Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | We called it shacking [ feeding on the corn that had been shacked or shaken out of the ear during harvest ] . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Marble can be sawn or broken up for building or burned for lime , and a great deal has certainly gone that way ; but the melting down of bronze for conversion to tools , utensils , armour , coin , is far more tempting . |
| 9 | The tall , spiky effect of purple-leaved cannas or purple-red Lobelia cardinalis , for example , can be used in the centre for height , around which multicoloured plants like coleus can be used , framed or broken up by single-colour foliage plants , such as the cinerarias and pyrethrums , suggested in the table . |
| 10 | A notion of power which goes beyond , say , class reductionism is obviously useful in attempting to grasp the history of the subordination of women , or the regulation of unorthodox sexualities , but if power is everywhere it is difficult to understand how it can be resisted or broken out of . |
| 11 | The extreme elaboration of the proceedings is intended to emphasize that , in contrast to the kind of marriage which can be entered into or broken off on the spur of the moment , this is a contract which is intended to endure . |
| 12 | Because BT was not restructured or broken down into more manageable units which might compete with one another ( the US solution to their phone giant AT & t ) , competition between giant BT and tiny Mercury is unlikely to constrain BT much . |
| 13 | Protein skimmers are a must for any butterfly or angelfish tank , as these species are sensitive to any organics left in the water that can not be filtered out or broken down by bacterial activity . |
| 14 | In this case the solvent has to be evaporated or boiled off at a low temperature . |
| 15 | If the witnesses are n't killed at the time , then they are often murdered at a later date , or frightened off with violent threats . |
| 16 | It 's too easy to tell a child not to make a fuss , it 's a big playground and to go and play away from whoever has hit them or kicked them or fallen out with them . |
| 17 | It was two more years before ration books could finally be burned or torn up by a thankful population — meat , bacon and butter were the last things to be freed . |
| 18 | To be blunt , you can be a sensible young woman and be escorted back to your family , or carried out of this wilderness in a sack . |
| 19 | Death sentences had been judicially imposed or carried out in 1990 in 90 countries ; the death penalty was retained by every country in the Middle East , with Iran showing the region 's highest number of death sentences ( estimated at more than 700 ) , while in China the report recorded 750 executions , the highest number since 1983 . |
| 20 | calculation and/or graphical exercises : the exercises for the various Learning Outcomes can be combined or carried out after each Learning Outcome ; within each exercise each performance criterion should be able to be clearly distinguished ; |
| 21 | calculation and/or graphical exercises : the exercises for the various Learning Outcomes can be combined or carried out after each Learning Outcome ; within each exercise each performance criterion should be able to be clearly distinguished ; |
| 22 | calculation and/or graphical exercises : the exercises for the various Learning Outcomes can be combined or carried out after each Learning Outcome ; within each exercise each performance criterion should be able to be clearly distinguished ; |
| 23 | My minute will be burnt , or composted , or trodden down into mulch , into humus , into peat , into soft coal , into hard . |
| 24 | As soon as machines landed , pilots ' written reports were sent by dispatch rider or telephoned through to GHQ . |
| 25 | Effective measurement requires detailed knowledge of the properties of phenomena which are to be reflected or mapped on to some mathematical system . |
| 26 | These go on every day in a Home — they wo n't be planned beforehand or written up on a board , they are the little things of everyday life : |
| 27 | Most of the women in the British version are either photographed naked or written about with regrettable machomisogyny . |
| 28 | There were others in the period before each privatization when financial losses were being reduced or written off as part of a continuing process of rationalizing older , basic industries . |
| 29 | He grew dirtier than ever and often would not shave for three or four days together , till his jaw looked coated or grown over with yellow fungus or sprayed like a car with glistening tangerine . |
| 30 | To have the thing scraped or vacuumed out of her womb , the very thought of it last night had sent her to the bathroom , heaving over the modern white lavatory . |