Example sentences of "[adj] or [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early reports showed reduced concentrations of IgM , but later studies showed normal or even raised immunoglobulin concentrations . |
| 2 | If the parents do not know what has happened they should either not interfere in the upset or equally attribute blame knowing that a row can not happen without two parties being involved . |
| 3 | Abnormalities that may occur in poorly or newly diagnosed diabetes are shown in Table 4.2 ; these include increased VLDL and LDL levels in all types of diabetes as already mentioned , but with good diabetic control both these abnormalities may completely resolve ( Nikkila & Hormila , 1978 ; Lisch & Sailer , 1981 ) . |
| 4 | When the target atom in an XPS experiment is in a gas-phase molecule , the ejected photoelectron can escape freely , though even here it may lose some energy as it departs , exciting or even ionizing valence electrons in the process . |
| 5 | The vast bulk of these acts involved insecure or improperly adjusted fencing of dangerous machinery , inadequate precautions against fire and explosion , as well as failure to inspect equipment and maintain healthy work conditions . |
| 6 | Circumstances and what may amount to encouragement by the victim may sometimes mitigate the offence and , particularly under such conditions , impulsive or specifically planned rape is no more than an offence — it can hardly be thought of as deviant in the true sense of the word . |
| 7 | Most seed is best sown in trays of either multi-purpose or preferably seed compost . |
| 8 | Some 22 per cent of those actually voting cast blank or deliberately spoiled ballot papers , a slightly higher figure than usual ( voting was compulsory until the age of 60 ) . |
| 9 | Pound was in all seriousness embarked on an epic poem ( which he defined , following of all unlikely authorities Rudyard Kipling , as ‘ the tile of the tribe ’ ) ; he could not and did not expect understanding from readers who supposed that the epic poem had died in the seventeenth century if not before , whose expectations therefore were conditioned by their experience of the brief or else extended lyric . |
| 10 | The procedures for setting up matings in response to natural or experimentally induced ovulation ( superovulation ) are dealt with in Chapter 1 , Section 5 . |
| 11 | Pasture , especially natural or long established pasture , acts like a biological sponge , holding large amounts of nitrate . |
| 12 | Thus the education of a king 's son was supposed to include learning to sleep in a hard or badly made bed to prepare him for the rigours of a life of non-stop , and sometimes unexpected , movement . |
| 13 | Certainly most small organizations can not afford elaborate or rigidly devised appraisal schemes . |
| 14 | According to Annett ( 1975 ) the incidence of left or right sided speech representation among sinistrals should be considered a function of the proportion of sinistrals in the population at large . |
| 15 | Some elders may have been obliged to be attached to objects or routines which in some way were exploitative , oppressive or otherwise caused suffering . |
| 16 | It does not matter whether the purpose is to educate or edify , to corrupt or simply to make money . |
| 17 | But the allocation of library resources between subjects does not necessarily follow a logical or easily summarized method . |
| 18 | By the end of the 19th century the nude or partially draped figure was still of central importance to sculpture , and the arena in which the sculptor 's skill and intellect would be measured . |
| 19 | Where surrogate parents are unavailable , residential homes should be both small in size and fully integrated into the community as a whole , whether they be for short or long stay care , for children or adults . |
| 20 | The emphasis is placed upon the use of personal and professional skills , and taking all possible steps to protect staff in situations where physical or verbally expressed aggression is likely to arise . |
| 21 | For example , the cost and keep of a guide dog would be recoverable by a blind or partially sighted plaintiff . |
| 22 | A great writer can have , at a particular time , a pernicious or merely deadening influence ; and this influence can be most effectively attacked by pointing out those faults which ought not to be copied , and those virtues any emulation of which is anachronistic . |
| 23 | He is not talking about any one of these great writers ( his devotion to Browning was well advertised ) but about , in Eliot 's words , the ‘ pernicious or merely deadening influence ’ that ‘ a great writer can have , at a particular time ’ . |
| 24 | Is your money actually growing or merely marking time ? |
| 25 | Of granite , which he has used in dressings around the doors and windows , he wrote : ‘ Especial care is required to make the mouldings of a broad , bold and massive , rather than a small or delicately undercut character , and to avoid as far as possible anything like minuteness and pettiness in the finish . ’ |
| 26 | Light and portable products both chemical and equipment are best controlled by assembling them into ‘ kits ’ , ready for use in an improvised or specially provided container . |
| 27 | As a result , the initating member has been asked to contact the participating member to elicit general or specifically defined acquisition advisery assistance , which could take the form of : |
| 28 | Even at the time it seemed to me that it was pointless to be vindictive or even to allot responsibility for such happenings . |
| 29 | Thick , strong continental-margin crust will be associated with either slow or recently initiated subduction since in neither case would there be sufficient heating for melting of the upper surface of the downgoing lithosphere . |
| 30 | Of more immediate concern to governments and , it seemed , likely to produce much quicker and more clearly identifiable results , were the growing efforts which many of them were now making to use for their own purposes the new or greatly strengthened force of the newspaper press . |