Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | reprints from the stereotype plates of the double-columned Cheap Edition , with a different frontispiece and bound in pictorial green glazed boards . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Scott looks back at it as someone who has learned a great deal and contributed to shifting opinion about private and statutory sector relationships . |
| 5 | Lovat had gone , probably tied to a stretcher , placed on a jeep and taken at full speed to the First Aid post . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was draped with ruby velvet and furnished with gilded chairs . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Imagine having rope or flex wrapped round your neck and threatened with strangling or having your ears cut off . |
| 12 | He held up a battered , leather bag tied at the neck and stained with watery dark marks around the base . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | [ 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 . |
| 15 | Swift and deadly , they are armoured in shining silver and armed with white lances with diamond-hard tips which glitter like stars . |
| 16 | They are armoured in shining silver and armed with white lances with diamond-hard tips which glitter like stars . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This has had political and analytical ramifications , with the inner city debate frequently lacking a left perspective , leaving the field to a contest between liberal assertions of the case for sympathy ( ESRC , 1986 ; Robson , 1988 ; MacGregor and Pimlott , 1990 ; Wilson , 1987 ) and more recent and robust demands on the right for a faith in strategies of benign neglect based on market led regeneration and tempered by occasional state facilitation of the private sector ( Savas , 1983 ; Trippier , 1989 ) . |
| 21 | This reluctance to accept death as a ‘ natural ’ and inevitable stage in the cycle of life recalls the doctrine set forth in the Old Testament and enshrined in orthodox Christian teaching . |
| 22 | Bryn was disguised as a priest and issued with false documents to deceive the enemy . |
| 23 | Our cherished records were enfolded by large new cardboard boxes tied with pink tape and marked with inscrutable computer codes . |
| 24 | Lett-Haines was complex and sophisticated , a natural organizer and dedicated to expanding recognition of Morris 's art . |
| 25 | Later , it was taken up by the communications industry and developed into worldwide markets . |
| 26 | The report describes how in recent years hundreds of political activists or suspected activists , including prisoners of conscience , have been subjected to arbitrary arrest and torture and sentenced after unfair trials . |
| 27 | For the ground about him , with its padding of last year 's thick leaf-fall sodden and trodden into soft pulp , showed no disturbance , but lay moist , dark and flat , unmarked by any convulsions of his feet or arms , or any trampling of an assailant round him . |
| 28 | BELOW : Queen Victoria 's twin saloons in their pre-1895 condition and fitted with radial axles . |
| 29 | The ROS membrane was then bleached by continuous white light and subjected to freezing and thawing . |
| 30 | As words are spoken they are identified by the system 's 80,000-word dictionary and converted to digital text which is immediately displayed on screen . |