Example sentences of "and [noun] and [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report describes how in recent years hundreds of political activists or suspected activists , including prisoners of conscience , have been subjected to arbitrary arrest and torture and sentenced after unfair trials . |
| 2 | In the small , square grave-yard , tangled with bramble and escalonia and overgrown with rank grass and nettles , a hole was dug for her among the bones of former generations ; bones of old women and men scarcely yet forgotten were turned up to make a place for her among them . |
| 3 | He would like to reproduce for his customers a certain dish of sliced potatoes and artichoke hearts baked with olive oil and garlic and scented with wild thyme . |
| 4 | The first major test of the APT was carried out by Roll and Ross and published in 1980 . |
| 5 | Taking a photograph , I had stepped forward onto nothing and found myself flying through the air , cartwheeling like a rag doll , striking sharp edges and corners and buffeted by hard objects . |
| 6 | Whilst these original materials are no longer available , with the exception of red sanguine , modern equivalents in the form of crayons , chalks and pastels and made from related materials , are on sale in most art shops . |
| 7 | He was a good public speaker and organiser and endowed with extraordinary energy . |
| 8 | And then the plate , piled high with sprouts and potatoes and gravy and topped with succulent slices of perfectly roasted breast of chicken , coated with a crispy surface of parsley , pepper and thallium , would land before Mrs Farr . |
| 9 | ‘ Over the past few years , we have noticed that the buying strength for modern and contemporary Chinese paintings executed in Western media namely oil on canvas and sculpture and influenced by Western painting , had the strongest following among Taiwanese collectors . |
| 10 | This is a fine book with a message for nutritional physiologists and ecologists , well illustrated with clear figures and diagrams and written in simple direct style . |
| 11 | Before he had put his beads away he was in search of pen and paper and spent till late writing to Maggie . |
| 12 | The creatures might pass for terrestrial were it not for the thick twisted cable-like sensors which connect head and tail and run on either side of the body , lending a machine-like appearance . |
| 13 | These , however , are indicated in scores and livrets and noted by contemporary writers on opera performance . |
| 14 | On the other side of the road , to Wycliffe 's left , the ground rose fairly steeply , and it was on this slope , covered with gorse and heather and strewn with huge boulders , that the Ballards had their home . |
| 15 | The foreground is usually a relatively coarse aquatint and is printed in umber , a more delicate aquatint is used for the distance and sky and printed in prussian blue . |
| 16 | Small numbers of Highlanders had been recruited to serve as scouts and guides and installed in four fortified barracks , each with a garrison of 30 . |
| 17 | The peptic activity of mucosal homogenates was determined in an assay at pH 2.0 by the method of Anson and Mirsky and expressed as specific activity ( IU/mg protein ) ; aliquots of mucosal homogenates assayed by this method were considered as representing total peptic activity . |
| 18 | ‘ Every step in the labour process is divorced , so far as possible , from special knowledge and training and reduced to simple labour . |
| 19 | They also need furniture , bedding , towels and clothing , separated for men , women , children and babies and labelled as top clothes , undergarments , jumpers etc. and , as he is trying to organise some basic schooling for the many children , he needs paper , pens and pencils . ’ |
| 20 | Reports that reached Amnesty International in September and October indicated that more than 2,000 people , many of them civilians , have been rounded up in southern cities and towns and transferred to unknown destinations . |
| 21 | The employees then went on to David , who tested heart and lungs and talked to each of them to ascertain whether there were any personal anxieties that might affect their role in management . |
| 22 | It is entirely modern and in its environs are many residential villas embowered in trees and shrubs and surrounded by beautiful gardens , ’ reads a guide to the Lakes of the 1900s . |