Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Pine logs crackled and snapped in the small fireplace and warming dishes stood on stands at either end of the great writing desk . |
| 4 | Electricity crackled and flashed in the whole relationship , and in Vincent Van Gogh 's body , and brain . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This was rebuilt and served as the German Embassy during the Nazi occupation of Prague . |
| 8 | Yet in their intensity , their beauty and their perfection , Werner Bischof 's photographs speak of a life that was at all times deeply considered and lived to the full . |
| 9 | It was moved by Francis Maginn who told his audience that in almost every state of America , in addition to a National Society , there was an Association of deaf mutes organised and officered by the prominent deaf themselves , whereas in the United Kingdom , where there were about twenty thousand deaf , there was neither a regional nor a national organisation . |
| 10 | Darlington could hardly have made a worse start , goalkeeper Mark Prudhoe and his fellow defenders standing frozen to the spot as Preece smartly turned and shot into the top left corner in the ninth minute . |
| 11 | Then the Germans turned and walked across the empty concrete to the rumbling Dornier . |
| 12 | In part that might be explained in terms of the powers of resistance possessed by the bureaucracies under attack , so that whatever change is proposed it is soon absorbed and reinterpreted by the very groups it is intended to undermine . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Dahl for much of the time in Dresden , in the same house as the German Romantic painter Caspar David Griedrich , and both were dazzled and bewitched by the golden luminosity of Italy . |
| 15 | John Bland , as amiable a sportsman as one would wish to meet , is naturally disturbed and disheartened by the increasing number of tournaments in which he , as a South African , can not compete . |
| 16 | All 40 outstanding documents were duly written and agreed by the Bulgarian Nuclear safety Authority in time for execution . |
| 17 | When this particular work was added to the Board 's remit , it was our intention to offer the church advice under our social interest section and important reports were prepared and submitted to the general assembly and accepted . |
| 18 | Having coded the behaviour , a simple pairwise correlation analysis for 50 variables gives a matrix of 1225 unique combinations to mull over : a psychological Rubik cube to be twisted and turned in the grim hope that some sort of pattern will emerge . |
| 19 | Advertising and public relations can try to improve or change the image of a client but this is always limited by the nature of how the reputation was built and earned in the first place and how the client will really act in the future . |
| 20 | There it was collected and served by the Imperial 's own staff to the rest of the guests . ’ |
| 21 | The tired rabbits fed and basked in the sunny meadow as though they had come no further than from the bank at the edge of the near-by copse . |
| 22 | The crowd , jubilant at President Fidel Ramos ' decision to allow the body 's return , pushed and shouted as the 727 jet , which bore an image of Marcos and the words ‘ I am a Filipino , ’ taxied to the terminal . |
| 23 | Behind them twenty-eight rank and file Lionisers exclaimed and marvelled at the quaint harbour beneath them , their thoughts torn between Dickens and murder . |
| 24 | The object of the authoring tool is to make it possible for the user to concentrate just on the information and design requirements of an application rather being diverted and befogged by the technical problems of putting them together in a system that works . |
| 25 | The plane was painted and repainted over the next 20 years with each change of ownership or brand of gasoline . |
| 26 | She laughed , as the fat will , whilst nurses gathered and tutted over the sliding weights . |
| 27 | Like the less diplomatically suave authority , Theodore Haecker , whom Eliot was at times glad to call on , the author of Four Quartets and editor of The Criterion required us to take Virgil as , above all , the author of the Fourth Eclogue , the pagan poet who prophesied Christianity , whose vision of human history must accordingly be seen as completed and vindicated by The Divine Comedy . |
| 28 | Unconditional love is precisely what is given and received in the Anonymous Fellowships and the application of reality as the standard by which sufferers need to live serves gradually to clear away the confusion caused by addictive disease . |
| 29 | In 1986 Farmers ' Weekly described the difficulties now overtaking land on the Isle of Grain in north Kent , where permanent pasture was drained and ploughed in the 1960s and early 1970s . |
| 30 | The dead snakes were crushed and suffocated by the sheer weight of their fellows . |