Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Firstly , a hemisphere difference in the rate at which information is encoded and/or read out from some sensory representation of the stimulus should be revealed by a differential effect of masking in left and right visual fields since the presumed effect of the mask is to prevent any further processing .
2 Burrows and Hunter 's research indicates that many landlords are trying to force pre-1988 tenants out of their properties so that they can either move in new tenants , sell with vacant possession or sell on to other landlords .
3 But the beats are divided or shared out into three .
4 I would have thought the labour market conditions are also a vital ingredient if profitability is to be passed on or shared out in higher wages .
5 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 .
6 The minerals may simply be absent or present in negligible amounts , either naturally , through exhaustion by previous crops , or leached out by climatic conditions .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 The ten most frequently occurring ( from a corpus frequency count ) are ordered and can either be presented to the user , or passed on to further stages of analysis , depending upon the implementation .
10 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 .
11 In the event of non-compliance , in English law , an action can be brought for breach of contract or tort up to six years after the date of the event , as laid down in the Limitation Act 1980. [ 1 ] Documents that originate through the existence of the contract and evidence the events arising under the contract should therefore be maintained for that six year period .
12 Fix the doctor or nurse up with white coats , stethoscope and little lights of the kind used for looking in ears .
13 In a similar vein , Dr M in Department B said that the first year is concerned with ‘ settling in and acquiring practice , and acquiring a certain body of common reading which can then be appealed to or built on in subsequent years ’ .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 ;
17 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 ;
18 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 ;
19 Mrs Bottomley , who is planning to close or merge up to 15 London hospitals , said she was ‘ most impressed ’ with her mother 's treatment .
20 The little town was packed with milling crowds , but many of these were parents , come to collect their sons ' wages before they either went back to work or moved on to another farm .
21 A future investment activity not specifically relevant to the current context is the establishment , operation or winding up of collective investment schemes .
22 Effective measurement requires detailed knowledge of the properties of phenomena which are to be reflected or mapped on to some mathematical system .
23 '68 — jeans either simply rolled up or cut off at required above-boot height — though some were worn instep length by some .
24 Most of the women in the British version are either photographed naked or written about with regrettable machomisogyny .
25 Various aspects of the parties ' life , resources , and activities will be helpful to them in the conflict , but many of these are resources and activities that they will have possessed or engaged in or wished to posses or to engage in in any case , even if they did not take part in the contest .
26 Service and maintain filter media by cleaning regularly — gravel syphon or wash out in warm tank water
27 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 .
28 New words are coined or borrowed or made out of combined parts from existing words ; the meanings of old words gradually shift .
29 Cards and boxes can either be bought from a stationer or made out of ordinary file paper and shoe boxes !
30 Under this pressure , all ordinary human ambivalence and doubt is outlawed : adopters become guilty or angry when the relationship does not proceed according to the fantasy or reality of ordinary parenting ; children suppress their fantasies of an alternative life with birth parents — or hold on to that fantasy all the more tenaciously — and birth mothers , in particular , are pushed into a denial of their own experience and feelings .
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