Example sentences of "[coord] [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women who have maintained and/or developed an extensive network of personal relationships in middle age are held to be most favourably placed in coping with the problems of old age . |
| 2 | The frames can be painted , papered or covered in with the walls or painted a contrasting colour or white . |
| 3 | It was not scheduled or given an elaborate countdown and fanfare . |
| 4 | For instance , twice as many subjects in Wales were referred to a specialist or given an abdominal examination than in Humberside and Yorkshire , and half as many were prescribed tablets . |
| 5 | He might begin with between one and four different sizes of tesserae — separated into heaps or placed a partitioned box — and would make more than he intended to use ( manufacture continuing as the pavement was laid ) . |
| 6 | ( 9 ) A listed company may have given or made a prior undertaking or statement not to issue further shares in certain circumstances without the approval of shareholders in general meeting ( see para 17.6 below ) . |
| 7 | During the last 13 years we have cut , simplified or abolished a whole range of direct taxes . |
| 8 | In both the reported cases the patients stated that they had inhaled or ingested a foreign body . |
| 9 | It is not only the child of a broken marriage who feels this , but even when , sadly , one parent has died or spent a considerable amount of time in hospital . |
| 10 | When she came to an intersection , she had ignored it or taken a new direction without bothering to think about it . |
| 11 | Has the next generation of unemployed white youth followed in the footsteps of their elder brothers or taken a new route ? |
| 12 | Where there is a slight risk in the event of a swing , a pilot may be said to have made a simple error of judgement or taken an unnecessary risk . |
| 13 | Anyway , by the time Stevens ' book was published in 1987 , the network had devised or discovered a whole new pharmacopoeia with strange-sounding names . |
| 14 | I teach students who are often illiterate , who do not know how to use a hand-held calculator , who have never seen a film with subtitles or read a classic work of literature , and who can not spell even the name of important people in their field ( for example , psychology majors who spell Freud as Frued ) . |
| 15 | In 1822 , following Macquarie 's departure , he was dismissed from the post , but during his short period of office he had carried out or initiated a remarkable number of substantial projects in Sydney and its neighbourhood , the most important being the Macquarie lighthouse ( c .1816–18 , demolished ) , the churches of Windsor ( c .1817 ) , Liverpool ( 1818–24 ) , and St James 's Sydney ( c .1820 ) , the stables at Government House ( 1817 ) , Fort Macquarie at Benelong Point ( c .1817 , demolished ) , and the Hyde Park convict barracks ( 1817 ) . |
| 16 | ( 2 ) Where an application is made in accordance with Rule 15 by a body which at the date of the application is already recognised under these Rules and the Council has neither granted nor refused a new recognition by the time when the body 's existing recognition would , apart from this paragraph , expire in accordance with paragraph ( 1 ) of this Rule , the existing recognition shall not expire at that time but shall continue in force until a new recognition is granted or refused . |
| 17 | Similarly , if a child with bacterial diarrhoea is taken to a health clinic and prescribed a necessary course of antibiotics , the mother might be unwilling to give them to the child if her hot/cold classification of the antibiotics conflicts with her classification of the type of diarrhoea . |
| 18 | Luckily he was engaged on operational matters when his ‘ guest ’ arrived , and turned him over temporarily to his intelligence officer , a flight lieutenant called Benson , who recognized the symptoms instantly and prescribed a double whisky . |
| 19 | Establishing the outside measurements , I completed a scaled drawing of the boardroom space and placed a suitable rectangle within it . |
| 20 | He stretched out an arm and placed a gnarled hand tenderly on her scarred brow ; then he turned back to me . |
| 21 | I built two caves at the back , and placed a flat rock at each back corner to give a choice of spawning areas . |
| 22 | Robyn looked up from the kitchen sink and placed a washed plate on to the draining-board . |
| 23 | In the second half , Thame came more in to the game and created a couple of chances , however in the sixty fifth minute , Sean Liden won the ball on the halfway line , his long ball found Gary Weaving who turned and placed a low shot past Mayhew to make it one nil . |
| 24 | A full cabinet reshuffle two weeks later seemed , at first sight , to be designed to appease the Falangist sector , for it included the creation of a separate Ministry of Labour ( it had been covered by the Ministry of Agriculture thereto ) and placed a hard-line Falangist , José Antonio Girón de Velasco , at its head . |
| 25 | Mike Vessey spotted his brother 's long run and placed a superb long ball in his path which Alan duly put away to set up St Albans ' third appearance in the final and a change of the League and Cup double . |
| 26 | His face assumed the condition of … rigid fixedness while in council … ; he kept his immense ceremonial hat on , and placed a large eagle 's wing in front of his eyes and nose ’ . |
| 27 | The Prince looked at Owen , laughed archly and placed a placating hand on Owen 's . |
| 28 | Liam Herbert , one of the shortest players on the pitch , rose above the defenders and placed a fine header past keeper Duncan Green to make it one nil . |
| 29 | He smiled , then leaned across and placed a white stone on the board , breaching the space between two of the black masses , threatening to cut . |
| 30 | This routine went on week after week , and might never have changed , until one Saturday morning a toffee-nosed lady who I had noticed standing on the corner for the past week , wearing a long black dress and carrying a parasol , strode over to our barrow , stopped and placed a white feather in Dad 's lapel . |