Example sentences of "[verb] and [verb] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As part of the normal processes of a river , the stones in these shoals are neatly sorted and graded by the flowing water into an overlapping fish-scale pattern known as ‘ armouring ’ , which makes them relatively stable . |
| 2 | In particular , CEB engineers considered that stations designed and ordered by the separate municipalities and companies led to a proliferation of designs and a failure to gain the advantages of replication . |
| 3 | Both productions are designed and directed by the same team responsible for last year 's successful production of IOLANTHE . |
| 4 | In 1981 and 1982 the group had visited the test site with their ship the Vega and on the last occasion had been attacked and arrested by the French Navy as they attempted to enter the 12-mile territorial limit . |
| 5 | Why should the same multitude who invoked blessings on the son of David rejoice in seeing him mortified and humiliated by the hated Roman oppressors ? |
| 6 | His face moved continually , different expressions rippling and flowing across it as if he really were a sea creature , moved and swayed by the changing tide and currents in water , in continual motion — flickering from smile to grimace to pain to peace , eyelids half rising to reveal a sea-shell sightless crescent of pearly blue-white , lips parting then closing , breaths shuddering and shivering him as if air were too strong and coarse a medium . |
| 7 | That time lag is a feature that bedevils the software industry and led to the absurdity that the first generation 32-bit chip , the 80386 , had been superseded and obsoleted by the 80486 before there was a 32-bit desktop operating system available for the processor . |
| 8 | A staggering transformation has occurred in the course of the 20th Century in the ambit of statutory provisions regarding company accounts , as will be apparent to anyone who compares the exiguous provisions in the 1908 Act with the profusion of sections and Schedules in the Companies Act 1985 as amended , supplemented and re-arranged by the 1989 Act . |
| 9 | As a result of the ERA , this tradition has now been supplemented and extended by the statutory introduction of formal assessments at ages 7 , 11 , 14 and 16 . |
| 10 | When Leigh Fermor passed this way and was quizzed and befriended by the fair-haired girl Vasilio with the lamb slung round her neck , it was still a living community . |
| 11 | She had even been interviewed and photographed by the local paper . |
| 12 | A further deep-seated reason for neglect lies in the unforgiving attitudes of the general population towards criminals , which , although fostered and maintained by the British , existed long before and after they left ( cf. |
| 13 | It was for these qualities that he was so widely and profoundly respected and liked by the many many people whose love and sympathy will I am sure prove to you now an enormous uplift and support . |
| 14 | Mummies and Magic is organised and created by the same team which produced the Tutankhamun Exhibition in Dorchester , an exhibition which has received widespread acclaim . |
| 15 | It was moved by Francis Maginn who told his audience that in almost every state of America , in addition to a National Society , there was an Association of deaf mutes organised and officered by the prominent deaf themselves , whereas in the United Kingdom , where there were about twenty thousand deaf , there was neither a regional nor a national organisation . |
| 16 | Programmes should be arranged at times to suit those who are likely to attend and should be organised and tutored by the Continuing Education Department . |
| 17 | The exhibition is organised and circulated by the National Gallery of Canada in collaboration with the National Archives of Canada and includes more than 190 photographs . |
| 18 | One aid to liquidity is provided by stock lending facilities organised and guaranteed by the main clearing systems ( Euroclear and Cedel ) . |
| 19 | The rapid growth of film and media studies in colleges and schools has been dominated and shaped by the cultural theories of the left . |
| 20 | This kennel was owned and run by the famed German breeder Frau Marion Bruns . |
| 21 | Owned and run by the Wieser family , this truly traditional Tyrolean gasthof stands right in the centre of the village , against the impressive backdrop of the Wilder Kaiser mountains . |
| 22 | Owned and run by the same family since 1876 , this lovely 59 room hotel is only five minutes stroll from the town centre . |
| 23 | The Strasshofer is situated in the heart of Kitzbuhel , and has been owned and managed by the same family for over 300 years . |
| 24 | Several of the hotels and guest houses in the area have been owned and managed by the same families for generations , and a tradition of personal service has grown up . |
| 25 | The mine is run by the Tsumeb Corporation Limited ( TCL ) , owned and managed by the British company Consolidated Goldfields . |
| 26 | So many people rush to Minsmere Reserve , the deservedly popular showpiece owned and managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ; they tot up the number of species seen on the delectable lagoons and marshes — and forget other habitats in the county which also shelter rather special birds . |
| 27 | ( ‘ B.M.F.L. ’ ) is a wholly-owned Hong Kong subsidiary of Bank Bumiputra Malaysia Bhd. , an important bank , owned and controlled by the Malaysian Government . |
| 28 | All in all , a powerful voyage round our inadequacies by a Scotsman whose perceptions have undoubtedly been broadened and sharpened by the transatlantic philosophies of his company . |
| 29 | In part that might be explained in terms of the powers of resistance possessed by the bureaucracies under attack , so that whatever change is proposed it is soon absorbed and reinterpreted by the very groups it is intended to undermine . |
| 30 | In October 1346 , at Neville 's Cross , near Durham , they were met and defeated by the defensive forces of the region , the king of the Scots , David II , being taken prisoner . |