Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [noun pl] [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had deserved all he got — was that what ministers and teachers were paid for ? to draw up the militia lists and condemn the young men to the barracks and the camps , to swamp fever in the Indies and their legs and arms blown off ? |
| 2 | Berlin was always more densely textured than other European capitals , with industry , offices and homes jumbled up together even in the inner city , and , in spite of being a free-market island in a sea of socialism , west Berlin was the country 's biggest industrial centre . |
| 3 | It is derived entirely from the general meaning of car , together with the semantic properties of the context ( remember that general knowledge concerning cars and operations carried out on them is , on the view of meaning adopted in this book , embedded in the meanings of car , wash , polish , etc . ) . |
| 4 | It was all a great privatisation success , he explained , pointing to fleets of cars and tractors lined up for export . |
| 5 | Resources for learning also include the local area , the environment , the countryside and the townscape , museums and historic buildings and their collections , the extensive range of local material offered by local record offices , or the local study centre , or reference library , as well as pictures and artefacts brought in from home , reminiscences of family members or the elderly , interesting visitors to the school and many other things ( see Box 13 ) . |
| 6 | The sale of cookery books and glass-cloths brought in more money , the cookery books producing £746 . |
| 7 | She has books and sweets hidden up there , ’ Mona said . |
| 8 | The greater your mobility the less likely you will be to suffer aches and pains brought on by stiffness . |
| 9 | Lockers were immaculately arranged , rooms scrubbed , windows polished and shoes and boots lined up under the beds . |
| 10 | The reproductive role of women exposes them to many health problems , including diseases associated with malnutrition , infections and diseases brought on by inadequate prenatal care . |
| 11 | Empirical research on custody and divorce , on the personal experiences of divorcees both as solicitors ' clients and as consumers of the judicial process , and on the experiences and attitudes of registrars and lawyers added up to proposals for legal reform from an instrumental perspective . |
| 12 | With a little wave of his hand he indicated that his officials and guests should take a pace or two backward into the aisle between the adjoining rows of pillars to clear the way between the throne and the open doors , and the next moment the ranks of singers and musicians drawn up around the walls of the courtyard outside burst into a plaintive musical chant . |
| 13 | They were hoping to get their skis and parkers sorted out so that they could get off I think tomorrow but they only got five days skiing cos they leave again , either Sunday morning or Saturday night . |
| 14 | The Club has several outings and talks lined up for 1992 . |
| 15 | The research did illuminate that discriminatory policies and practices carried out within local authority departments etc. , caused an obvious disparity in the way that Black women were dealt with . |
| 16 | It was always the same when trade was booming at the local wharves , and as the convoys of horsecarts and lorries lined up along Cotton Lane so the cafe became even fuller . |
| 17 | But on the other hand , we were only working to rule , we were working by rules and regulations laid down from various Acts and negotiated er agreements . |
| 18 | It has all of the facilities you need , and a few nice bells and whistles thrown in . |
| 19 | It went faster and with more noise than the roundabouts for little children with engines and ducks and bicycles fixed on . |
| 20 | The entire loft is a matted tangle of sticks and twigs brought in by the jackdaws over God knows how many centuries ; in parts it is many metres deep . |
| 21 | And would the paper , edited by the man who had the crotches and armpits cut out of his suits by Pamela Bordes , be featuring Mr Bell at all ? |
| 22 | I believe these checks and balances built up over many years are essential to the maintenance of true democracy in this country and I commend to Your Lordships Amendments five , eight and eleven for those reasons . |
| 23 | Having played little part in the August riots ( epitomised by the derisory slogan , ‘ IRA — I Ran Away ’ ) , old IRA men came out of retirement ( Rose , 1972 ) and ‘ there was a steady stream of recruits from young men who had seen houses and streets burnt down by Loyalist mobs and who 'd been unable to prevent them ’ ( Farrell , 1980:267 ) . |
| 24 | On this site there was a small farm with a succession of timber houses and farmyards occupied up to c . |
| 25 | I could just make out Tobermory , looking like an Anne Redpath painting , cubes of white and blue and primrose and Venetian red , the houses and shops strung out along the bay , tiny in the distance . |
| 26 | In the United States a national botanical garden was founded to exploit the seeds and plants brought back by a Pacific exploration expedition under Charles Wilkes in the years 1838–42 . |
| 27 | At the commencement of the conversions the vehicles were lifted , and all parts of the underframes and bogies brought back to nominal new as for the standard LMSR coach . |
| 28 | All of us wrote ; poems and stories poured out of us . |
| 29 | Stories brought back from gynaecological examinations and procedures carried out by male doctors are at best disturbing , at worst horrifying . |
| 30 | During this period the PCF was to undergo major changes and reversals brought about by dramatic socio-political events . |