Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | All the broken down buildings have gone , existing businesses have been hidden from 125mph prying eyes and replaced with pleasant trees and shrubs . |
| 5 | Auguste closed his eyes and counted to three . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Two of them shook their heads and consulted with each other in low voices . |
| 9 | The purpose of the award is to encourage the pursuit of excellence in Christian literature written by Australian authors and produced by Australian publishers . |
| 10 | JTPs are operating in a vacuum , with some schemes attempting to provide quality training while constrained by inadequate funds and overloaded by bureaucratic paper work . |
| 11 | Sections were deparaffinised by treatment with xylene overnight , rehydrated through a series of graded ethanol solutions and washed with distilled water . |
| 12 | He specifically targeted criminal gangs , saying that since May police had successfully " destroyed " a number of gangs and dealt with 796,000 crimes . |
| 13 | Here is the archetypal mid-Wales upland village , set at a confluence of river valleys among tree-lined pastures and overlooked by forested hills . |
| 14 | For most consensus theorists , the answer lies in a theory of social structure made famous by Durkheim in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and developed to such an extent by Talcott Parsons and his followers in the USA between the 1930s and 1950s that during these years it came to be seen as the sociological theory . |
| 15 | The conclusions , headed " SUBJECT : Definition of Russian Nationals " , were summarised in the form of an order , signed by Brig Low with distribution to all units and copied to Eighth Army , and we shall refer to this as the " 21 May Definition Order " . |
| 16 | The garden , with all its vivacious attendant personalities , has become a vista of flat concrete , perfect for parking cars and marked by yellow lines . |
| 17 | It has sometimes been the case , however , that unsafe imported goods have been in the shops and bought in considerable quantities before the Secretary of State has learnt of their presence in the country . |
| 18 | Ageing HM clowns with bottle tans and painted on black jeans held court at the wretched bar surrounded by sagging , middle-aged groupies who 'd made themselves up whilst drunk , it appeared . |
| 19 | Together with its associated hamlet of Octon-cum-Octon Grange , it forms a parish four miles long covering 4,024 acres and situated between 300 and 500 ft above sea level . |
| 20 | They set off across a water meadow rich with buttercups and decorated with Friesian cows , like a television advertisement for some environmentally dubious product : petrol or fast cars . |
| 21 | It is particularly noted for its dome with high drum , supported on pendentives and pierced with two rows of windows and crowned by a stone ribbed cupola ( 313 ) . |
| 22 | The landlord joined the officers in the bar parlour , while Slatter brusquely shrugged his shoulders and indulged in muted conversation with James . |
| 23 | She was better satisfied with their trip to a beauty parlour , where Martha 's hair was released from its braids , anointed with a number of glutinous white creams , cut to the level of her shoulders and wound upon enormous wire rollers . |
| 24 | Commentators suggested that the key factor in the Marxist MLSTP 's defeat was the country 's economic crisis , marked by labour disputes in recent months and exacerbated by collapsing world prices for the country 's economic mainstay , cocoa . |
| 25 | With great reluctance , Reagan bowed to pressure from his advisers and compromised the Kemp-Roth principle somewhat by agreeing that the first cut should be delayed for a few months and reduced to 5 per cent in the first year with 10 per cent cuts in years two and three . |
| 26 | Export Today , the official journal of the Institute is published every two months and circulated to all members ; a recruitment consultancy is operated on behalf of members and employers ; an advisory and information service on export subjects is available together with the Institute 's Export Specialists Register , which lists experts who can be contacted for project work ; the views of professional exporters are represented , when necessary , at national and international level . |
| 27 | Buzz had read newspaper accounts of old people who had been forcibly removed from their homes and admitted to nursing homes ; such people had been robbed by the very guardians who were legally supposed to care for them . |
| 28 | Then it was packed into various sizes of moulds from pint pots for quick unmatured sale , to the larger , more standard shapes and pressed with huge stone weights for twenty-four hours . |
| 29 | For DNaseI footprinting , the BglI-NaeI fragment ( nucleotides -594 to -291 ) was end-labelled , complexed with proteins and treated with increasing concentrations of DNaseI . |
| 30 | Oligos I and III were methylated , incubated with nuclear proteins and used for band-shifting experiments . |