Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | A file on the alleged offences was compiled by the Suffolk force 's internal discipline department and sent to a special section of the CPS in London which deals with allegations against English police officers . |
| 32 | Alternatively they may be subsumed within the department and treated as a poor relation . |
| 33 | Bernice was fairly sure that if she asked whether she was , at that moment , on a lumpy excrescence on a strand of spaghetti stretching into the Doctor 's future and surrounded by a soup of probabilities , she would n't like the answer . |
| 34 | His meditative sculptures are organic , natural shapes fashioned from straight-sawn , rectangular pieces of wood , covered with cotton fabric and painted in a variety of colours . |
| 35 | The bow is made out of a separate piece of fabric and stitched to a basic straight tie-back . |
| 36 | Item No 5 : it is extremely difficult to date these religious medallions , struck to be blessed by a priest and kept as a talisman . |
| 37 | This dock , to the east of the Albert Dock and connected by a passageway 19.8 metres wide at coping level measures 457 metres long by 198 metres wide with a jetty 305 metres long by 76 metres wide in the centre adjoining the east end . |
| 38 | Three years ago , the Ward family were held at gunpoint and threatened by a gang of raiders at their home in Turweston . |
| 39 | About 1.45am a few other hostages and I were herded into a red van at gunpoint and driven to a private home in the wealthy neighbourhood where General Noriega lives . |
| 40 | A MAN was being quizzed by police yesterday after a schoolgirl was kidnapped at gunpoint and subjected to a terrifying three-hour sex ordeal . |
| 41 | He lost control of his car and collided with a van being driven by self-employed glazier Stephen Whitehead . |
| 42 | ‘ She was dragged into a car and taken to a house . |
| 43 | He was drugged , bundled into the boot of a car and driven to a canyon on the outskirts of Santiago . |
| 44 | This explanation is consistent with the increase in bending angle reported to take place in the ternary complex and interpreted in a similar way by Zinkel and Crothers [ 27 ] . |
| 45 | These images were stored on video tape and processed by a MS-DOS computer , using a video grabber , and processing software ( IBAS , Kontron GmbH , Munich , Germany ) . |
| 46 | The shorts , printed with the fish motif , are full cut and gathered onto a wide , basque style waistband which is elasticated at the back . |
| 47 | Despite offers of another bottle , we declared a truce and comforted ourselves by sharing a strawberry and raspberry gratinée , the fresh fruit beached in a hot lake of custard and centred with a melting raspberry sorbet : definitely my desert island dish . |
| 48 | Beyond it , to the east , was a meadow , thick with fritillaries in spring and surrounded by a wooded path , known ( after the essayist and moralist who was a fellow of the College in the early eighteenth century ) as Addison 's Walk . |
| 49 | His voice broke with emotion and faded to a whisper . |
| 50 | Both rejected positivistic literary scholarship and called for a renewed attention to literature as literature ; both insisted on the differences between literature and other kinds of writing , and tried to define these differences in theoretical terms ; both gave a central role in their definitions to ideas of structure and interrelatedness , and treated the literary text as an object essentially independent of its author and its historical context . |
| 51 | In the dim light and seated behind a desk was the unmistakable smiling face of Colonel Charlie Vaughan . |
| 52 | SRI LANKA 'S Tamil Tiger guerrillas announced yesterday that they had renounced violence and registered as a political party . |
| 53 | This season 27-year-old Llewellyn already has 23 wins under his belt and looks on course to top his previous best total of 53 achieved last term and capped with a Grand National triumph on Party Politics . |
| 54 | Anthony Andrews , so often seen as the archetypal urbane Englishman , turns in a performance of immense depth and sympathy as Miller , who is accused of spying and cast into a barbarous prison camp . |
| 55 | CHURCHMEN and intellectuals in East Germany , worried about the new , aggressive tone that has crept into the emotional issue of reunification , yesterday warned against confrontation and called for a temporary end to mass street demonstrations . |
| 56 | Quinn is represented by several heads of historical figures , modelled in bread and cast in bronze or lead ; ‘ Self ’ , the celebrated self-portrait created from eight pints of the artist 's own blood and displayed in a refrigeration unit ; and ‘ You take my breath away ’ , an empty latex cast of the artist 's body suspended from the ceiling like the skin of St Bartholomew . |
| 57 | Total RNA was isolated from 2 to 20 ml of whole blood and hybridised with a specific biotinylated oligonucleotide . |
| 58 | Here are scattered numerous slate boulders which have been carried by glacier action and dumped on a limestone shelf . |
| 59 | It was a tool used by farriers to Pare the hoof of a horse and known as a butteris , buttress or buttrace . |
| 60 | The mouth of the Loire has a submerged delta of this type , the two distributary channels being near the land on either side and separated by a mass of sediment some of which is exposed at low tide as banks in mid-estuary . |