Example sentences of "and [vb pp] [prep] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a study of life in Muncie , Indiana , and typified by an eclecticism of data sources . |
| 2 | The letter — seen and authenticated by an expert for the Daily Mirror — is one of hundreds just unearthed as Presley fans around the world mark the anniversary of the death of ‘ The King ’ 15 years ago . |
| 3 | ‘ The defence does not arise on a plea of autrefois convict , but on the well-established rule at common law , that where a person has been convicted and punished for an offence by a court of competent jurisdiction , transit in rem judicatam , that is , the conviction shall be a bar to all further proceedings for the same offence , and he shall not be punished again for the same matter ; otherwise there might be two different punishments for the same offence . |
| 4 | Having missed the deadline to register as a Democratic candidate in the November elections , he resigned from the party on Aug. 13 and registered as an independent . |
| 5 | He was handcuffed to another prisoner and placed in an army , armoured personnel carrier . |
| 6 | Isotropic bile samples were immediately transferred into small sterile brown glass tubes , flushed with nitrogen , sealed , and placed in an incubator at 37°C without shaking throughout the study period . |
| 7 | Larger peels can be sandwiched between two glass plates and placed in an episcope for projection . |
| 8 | In September 1944 , as the Red Army advanced into Belorussia , Domanov 's Cossacks had been moved across Europe and assigned to an area around Tolmezzo in northern Italy , then under the control of Italian partisans . |
| 9 | The sign or the symbol , however , can be ignored and treated as an end in itself . |
| 10 | What may in the first instance be attributed to physical causes and treated by an herbalist may , if it persists or grows more severe , be redefined as caused by mystical forces requiring treatment by a diviner ( see Horton 1970 : 142 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ Safety can never be pulled out and examined as an issue in isolation from the project . |
| 12 | The measurements are approximate and given as an indication only at this stage , taken from the architects ' drawings , the sizes may vary slightly after construction . |
| 13 | The practising teacher or school librarian does not have time to go leisurely through pages of details which are poorly printed on A4 which are folded and tucked in an envelope with a disk . |
| 14 | Such writing is essentially public and intended for an audience . |
| 15 | Biopsy specimens were washed in saline , and homogenised in an ice cold buffer ( 25 mM TRIS HCl , pH 7.5 , 1 mM EDTA , 1 mM dithiothreitol ) using a Teflon glass homogeniser ( 10 strokes ) . |
| 16 | That survey was carried out by a court-appointed expert and completed by an inspection of the museum on 14 February by order of the instructing magistrate in charge of the affair . |
| 17 | But what Katherine liked best were the corner shelves which housed three miniature cities , carved out of wood and painted by an expert hand so that they evoked future urban landscapes . |
| 18 | Not only are more and more people willing and able to go and look at the countryside , but the trend is towards more active recreational pursuits , involving the more extensive use of space and paralleled by an extension of the time spent there . |
| 19 | The message Macedo carried to the villages — most of them accessible only by boat or along tortuous jungle trails and scattered over an area larger than England — was that the forest 's people should , in uniting , take control of their own destiny . |
| 20 | This development is framed in the context of discursive initiation : Julia 's education in natural languages is paralleled and supplemented by an éducation sentimentale in ‘ languages ’ of a higher order . |
| 21 | In all , 1738 ( 96% ) patients in the survey were seen initially by their general practitioner ; 41 ( 2% ) referred themselves and were admitted to hospital , and 26 ( 1% ) referred themselves and were managed and discharged by an accident and emergency department . |
| 22 | Of those initially seen by the general practitioner , 184 ( 11% ) were referred and admitted to hospital , 8 ( <1% ) were referred and discharged by an accident and emergency department , and 1546 ( 89% ) were managed solely by the general practitioner ( table II ) . |
| 23 | Under the leadership of the party the working masses constructed the material base for socialism , replaced primitive private farming with collectivized agriculture , and carried through an industrialization programme which astonished and alarmed the bourgeois world . |
| 24 | Fresh flowers are fine for scenting the air but their life is finite , and to preserve their perfume , it was found that a mixture of flower petals , collected when they were at exactly the right stage in their development , then carefully dried or part-dried , and mixed with an ingredient which " fixed " the perfume , such as orris root ( Iris gennanica florentina ) would continue to give off fragrance for months and even years . |
| 25 | Why , by the time Prince Richard is fifteen and considered of an age to really marry , I shall be eighteen . |
| 26 | Within the pale the strangers entering were observed immediately , and approached with an alertness and efficiency that probably stemmed from the fact that the earl himself was in residence . |
| 27 | He escaped to France , but was captured after attempting another murder and confined in an asylum . |
| 28 | Soon after taking office Reagan won much popular sympathy when he was shot and wounded in an assassination attempt . |
| 29 | The Canadian Parliament from 1980 on has discussed and voted on an estimates figure ( an ‘ envelope ’ ) that includes both tax expenditures and traditional spending authorisation . |
| 30 | The first paper in Abidjan , Ivory Coast , to be owned and edited by an African appeared in 1935 . |