Example sentences of "and [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He failed to do all he could for the Jews and socialised with the Nazis too easily for the Poles ' liking . |
| 2 | And the scene of the burning of the books , seen on film by her many times , was as vivid as an actual memory : Hitler 's jack-booted thugs in their brown shirts , swastikas on their arms , heaving the books from the Library and heaping the heritage of the world on to a pyre , dancing and gloating as the flames consumed book after book , volume after volume : Heine , Schiller , Brecht , Thomas Mann , Einstein , Freud , Marx : history , poetry , novels , science , the works of philosophers , psychologists — men and women who had dedicated their lives for the betterment of the brutes who burned their books ; brutes living in utter ignorance , leading lives as dull and limited as the beasts of the fields , inspired only by resentment , vile prejudice , and blind hatred of what they could not understand , and , it was true , victims themselves of poverty and ignorance seeking victims in their turn — and finding them . |
| 3 | He engages with a sense of Being eternally present , not driven and limited by the demands of time . |
| 4 | Their owners were also beginning to notice what was going on and commented on the changes that were making their business more difficult , for the books often had no dispersal markings on them . |
| 5 | There was a woman who wanted me to call her mother , and then called me awkward , exasperated and frightened with the dreams and the screams . |
| 6 | I was bitten by a neighbour 's dog and heard from the police that the same dog had bitten two other ladies — a Mrs Gentles and a Mrs Savage ! |
| 7 | I gave a short address with one foot on each side of the peace-line [ a sleeping policeman — concrete ] basing my theme on the marvellous passage in the second chapter of the Gospel according to St. Luke — the song of the angels , seen and heard by the shepherds , ‘ Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace and goodwill to all people ’ . |
| 8 | Their work is supervised by the Manager and checked by the Contracts Manager on his routine visits . |
| 9 | Alarmed by this influx , many ‘ respectable ’ fans vacated their regular places on the end terraces and congregated in the stands . |
| 10 | Commonly , rectal distensibility is determined as rectal compliance and calculated as the changes of volume and intrarectal pressure ( ) . |
| 11 | The results show an excellent correlation between the quantity of bicarbonate infused into the oesophagus and that measured and calculated from the aspirates ( correlation coefficient r=0.965 , p=0.0001 , Fig 4 ) . |
| 12 | These are at the far end of the Grotto and filled with the waters from the spring of the Grotto . |
| 13 | She had her own flat now , light and bright and filled with the things she herself had carefully chosen . |
| 14 | Gober 's exhibition comprises four rooms wallpapered with the artist 's own designs and filled with the sculptures for which he has become celebrated : several untitled wax legs with candles , the wax hermaphroditic torso , the wedding dress , the bags of cat litter and the drains sunk into the gallery 's walls . |
| 15 | What evidence there was supported a relatively minor charge under military standing orders and the soldier concerned was charged , found guilty and punished under the powers accorded to the commanding officer . |
| 16 | In general , we think of the criminal law as the means by which individuals are prosecuted , tried and punished for the offences ( e.g. theft , assault , etc. ) which they have committed . |
| 17 | We are primarily concerned in the hotel and catering industry with registered companies incorporated and registered under the Companies Act 1985 . |
| 18 | ( 1 ) It is not argued that under English company law , or under the English law of mortgage , a foreign company , that is a company not formed and registered under the Companies Acts , lacks the requisite legal capacity to enter into a debenture secured by a floating charge on property both in England and abroad and conferring a power to appoint a receiver and manager over the whole , or substantially the whole , of its property . |
| 19 | Subject of course to the wording of the particular statutory provisions , those general observations are as pertinent to the case of a security granted to a bank by an unregistered company as to a security granted by a company formed and registered under the Companies Acts . |
| 20 | The relevant question is therefore : is there any indication in the subject matter and statutory purpose of the provisions concerning administrative receivers generally , or in the Act of 1986 considered as a whole , from which it appears that Parliament intended that the word ‘ company ’ in the context of section 29(2) ( a ) of that Act should not be confined to its prima facie meaning of a company formed and registered under the Companies Acts , but should also embrace unregistered companies liable to be wound up under Part V of the Act of 1986 ? |
| 21 | In my judgment , there are indications that the provisions relating to administrative receivers generally apply both to companies formed and registered under the Companies Acts and to unregistered companies liable to be wound up under Part V. The starting point is that the legislative concept of administrative receiver , and the statutory scheme of the provisions relating to his qualifications , functions , powers and duties , all rest on a contractual base , namely , a receiver appointed by or on behalf of debenture holders under a debenture secured by a floating charge . |
| 22 | As already noted , the underlying contractual regime is applicable both in the case of a debenture granted by a company formed and registered under the Companies Acts , and in the case of a debenture granted by an unregistered company . |
| 23 | Is ‘ company ’ in that context confined to a company formed and registered under the Companies Acts ? |
| 24 | This means that the company in question must be formed and registered under the Companies Act 1985 or under the former Companies Acts … |
| 25 | My only comment is that , if the position is that the court 's power to appoint an administrator is in fact confined to companies formed and registered under the Companies Acts , it does not necessarily follow that the power to appoint an administrative receiver is similarly confined . |
| 26 | I am unconvinced that these provisions , taken singly or cumulatively , show that there is a legislative intention to confine the status of an administrative receiver to a receiver appointed by debenture holders over property of a company formed and registered under the Companies Acts . |
| 27 | On sunny days , when she had washed and dressed him , his chair would be taken out and placed under the Stocks Tree where he could watch the people come and go . |
| 28 | No way , she felt , of changing things with him , she was just there with him , he told her he loved her so there she was , identified and placed by the words he spoke of her . |
| 29 | One which is going to be published and placed in the hands of people at large for their help in understanding the faith . |
| 30 | Consequently , the administration of the scheme has been removed from the Law Society and placed in the hands of the Legal Aid Board by the Legal Aid Act 1988 . |