Example sentences of "[noun] and [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under a local anaesthetic , a whisk-like device will be passed down a fine tube into the gall bladder and rotated at 30,000 revolutions a minute , mincing the gallstones to a paste which is then sucked out through a tube . |
| 2 | Any substance can be converted into a homoeopathic remedy and used in this way . |
| 3 | reprints from the stereotype plates of the double-columned Cheap Edition , with a different frontispiece and bound in pictorial green glazed boards . |
| 4 | One of Minton 's lithographs , Jamaica , was printed under the auspices of the Artists ' International Association and sold at four guineas , with discount for schools and institutions . |
| 5 | Detlef Starck and Ralf Nielebock , both from Dusseldorf , are in North Wales on a visit arranged through the International Police Association and aimed at improving links between different forces . |
| 6 | Would you please let me have the photos we supplied for your exhibition , so that they can be added to our stock and used by other people . |
| 7 | Scott looks back at it as someone who has learned a great deal and contributed to shifting opinion about private and statutory sector relationships . |
| 8 | Lovat had gone , probably tied to a stretcher , placed on a jeep and taken at full speed to the First Aid post . |
| 9 | Quite apart from the obvious undesirability of verbal agreements for the sale or purchase of land , no transfer of land can be validly achieved in France other than by an acte de vente , which is a notarial document prepared by a Notary and signed by all parties or their Attorneys before him … |
| 10 | Mr Vogel , detained on Tuesday and held for 10 hours in a solitary cell , was arrested because the prosecutors believed he would reveal the whereabouts of Mr Schalck-Golodkowski . |
| 11 | Mr Vogel , detained on Tuesday and held for 10 hours in a solitary cell , was arrested because the prosecutors believed he would reveal the whereabouts of Mr Schalck-Golodkowski . |
| 12 | The systematic treatment of modus as trust is a feature first of the Severan period , a movement which began , as Gordian describes , with trusts of freedom but which gained momentum and spread to other types of trust as well . |
| 13 | Just thinking about his car made Henry want to hire an electric hammer and run with all convenient speed to Wimbledon , to fall upon its bodywork with screams of rage . |
| 14 | Just weeks before her death Kelly sat with her father at the computer keyboard in her bedroom and keyed in all the arrangements she had made for her funeral . |
| 15 | The value placed on these men is most clearly stated in the Treaty of Andelot , where Guntram and Childebert II settled the question of the succession and dealt with various matters which had arisen during the early years of the latter 's reign . |
| 16 | Composed of an allover arrangement of repeating vases and considered by many experts to be one of the most aesthetically accomplished of all Persian designs . |
| 17 | There is a comfortable bar , a lounge and a panoramic restaurant , and outside , a sea water swimming pool is set in a large sun terrace and surrounded by overhanging trees . |
| 18 | At municipal and provincial levels party committees were to be reduced from seven to five members who would , for the first time , be selected from lists of multiple candidates and elected by secret ballot . |
| 19 | At a time when the political parties have all released bulky documents stuffed full of environmentally-friendly policies , when any washing powder that ca n't say it 's CFC-free and untested on animals and made from biodegradable phosphates is likely to be left on the supermarket shelf , golf 's ‘ green ’ credentials seem pretty strong . |
| 20 | All the broken down buildings have gone , existing businesses have been hidden from 125mph prying eyes and replaced with pleasant trees and shrubs . |
| 21 | Auguste closed his eyes and counted to three . |
| 22 | In Britain the foreign office acquired a news department almost at once ; later two improvised bodies staffed largely by journalists and created for particular purposes , the Neutral Press Committee and the War Propaganda Bureau , were set up . |
| 23 | In Egypt , Lords Cromer and Milner , enthroned in marble halls and surrounded by British soldiers , thought of themselves as playing , with the utmost discretion , an exceptionally difficult lone hand ; they delighted in the formal restrictions placed on British power , though everyone in Egypt knew them to be of no practical consequence . |
| 24 | It was draped with ruby velvet and furnished with gilded chairs . |
| 25 | He also appealed to all Beninois to return to work to lay the basis for economic revival , while the transitional government implemented an economic structural adjustment programme and negotiated for external financial resources . |
| 26 | ‘ The Framework ’ shall mean the Framework for Collaboration in the IEATP Programme and attached to this Agreement as Addendum A. |
| 27 | From such work and from studies on the biochemistry of tubercle bacilli , on substances which prevented their growth , and on potential therapeutic agents , extensive research , especially in the USA , led to the substance named isoniazid which was discovered almost simultaneously in the laboratories of E. R. Squibb and of Hoffmann-La Roche and publicized in 1952 . |
| 28 | Imagine having rope or flex wrapped round your neck and threatened with strangling or having your ears cut off . |
| 29 | The wrapper was usually a very large coloured handkerchief that was wound mice round the neck and tied at one side ‘ with two ends left a-flapping ’ . |
| 30 | He held up a battered , leather bag tied at the neck and stained with watery dark marks around the base . |