Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | De Havilland , a British company , designed and built the first passenger jet airplane , but it did not analyze what the market needed and therefore did not identify two key factors . |
| 2 | In the winter of 1976 , Rod Johnstone , who started out as a schoolteacher before taking up naval architecture , designed and built the first J/24 in his garage . |
| 3 | Looking back at that period , the crucial difference in Conservative politicians was between those who thought that the last twenty or thirty years had not been too bad , and who were sceptical that anything better could be achieved , and those who hoped that something better could be won and saw the last quarter of a century as a slow but steady decline . |
| 4 | Okland was interviewed in one of the papers on why Frank was included and mentioned the strong Turkey game and also spoke about Frank not playing in Leeds : ’ Frank not playing is strange . |
| 5 | This sudden fame impressed and disturbed the whole school , including the teachers , who called Charlie ‘ Girlie ’ . |
| 6 | From Semer Water I crossed the road and followed the track above the river Bain through summer meadows , by stiles , some of which were gated and had the rubber soles from wellington boots for hinges . |
| 7 | Task Force Atlantic also attacked and seized the main military prison , freeing some 48 prisoners who had been arrested by Gen Noriega after the abortive coup against him on October 3 . |
| 8 | The relationship between central and local government has deteriorated partly because a series of Conservative Administrations have continually attacked and deprived the local authorities of resources , and subsequently because of the poll tax . |
| 9 | Whereas before , in 1906 , Picasso had simplified and reinterpreted the human form in a more empirical fashion under the influence of archaic sculpture , now he explains it rationally in terms of simple self-contained planes differentiated by the use of a consistent light source . |
| 10 | The new measures supplemented and renewed the first , interim austerity package introduced in December 1989 [ see p. 37194 ] , most of whose provisions were due to expire on July 1 . |
| 11 | 17–11- In the Public Hall at Bridgend , the Moderator expressed his sympathy with the congregation " on account of their Pastor , Mr Stewart , having resigned and joined the legal Free Church . " |
| 12 | There they could be near to RSSPCC centres where interviewing could take place ; and in those centres the Society 's social workers repeatedly interviewed and questioned the nine children they had taken away . |
| 13 | He has sat and matched the former world amateur champions shoot up the rankings and said : ‘ I 'm glad to see them doing so well but it 's annoying when you know you are as good as them but are not able to do anything about it . |
| 14 | She never looked like being caught and beat the favourite Hencliff Ben by five and three quarter lengths . |
| 15 | Members of the legal profession are highly educated and have the good fortune to have a firm and unambiguous language at their service . |
| 16 | The shaft was fluted or left plain but the capital bell was strongly delineated , richly decorated and used the softer acanthus leaf design . |
| 17 | Before this , the judges themselves , and especially the Master of the Rolls , whose responsibility it was seen to be , considered and made the necessary recommendations to the Department on the staffing and other administrative arrangements of the courts . |
| 18 | The air-gargoyles gently sucked and puffed the aromatic smoke into strange curlicues as if sketching the features of potential daemons which might lurk outside the hull . |
| 19 | For 400 years after this the Romans enslaved , organised and civilised the enormous area of their known world , which encircled the Mediterranean and stretched from Spain in the west to the Black Sea in the east , from Britain in the north to Egypt in the south . |
| 20 | Detectives are working on the theory that he could have arrived home to find his flat in Bisley Court , Darlington , being ransacked and paid the ultimate price . |
| 21 | As the Robemaker 's shadow fell blackly across the floor , Fenella ducked behind the nearest rack , but Caspar , caught without hope of concealment , simply turned and made the briefest of bows . |
| 22 | The Commissioners still believed that the Act applied and referred the statutory declaration , a certificate and counter-statement setting out their views on the taxpayer 's statutory declaration , to a tribunal which would decide whether there was a prima facie case for proceeding . |
| 23 | Working in the enclosed , whitened space which is integral to the piece , Bargh laboriously applied and reapplied the loaded pigment , sanding the surface between each layer . |
| 24 | By 1200 its dominance extended over most of Europe when the Western church from Rome had met and joined the Greek centre from Constantinople . |
| 25 | Encourage each trainee to cite an instance of maladaptive behaviour they have met and ask the whole group to discuss the way in which the child acquired it . |
| 26 | Industria Siquieroli has manufactured and sold the most units — 650 charcoal-burning , vehicle gasifiers at $750 a time . |
| 27 | Cuthred is said to have fought bravely against Aethelbald ( ASC A , s.a. 741 ) and in his twelfth year , which the Chronicle gives as 752 ( ASC A , s.a 752 ) but which may need to be corrected to 751 , to have defeated and put the Mercian king to flight at the battle of Beorhford . |
| 28 | This pushed most regions further from their original RAWP targets than the full model would have done and increased the relative shift of resources to the south east . |
| 29 | Wavell Wakefield not only organised , selected and captained the first RAF side to win the Inter Service tournament but also led England during the golden era of the 1920s . |
| 30 | But Robinson , eternally vigilant over his love and his interest , had seen and noted the direct force of the man 's design on Mary . |