Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] or [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the problems with the stream situation was that those pupils who found themselves in the bottom streams , who found that they were perhaps not regarded so highly or so positively by their teachers , tended to respond with misbehaviour in their classes , with occasionally vandalism around the school and generally a negative attitude towards the school and their teachers in general , and the immediate effect of the mixed ability grouping was to eradicate behavioural problems of that kind almost entirely . |
| 2 | Things are not altered so quickly or coarsely by common people as they are by fashionable people … |
| 3 | The legal method involves the effort to apply rules fairly without regard to the comparative political and military strengths of the disputants , so that the goal of order is approached only obliquely or indirectly in the actual judicial process . |
| 4 | yeah — i think he is good enough for the premiership — and he will surely be picked up sooner or later . |
| 5 | It 's very difficult at this moment to say we 're not talking about finished stock you know , you 're gon na get fluctuations on product , but what worries me , I do n't know at this stage how many tonnes of bone meal we 've got stashed away somewhere or how many tonnes of compost maker we 've got stacked anywhere for use in the pre-pack . |
| 6 | Many were Shadwell 's acquaintances , people he 'd met only once or twice . |
| 7 | Although the picture he gives is over-simplified it is thought out clearly and could scarcely be presented more lucidly or vividly . |
| 8 | Whether they can be mapped seismically within or below thrust sheets is more of a problem , but it is one that the industry seems confident of defeating in other parts of the world . |
| 9 | In conditions where this relationship is seen as more or less totally fulfilling , a child — or at any rate , a number of children — may be envisaged as interfering with it . |
| 10 | She 'd find out soon enough , he 'd said gravely once or twice , and that was it . |
| 11 | As with 28 , situations can be imagined in which the questions in 30 and 31 can be truthfully answered either negatively or positively : |
| 12 | But , on reaching there , no vestige nor any sign of any material ship was to be seen either near or away to the horizon . |
| 13 | In addition , the making of false statements ( whether in adverts or otherwise ) which are made either knowingly or recklessly may give rise to a criminal prosecution under section 14(1) Trade Descriptions Act 1968 . |
| 14 | Furthermore , provided Ms Jones 's original statement reserving room 214 was made either knowingly or recklessly an offence under s.14 Trade Descriptions Act 1968 has been committed . |
| 15 | Here and in the United States , most experts now agree that a doctor is not obliged either ethically or legally to continue treatment when it 's refused or is useless or has become a burden to the patient . |
| 16 | So do n't hesitate to ask questions or , or discuss points which you feel erm have not be made very clearly or perhaps with which you do n't even agree . |
| 17 | This can be done in various ways , most of which can be found in eighteenthand early nineteenth-century fiction , but not used so artfully or extensively . |
| 18 | Analysis that is performed only occasionally or perhaps in one batch does not lend itself to the statistical interpretation underlying conventional QC systems . |
| 19 | When evening came , or rather when lousing-time came ( lousing-time was when the day 's work was over and the horses were loosened from the yoke ) , they were then handed over more or less to us children . |
| 20 | How do consumers know whether their veal was produced inhumanely abroad or humanely in this country ? |
| 21 | ‘ Mister , you would n't really get rid of a poor girl who 's got no 'ome or fam'ly , would you ? |
| 22 | Pyridinoline and deoxypyrolidine are found in collagens I , II , III , and IX , so both are found in extracellular matrix collagen crosslinks , while deoxypyrolidine is more common than pyridinoline in type I bone collagen crosslinks : the ratio of pyridinoline:deoxypyrolidine is 3.5:1 in bone collagen as opposed to 10:1 in other collagens. – 9 Released as a result of bone degradation , these markers can be measured either singly or together ( to derive a pyridinoline:deoxypyrolidine ratio ) by high performance liquid chromatography with fluorescene detection in 24 hour urine specimens and correlate well with rates of bone resorption . |
| 23 | Within their concept of stress or strain — often used either together or interchangeably by respondents , carers could include anxiety , fear , irritation , tension , despondency , etc . |
| 24 | Prostaglandin H 2 is an unstable compound which has a half-life of approximately five minutes , and once formed is rapidly transformed either enzymically or non-enzymically to the classical prostaglandins , prostaglandin D 2 , E 2 and F&sub2α ; . |
| 25 | Intimacy and nurturing do not have to be advanced either secretly or privately . |
| 26 | The notion of educational ‘ stages ’ is useful as long as it is not interpreted too rigidly or schematically ( Squires 1989a ) . |
| 27 | The implication is that the dead king 's household had stayed together more or less formally and that these were the servants into whose care Edward V was given — an approach consonant with Gloucester 's apparent desire to preserve the status quo . |
| 28 | The implication is that the dead king 's household had stayed together more or less formally and that these were the servants into whose care Edward V was given — an approach consonant with Gloucester 's apparent desire to preserve the status quo . |
| 29 | This true/false logic holds for the whole range of autonomizing fields , in the sense that aesthetic , scientific , normative , and legal statements can be understood as more or less valid . |
| 30 | Significant works which have appeared in Latin America have not yet been translated ; and the Asian studies published are still provisional and have thus not contributed either substantively or ideologically to communication studies in the South . |