Example sentences of "[verb] and [vb pp] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Enfield , the destination of our first day 's march , we were met and accompanied for the last mile by a procession of Catholic parishioners . |
| 2 | He is at present living in Belgrade , threatened and insulted for the public stand he is taking , his phone tapped . |
| 3 | New job descriptions hasve been written , personnel selected and trained for the new roles . |
| 4 | The diagrams which follow show the instruments which are selected and used for the desired performance . |
| 5 | The oxygen evolved from the two samples can be collected and tested for the heavier isotope using a mass spectrometer . |
| 6 | Here they 're weighed and measured and checked for the early signs of malnutrition , cholera and smallpox . |
| 7 | About 60 per cent ignored accusations of womanising and voted for the 46-year-old governor of Arkansas , giving him a landslide win over President Bush . |
| 8 | Amongst the many works which were cleaned and restored for the large exhibition on Jusepe de Ribera now being held in the Castel Sant'Elmo and in the Certosa of San Martino in Naples ( until 17 May ) , are the twelve paintings of Prophets painted between 1638 and 1643 , in the spandrels above the chapel arches in the church of the Carthusian monastery . |
| 9 | 8 : As for high level wastes , no-one has demonstrated ( can they ? ) how these wastes can be safely isolated and guarded for the necessary one million years — a geological time span reaching out to our 40,000th generation … |
| 10 | If you can resist its obvious appeal , Dent can be quickly entered and left for the further reaches of the valley which , for me , has always held greater interest and excitement . |
| 11 | The old red brick police station was the site of the village lock-up until 1849 , when it was enlarged and used for the monthly petty sessions until 1899 . |
| 12 | When the NAAFI ran out of cups , the old dear was at her wits end and sent for the orderly corporal , who in turn sent for the orderly sergeant . |
| 13 | Here is a loft , in winter stored with hay , or corn , or fodder , for the cattle kept , now swept and fitted for the fiery dance . " |
| 14 | Here is a loft , in winter stored with hay , or corn , or fodder , for the cattle kept , now swept and fitted for the fiery dance . " |
| 15 | ‘ I certainly felt badly in need of a rest , having trained and played for the last two to three years virtually without a break . |
| 16 | The Orangemen could even talk to those trees ( the ones removed and replanted for the Papal visit in 1982 about which the parks department is still very sensitive and reluctant to comment ) on the basis that plants respond to music . |
| 17 | So she went on watching and noticed for the first time that Mrs Files had lovely hands , long-fingered , fine-textured , graceful in their mundane task . |
| 18 | The ratio between the integrated peak areas for each subunit was determined and corrected for the molecular mass of each subunit . |
| 19 | In September Lafayette took pride of place on the Stoddard Templeton stand at the Harrogate exhibition , the main retail carpet exhibition of the year , where it was officially launched and shown for the first time . |