Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It was draped with ruby velvet and furnished with gilded chairs . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ The Framework ’ shall mean the Framework for Collaboration in the IEATP Programme and attached to this Agreement as Addendum A. |
| 18 | Imagine having rope or flex wrapped round your neck and threatened with strangling or having your ears cut off . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | He held up a battered , leather bag tied at the neck and stained with watery dark marks around the base . |
| 21 | Consequence : Boost to production and idealism : idealism counterbalanced by fear and threatened by worsening privation as attacks on ‘ corruption ’ begin to bite ; growth partially nullified by a worsening of distribution problems as the second economy is rolled back . |
| 22 | There was heartrending fear and hurt behind that energetic and vibrant façade . |
| 23 | [ 2 ] He took all his pain and what was left of his strength and his long-gone pride and he put it against the fish 's agony and the fish came over onto his side and swam gently on his side , his bill almost touching the planking of the skiff , and started to pass the boat , long , deep , wide , silver and barred with purple and interminable in the water . |
| 24 | Swift and deadly , they are armoured in shining silver and armed with white lances with diamond-hard tips which glitter like stars . |
| 25 | They are armoured in shining silver and armed with white lances with diamond-hard tips which glitter like stars . |
| 26 | Within a plain exterior there was a large booking hall with long slender windows rising to an arched roof and decorated with Italian mosaics depicting aspects of Malayan life . |
| 27 | Howard was not only thanked by Parliament for his humanity and zeal ; he even had copies of the Act printed at his own expense and distributed to all gaol keepers . |
| 28 | The ban , initiated by the State Department and announced on 11 March by the Immigration and Naturalisation Service , is expected to affect fewer than 500 of the approximately 3000 Libyan students at American universities , and only those studying the proscribed subjects . |
| 29 | Everything , then , will depend upon the guidance and circulars produced by the Department of Education and Science , i.e. upon the way in which the Act is interpreted by the department and implemented at local level . |
| 30 | In some cases the need for knowledge of the businesses meant that a large number of specialist journals were taken by the corporate planning department and circulated within corporate head office . |