Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [verb] [adv] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He worked for the British Ministry of Information in New York during 1915 , returning to England in 1916 to enlist with the Irish Guards , but was wounded and invalided out in 1917 . |
| 2 | Limbs caught and held stiffly in awkward attitudes jerked into life as if an electric current had been applied to them . |
| 3 | The caterers told me yesterday that they 've got thirty thousand people being wined and dined here in this tented village over the three days . |
| 4 | We need to see the process as a series of opportunities to be exploited and carried forward in good faith . |
| 5 | On the other hand , pieces of DNA are continually being separated and brought together in new combinations . |
| 6 | The sentence and punishment is decided and carried out in private . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , the line was built and opened officially in 1868 and there were plans to extend it to Bala by tunnelling under the mountains . |
| 8 | From now on , every rehearsal should be arranged and set up in this way , so that your band will sound the same every time you rehearse . |
| 9 | The first book , A Plea for the Faithful Restoration of our Ancient Churches , was based on a lecture that he had given and came out in 1850 . |
| 10 | The application of sophisticated mathematical techniques and other Blue Skies approaches in engineering may come about through collaboration , but the important point to realise is that once formal or rigorous methods have been developed and applied successfully in one field of engineering , they may be applicable , suitably modified , to others and perhaps lead to more reliable specifications and designs in general . |
| 11 | There is rather more to it than that , of course , for it brings together several novel technical features that KEF have developed and proven separately in other models over the years , the most recent being what they term Uni-Q , a two-way coincident drive unit featured in the current ‘ Q ’ range . |
| 12 | Given the likelihood of a rich set of different types of molecule , including carbon compounds , the question arises of whether life could have developed and exist today in such regions . |
| 13 | Some were built by lairds for their own estates , or by burghs for the benefit of their citizens , to provide fresh meat during winter when , before the introduction of turnips as winter fodder , cattle had to be slaughtered and salted down in wooden tubs . |
| 14 | Cos that 's where my father was born and brought up in that old house . |
| 15 | ‘ They are born and brought up in this country and subject to peer group pressure from the dominant culture in the 16–24 age group . ’ |
| 16 | This raises questions regarding the extent to which the standardised scores provide a useful basis of comparison for children born and brought up in this country . |
| 17 | I was born and brought up in this town and I thought and hoped my future was here . |
| 18 | There is still no sign of the 8000 Barzanl Kurds who ’ disappeared ’ after being seized and driven away in military vehicles . |
| 19 | The law of criminal procedure was reformulated and brought together in one ordinance , and a penal code partly based on Indian law was adopted . |
| 20 | Elaborating further , the declaration noted : " UN peacekeeping tasks have increased and broadened considerably in recent years . |
| 21 | The analogy may be of Britain gaining an Empire by accident , and then losing it ; this century , town planning has expanded its subject field , as disciplinary boundaries first collided and then were realigned , at a time when the nature of complex environmental problems was reidentified and expressed again in different terms . |
| 22 | I 've lots of ideas for these , but as they are all quick to make I 've left them for next month when you have finished your special presents and they are neatly folded and packed away in all their glory of tissue paper and gold and silver ribbons . |
| 23 | And second , it must be conceived and laid out in such a way as to support existing shops and shopping streets . |
| 24 | These have to be tested and followed up in new lines of inquiry . |
| 25 | The attitudes are realised and represented in institutionalised and ritualised forms in which respect and contempt are tested and meted out in particular societies |
| 26 | It was read and did well in hard cover . |
| 27 | The simplest arrangement is apparent in the original building of the village school at Shawell , Leicestershire , the conversion of which is described and illustrated later in this chapter . |
| 28 | The teddy , judging by the state of one foot , had obviously been excessively loved : his cloth fur had been hugged and stroked away in many places . |