Example sentences of "[prep] and [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BEDALE 'S Paul Holdroyd , a well-known figure on the North Yorkshire scene and president of Snape AC , has done what most anglers only dream of and invested in a guest house in southern Ireland . |
| 2 | That City is attacked in The Rock , but ‘ this London of ours ’ is also celebrated as a city to be worked for and redeemed by a Christianity sometimes remarkably primitive , a pared-down Christianity among the wild men , as a London church is seen as a ‘ House ’ built of |
| 3 | This means that at any frontier anywhere in the world a border official who has at his disposal a piece of equipment which is already widely and internationally available will be able instantaneously to record the personal details from a passport without the holder realising it , and the record will be automatically read into and stored by a computer . |
| 4 | Indeed , the fact that he had apparently used an editor from a Manchester newspaper for some of his purposes was latched onto and quoted as a sign that he was ‘ suspect ’ and ‘ disloyal ’ . |
| 5 | The common use of the rose in heraldry illustrates how deeply and firmly it became associated with and identified as a symbol of family arms and crest , class and dynasty . |
| 6 | EARLY-morning commuters on the A8 were simply minding their own business one day last week when they were set upon and assaulted by a driver who used all the remaining power of his ageing Vauxhall Senator to bludgeon his way in and out of traffic . |
| 7 | In these circumstances , as we were agreed that we had power to do so , we made an emergency order enabling her to be taken to and treated at a specialist hospital in London , notwithstanding the lack of consent on her part . |
| 8 | Anna was referred to and criticized in a number of publications until 1660 . |
| 9 | ( 2 ) The permitted hours for premises in respect of which a public house licence or a refreshment licence is in force shall be the period between eleven in the morning and half-past two in the afternoon and the period between five and eleven in the evening , except for Sundays when the permitted hours shall be the period between half-past twelve and half-past two in the afternoon and the period between half-past six and eleven in the evening but only in the case of premises in respect of which an application for Sunday opening has been made to and granted by a licensing board in accordance with the provisions of Schedule 4 to this Act , which shall have effect . |
| 10 | That there is aggression in work enterprises has been a phenomenon pointed to and discussed by a number of psychoanalysts . |
| 11 | As far as the programmer is concerned , data can be written to and read from a file a data item or a character ( byte ) at a time . |
| 12 | The image server may be equipped with optical disks — a high capacity but relatively low cost storage medium which is written to and read by a laser disk drive unit . |
| 13 | They can then be referred to and used as a tool to facilitate such activities as decision making , monitoring and evaluation . |
| 14 | In summer 1984 a Commission scientist wrote in Coal and Energy Quarterly , a journal funded by and used as a mouthpiece for the National Coal Board , that ‘ there is no damage [ in British conifers ] that can be defined as new ’ and ‘ the chances of similar damage [ to that in West Germany ] occurring here is considered low . ’ |