Example sentences of "[verb] and [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have to learn to communicate and that means conquering our fear of that process . |
| 2 | To one side , just in view , stood a magnificent funerary couch , the grey stone of its side engraved with images of gardens and pavilions in which ancient scholars sat enthroned while the women of the household wove and prepared food , sang or played the ancient p'i p'a . |
| 3 | Each heap was sorted and subdivided . |
| 4 | In Germany , municipal waste can be landfilled only after being sorted and processed ; in France , tough new landfill standards have recently been introduced ; in Britain , higher standards for new landfills ( although not for existing ones ) are being introduced under the terms of the 1990 Environmental Protection Act . |
| 5 | The warehouse looked neat and tidy with all the stock now sorted and listed and as he looked around William sighed to himself . |
| 6 | However we soon were sorted and ready . |
| 7 | She would then , on the vague premise that they might meet , have had her words all sorted and ready , and would have told him that Rosemary , in the flat opposite … |
| 8 | They learn who the residents are , where they sleep and any particular problems which they might meet straight away . ’ |
| 9 | Early results of the DSR ( Dream State Reactivity ) — the so called , Night Jerk — research suggest the remarkable possibility that the inhibiting function of the DSD ( Dream Suppression Device ) , sometimes referred to as the ‘ Gateway ’ , may indeed be chemically overridden for periods as great as .073 of a second when the brain is in Dream Mode ; this state being identifiable by the usual REM ( Rapid Eye Movement ) sleep and related EEG brain rhythms . |
| 10 | Cumulatively the features we have examined represent the world of a child surrounded and overawed by dimly grasped presences , a world in which the meanings which shape our own response to life are dissolved and reconstituted . |
| 11 | This mother said that even in the midst of all the pain and trauma of her children being taken away , she had felt surrounded and safe in the love and support of the Quaker movement . |
| 12 | She did literally now , ever since that turn she 'd had a few months ago ; frightened of the stairs , the climb when the lifts did n't work , she rarely went out , but stayed surrounded and walled-in by belongings , old letters , cards , souvenirs scattered over the furniture . |
| 13 | Through anger , self-confidence , love and eventual forgiveness a difficult happiness is forged , not just for Celie but for those whom she loves and those who have abused her . |
| 14 | My mother was the one that used to struggle and many a time she 's gone without herself you know . |
| 15 | We care about the old age pensioners the poor the single parents and all those people who in a winter 's time are going to struggle and some are tragically going to fail to pay seventeen and a half percent V A T on fuel and heating bills . |
| 16 | The surface of this β- sheet is predominantly composed of charged side chains in both domains , but in domain 2 these are almost exclusively lysine and arginine residues which results in a very pronounced patch of basic potential ( Fig.3 e ) . |
| 17 | In fact you never really train a war boar , you just learn to hang on better while the creature goes crazy , goring and stamping , twisting and biting , and generally causing as much damage as it can . |
| 18 | The growing girl did not see as much of her mother as she would have wished and less of her father . |
| 19 | Proteon 's announcement that it is splitting its business into two divisions ( one for adaptor boards and wiring centres ; the other for internetworking and intelligent hub systems ) is in line with what has been happening internally for some time , says Swan . |
| 20 | The Westborough , Massachusetts company is also splitting its business into two divisions , one for adaptor boards and wire centres , and the other for internetworking and intelligent hub systems . |
| 21 | The local and wide area networking company says that it intends to merge Adaptive with its Network Applications Division , which is to focus on the development and manufacturing of local area network , internetworking and broadband products . |
| 22 | In letters to both John Major and Ian Lang , the Scottish Secretary , he asked for the full cost to be disclosed and expressed concern over the waste of public money . |
| 23 | If the court considers that a matter has not been disclosed and that matter might have affected shareholders ' decisions on how to vote , it is unlikely to sanction the scheme ( see , for example , Re Jessel Trust Limited [ 1985 ] BCLC 119 and Re MB Group plc [ 1989 ] 5 BCC 684 ) . |
| 24 | In Spain shareholdings are not disclosed and structural barriers are a serious inhibition for contested bids . |
| 25 | It has to be said that it is an austere document which , although well designed and printed , offers little more than that for which it was intended . |
| 26 | The co-ordinator of the scheme , Miranda McKearney , said : ‘ We have found that libraries are keen to use Well Worth Reading because it offers designed and printed promotional material conceived by fellow librarians . |
| 27 | For James Tranter 28 , a wealthy interior designed and 27-year-old Kevin Swan , a successful , equally wealthy jazz musician , it 's the end of a long orgy of theft throughout London 's top stores , including Jaeger , Austin Reed and Blazer |
| 28 | Each yoke carries a properly designed and built-in PTT button , unlike some of the Jubilee clipped-on afterthoughts I have seen on a great many Wichita and Lock Haven singles , with the associated ‘ curly cable ’ disappearing behind the lower instrument panel . |
| 29 | He learned to knit clothes for himself and others , and on the wall of his Stuttgart home there hung a big , beautifully designed and stitched carpet which he made in 1952 while recovering from an illness . |
| 30 | Taking into account that the pump and heater is included in this price , I was pretty pleased with such a relatively-small outlay for what is a very well designed and competent filtration unit . |