Example sentences of "[verb] and [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cumulatively the features we have examined represent the world of a child surrounded and overawed by dimly grasped presences , a world in which the meanings which shape our own response to life are dissolved and reconstituted . |
| 2 | This mother said that even in the midst of all the pain and trauma of her children being taken away , she had felt surrounded and safe in the love and support of the Quaker movement . |
| 3 | She did literally now , ever since that turn she 'd had a few months ago ; frightened of the stairs , the climb when the lifts did n't work , she rarely went out , but stayed surrounded and walled-in by belongings , old letters , cards , souvenirs scattered over the furniture . |
| 4 | The growing girl did not see as much of her mother as she would have wished and less of her father . |
| 5 | Individually designed and functional to the very last detail . |
| 6 | Adjournment debates are hard won and precious to Back-Bench Members . |
| 7 | He 's attracted and attractive to women and , I 'd guess , to men too , and yet he lives as a celibate . |
| 8 | This uninhibited tourist did not look like the Frankenstein monster whom many Americans had expected and some of them began to wonder if they had got Khrushchev and his modest and dignified wife wrong . |
| 9 | Right , so it will be sel self defeating , job creation in the urban areas will be self defeating and most of the , the reason why that was particularly important because historically most of the job creation schemes that governments have put in place with or without aid in developing countries is in the urban areas , you know , it 's the erm subsidized industrial plants , subsidized erm manu manufacturing industry , right so that the import substitution industries er have been set up with government and or aid money , foreign aid money and what Harrison Todaro was saying you 're wasting your time putting money into these big projects , right , because that only in that only in erm exaggerates th the migration problem because it really will increase people 's perception of er job possibilities in the urban area , they think there are jobs being created by government there , that will happen as another , as another stimulus er let me just draw a little diagram what Harrison Todaro was saying right we 've got time here such to say horizontal axis marks the lifespan of some representative migrant , then you 've got wages , wages in the agricultural area and wages in the urban area like let's just say that this is the wage rate in agriculture , right . |
| 10 | Valuable chair fabrics , curtains , cushions and other materials are often found scratched , torn and tattered as a result of the family cat 's claw-sharpening activities around the house . |
| 11 | ‘ Throat lozenges labelled ‘ Winky ’ , made in Milan , the paper torn and three of the lozenges remaining . |
| 12 | As she covered me from toe to head in the brown muck I thought of Julien Sorel in The Red and the Black , dissimulating and silent for the sake of ambition , his pride often shattered , but beneath it all solid in his superiority . |
| 13 | B T now are developing a whole set of procedures , well , a whole set of activity around controlling their work which is completely different from the way B T used to work and different from , I suppose , most other bits of the company . |
| 14 | There were different sorts of T-shirts , each with an image and a slogan or comment on the status quo , some of which Malcolm designed and some of which were designed by Bernie and Malcolm together . |
| 15 | and something bared and complex as a bud |
| 16 | So we must accept that the creatures we will encounter in the Scottish hills are not the stuff of big game hunters ' after-dinner bragging , but they are varied and thrilling in their discovery nonetheless . |
| 17 | Well they 've they 've obviously varied and most of them are economic based . |
| 18 | It is the last of the merostomes the group of fossil horseshoe crabs that were varied and numerous in the coal swamps of the Carboniferous and have a history that extends back to the Cambrian . |
| 19 | I thought nothing of that incident until , maybe a year later , there it was installed and detailed in my mind . |
| 20 | The product strategy is combined with a fixed-price package of services that provide users with a ‘ no-shelfware ’ commitment that OpenVision 's products will not gather dust but will be successfully installed and functional within a predictable budget . |
| 21 | The product strategy is combined with fixed-price package services that provide a ‘ no-shelfware ’ commitment that OpenVision 's products will be successfully installed and functional within a predictable budget . |
| 22 | For instance , if an amount is included in a person 's income by virtue of TA 1988 , s421 ( assessment in respect of loan from close company ) in respect of any loan or advance , there is to be a corresponding reduction in the amount which can be included and taxable under TA 1988 , s677 ( TA 1988 , s677(3) ) . |
| 23 | Examples from the Orloff and Orléans-Panthièvre services are included and one of the best pieces from the latter is a soup tureen by Edmé-Pierre Balzac , made in Paris in 1757–58 and now estimated to make FFr3–5m ( £300–500,000 , $530–880,000 ) . |
| 24 | Glass , like other substances , contracts as it cools and if the outer parts of the glass be cooled and hardened before the inner parts then the outside will , of course , contract more initially than the inside but , since the inside is still soft , it will yield in the early stages of cooling . |
| 25 | Her bronze was bruised and discoloured from the raw cold burn of space . |
| 26 | Not one Girl was dropped and due to the anti-social breath of the stagehands , not one romance developed . |
| 27 | If the Lords rule in favour of the two women who have brought the test case , hundreds of other cases that are pending in Newbury magistrates ' court will have to be dropped and thousands of earlier prosecutions might become subject to compensation claims . |
| 28 | He was found trapped and unconscious at the bottom of the shaft . |
| 29 | Trapped and mad as the birds , she 'd have seen the horse chestnut and its thick green kaleidoscope of leaves from her barred window . |
| 30 | Her father Barry said : ‘ She said the boys were skating on the ice , it cracked and one of them fell in . |