mauritius and Honolulu to light the streets — were sold or given away while T&L persisted with sucralose . |
| 14 | However , many of these dogs have not complied with other sections of the law , such as neutering , and more than 600 are no longer alive — including over 100 puppies which were conceived before the Dangerous Dogs Act came into force , but which were not allowed to be sold or given away after the legislation was introduced . |
| 15 | The children of the Indians are saved , to be sold or given away as servants , or rather slaves for as long a time as the owners can make them believe themselves slaves . |
| 16 | There are many volumes un-numbered and many which were numbered seem to have been lost or given away . |
| 17 | Players like keeper David Seaman — who has played for England — Terry Phelan , Tommy Wright , John Sheridan and Dennis Irwin were all sold or given away by Leeds but are now big names at other clubs . |
| 18 | Eddie gray got a team together ( most of them have already been mentioned ) of excellant youngsters and virtualy every one of them was sold or given away for f*** all . |
| 19 | Similar findings were observed with prostacyclin either applied locally or given systemically in the coronary artery of dog ( Aiken et al , 1979 ) . |
| 20 | In summary , bFGF administered orally or given parenterally accelerated the healing of acetic acid induced gastric ulcers in rats . |
| 21 | The birds hatched in an incubator can then be hand-reared or given back to their parents , who will rear any number of chicks as long as they have enough food . |
| 22 | The Tribunal 's ruling stipulated , however , that the funds could be returned to the Philippines only after a Philippines court had issued a " legally binding verdict " on whether the assets were to be confiscated or given back to their claimants . |
| 23 | Any work of art is a complex vibratory system to which our senses and nervous system respond , and any object such as the sacred wooden boards or Tapundas , or the stone Tjinas of the Aborigines , many of which are inscribed with the serpent motif , or any object that has been submitted to human veneration through actions or desires , remains charged with psychic power that can be transmitted or given off in energetic emanations providing there has been no transformation of the original material used in its creation . |
| 24 | B.1 Without restricting the rights of the Purchaser to claim damages on any other basis open to it , if it shall be found that any matter which is the subject of any of the Warranties is not as warranted , represented or undertaken then the Vendor shall on demand either : — |
| 25 | Today Oxford magistrates were told he had not told the authorities who was driving , or filled in a means test form . |
| 26 | More than 1,500 people wrote or filled in forms , supporting the idea . |
| 27 | There is a masterpiece in most churches , or placed casually in a small chapel in a field . |
| 28 | Other Goblin Shamans need to be kept towards the flanks or placed so that there are not too many Orcs and Goblins about , otherwise they will ‘ eadbang . |
| 29 | The second exception is subdivided into features of shape or configuration of an article which : i ) enable the article to be connected to , or placed in , around or against , another article so that either article may perform its function ( the " must-fit " exception ) , or ii ) are dependant upon the appearance of another article of which the article is intended by the designer to form an integral part ( the " must-match " exception ) . |
| 30 | These jennies were either collected in small workshops or placed out in cottages and seem to have brought increased earnings to many women in the cloth-working families , albeit for a short period until the machines got larger and , more importantly , the largely male-worked spinning mule began to replace the jenny . |