Example sentences of "[prep] and [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Progressive legislation is fought for and gained by organised resistance , often on a class base , though this may be concealed . |
| 7 | This has been especially evident in Peru and Chile , where goals have been fought for and won in this way . |
| 8 | A volume set can be formatted for and produced on any of the three available media types ( paper , microfilm or microfiche ) . |
| 9 | The fundamental instant in Islamic life occurs with the new moon , which must be watched for and established by two ‘ witnesses of the instant ’ . |
| 10 | In spite of all this , the design process itself is often thought about and executed without any formal considerations about people . |
| 11 | Those too poor to qualify for this pension were further discriminated against and left to poor relief . |
| 12 | He said Stockton had entered into and adhered to cash-limited agreements with bus companies . |
| 13 | The body 's terrible corruption , like the earth 's , somehow had to be grappled with and known at close quarters , like a mistress . |
| 14 | It is indeed jazzy , but adorned with and enlarged by outside influences , which is a very healthy and happy state of affairs . |
| 15 | Similarly , while Wish art and Virden want to admit counter-historical trends to the dominant tonal tradition — in what they call ‘ genuine folk musics ’ — these are understood as almost completely separate from and opposed to that tradition . |
| 16 | Conceptualizations of police work are therefore derived from and embedded in such phenomena as the day-to-day experience of police duties , which is itself contextually related to the sorts of crime that occur in the area in which the station is located , common-sense notions about policing contained in the occupational culture , and stereotypes of policing found in the wider culture . |
| 17 | The average man is ‘ a cool , common person , with a considerate air , with figures in his mind , with his own business to attend to , with a set of ordinary opinions arising from and suited to ordinary life . |
| 18 | Mating strategies are clarified , as predicted from and elaborated in captive studies : subadult males are more active sexually than adults , but the latter focus on peaks of female fertility . |
| 19 | The most important element of this optimism is that the counselling approach implies that growth is a continuous process during which our potential capacities can be drawn upon and developed at any period of life , including old age . |
| 20 | These operate as discursive resources to be drawn upon and articulated in different combinations in particular contexts , thus constantly opening up the possibility of tension , inconsistency and contradiction within and between sites . |
| 21 | Public relations enhances and protects reputations by ensuring the activities of the company are communicated to and understood by wider publics , so that each group 's good opinions reinforces the other in an unbroken circle of APPROVAL . |
| 22 | Partnerships , small scale as well as large , need a clear sense of purpose made explicit in objectives , they need a strategic plan for achieving these objectives which is communicated to and understood by those involved and they need a review and evaluation process built into the whole to determine what is being achieved . |
| 23 | We failed to lead the race for new products and we contributed to and suffered from heavy overcapacity . |
| 24 | We welcome the proposal to reduce the statutory time limit on all existing and future permissions which we believe is essential if minerals operations are to be brought up to and maintained at modern standards or reviewed to assess whether they should be extinguished because the environmental costs of working is too high . |
| 25 | The evidence for market-control shows how such a system responded to and impinged on new forms of local power and local initiative . |
| 26 | And at the end of it all , realising how much she has contributed to and gained from this greatest of all creative acts , she proclaims that she is Myself , Myself . |
| 27 | The Plaintiff relies on proprietary estoppel the principle of which , in its broadest form , may be stated as follows ; where one person , A , has acted to his detriment on the faith of a belief , which was known to and encouraged by another person , B , that he either has or is going to be given a right in or over B 's property , B can not insist on his strict legal rights if to do so would be inconsistent with A 's belief . |
| 28 | The sprinkler system , suitably adapted to and designed for each individual risk , is capable of precise application in anticipation of flame travel as well as having satisfactory long term knock-out effects on residual fuel . |
| 29 | Mills and Boon titles are distributed to and translated by thirteen local language paperback companies ; particularly successful export markets are those in the Middle East , North Africa , South Africa , Australia and Europe . |
| 30 | The tables for Enumeration Districts and electoral wards ( in Scotland , postcode sectors and Output Areas ) have had 1 randomly added to and subtracted from any non-zero count , apart from the basic head counts . |