Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole day had been a strange one for a young lady like herself who had never been allowed to go out on her own , had been carefully looked after and protected at all times from the impact of the world in which most people lived . |
| 2 | They are defined by the Land Registration Act 1925 , s3(b) as : The interests not capable of being disposed of or created by registered dispositions and capable of being overridden ( whether or not a purchaser has notice thereof ) by the proprietor unless protected as provided by the Act . |
| 3 | Section 2(2) of that Act provides that regulations may be made ‘ for the purpose of implementing any Community obligation of the United Kingdom or for the purpose of dealing with matters arising out of or related to any such obligation . ’ |
| 4 | This is especially so where ‘ recitation ’ or transmission patterns of teaching are strongly approved of and supported by other members of the school community , not least the pupils themselves . |
| 5 | 142 ( 2 ) The obligation under a condition or of a covenant entered into by a lessor with reference to the subject-matter of the lease shall , if and as far as the lessor has power to bind the reversionary estate immediately expectant on the term granted by the lease , be annexed and incident to and shall go with that reversionary estate , or the several parts thereof , notwithstanding severance of that reversionary estate , and may be taken advantage of and enforced by the person in whom the term is from time to time vested by conveyance , devolution in law , or otherwise ; and , if and as far as the lessor has power to bind the person from time to time entitled to that reversionary estate , the obligation aforesaid may be taken advantage of and enforced against any person so entitled . |
| 6 | Oral sex , although mentioned in literature and depicted in art spanning millennia , has been thought of and described by many people as a perversion of sexual practice . |
| 7 | The Patents Information Network has been established by the British Library to enable the public to find out what patents are being applied for and granted in this country and elsewhere . |
| 8 | Progressive legislation is fought for and gained by organised resistance , often on a class base , though this may be concealed . |
| 9 | This has been especially evident in Peru and Chile , where goals have been fought for and won in this way . |
| 10 | A volume set can be formatted for and produced on any of the three available media types ( paper , microfilm or microfiche ) . |
| 11 | The fundamental instant in Islamic life occurs with the new moon , which must be watched for and established by two ‘ witnesses of the instant ’ . |
| 12 | It must have taken Summerchild at least an extra minute in each direction ; as I recall it from those evenings fifteen years ago , he walked at a much more reflective pace , as if slowed by some inner weight . |
| 13 | as if summoned by that anger , Tom Carey rounded a bend in the path , rod in hand . |
| 14 | They walked to the lake where there were two pairs of ducks , mallards with feathers as if painted in iridescent green , and from which a heron rose on gaunt wings , its legs dangling . |
| 15 | The ground of the park rippled as if disturbed by colossal , underground moles . |
| 16 | Each laugh , observes Howard , looking chiefly at the laughter emerging from himself , is rounded and polished , as if cast in weathered bronze . |
| 17 | as if damned to perpetual motion — decay |
| 18 | The group sat quite still as if bound by some secret . |
| 19 | And when it was over and their tears had dried , they lay like spoons , curved together as if made for each other , and slept . |
| 20 | as if struck by invisible lightning , she felt her whole body tense and prickle with reaction . |
| 21 | Instinctively — as if faced by some poisonous animal — people moved back a little . |
| 22 | His eyes appeared dark and fixed , as if possessed of some terrifying secret . |
| 23 | Swings also moved gently back and forth in the breeze , as if rocked by some unseen hand . |
| 24 | When the man saw this , he began to walk more quickly , then to run , as if triggered by some vulnerability in Nicola that he had n't found before . |
| 25 | Angled away from the path of the hurricane , the concrete tube had become a giant organ pipe across the mouth of which the hurricane moaned and howled as if driven into enraged dementia by their evasion of its savagery . |
| 26 | Two thoroughbred stallions panted heavily as if driven at some pace . |
| 27 | The smell of damp and rot seemed to waft from the doorway as if expelled from putrid lungs . |
| 28 | She nearly ran up again when the milling throngs of people in the hallway below turned as if drilled by some invisible sergeant and stared at her . |
| 29 | as if impelled by some nameless undertow , the mass of people gently flowed towards the doorway , some still holding their sherry glasses aloft . |
| 30 | as if seized with prophetic fire he raised his eyes to the ceiling , and said : |