Example sentences of "and [verb] by a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were automatically members of a minority which was loathed and persecuted by a substantial section of society . |
| 2 | Such further offer shall be made in the same manner and limited by a like period as the original offer . |
| 3 | Such further offer shall be made in the same manner and limited by a like period as the original offer . |
| 4 | Antoine Bloye is not simply the story of the life of a father recounted and explained by a communist narrator for the edification of a son . |
| 5 | Make sure they know the most suitable clothes to wear , how to make the best of themselves while taking the opportunity to be seen and heard by a vast number of people . |
| 6 | Often these people believed that each of the components of nature — the forest , the rivers , the sky — was occupied and guarded by a jealous god , and they behaved as if that were the case . |
| 7 | These 70,000 " special votes " were taken to the capital and checked by a special fraud commission before being included in the result . |
| 8 | Dressed in a maid 's outfit and disguised by a black veil , he wiggled through reception , bidding the club 's manager goodnight in a high-pitched voice . |
| 9 | More precisely , their nominal faith in God was supported and accredited by a closed system of mutual human honouring which made the need for any honour from God superfluous . |
| 10 | Beyond that , and hidden by a wide area of trees and bushes , was the group of squat brick houses where the pigs were kept . |
| 11 | The thegns lived in increasing grandeur but in wooden halls rather than masonry villas ; although tapestried and heated by a central fire they must have been both dirty and draughty . |
| 12 | Many homes , in Great Britain at least ( and perhaps this is more true of the private sector ) , still offer no privacy for the elderly who do not have their own rooms , who have no locks on the lavatories and who have to suffer the indignity of being bathed and examined by a non-qualified member of staff of the opposite sex . |
| 13 | Or should development be given over to a broad church of interest groups and realised by a catholic mix of architects working in a number of complementary styles ? |
| 14 | These points are plotted and joined by a smooth curve which is the cumulative density function ( CDF ) . |
| 15 | These points are plotted and joined by a smooth curve which is the cumulative density function ( CDF ) . |
| 16 | It was Grizel Huntley 's own view that her brother had not been fooled at all but had been charmed and diverted by a dashing girl thirty years his junior , and had seen no reason at all why she should not have a share of his considerable estate when that left a very decent down-setting for his niece as well . |
| 17 | The suspect was a converted Swedish fishing vessel , owned and skippered by a German Merchant Service Master , whose former ships had figured on our suspect lists . |
| 18 | Nobody is playing as yet , but the lines have been freshly painted , a large old roller is being stored by an elderly man with tribal scars on his cheeks ( like the marks made by French grill pans on bifteck ) , and a big jug of lemon squash is standing in the shade of a little thatched tennis house , protected from the desires of wasps and flies by a beaded lace doily . |
| 19 | These themes were summarized and developed by a large group of contributors writing for the Black Papers between the late 1960s and mid 1970s , which had a considerable impact on educational debates , and indeed on public policy . |
| 20 | As in the ECSC , the two executives were to be supported and supplemented by a consultative committee representing the several national interest groups . |
| 21 | Across the River Plate in Uruguay , the great Central Station in Montevideo , built in 1897 and designed by a Uruguayan architect , Luis Andreoni , virtually marked the coming-of-age of the country . |
| 22 | The houses are built to a high specification by D.P. Patton Homes one of the Provinces most reputable building firms and winners of the Pride of the Job award ( 1989 & 1991 ) and designed by a leading firm of Northern Ireland Architects , The Boyd Partnership . |
| 23 | Reaction against him , in the predominantly Roman Catholic island , grew until , on 9 August 1846 , the quinta where he lived was surrounded and attacked by a large crowd of people . |
| 24 | Jesse Wood , 15 , was kicked and slashed by a drunken gang at Richmond , London , last Christmas . |
| 25 | They are also apt to be more authoritative , having been planned and organised by a professional organisation which also has a very important role in labour relations . |
| 26 | Between two of these villages , off the beaten track , lay an old farmhouse , part-ruined by fire , but with one wing still furnished and habitable , in a shallow valley and approached by a single track . |
| 27 | Under Charles IV , around 1360 , the town was enlarged and surrounded by a new wall , known as the Hunger Wall ( see p. 66 ) . |
| 28 | The other , farther up the hill past the waterfall and surrounded by a protective fence , is a beautiful timber church covered in shingles and with turned balustrading and three onion domes . |
| 29 | Very often the swim you have chosen will not need any modification whatsoever , but on lakes where the banks are swampy and surrounded by a wide belt of rushes some preparation in the close season is necessary . |
| 30 | Beyond it , to the east , was a meadow , thick with fritillaries in spring and surrounded by a wooded path , known ( after the essayist and moralist who was a fellow of the College in the early eighteenth century ) as Addison 's Walk . |