Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Britain it would appear that the percentage of those aged 65 + defined as living in some form of institution has remained constant or perhaps decreased slightly . |
| 2 | Do you believe that women feel more empowered or less empowered now than they did last year ? |
| 3 | LIM memory was more or less invented just for use with spreadsheets — the only memory hungry applications of the era . |
| 4 | The next half-hour or so passed quietly but for the sound of happy munching and quaffing . |
| 5 | Usually we do not know all the sites , and we do not know if they were all contemporary or only used seasonally . |
| 6 | The second is to ensure that as many products as possible can be re-used or easily repaired instead of being thrown away after just ‘ one trip ’ . |
| 7 | ’ His ‘ instant portrait ’ — on the accuracy of which he prided himself enormously — was that the client was most likely a starter , could very well be a married man , children off his hands , time on his hands , going back to his own public school days ( the velvet collar on the overcoat was a giveaway ) and the boys will be boys bit or just realized very late that what he really fancied was a bit of the other and had to wallet to get it . |
| 8 | What had to be decided was whether 2.63 miles of the extended six-lane M3 would be tunnelled through the downland chalk or just cut straight through in a deep , wide trench which would obviously make an irreparable mess of the down . |
| 9 | It is interesting to think that had they snatched — or preferably caught cleanly — that victory , the pattern of English Test cricket might have been changed for years ahead , for , as the other four matches were all drawn , a victorious first series might have given Botham 's captaincy the shove it needed to get airborne . |
| 10 | Over all the years , including these nineteen , some bonds were given to the club but the majority were bequeathed to individuals , either to be kept as an investment out of family sentiment , or possibly sold quietly to Club members , selected as previously described . |
| 11 | In his study of Parliamentary politics under William , Horwitz examined four Lords ' divisions lists — from 1689 , 1696 , and two from 1701 — and found that 76 per cent of those peers voting twice or more voted consistently Whig or Tory . |
| 12 | Tree branches , whole trunks , were blasted into the air , then fell to the ground , only to be interred or repeatedly thrown upward by further explosions ; likewise mangled machinery and dismembered human bodies and those of horses . |
| 13 | The aim has been to ensure as far as possible employment opportunities are not lost or unduly constrained simply because there is a shortage of suitable sites . |
| 14 | If enriched or positively modified then the final phase of ‘ fusion ’ ensues . |
| 15 | One ‘ grey ’ area is where to put active over 60 's — in future if the class is fully mobile , even though at a more sedate pace , the class should be included as Recreational specifying ‘ active retired ’ etc. but if the range of movement is limited or mainly seated then the class should be on the Specialised List . |
| 16 | To sum up : a contract is void if , at the time the contract is made and unknown to the parties , goods have perished or do not exist , thereby rendering it impossible for the contract to be performed ; this , however , is subject to the qualification that the contract will not be void if the parties expressly or impliedly agreed otherwise . |
| 17 | If , however , the medium is too viscous convection will be inhibited , or even prevented altogether . |
| 18 | They are often at the rear or side of the main hospital building , or even sited completely away from the main thoroughfare . |
| 19 | Well , if you are typical of your birth sign , you will have already made up your mind and taken your leave around August 6th , when it became apparent that certain associates had sided against you or even gone so far as to hatch some kind of plot . |
| 20 | Why should not ‘ middle-class values ’ — loosely articulated as industry , honesty , thrift , ambition , prudence , civility — be encouraged or even imposed more widely ? |
| 21 | This trend was then halted or even reversed thereafter as large companies especially in manufacturing transferred their excess labour into smaller subcontractors or satellite companies . |
| 22 | They may be vertical , horizontal , diagonal or even spelt backwards but all are in a straight line . |
| 23 | PRUDENTIAL has launched a new range of flexible pensions products which can be converted to a free-standing additional voluntary contribution and vice versa , and allow contribution levels to be reduced or even suspended altogether for up to five years . |
| 24 | Problems are individualized or even suppressed rather than openly explored with all the possible difficulties that this entails . |
| 25 | But he did n't seem shocked , or embarrassed , or even taken aback . |
| 26 | Cobbett indicates that , at least in Kent , the working class was not yet reconciled to exchanging a cottage on earth for a mansion in heaven : ‘ they appeared to me to be thinking much more about getting houses for themselves in this world first : just to see a little before they entered , or endeavoured to enter , or even thought much about , those ‘ houses ’ of which the parson was speaking ; houses with pig-styes and little snug gardens attached to them , together with all the other domestic and conjugal circumstances . ’ |
| 27 | If we 'd raised our hand to them , or even spoken sharply , they 'd all have had instant heart attacks . |
| 28 | Out of-date-stock Life-dated products not sold before their expiry date may have to be sold at a lower price ( or even discarded altogether ) . |
| 29 | What people sometimes fail to realise is that standard provisions are fine as a general guide but that they often have to be amended ( or even dropped altogether ) to allow the transaction to make ‘ commercial sense ’ on both sides . |
| 30 | Lowly born or high born there is a saint for you . |