Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [verb] in 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Pine logs crackled and snapped in the small fireplace and warming dishes stood on stands at either end of the great writing desk . |
| 6 | Electricity crackled and flashed in the whole relationship , and in Vincent Van Gogh 's body , and brain . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ? ' ’ |
| 9 | The General Election may have come and gone in the Royal County of Berkshire , as it has everywhere else , yet for months prior to the political electioneering of recent weeks , one of Gt . |
| 10 | People had come and gone in the little crowd . |
| 11 | All the good timber had been felled and sold in the 1930s and saplings had quickly crowded out the original vistas . |
| 12 | She had crossed it once before , but she knew it would be much more risky today , because the recent heavy rains would have made the surface gluey , and if she slipped or made a false step she might find herself caught and held in the treacly morass of the marsh . |
| 13 | It is not surprising , therefore , that recent Marxist explanations of power in capitalist society have tried to explain the more pluralistic modern forms of representation and policy-making in terms , not of some devious desire by the ruling class and their friends but as a limited freedom for actors and forces opposed to capitalism , which is constrained and limited in the last instance by the economic structure of the capitalist mode of production and its ideological hegemony . |
| 14 | PERT and CPM are valuable when planning a project as they help the planner to ensure that all jobs have been considered and placed in the right logical sequence . |
| 15 | PERT and CPM are valuable when planning a project as they help the planner to ensure that all jobs have been considered and placed in the right logical sequence . |
| 16 | On completion the repair is primed and painted in the normal way . |
| 17 | On completion the repair is primed and painted in the normal way . |
| 18 | The gas given off was purified and stored in the familiar gasholder , ready for use . |
| 19 | Rather , in Gilroy 's words : New types of class relations are being shaped and reproduced in the novel economic conditions which we inhabit . |
| 20 | For although teachers will find descriptions in dictionaries and grammars of immense value as sources of reference , ultimately it will be up to them to decide on how theoretical ideas are to be applied and evaluated in the pedagogic treatment of language . |
| 21 | Jack heard him whistling , ‘ Mabel dear , listen here ’ under the stars and then as the shadow was absorbed and lost in the many tree shadows , the whistle too faded and there was no sound but the gentle chatter of the stream , the Kingsbrook that flowed everlastingly over its bed of thin round stones . |
| 22 | The tall bamboo thickets fringing the narrow river rattled and groaned in the faint breeze as the file of men moved cautiously through the half-light beneath the dense overhead foliage . |
| 23 | It never reaches the heights of drama , of aesthetic beauty , of religious experience that is felt and seen in the contemporary cathedrals and churches of France , Germany and England . |
| 24 | Artist John Piper , born in 1903 , has seen and participated in the major artistic movements and events of this century . |
| 25 | Everything I have seen and heard in the ensuing months reinforces my belief that drift-netting is a manifestation of an attitude which , unchecked , will in due course murder the only planet on which we can make our home . ’ |
| 26 | The first was probably written and used in the ninth century . |
| 27 | Upon receipt the form should be immediately dated and signed in the Received By and Date spaces . |
| 28 | Upon receipt the form should be immediately dated and signed in the Received By and Date spaces . |
| 29 | Upon receipt the form should be immediately dated and signed in the Received By and Date spaces . |
| 30 | Upon receipt the form should be immediately dated and signed in the Received By and Date spaces . |