Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] by a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Captures the angry collapsing mood of the country as Allende 's left wing government is threatened and eventually deposed by a right wing junta . |
| 2 | It was attacked and badly damaged by a patrolling Hurricane , Flt.Lt . |
| 3 | Synchronised movement is critical , so the command has to be brief and so timed by a delayed ‘ one-and- pull sort of order . |
| 4 | Lynn Binstock 's direction ( the original version was by John Cox ) was unprovocative , almost workmanlike , and the production one in which the music and the characterisation were of paramount importance — I certainly discovered fresh beauties and subtleties in the score , which was carefully conducted and nicely paced by a youthful Justin Brown . |
| 5 | This common misconception is fostered and perhaps shared by a great many retailers . |
| 6 | Ultra-modern and apparently inspired by a Thirties liner , it houses JJ 's , the best night spot in town . |
| 7 | But the concept of the sacred and monumental quarter , which still makes Pisa famous , was born in the 1060s , and further advanced by a similar raid in which Pisans and Genoese joined on the great Muslim city of al-Mahdiyyah in 1087 . |
| 8 | The Centre should be timetabled for operational use by students and formally supervised by a designated member of staff . |
| 9 | Now , the embalmers had carefully replaced the face but the torso of the corpse was a mass of wounds and grossly disfigured by a black line which stretched from the crotch to the neck . |
| 10 | Formed in ice-cut cirques or shallow , steep-sided valleys , the Signy Island lakes are moraine-dammed and often rimmed by a rubble-covered shelf about 1 m below the surface ; the shelves are swept clear of sediment by wind-induced turbulence , and fall away to a narrow , sediment-filled trough . |
| 11 | The markers of this style are Latin wordiness and complex syntax : the former especially evident in the frequency of abstract nouns ( usually polysyllabic and often accompanied by a polysyllabic adjective ) , and the latter in the use of relative clauses and -ing participial constructions . |
| 12 | Pronounced both fine and valuable by experts , this exquisite collection of pictures was most happily and appropriately acquired by a generous father for his son , who is chief blender in the newly-formed firm of coffee and tea merchants , Brodie Melrose Drysdate & Co . |
| 13 | Conscious of our lack of truly integrated teaching sessions , and freshly inspired by a successful ‘ joint ’ activity weekend at a local Outward Bound Centre , we made plans to change the structure of one particular curriculum area . |
| 14 | Jason Howard was very human and charming as Figaro , suitably ironic too , and well matched by a youthful , fetching and amply-toned Susanna ( Rosa Mannion ) . |
| 15 | These ‘ centre-devised ’ modules are sent out to specialist advisers for comment and then checked by a small committee , the Catalogue sub-committee , to see whether it makes sense to have the proposal developed for inclusion in the Catalogue . |
| 16 | My idea of heaven is a meal starting with champagne and smoked salmon and then followed by a whole series of pudding trolleys rolling up one by one ! ’ |
| 17 | Unlike previous qualifications , NVQs will not be acquired by means of set examinations , which are then marked by college lecturers and then verified by a visiting assessor . |
| 18 | Turning off from the north-south highway some twelve miles north of the Makaa , the track leading to the cabin had been made first by loggers and then improved by a quarrying company some forty years ago . |
| 19 | Rokeya looked like a figure in a strangely exposed photograph , silhouetted , caught , highly defined by the light , like a prisoner running from a concentration camp , cruelly and horribly revealed by a roof-top guard 's spotlight . |
| 20 | Then our eyes will be firmly caught and firmly held by a bent female figure hurrying in through the door and across the room towards us . |
| 21 | They each feature a huge female smile hemmed in and otherwise cropped by a gigantic soda bottle in one instance and a medley of hands and legs in the other . |
| 22 | In March he was shot and seriously injured by a right-wing extremist . |