Example sentences of "and [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not surprising , therefore , that recent Marxist explanations of power in capitalist society have tried to explain the more pluralistic modern forms of representation and policy-making in terms , not of some devious desire by the ruling class and their friends but as a limited freedom for actors and forces opposed to capitalism , which is constrained and limited in the last instance by the economic structure of the capitalist mode of production and its ideological hegemony . |
| 2 | Bartram expressed gratitude for Miller 's offer to assist him in understanding Linnaeus 's system and commented on the Swedish naturalist 's publication of all the North American plants observed by Kalm on his visit ( i.e. Species Plantarum , 2 vols. 1753 ) adding , ‘ I long to see these books — to see if they have done me justice , as Kalm promised me . ’ |
| 3 | In discussion which followed ‘ many members remained sceptical as to the feasibility of the Dip.H.E. and commented on the ephemeral interest in existing Dip.H.E.s … enrolment for future courses would depend on the flexibility exercised in allowing entrants with qualifications other than two ‘ A ’ levels to enrol , and members regretted the intransigence of the DES in this matter' . |
| 4 | When he was able , he fed himself with the meal he 'd prepared earlier , and stripped off the heavy insulating robe to dress himself in Tech-Green drab . |
| 5 | Tricks could be played , points made by drawing a drooping banner so that certain letters and words were obscured and altered by the folded fabric . |
| 6 | ( 3 ) In May 1983 B.M.T. to which the application signed by the first plaintiff and altered by the third defendant had been submitted , offered C.M.C. a loan of £185,500 on the security of the bakery . |
| 7 | S. Nicodemus is the oldest of this group of churches but was excessively restored and altered in the nineteenth century when the campanile was built . |
| 8 | The present moated Hall was rebuilt during the 16th century and altered in the early 19th century but the house preserves the plan of the 16th century building . |
| 9 | This is a separate document which must be signed and witnessed in the correct legal manner . |
| 10 | His mother held him on her knee and explained for the hundredth time how big the ship would be and how many oceans it would cross and what his big brother would see from it . |
| 11 | The laboratory method appeals to those who believe that , in the last analysis , human behaviour can be studied and explained in the same way as can events in the world of nature . |
| 12 | The second section of the reader outlines some of the diverse phenomena that are often lumped together and explained by the single category of racism . |
| 13 | His treacherous relations with his friends and comrades are both confirmed and explained by the treacherous interpersonal relations that form the substance of his three major texts , Antoine Bloye Le Cheval de Troie and La Conspiration . |
| 14 | ‘ Just talk to them , find out what they 've seen and heard over the last couple of weeks , ’ the DI said . |
| 15 | A man-made millpond with a splashing waterfall can be seen and heard from the rear rooms . |
| 16 | Everything I have seen and heard in the ensuing months reinforces my belief that drift-netting is a manifestation of an attitude which , unchecked , will in due course murder the only planet on which we can make our home . ’ |
| 17 | 8 : As for high level wastes , no-one has demonstrated ( can they ? ) how these wastes can be safely isolated and guarded for the necessary one million years — a geological time span reaching out to our 40,000th generation … |
| 18 | Here they 're weighed and measured and checked for the early signs of malnutrition , cholera and smallpox . |
| 19 | The traditional geometric values of the model are handled and checked by the functional relationships and used in the pictorial constructions . |
| 20 | Correct clearance between these entities can be established and checked against the desired relationships . |
| 21 | It was the wildest party Britain had seen , and the media had a field day with a revelling of nude and painted bodies , cavorting to fine music under a dense cloud of cannabis smoke and punctuated by the occasional screams of an acid drop gone wrong . |
| 22 | The artist has created a marvellous pattern out of the limbs of beasts and men superposed in parallel planes stepped back to the ground and punctuated by the frontal heads of the near oxen ; a sophisticated and brilliantly successful design . |
| 23 | The picture wall in his underground burrow seemed to absorb him ; it was a holo of the South Seas , forested hillsides plunging down to warm waters and punctuated by the vivid exclamation marks of birds . |
| 24 | The landlord turned and spat into the dirty rushes . |
| 25 | Rosten shuddered violently and spat on the kneeling man 's head . |
| 26 | He gestured abruptly to the side of a vast building at one end of the square , lit by flaring torches which guttered and spat in the light snowfall . |
| 27 | One of the pellet samples contained several small ungulate bones , probably from the bush duiker , and these are shown here with evidence of digestion , the surfaces of the bone broken and corroded by the digestive action of the owl . |
| 28 | In this case the value is 9.8 and calculated on the previous year 's EPS . |
| 29 | He flung open a pair of doors she had not even noticed in the gloom and revealed the largest room she had ever seen , endlessly high , and filled with the grey light of the sea . |
| 30 | For its part , the Conservative Party , under the intellectual leadership of R. A. Butler , came to terms with the changes wrought by Labour from 1945–51 and adjusted to the new mood in the country so that it grudged towards state intervention in support of some kind of equality . |