Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [verb] [adv] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they collided , the sedimentary deposits around them were squeezed and rucked up to form new mountain ranges . |
| 2 | The bridges were awesome in their fragility and ill-repair : loose plates of iron rattled and slipped away to reveal brief visions of dark and menacing deeps , filled no doubt with crocodiles , man-eating fish and swimming snakes . |
| 3 | However , as stated previously , it is only for the purposes of discussion that any AL can be considered on its own ; in reality , the various activities are closely related and do not have distinct boundaries . |
| 4 | But eels are seldom seen and do n't provide much sport . |
| 5 | But because of its size as a market it has snowballed and grown outwards to join surrounding towns to form the conurbation of Greater Manchester . |
| 6 | Some 35,000 spent fuel assemblies are stored on land and at sea , in dumps that are overfilled and do not meet international standards . |
| 7 | What … has never taken place is an epistemological critique at the most fundamental level of the connection between the development of a historicism which has expanded and developed enough to include antithetical attitudes such as ideologies of Western imperialism and critiques of imperialism on the one hand , and on the other , the actual practice of imperialism by which the accumulation of territories and population , the control of economies , and the incorporation and homogenisation of histories are maintained . |
| 8 | A month later came their second album , ‘ Levelling The Land ’ , which was well received and has now sold 200 , copies in the UK alone , giving it double gold status . |
| 9 | They tolerate most soils so long as they are well drained and do not lie wet in winter and would prefer a sheltered position away from the worst of the winter 's cold winds . |
| 10 | All this is not to suggest that political advantage has not had and does not have any effect on the conduct of macro policy , but rather that the evidence and theory presented is consistent with its having a small rather than dominating impact . |
| 11 | But cautious councillors demanded that all coal-laden rail wagons leaving the site should be fully enclosed and washed down to avoid spreading dust . |
| 12 | Powergen was given the go-ahead for the Gladstone Dock facility earlier this year , but councillors demanded that all coal-laden rail wagons leaving the site should be fully enclosed and washed down to avoid spreading coal dust . |
| 13 | They simply point to the fact that language is being produced and do not involve any questions of psychological reality . |
| 14 | With one exception previous studies of acute renal failure were renal unit based and did not include those patients who were not referred for specialist opinion . |
| 15 | A few doors away I watched for half an hour through a film of sunlit flour motes as a small , soft mass of dough was miraculously spun and flung out to cover six-foot squares of sacking by two whirling , wizened old men . |
| 16 | While wandering in the Rockies on horseback in 1939 , he heard that war had been declared and returned home to join two of his brothers ( William and Hugh ) in the Scots Guards . |
| 17 | In preparation for the interview , the braggart should think of all the uncomfortable , difficult questions he or she might be asked and set about preparing honest answers to them . |
| 18 | They concede that the Church 's policy of rotating the Moderator every year can pose some difficulties for broadcasters and newspapers in terms of availability and profile , but they argue that this can be overcome and does not explain all the recent exclusions from discussions . |
| 19 | The present accommodation at Bohunt is cramped and does not afford sufficient privacy . |
| 20 | He was nineteen years of age and had only just qualified to receive the King 's shilling ; but now he was a couple of inches taller , shaved and had even come near to losing his virginity . |
| 21 | There was no significant difference in severity of disease between the groups who had obtained and had not obtained higher qualifications . |
| 22 | To avoid this the slurry can be agitated and treated aerobically using one of the commercial aerators available ensuring intimate mixing with air . |
| 23 | Avoid Blackgang Chine which is over-commercialised and continue on to see some of the other chines — dramatic fissures in the cliff faces — such as Whale , Walpen and Shepherd 's Chine . |
| 24 | A chemical breakdown can be achieved by the addition of any readily available nitrogen source such as sulphate of ammonia , or Nitro-chalk , but these soluble salts can inhibit bacterial action and the end-product is not so well balanced and does not produce such good results . |