Example sentences of "and [vb pp] [prep] a [n mass] " in BNC.

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1 These teaching materials are techniques made manifest by the specific choice of language , designed and arranged as a series of tasks or exercises for immediate implementation .
2 Davout 's tent was a few paces distant , lit by an enormous watchfire and guarded by a pair of sentries .
3 Ignoring him , she pressed a tab on the console and keyed in a series of commands .
4 Chris Law of Internal Audit , Regent 's House and Susan Grieve of Leamington Spa Branch were taken on a tour of the department , given a slap-up lunch and presented with a £250 cheque by Bob McInnes , Branch Banking 's Deputy Managing Director .
5 Ralph made a friend of every pupil and on their birthday they were called to his desk and presented with a sixpence — quite a lot of money in the twenties .
6 Named after the famous battleships and secured by a £12 patent , the twenty Dreadnoughts which operated on Blackpool Promenade from the turn of the Century until 1934 , were certainly unique .
7 A TERRIFIED 12-year-old girl was attacked and robbed of a £5 Christmas present .
8 The radiolabelled DNA promoter fragments were incubated with various concentrations of reconstituted holoenzymes at 37°C for 30 min to reach equilibrium between the free species and open complexes ; preformed complexes were challenged with heparin and separated on a 4% native polyacrylamide gel ( Fig. 1 ) .
9 Sets of related files are managed and organized by a Data Base Management System ( DBMS ) .
10 But put in matching frames and hung alongside a pair of brackets that cost a tenner the arrangement is pleasing .
11 Endill was taken to the main corridor and strapped into a pair of lead boots .
12 The tissue was thawed and dissected with a pair of scissors at room temperature .
13 A group of men leant on their gold-topped canes and talked to a pair of Ugly Sisters .
14 It was originally a swampy meadow belonging to the Hospital for Lepers , but the land was drained and enclosed as a deer park in the reign of Henry VIII , MC 14 ; NN 44 .
15 Despite this claim to fame the church has been subjected to several indignities , having been deconsecrated and used as a barracks and a chemical store before being reopened for worship in 1899 .
16 It has been burned down , blown up , divided and used as a barracks by Cromwell 's army .
17 The Hull delegate to the National Conference of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children , in Nottingham in October , was surprised to learn that China is less than half as densely populated as the UK , despite the forcible abortion and sterilisation carried out on women in China and used as a means of genocide in Chinese-occupied Tibet .
18 It was a two-seater , designated R-6H , and powered by a 675hp Hornet .
19 Tables in the Main and Copy Databases are periodically unloaded and compared as a means of :
20 The Confederation of British Industry ( CBI ) has added its weight to the lobby for an environmentally friendly national transport policy and called for a series of measures to curb carbon dioxide emissions .
21 This instrument was thoroughly constructed and standardized by a series of factor analyses .
22 Situated at the foot of a mountain and bordered by a trout stream , this is an easy place to feel completely relaxed in .
23 The SDA itself is now to be dismantled and replaced by a series of local agencies .
24 Such thoughts went with an idea of progress , at least in the past ; but such progress need not have been smooth , for the various faunas could easily have been destroyed and replaced in a series of catastrophes .
25 She claimed mortgage repossessions had added to the homeless spiral and contributed to a 40pc increase in Langbaurgh borough in the last 12 months .
26 Despite such inside knowledge , the opening passages were racked with nervousness and blighted by a series of up-and-unders .
27 He had been one of the founders of Lancashire Enterprise , started in the early 1980s by the controlling Labour Group on the county council , and financed by a 2p rate .
28 Once the zone outline coordinates have been measured and entered into a data file the statistical variable to be mapped is specified .
29 The arguments that can be employed to defend an agreement are tightly drawn and defined in a series of " gateways " .
30 The surrounding buildings were two-storeyed , the upper built out and supported by a series of arched cloisters which every evening were thick with alpaca jerseys , rugs , cheap jewellery , bargain hunters and cloying money-changers .
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