Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prices tend to be omitted from publishers ' catalogues ( or given in a separate leaflet which becomes detached from the main catalogue ) . |
| 2 | Indeed , here one can detect a good example of how rich one has to be to be poor : precisely because a poor family can not afford expensive but once-and-for-all repairs ( assuming such repairs to be feasible ) , household maintenance must either be neglected , or undertaken in a cheap but piecemeal fashion , where any improvement is partial and temporary in its effect . |
| 3 | Many subjects are represented in a standard form or treated in a standard way and , to cater for this , each edition of the Dewey system lists standard sub-divisions that are never used alone but may be added to any number from the general subject tables . |
| 4 | I need to emphasize two points here : firstly , most textbooks represent a misleading view of reality in which women are neglected or treated in a cursory manner and this is their ideological function . |
| 5 | On the front , you have a picture with a jigsaw-shaped piece missing which you have cut out and either put it on their back or hidden in a little flap on the costume , which can be seen if people lift the flap up . |
| 6 | Now do n't tell me you spent the night sitting on the station , because they would n't let you , or parked in a stolen car , because you 're not that stupid , not quite . |
| 7 | Nevertheless any such other business will be likely to interfere with the partner 's ability to devote his full time and attention to the firm : such matters should be discussed between all partners and special arrangements agreed as necessary in relation to individual partners to be either incorporated in the partnership agreement itself or contained in a separate memorandum to which all partners are signatories . |
| 8 | Cuttings that should come to everybody 's attention quickly can be pinned to the library noticeboard or contained in a monthly newsletter . |
| 9 | The Schema Builder will enable all parts of the database schema to be created or modified in a graphical environment . |
| 10 | That summer , scoop necks and arms bare to the shoulders were what every woman wore , with hair loose , or caught in a gleaming beehive . |
| 11 | He has respect for the almost tribal traditional wisdom of those whom he later called the ‘ quiet-voiced elders ’ and their ‘ dead secrets , , but in the end these are to be renounced or incorporated in a higher Christian scheme and vision . |
| 12 | You can pick the work up and do a bit of it whenever you have a few minutes to spare and the final result is really splendid , whether it is all bejewelled and decorated or made in a simple plain yarn . |
| 13 | Place items being promoted or featured in a prominent position in the window . |
| 14 | Possible complications and side-effects are ignored or minimised in a target-oriented programme because it is more important to add to the numbers of acceptors than to help women make an informed choice about contraception . |
| 15 | For simplicity the amount to be costed is best highlighted in dark type or shown in a separate box on the form . |
| 16 | Even in the Coordinating Team , the development of such skills has tended to be accepted as self-evidently a good thing rather than debated or interpreted in a systematic way . |
| 17 | As an example , if we look at the nouns only , we have Thus , if you want to describe words which are absurd , with no meaning , unintelligible , new or used in a new sense , you have the choice of about 170 nouns — including " jargon " , the one you first thought of — available for your selection and use . |
| 18 | It is unlikely that most of these sentences would be uttered in a conversation or used in a meaningful text . |
| 19 | We suggest that the high-velocity maser emission in NGC4258 might be from masers orbiting a massive central black hole , or ejected in a bipolar outflow . |
| 20 | Arbitrage is easier for interest rate or currency futures markets than for index futures because , in these other markets , the underlying asset can be purchased or sold in a single transaction . |
| 21 | A survey of the over 75s living in South Wales revealed that 86 per cent had either visited or stayed in a general hospital ward compared with 33 per cent for a geriatric ward ( Salvage et al . |
| 22 | What we do instead is to look for partial theories that will describe situations in which certain interactions can be ignored or approximated in a simple manner . |
| 23 | For in each instance the problem of expansion was solved or evaded in a different way , and produced as a result towns with very different characteristics . |
| 24 | The buyer should not become obsessed with an issue or entrenched in a particular position and they should avoid defining certain conditions as non-negotiable or certain demands as absolute . |
| 25 | A general search instruction has to specify several pieces of information ; the address A and length L of a table to be searched , a comparison condition and a compared value ( the former usually implied in the operation code or specified In a subsidiary information field , the latter in an implied location such as an accumulator ) . |
| 26 | Ensure broken glass and other sharp items are thoroughly wrapped or left in a marked open box . |
| 27 | The hard-top even uses the same mechanisms and can be attached or removed in a similar time . |
| 28 | There is very little apparent logic in the selection of people who are sent to state prisons as opposed to being killed or kept in a clandestine prison . |
| 29 | This law states that matter can not be created or destroyed in a chemical reaction . |
| 30 | Whether adjacency be permitted or not , the evolution of the series will be halted , or swamped in a black mass , unless earlier generations decline and make room for their successors . |