Example sentences of "[prep] and [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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1 | BEDALE 'S Paul Holdroyd , a well-known figure on the North Yorkshire scene and president of Snape AC , has done what most anglers only dream of and invested in a guest house in southern Ireland . |
2 | That City is attacked in The Rock , but ‘ this London of ours ’ is also celebrated as a city to be worked for and redeemed by a Christianity sometimes remarkably primitive , a pared-down Christianity among the wild men , as a London church is seen as a ‘ House ’ built of |
3 | Short-term wage work is work that is paid for and contracted for a specific period of time , whether that be a day or a season . |
4 | After years of being cared for and protected in a human family , the elderly feline disappears one day and is then found dead in a corner of the garden shed next door , or in some even more secretive place . |
5 | ( Incidentally , I suspect the risks of abuse would be considerably less if the ‘ pay ’ were fought for and won by a united feminist campaign on the grounds that housewives work and deserve money for that reason , than if it were graciously granted by government in a mood of pronatalist , pro-family , antifeminist zeal to cut the costs of the social services . ) |
6 | She knows that even something that seems so simple as giving a wash has to be thought about and done in a sensitive way . |
7 | This means that at any frontier anywhere in the world a border official who has at his disposal a piece of equipment which is already widely and internationally available will be able instantaneously to record the personal details from a passport without the holder realising it , and the record will be automatically read into and stored by a computer . |
8 | Indeed , the fact that he had apparently used an editor from a Manchester newspaper for some of his purposes was latched onto and quoted as a sign that he was ‘ suspect ’ and ‘ disloyal ’ . |
9 | The common use of the rose in heraldry illustrates how deeply and firmly it became associated with and identified as a symbol of family arms and crest , class and dynasty . |
10 | Again in Capital Marx set out to demonstrate that the workings of an entire economic system could be logically derived from and explained by a few materialist premises and the theory of class struggle . |
11 | Therefore , it is more accurate to state ( so far ) that collocation information ’ extracted from and used within a specific domain ’ can significantly improve the recognition process . |
12 | EARLY-morning commuters on the A8 were simply minding their own business one day last week when they were set upon and assaulted by a driver who used all the remaining power of his ageing Vauxhall Senator to bludgeon his way in and out of traffic . |
13 | In these circumstances , as we were agreed that we had power to do so , we made an emergency order enabling her to be taken to and treated at a specialist hospital in London , notwithstanding the lack of consent on her part . |
14 | Anna was referred to and criticized in a number of publications until 1660 . |
15 | ( 2 ) The permitted hours for premises in respect of which a public house licence or a refreshment licence is in force shall be the period between eleven in the morning and half-past two in the afternoon and the period between five and eleven in the evening , except for Sundays when the permitted hours shall be the period between half-past twelve and half-past two in the afternoon and the period between half-past six and eleven in the evening but only in the case of premises in respect of which an application for Sunday opening has been made to and granted by a licensing board in accordance with the provisions of Schedule 4 to this Act , which shall have effect . |
16 | The Investment Managers Regulatory Organisation had already said that , as a result of responses to its own proposals for individuals in member firms to be trained up to and tested on a certain level of competence , it was having to reconsider them with an obvious impact on its meeting its 1 January 1994 deadline . |
17 | That there is aggression in work enterprises has been a phenomenon pointed to and discussed by a number of psychoanalysts . |
18 | As far as the programmer is concerned , data can be written to and read from a file a data item or a character ( byte ) at a time . |
19 | The image server may be equipped with optical disks — a high capacity but relatively low cost storage medium which is written to and read by a laser disk drive unit . |
20 | The information contained on Form BD8 was previously the main criterion for deciding whether a pupil required education in a special school or an ordinary school , and whether the pupil should be referred to and educated as a blind or a partially sighted child . |
21 | They can then be referred to and used as a tool to facilitate such activities as decision making , monitoring and evaluation . |
22 | The first is where the whole of the programme is provided by and taught at a major centre , as in the case of Bristol Polytechnic ; the second is where the first year is provided extra-murally at a number of associated centres , while the second year only is provided at the main centre , as the case of Portsmouth Polytechnic ; and the third is where both the first and second years are provided at the main and associate centres as at Plymouth Polytechnic and Cornwall Technical College , Camborne . |
23 | In that case , the opportunity to earn remuneration arose when the appellant obtained the grant of a tenancy of a public house owned by and tied to a large brewery company . |
24 | In summer 1984 a Commission scientist wrote in Coal and Energy Quarterly , a journal funded by and used as a mouthpiece for the National Coal Board , that ‘ there is no damage [ in British conifers ] that can be defined as new ’ and ‘ the chances of similar damage [ to that in West Germany ] occurring here is considered low . ’ |
25 | The union supported the idea of a national wage for seafarers , determined by and supervised by a National or London Joint Committee of the parties concerned and corresponding Local Joint Committees but proposed that labour should be supplied by the National Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union . |