Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steel caps often polished or painted white ( some bought white anyway . ) |
| 2 | A response to the gender inflection or masculinism of philosophical theories should involve , I think , neither merely the assertion that women too should be seen as included under or capable of whatever norms are suggested by the theory , nor merely the assertion that what is seen as feminine should be valued too , or given equal status with what is male . |
| 3 | that objectives should determine methods : therefore no methods should be arbitrarily excluded , ignored , or given undue prominence . |
| 4 | When turned or given other nursing care , his limited movements became agitated . |
| 5 | Pat Palmer is asking everyone to co–operate — if you have not yet filled in a pink form or given verbal class details to your Area Organiser will you please forward these details to the Office by early August so that we can have a comprehensive up-to-date class list ready to meet all enquiries for the new season . |
| 6 | Pat Palmer is asking everyone to co-operate — if you have not yet filled in a pink form or given verbal class details to your Area Organiser will you please forward these details to the Office by early August so that we can have a comprehensive up-to-date class list ready to meet all enquiries for the new season . |
| 7 | They might therefore be exempted from — or given modified — handwriting and presentation targets and , depending on the degree of impairment , undertake the writing tasks through alternative means of communication , using technological aids . |
| 8 | The highlighted section is ready to be cut , copied or given special text attributes and styles . |
| 9 | He could remember a period of engagement with art — with Greek statuary and the young gods of Renaissance paintings , those bodies officially sanctified on the page or given sexual neutrality as museum displays . |
| 10 | The concern is expressed on behalf of defendants in custody because they may ultimately be acquitted or given non-custodial sentences , and on behalf of defendants on bail because of the uncertainty and unpleasantness of a pending criminal trial . |
| 11 | Accordingly , obedience to the demands of ‘ profit maximisation within the law ’ prevents the full range and texture of third party interests from being taken into account or given sufficient weight in corporate decision making . |
| 12 | The same problem in France precipitated a national scandal that destroyed careers and even contributed to the defeat of a government : senior public health officials were accused of knowingly allowing contaminated blood to be given to haemophiliacs , resulting in some 1200 infections with HIV and about 300 deaths from AIDS ; some have been convicted and either jailed or given suspended sentences for fraud , criminal negligence , and failure to assist persons in danger . |
| 13 | Where supervision orders to the probation service would normally have been made for the offence , we find that because of homelessness and unemployment , black youths tend to be remanded in custody , or given custodial sentences . |
| 14 | The then modish humanity had gone into a violent reaction against the ancient severity , ‘ and might almost be supposed to see in the fact of having lost or squandered other people 's property a peculiar title to indulgence . ‘ |
| 15 | We have as yet no direct proof that the actin cable provides the driving force for epidermal wound closure in our system , but this interpretation seems far more plausible than alternatives such as pushing from the rear or hidden crawling movements of cells behind the wound front . |
| 16 | The third category comprises those cases in which child outlook or behaviour which presents problems for parents or society at large itself has an evident or hidden sexual content . |
| 17 | Surely the corollary of his great ‘ mythopoeia ’ discussion with Dyson and Tolkien was that the story of Christ was much more important than any doctrine which a fallible or fallen human mind could extract from it ? |
| 18 | Small shot one sheep half-paralysed by septicaemia , and brought in seven ewes that had lost lambs or fallen ill . |
| 19 | He had not died or fallen ill , nor had Smallfry been made aware of his lapses . |
| 20 | It is also claimed that the irrational and inefficient procedures of pluralistic decision making are inappropriate in foreign and defence policy , where considered rational responses in the national interest are required . |
| 21 | LASMO gives negative pledge and net worth covenants where considered appropriate . |
| 22 | What is persuasive in this case is a consistent series of answers given by the minister , after opportunities for taking advice from his officials , all of which point the same way and which were not withdrawn or varied prior to the enactment of the Bill . |
| 23 | But by that very defence they have restored free speech to areas in this country where organised Socialist and Communist opposition had prevented it before in open public meeting . ’ |
| 24 | When the arrangement of the mechanism is straightforward and the constraints imposed are only those of required or forbidden spatial position , the direct insertion approach is the easiest to apply . |
| 25 | Industrial Air Pollution Inspectorate which has the responsibility of ensuring that best practicable means are being taken for preventing the escape of any noxious or offensive gas into the atmosphere , and for rendering such gases where discharged harmless and inoffensive . |
| 26 | " That they secure every person in whose family or possession Stolen goods are found , & Commit them to Killarow Prison , & secure all their Effects , and that they Call for Assistants , & such as refuse to report the same , who are to be fyned in Ten pund for each refusal & Deemed Dishonest . " |
| 27 | " That they secure every person in whose family or possession Stolen goods are found , & Commit them to Killarow Prison , & secure all their Effects , and that they Call for Assistants , & such as refuse to report the same , who are to be fyned in Ten pund for each refusal & Deemed Dishonest . " |
| 28 | So the Resistance-trained amateurs were gradually shunted to filing jobs or forgotten overseas stations where they needed do nothing but show an invisible flag and curl a lip at the way the CIA did the real work . |
| 29 | That would revive its forbidden or forgotten German history . |
| 30 | I I hope this is not a mischievous comment , but I I think it 's very questionable , whether the Christian faith would be known as it is today , down two thousand years , had it not been for an innocent man , Jesus , being unjustly punished and crucified , and so many of the great reformers in the history of man , men and women have died or suffered grave imprisonment because of injustice , and in a paradoxical way , injustice in a way , yo you almost seem as if we need injustice to drive us on , to get things done in a , in a better way . |