Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While persecution varies in intensity from country to country and over time within one country , I can think of no Marxist-Leninist government which has not as a matter of official policy harassed , discriminated against and persecuted religious minorities . |
| 2 | To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many schools in Hampshire have now applied for and achieved grant-maintained status ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 3 | Four schools in Hampshire have applied for and achieved grant-maintained status . |
| 4 | The values of when — is small will be written as and termed infinitesimal strains . |
| 5 | Graduates are widely sought after and experience little difficulty in securing employment with excellent career prospects . |
| 6 | For centuries , from Captain Cook and Conrad to Gauguin and Robert Louis Stevenson , westerners have fed upon and nurtured these myths . |
| 7 | For some people this is literally the first time they have thought about and felt sensual responses in their own body . |
| 8 | Under s178 , which applies to accounting periods ending on or before 30 September 1993 , when Target leaves the vendor 's capital gains tax group it will be treated as having disposed of and reacquired any assets it has acquired intra-group within the six-year period preceding the date it leaves the group . |
| 9 | The teachers would prescribe the topics to be dealt with and give some account of what the class had done previously . |
| 10 | Any work which demonstrated ancient Germanic culture was seized upon and given official patronage . |
| 11 | The note sets out how the figure has been arrived at and stresses any assumptions that are being made . |
| 12 | Held , allowing the appeal , that , where a creditor knew that security was being taken for the benefit of a debtor from a surety who was likely to be influenced by and to have some degree of reliance on the debtor , the creditor should seek to ensure that unfair advantage was not taken of the surety ; that , if the creditor failed to do so and the surety 's consent to the transaction was procured by the debtor 's undue influence or material misrepresentation or the surety lacked an adequate understanding of the nature and effect of the transaction , the security would be unenforceable ; that the bank knew that the defendants were husband and wife and that the wife was being asked to provide security for the husband 's business and was likely to rely on his judgment , and they should have ensured that she understood the nature and effect of the document which she was asked to sign ; and that , since the bank had failed to do so and had left it to the husband to explain the transaction , so that as a result of the husband 's misrepresentation the wife entered into the charge on the misunderstanding that her liability was limited to £60,000 , they could not enforce the charge against the wife save to the extent of £60,000 ( post , pp. 620C–G , 622F — 623C , D–F , 635G — 636F ) . |
| 13 | The background to all of this is knowledge on the part of the creditor that security is being taken from the surety for the benefit of the debtor and that the surety is a person who is likely to be influenced by and to have some degree of reliance on the debtor . |
| 14 | Hewlett-Packard Moscow head of representation Nick Rossiter says the contract is fully paid for and took 18 months to negotiate . |
| 15 | Parliaments are talking shops , while real power rests with the bureaucracy , police and military , controlled by and serving capitalist interests . |