Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [verb] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The detectors are now designed and constructed in a high- tec purpose-built 15,000 sq ft complex in Garland , a suburb of Dallas , Texas . |
| 2 | She was born in a cave beside Knaresborough 's mysterious Petrifying Well , delivered as lightening crackled and burned in a violent storm . |
| 3 | His shoulders lifted and fell in a huge exhalation of breath . |
| 4 | Today they are being rewired and repainted in a new livery , giving them a handsome appearance which belies their fifty years . |
| 5 | It is essential that all problems are reported and managed in a disciplined way . |
| 6 | Each partition contains space for a finite number of items which are added and deleted in a pre-defined order . |
| 7 | Until the seventeenth century many , even most , European frontiers were very vague , zones in which the claims and jurisdictions of different rulers and their subjects overlapped and intersected in a complex and confusing way . |
| 8 | She was caught and held in a firm warm grasp and she turned her face into a broad comforting shoulder as the blackness descended . |
| 9 | The customer base has to be broadened and internationalised in a profitable manner . |
| 10 | It is shaped and nurtured in a religious community , and its expression grows and develops through history . |
| 11 | Comfortable , easy to drive , attractively priced and finished in a solid , quality build , it 's already looming ever larger in the rear-view mirror of its rivals . |
| 12 | We found the poor animal securely tethered and hobbled in a small , dank stable . |
| 13 | When this happened , however , even the traditional features became more stereotyped because choreographers used only those which the audience could easily recognise and which were commonly seen and heard in a particular country . |
| 14 | All this time , her cries and weepings had so increased in volume and in duration ( sometimes she cried for five or six hours ) that she was forbidden to go to church , and had to be confessed and absolved in a private chapel . |
| 15 | The company say the Exec 90 can be built and stored in a one-car garage , and easily trailered . |
| 16 | The New Oxford English Dictionary Project requires a sophisticated and novel computer system to be built and commissioned in a short period of time . |
| 17 | This vision of justice , sought and organized in a simple day-to-day manner , sprang from the head 's experience , as he described it , of Division 10 in the Inner London Education Authority . |
| 18 | Comparable material on family farming practices in Finland has already been collected and analysed in a previous research project . |
| 19 | They were stopped and arrested in a brief operation involving thirty police . |
| 20 | In order that the design request can be formulated and handled in a systematic way , it is necessary to provide a structured data base in both site systems . |
| 21 | He became irate after his jacket was ripped and acted in a stupid and regrettable way . |
| 22 | The pioneering example here is a mammoth longitudinal study undertaken and described in a six volume work by Terman and his colleagues who , beginning in 1921 , selected a large group of so-called gifted children and then followed their progress over a period of thirty-five years . |
| 23 | Transmission teaching , or ‘ recitation teaching ’ as it is more commonly called in the United States , is so pervasive within the school system that it can easily be interpreted as the ‘ natural ’ or ‘ proper ’ way to teach , as a network of rules and procedures special to the teaching environment which must be learned , rehearsed and developed in a practical way by the new teacher in order to gain competent membership of the teaching community , and of the classroom order in particular . |
| 24 | This contained not only 110 unmounted intaglios , but also 17 more set in silver rings which formed part of a collection of 89 such rings ; all of them , together with other items of silver jewellery , bars of silver , scraps of gold and two implements , were enclosed and hidden in a small pot . |
| 25 | Person 2 would certainly not pay the higher price necessary to induce a competitive supplier to expand production beyond the output Q. Person 2 is thus a free-rider enjoying person 1 's purchase Q. And the total quantity privately produced and consumed in a competitive market lies below the socially efficient quantity Q * ; |
| 26 | Thatcher quickly ran some samples through , got the changes agreed and called in a local studio to re-do the artwork . |
| 27 | This same attitude has underlain much of the industrial conflict during this century , and was to Tawney , and others , a ‘ disgrace even it was explicable in terms of the evils sown and ripened in a 150 years of capitalist morality , ( see Norman Dennis and A. H. Halsey , English Ethical Socialism , Clarendon Press , Oxford , 1988 , p. 163 ) . |
| 28 | The Berlin Painter 's name-vase ( fig. 105 ) goes further still : two figures and an animal superposed and contained in a single complex but harmonious contour-line , a narrow strip of pattern below and an ivy-wreath between the handles above . |
| 29 | This computer programme comes with FINDPHONE and can be applied to the same data to select different types of data for different grammatical purposes , e.g. all words can be extracted and put in a separate file to add to your lexicon . |
| 30 | Author D H LAWRENCE was born and raised in a tiny Victorian terrace in the Nottinghamshire mining town of Eastwood . |