Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This collection is arranged by family , sub-filed by genus and species , but it is not indexed or listed in any way . |
| 2 | This joy is not questioned or limited in any way . |
| 3 | Then again , it 's impossible to guess from the transcript how it was said — whether it was flung down , shrugged off , tossed out , or uttered in some other way that put a hairpiece upon its baldness . |
| 4 | Many time we have set up a tank containing large and heavy items as part of the decor , only to find that the undergravel filter has either collapsed flat or broken in half . |
| 5 | The susceptibility of individuals to disease ; if animals are kept or treated in such a way that their immune system does not work very well , that in itself tells you that their welfare is less good than it might be . |
| 6 | Industrial yields have also dropped across the country , while retail yields have been static or fallen in all regions . |
| 7 | The recent rapid expansion of Asian drift-net fleets into the South Pacific and Tasman Sea has raised fears of similar problems of entanglement of marine mammals in plastic netting lost or discarded in these areas . |
| 8 | ‘ Where the processes carried on or the machinery installed are such as could be carried on or installed in any residential area without detriment to amenity of that area by reason of noise , vibration , smell , fumes , soot ash , dust or grit ’ . |
| 9 | However , once printed text has been photocopied a few times , or faxed , or degraded in some other way , the characters can become similarly indistinct . |
| 10 | the task can be systematized or programmed in some way so that others can carry out the routines strictly to your requirements , thus reoccurring items are frequently delegated without undue risks being incurred |
| 11 | The third principle is that ‘ personal data held for any purpose or purposes shall not be used or disclosed in any manner incompatible with that purpose or purposes ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ Personal data held for any purpose or purposes shall not be used or disclosed in any manner incompatible with that purpose or purposes ’ |
| 13 | Learning is a process whereby knowledge , skills and attitudes are acquired or modified in such a way that human behaviour is more or less permanently changed . |
| 14 | You can appreciate by the remarks my agent made to me on the telephone ( words which I swear I have not amended or distorted in any way at all ) just how big and unpleasant a problem I have sitting like a gibbering troll on my innocent shoulders . |
| 15 | Whenever the professor is engaged in research work within the University being research work which is funded in whole or in part by an outside body on terms that any invention , know-how , copyright or information arising in the course of such work shall be patented , dealt with or otherwise used or exploited in such manner as the outside body may direct , any such invention , know-how , copyright or information shall be subject to the terms of the agreement with the outside body and the professor is required to comply with all obligations including those of confidentiality imposed by that agreement . |
| 16 | In Session 1969–70 the Select Committee on Privileges recommended that it should cover : ( a ) all things done or written in each House or in Committee for the purpose of business being transacted ; ( b ) all things done between members and officers , between members , and between members and ministers for the purpose of enabling any of these to carry out their functions . |
| 17 | Further , it can be checked against other contemporary annals , whether produced in Charles 's kingdom but giving a perspective very different from the AB 's ( the brief Annals of the monastery of Fontanelle , or St-Wandrille , near modern Le Havre , for instance , have their own house-based story to tell ) , or written in another Carolingian kingdom , like the East Frankish Annals of Fulda which are just as slanted as the AB , but in a different direction . |
| 18 | If so , the restoration of the OR seen in these circumstances need not necessarily imply a change in the specific ability of the target stimulus to evoke its UR ; rather it may mean that even a weak tendency to emit this UR can be amplified substantially by a high level of arousal . |
| 19 | But there appear to be few clear criteria governing the selection of these specialities and those which are experimental are not monitored or evaluated in any rigorous way ( Hogg 1988 ) . |
| 20 | Any spell cast by the bearer of the Staff will automatically work — it can not be dispelled or nullified in any way either by a magic card or by a magic item . |
| 21 | Voting was prevented or disrupted in some areas by military operations when soldiers took advantage of the truce . |
| 22 | Clearly , it could be modified or expanded in many ways . |
| 23 | 205. ( 1 ) ( ix ) Land includes … land of any tenure , and mines and minerals , whether or not held apart from the surface , buildings or parts of buildings ( whether the division is horizontal , vertical or made in any other way ) and other corporeal hereditaments ; also a manor , an advowson , and a rent and other incorporeal hereditament , and an easement , right , privilege , or benefit in , over , or derived from land ; but not an undivided share in land ; and " mines and minerals " include any strata or seam of minerals or substances in or under any land , and powers of working and getting the same but not an undivided share thereof ; and " manor " includes a lordship , and reputed manor or lordship ; and " hereditament " means any real property which on an intestacy occurring before the commencement of this Act might have devolved upon an heir … |
| 24 | With the partial exception of the two decades which followed the Treaty of Utrecht ( and even then there were probably never less than half a million men under arms in Europe ) there was scarcely a year in the century during which a large-scale struggle was not either raging or threatened in some part of the continent . |
| 25 | 7.4 Employees and their managers must complete this form and send it to the Employees Relations Officer at Department Headquarters , , not only in circumstances in which the employee has been physically hurt but also where they may have been abused or threatened in any way or subjected to racial or sexual harassment . |
| 26 | She had not been intimidated or threatened in any way . |
| 27 | Usually a husband and wife are regarded as living together if they are not separated under a court order or a deed of separation or separated in such circumstances as are likely to prove permanent ( Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 , s282 ) . |
| 28 | In a random ( or direct ) access file , records are individually identified by a key and can be read or re-read in any order . |
| 29 | A further 17 officers have lost their lives as a result of being shot , crushed or injured in some other way . |
| 30 | It was already clear that national and territorial disputes could involve substantial loss of life : about ten thousand Soviet citizens were killed or injured in this connection during the years of perestroika , and at least 600,000 became refugees in their own country . |