Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , insects and land snail shells are identified , sorted and quantified in the same way as animal and plant remains . |
| 2 | Business letters and enquiries for the attention of the management or various departments should be date stamped , sorted and distributed to the appropriate departments immediately upon arrival . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The teacher could provide containers ( boxes , drawers , jars , etc. ) , perhaps labelled with colour pictures , so that equipment can be sorted and put in the right place . |
| 5 | The cash flows should be classified by operating , investing and financing activities , and the components of cash and cash equivalents should be disclosed and reconciled to the equivalent amounts in the balance sheet . |
| 6 | The small device which enables Canned Draught Guinness to pour as if from a pub fount looks simple , but well over 100 techniques were designed and tested before the final development of the patented in-can system . |
| 7 | Mr Hughes believes it is the only such electronic game aimed at an adult market and the only one not designed and manufactured in the Far East . |
| 8 | An appropriate performance metric is required and has since been designed and applied to the original results , to reveal more objective patterns in the data ; |
| 9 | The original Superspec was designed and built in the late 80s in a joint venture between Wimpey Homes , Wimpey Environmental and the Building Research Energy Conservation Support Unit ( BRECSU ) to look at ways of reducing the amount of energy needed to run a home . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But only the genuine Toyota part is designed and engineered to the same high standards of quality as the original equipment . |
| 12 | Both productions are designed and directed by the same team responsible for last year 's successful production of IOLANTHE . |
| 13 | the date when the total quantity of petroleum won and saved from the original 8.62608 per cent interest in the Ninian field attributable to the Group reaches 120 million barrels ; or |
| 14 | Between £60 and £70 million will be won and lost on the Grand National ; a fortune riding on 40 horses . |
| 15 | This principle applies in full force in dealing with the harmonic idioms of the present day , in which discords are approached and quitted with the utmost freedom , and there is often little or no feeling of resolution at all , for there must always be ‘ part-writing ’ and the notes must ‘ go somewhere ’ and not be left in the air , so to speak , even if the progressions are not in accord with nineteenth-century harmonic notions . |
| 16 | Pine logs crackled and snapped in the small fireplace and warming dishes stood on stands at either end of the great writing desk . |
| 17 | Electricity crackled and flashed in the whole relationship , and in Vincent Van Gogh 's body , and brain . |
| 18 | for example , to solve any design problem there has at some stage to be a switch from systems thinking to thinking in terms of physical entities because these are the things that can be created , precisely located and manipulated in the real world . |
| 19 | In the three Baltic republics and in Georgia it had been decided that to participate would be to acknowledge Soviet constitutional legitimacy , thereby forfeiting the key argument in their independence campaigns , namely that they had been illegally occupied and annexed to the Soviet Union . |
| 20 | For the scientific sections , there are merely notes and abstracts of papers , which nevertheless occupy 176 pages ; they are separately paginated and indexed from the formal reports , which makes these publications confusing to cite . |
| 21 | Even worse has been a lack of any forward planning to see how the systems should have been installed and integrated with the existing hardware and software . |
| 22 | Once complete , the engines can be lifted and placed onto the venerable Doane test-bed and rolled outside ready for Larry to begin his monitoring work again . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | She lay beside her uncle , her brother , and several near neighbours , the fresh earth of the recent interment scattered and scuffed about the leaf-strewn path of the Necropolis , city of the dead . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In the official English-language biography of Nicolae Ceauşescu , published in 1983 , the subject was broached and settled in the following inimitable way : ’ ‘ I would like to ask you , ’ a journalist from abroad [ in fact Le Figaro ] asked the Romanian Head of State , — ‘ what is the role of Madame Elena Ceauşescu , who is not only your wife , but also a person with a political function : she is First Deputy prime Minister ? ' ’ |
| 29 | In the first section the risk and accident judgment results are reported and compared with the on-road judgments from Study 1 . |
| 30 | Joshua Nkomo , leader of ZAPU , now dissolved and merged with the ruling party , was reappointed one of three Senior Ministers in the President 's Office and was expected to be made vice-president along with Simon Muzenda under forthcoming legislation providing for the creation of two vice-presidencies with equal rank . |