Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This use of language is poetic and characterized by the intention being applied not only to content but also to its specific form . |
| 2 | Sucralfate or bFGF was dissolved in saline and given by the intragastric route in a volume of 1 ml or infused subcutaneously at 4ml/hour . |
| 3 | Charlotte made to reply , but suddenly felt exasperated and wearied by the hoops she had been obliged to jump through . |
| 4 | How was the Beau Ideal absorbed and reinforced by the architectural profession in the design of municipal suburbs ? |
| 5 | The times and places are decided well in advance , usually during the previous November , and invariably the Order of Service is that prepared and recommended by the Council of Churches for Britain and Ireland . |
| 6 | In late February the UN boundary commission was preparing a report which would reinstate the 1923 border with Kuwait , delineated by the British and accepted by the Iraqi government in an agreement with Kuwait in 1963 . |
| 7 | Organised and sponsored by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation , Lisbon , the exhibition also includes other works from the period 1933–87 . |
| 8 | ‘ The result is that our good companies are embarrassed and undermined by the behaviour of the bad and even the bad by the worst . ’ |
| 9 | How is a question asked by the foolish and answered by the trivial . ’ |
| 10 | The footpath that runs with the burn is not one of those carefully waymarked and leafleted by the Forestry Commission . |
| 11 | There was little public knowledge of the extent to which intelligence tests had already become part of the machinery of secondary selection by 1940 , nor how far their use was tied in with that of standardised tests of attainment in English and arithmetic , which were provided , marked and correlated by the same person or organisation . |
| 12 | They are often not very confident ( however they may appear ) and always want to impress their friends by their unpleasant exploits , so that they feel wanted and accepted by the in-crowd — just like Herod . |
| 13 | This first set of questions is interrelated and confused by the fact that both the courts and Parliament have , at times , claimed exclusive jurisdiction to determine whether a particular privilege exists , and the criteria which they have applied in making this determination have differed . |
| 14 | The meal that accompanied it was a feast , cooked and served by the patronne with justifiable pride : tiny moules marinières , which tasted as if they had been cut from the rocks that morning ; bifteck , brown and crisp on the outside , perfectly rare within ; a platter of thin crisp sizzling hot pommes frites ; an excellent salad , served in a plain white bowl . |
| 15 | I do n't know whether it contributed much — one never knows oneself whether it contributes or nOt — but I never took my eyes off Peter during this scene , willed him to do this , that and the other , and was saddened and grieved and distressed by the fact that everybody turned against him at the end . |
| 16 | Irene , with an apparently much more complicated nature , felt restricted and confined by the simpler-natured Soames : |
| 17 | The house was reached by a stony drive more than half-a-mile long , furrowed and rutted by the drainage from the hill , but they had electricity , oil-fired central heating and no neighbours . |
| 18 | Iris Murdoch 's fiction has centred rather on a search for goodness , most often by means of loving relationships ; Amis 's with a sense of decorum and indecorum — with social habits and rules made , altered and broken by the changing generations . |
| 19 | The earliest printed account of his collection dates from 1761 : it lists sixty-five pictures and records a collection of ‘ about 12,000 prints , engraved and etched by the most celebrated masters of the three last centuries … |
| 20 | It is Morrissey himself who is being warped , twisted and cheated by the media . |
| 21 | These three cases have to call into question the rights of parents , ignorant of the lives of the mentally handicapped in our society , and fearful and shocked by the discovery that they have a mentally handicapped child , to make decisions about the future of their handicapped children . |
| 22 | Drugs helped me become accepted and liked by the crowd . ’ |
| 23 | One of the most influential union documents was the TUC report produced after consultation with constituent unions and accepted and published by the Trades Union Congress in September 1979 . |
| 24 | I want to get sorted and ticking by the time that Dizzy and his pals arrive . |
| 25 | They were delighted and impressed by the Medau demonstration , which inspired a visit to the Medau Summer School held at Cromer from which they returned full of praise for those bodies in blue tunics ! |
| 26 | For the moment part-time and funded by the University , it is hoped that a private benefactor will be able to endow the chair for a full-time professor . |
| 27 | She felt suddenly dirtied by death , ashamed of the knowledge she had gained when she witnessed the cessation of breathing that marked the end of her parents ' lives , sad and sullied by the separations she had lived through . |
| 28 | Eva was excited and perplexed and intimidated by the crowd . |
| 29 | That transformation comes about by the renewing of our individual minds , a change wrought from the inside , so that all that is weakest , pained and most fragmented within us becomes strengthened and renewed by the truth and love of God ( cf. |
| 30 | During June and July many artists living and working in East and South East London have been opening their studios to the public , coordinated and publicised by the Whitechapel Gallery . |