Example sentences of "[vb past] and [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To one side , just in view , stood a magnificent funerary couch , the grey stone of its side engraved with images of gardens and pavilions in which ancient scholars sat enthroned while the women of the household wove and prepared food , sang or played the ancient p'i p'a . |
| 2 | Superb RAC listed and friendly run guest house within easy walking distance to Conference Centre , Palace Pier , Lanes and shopping centre . |
| 3 | ‘ … a pulpy magma , fluffy , puffy and dripping , within which alternatively gaped and closed air holes , pustules , pimples , alveoli , cankers and ventricles … ’ |
| 4 | Emma started work at the age of fourteen for the London Ladies ' Co-operative Guild , a group of professional women who designed and decorated glass tables . |
| 5 | The anatomists who described and classified species were only peripherally interested in how the organisms functioned within their environment . |
| 6 | All 27,000 dismissed and striking workers would be permitted to return to employment in the same job and at the same grade and wage as at the beginning of the strike , provided that they returned to work in the period from Jan. 31 to Feb. 6 . |
| 7 | The floor of these forests was , at best , only sparsely vegetated and great areas may have been entirely without any living leaves . |
| 8 | Moreover in much of the 1980s profits rose and nominal interest rates fell ( at least until 1980s ) , which could be expected to favour borrowing rather than equity financing . |
| 9 | Between 1850 and 1914 population doubled , urban population tripled and national income more than tripled . |
| 10 | But Senora Chamorro back-tracked and offered talks ; the former left wing President welcomed the move . |
| 11 | One room was heated by a hypocaust , fired from the shop ; the other had a decent pink concrete floor , quarter-round moulding and plastered and painted walls . |
| 12 | Smoke snaked up from a campfire amidst crudely plastered and thatched huts . |
| 13 | Although this contention was disputed by Mr Zhao Ziyang , the Chinese Premier , China 's onshore production currently appears to have , at least , plateaued and both China and a host of eager Western oil companies are looking offshore . |
| 14 | ‘ We believe two Somalis were wounded but they fled and two US Army Rangers were slightly wounded , ’ Major David Stockwell said . |
| 15 | Some display robed and seated clerics . |
| 16 | Forty perished and three years later the Scottish Parliament voted that the killing had been unlawful murder . |
| 17 | The losses and degradation of wildlife habitat have implications in a wider context than the UK alone ; heather moorlands , many upland broadleaved and Caledonian pinewoods , and some of the individual species dependent on these habitats , are of significance in a European context . |
| 18 | Moreover , in keeping with my earlier remarks , I would argue that racialized and ethnic discourses and encounters have a tendency to be contradictory and ambivalent in character . |
| 19 | They stopped and another friend bound for the same place , who had seen the problem , pulled up and walked over to them . |
| 20 | So there are precedents for both our finding that knowledge spread through the electorate as the election approached and that television played a particular role in that process . |
| 21 | As it turned out , the huge complexity of deciding exactly how to sell off all or part of BR dogged and divided ministers right up to the election campaign . |
| 22 | May 's comment on oxidized wares seems to us today to be quite astonishing : ‘ common flower pot red , or tile-red wares were as offensive for domestic purpose to the Romans , as to ourselves and should generally speaking , be regarded as ‘ wasters ’ — overbaked and distorted specimens which accumulate in heaps besides kilns as one sometimes made use of in their own locality ’ . |
| 23 | Coleridge had little sympathy with their overheated prose , and his own response to this charged and mysterious place probably had more in common with that of a later visitor , Samuel Palmer , who in the nineteenth century saw Culbone through visionary eyes . |
| 24 | His relaxed but charged and ready poise . |
| 25 | Specialist roles have also been experimented with , for instance , by Kolvin et al ( 1981 ) who trained and used aides to provide nurturing treatment to pupils with emotional and behaviour difficulties . |
| 26 | It may be true , as some suggest , that working-class budgets would not stretch to paying for the regular use of new birth-control methods but old , tried and cheap techniques might still be used . |
| 27 | ( including taxes and the cost of accessories ) at the date the damage occurred and such loss or damage is insured under this Policy the Corporation will subject to the consent of the Policyholder and of any other interested party known to the Corporation replace it with a new motor car of the same manufacture and model subject to its being available in which event the Corporation shall become entitled to possession and ownership of the lost or damaged motor car . |
| 28 | We know that shortly after creation a violent spate of seething geotectonic activity must have taken place as the interior of the Earth grew hotter , new out-gassing occurred and new islands appeared . |
| 29 | The gastric susceptibility to ethanol injury did not differe between vehicle pretreated and untreated rats anaesthetised with phenobarbital , as seen from a comparison of histological injury scores ( Table and Fig 3 ) . |
| 30 | ‘ It seems feasible therefore that subinfeudated and honorial vills may have differed in village planning policies … suggesting that it was under honorial administration that they [ regular village plans ] were most likely to be established . ’ |