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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Before that, however, periods of extension during the Permian and Mesozoic would presumably have rendered this sealing mechanism inoperative .
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He was, as a result, inoperative with women.
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If these are inoperative , a volcano will not erupt again.
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Such actions did not infringe the Corrupt Practice Acts but they did make them virtually inoperative .
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The recognition codes which the Simonova was broadcasting should not in theory render any platform completely inoperative .
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To the extent that these prudential rules vary the Right of Establishment tends to be inoperative .
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We can conjure them away only by observing things under conditions in which the cues to three-dimensional perception are inoperative .
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When the machine is playing back, the manual switch is inoperative .