Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " 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 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 .
3 This collection is arranged by family , sub-filed by genus and species , but it is not indexed or listed in any way .
4 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 .
5 In September several senior officials were dismissed or reprimanded for poor work in the consumer goods sector .
6 Legitimate : ( a ) etymologically , the word expresses a status , which has been conferred or ratified by some authority ; ( b ) conformable to law or rule .
7 On farms where severe outbreaks have occurred pigs should be houses , dosed , and the infected pasture cultivated or grazed with other stock .
8 For example , business liability for death and personal injury resulting from negligence can not be excluded or limited at all by section 2(1) and , in the case of other loss or damage , liability can only be excluded or restricted where the term or notice purporting to do this satisfies a test of reasonableness ; section 2(2) .
9 By this approach invasive fetal sampling techniques may be avoided entirely or limited to those cases where confirmation of a positive diagnosis is desirable .
10 Such rules of change may be very simple or very complex : the powers conferred may be unrestricted or limited in various ways : and the rules may , besides specifying the persons who are to legislate , define in more or less rigid terms the procedure to be followed in legislation .
11 This joy is not questioned or limited in any way .
12 A.1.2 is not to be affected or limited by any previous or other disclosures , express or implied , to the Purchaser , its officers , representatives or professional advisers .
13 To complete this discussion of exclusion clauses it should be noted that , by section 7 of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 , liability for defective products under Part I of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 can not be excluded or limited by any contract term .
14 By virtue of s41 of CPA 1987 , breach of a safety regulation , as distinct from the general safety requirement , is also grounds for a civil action by any person affected which can not be excluded or limited by any contract term or notice .
15 Moreover , the inside of walls and ceilings must either be washed or painted at regular intervals .
16 The name and age of the party boy or girl could be piped or painted on many of the cakes — perhaps across the large band of the hot-air balloon , on the space rocket or on the pop-up birthday card .
17 All types of bradyarrhythmia and tachyarrhythmia , whether supraventricular or ventricular , can be worsened or provoked by antiarrhythmic drugs .
18 Where formed by divergent plate movement they are described as rifted margins , but where the motion between two adjacent continental blocks has been transform they are called sheared margins ( but note that the term rifted margin is often applied rather loosely to passive margins of any type ) .
19 Thus modern British coinage has a die axis of twelve o'clock : when the coin is held above and below the Queen 's head and then rotated , the design on the back appears upright or aligned at twelve o'clock .
20 Essential oils can be used alone or blended with other essences to make delightful perfumes .
21 However , it was reported on May 7 that 35 leading officials in the newly established intelligence service department of the Interior Ministry had been removed following leaks of secret information , and the screening of various sections of the security services was reported to be well advanced or completed by early May .
22 ‘ a systematic analysis of federal administrative , civil and criminal actions either initiated or completed by 25 federal agencies … against the 477 largest publicly owned manufacturing corporations in the US during 1975 and 1976 .
23 Often they are recruited or assigned at short notice to an unfamiliar school and are expected to instantly mould themselves to its systems of operating and style .
24 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 .
25 If there are substantial doubts as to whether the provision of charity schools was ever sufficiently widespread , directed or differentiated from earlier , or later , efforts to have constituted a special movement , there is none that school provision for the poor in the middle and later years of the century remained uneven and spasmodic .
26 Illness is identified or diagnosed by medical practitioners .
27 Separate beads can be sewn on individually or gathered into little chains to be attached .
28 Perhaps they have read or heard of some of the research which has been done in this field in recent years , and it has opened up their minds .
29 Others were baffled , not able to believe that free people , famous and rich too , could say what they saw printed or heard on Romanian television or radio .
30 That any of our pubs can , at a stroke , be shut down or altered by uncaring owners , without any proper consultation with users or the community , is little short of a continuing national disgrace .
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