Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most obvious of these was that mergers occurred in waves and affected all industries . |
| 2 | Quite a lot of pruning can be done now : repeat-flowering climbing roses , late-flowering clematis , fruit bushes and overgrown deciduous shrubs can all be cut back . |
| 3 | The action revolves around a failed robbery and the attempts of the various hoods involved ( all dressed in black suits and ties and given colour-coded aliases ) to figure out which one of their number is an undercover cop . |
| 4 | Different tiers of government refused to co-operate ; Liverpool City Council disbanded inner-city working parties and incorporated Urban Programme issues into mainstream committees ; and the Secretary of State steadily distanced himself from what he perceived to be a largely meaningless ‘ talking shop ’ . |
| 5 | General manager Alan Roberts said : ‘ We have listened long and hard to the needs of our supporters and given great consideration to our long-term aims at home and in Europe . |
| 6 | They split the 50 minutes of observing time into 5-second units and classified each period either as ‘ infant acts ’ , ‘ mother acts ’ , ‘ both act ’ , or ‘ both quiescent ’ . |
| 7 | He was fined 300-pounds and given six penalty points for careless driving . |
| 8 | The Greeks and the Jews have been such peoples and produced such thinkers . |
| 9 | According to legend , some stones have moved permanently by their own power , such as the Wergin Stone near Hereford which suddenly moved 240 paces and required nine yoke of oxen to take it back . |
| 10 | I did n't at first but since people have said I 've looked at some pictures and seen some sort of resemblence … |
| 11 | All Mr Ross could remember of the burglars was that they both had Glasgow voices and called each other Pat and Jim . |
| 12 | Approve that the SRO is amended to provide that where a bill is paid by deduction , then either [ i ] if within a three month period following delivery of the bill written objections are made by the entitled third party or client , notice of rights under the SRO should then be given , or [ ii ] the notice of rights under the SRO must be served on all clients and entitled third parties at the time of delivery of the bill . |
| 13 | The CRS fired tear-gas canisters and arrested 600 students . |
| 14 | As both personal acquaintances and known physical landmarks disappear , and their personal role and integration with society declines , older people experience a reducing familiarity with current social organization . |
| 15 | Training and Enterprise Councils will be retained , reformed and made more broadly representative of their local communities and given stable budgets . |
| 16 | In London , you can index the mean income of the households by the state of the gutters outside ; in the area where the archive of Ephemera lies in boxes , waiting for its eventual home , there 's a kind of mangy green lozenge next to the local church where the derelicts hang around , propping themselves up on the park bench in a drift of beer cans and double strength cider bottles and blown crisp packets . |
| 17 | Police in the Wear Valley are looking for thieves who have struck in a number of gardens and stolen ornamental garden furniture . |
| 18 | By 1832 an enormous wing was attached to Forston 's north side which stretched for five hundred feet and accommodated 65 patients and half as many staff . |
| 19 | She added : ‘ Prisoners have to be checked at regular intervals and given proper exercise . ’ |
| 20 | The independence Constitution adopted by the Constituent Assembly on Feb. 9 , 1990 [ see p. 37176 ] , contained strong safeguards relating to human rights and liberties and placed considerable limits on the power of the executive president . |
| 21 | According to the World Health Organisation ( WHO ) , the epidemic had claimed 609 lives and affected 97,715 people by the end of March , with some 37,000 receiving hospital treatment and most victims concentrated in the departments of Cajamarca and Ayacucho . |
| 22 | Mike Chittenden staggered in flames into a neighbouring office , where terrified workers doused the flames and administered first aid . |
| 23 | However , he did not enter those offices but staggered into a neighbouring office where staff smothered the flames and administered first aid . |
| 24 | We were split into groups and given some clues . |
| 25 | They saw men trying to make money by selling apples and oranges at street corners and the brave attempt of others to look smart with well-polished shoes , pressed suits and hidden frayed cuffs . |
| 26 | Recent discoveries of hitherto unknown kinds of jawless fishes ( agnathans ) , together with re-examination of known agnathans and advances in systematic methods , have revitalized debates about the relationships of ancient fishes and given fresh insights into early vertebrate history . |
| 27 | Such people should be diagnosed by experts and given appropriate treatment which will prevent them from re-offending ; if necessary they can be detained to incapacitate them in the meantime . |
| 28 | Much of the heat has by now gone out of these arguments , and it is fairly generally accepted , first that college librarians should be appointed on teaching scales and given academic status by nature of their work , and secondly that the work of a college librarian implies the librarian 's own active participation as a librarian in the college 's educational programme . |
| 29 | It generated a large volume of mail and telephone calls and frightened enough members into believing that the electoral consequences would be dire if they failed to support the president . |
| 30 | We had half-listened to the censored news bulletins and seen young men home on leave , proudly wearing their uniform . |