Example sentences of "and [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Combine the processes , or perm the same tresses more than once , and the result can be hair that 's dry , brittle and plagued by split ends . |
| 2 | In a country still torn between two rivals for sovereignty , and plagued by numerous uncommitted lords more interested in carving out kingdoms of their own , wise men observed their hospitable duties and opened their houses to all , but waited to examine credentials before opening their minds . |
| 3 | However , he emerged convinced of the extent of severe , if quietly borne , rural poverty , caused above all by low pay and compounded by large families and diminishing work opportunities for wives . |
| 4 | export subsidies on manufactured goods are prohibited , and limited on primary products . |
| 5 | Selected or key settlements may be service centres ; they may also be associated with public investment in facilities such as schools and council housing , and designated for residential expansion or for industrial growth ( Woodruffe 1976 ) . |
| 6 | Then he wrote down what he expected would happen in the ensuing month with respect to each key task and what he was going to do about it , asked questions about policy , and commented on long-term opportunities , threats , and needs . |
| 7 | The rocks and stones for thirty yards around had been flung outwards by the blast and an unlucky gorse-bush had been reduced and stripped to blackened twigs . |
| 8 | Law , to be " prescribed " , must be adequately accessible and formulated with sufficient precision to enable citizens to regulate their conduct . |
| 9 | I welcome the public debate the NCCL is trying to stir up because I know I 'll get the support of the majority who are frustrated and frightened by deteriorating public order . |
| 10 | Peter Mann , director of the charity 's veterinary services , said : ‘ The sheer noise of fireworks can shock a pet into running away and becoming lost and frightened in unfamiliar surroundings . ’ |
| 11 | His hair was oiled , and arranged with obsessive neatness across his scalp , and his ears , the colour of raw tuna-fish , were big , intricate and well balanced . |
| 12 | James Westbrook and Annette Friend play an evening of music written and arranged for classical guitar duet . |
| 13 | Articles and selected books are abstracted and arranged in alphabetical order of subject . |
| 14 | The design needs to be simple and arranged in identical pairs of rows . |
| 15 | The leaves are deep green and arranged in alternate , irregular whorls . |
| 16 | You have to use these methods because there are fifty cassettes coming in every day and you need yours to be picked out and heard with particular care . |
| 17 | Like nobles , powerful clergymen had access to estates , which were cultivated by serfs and guarded by armed retainers . |
| 18 | Current proposals for Birmingham envisage that the centre of the city be privately owned , closed at night if necessary , and guarded by private security . |
| 19 | ‘ Set in a little valley of orchards and vines , and guarded by rugged scenic mountains . ’ |
| 20 | After hCG injection the females should be caged individually with proven stud males and checked for vaginal plugs on the following morning . |
| 21 | First they discovered bird droppings in their detector and checked for other possible malfunctions , but soon ruled these out . |
| 22 | Though not all his points are equally well taken , there can be no doubt that he is right in his basic assertion that the Kanunname is shot through with anachronisms suggesting sixteenth-century alterations and additions and that any provision of it must be treated with reserve and checked against other sources before being accepted as being genuinely of the time of Mehmed II . |
| 23 | It was founded in the late 700s , but most of its present buildings ( pastel-coloured and timbered , and punctuated with onion-dome towers ) date from the reconstruction in the late 1600s and 1700s , after the 30 years war . |
| 24 | Robert Forbes was born Terence Lewthwaite in Salford , part of the industrial heartland of England , a sprawl of sour streets of back-to-back houses , cross-hatched with scummy canals and punctuated by decaying factories which fouled the atmosphere with their effluents . |
| 25 | She wore a dirty apron in dark , printed cotton , which went round her back and fastened with thin tapes , pulled awry over her black skirt and sweater , and she appeared flustered . |
| 26 | Each generation created its own myth of stability and fastened upon disorderly juvenile elements in its own culture to prove the thesis . |
| 27 | Even inside , the shards flashed and spat with white fire , and seemed to radiate cold . |
| 28 | JTPs are operating in a vacuum , with some schemes attempting to provide quality training while constrained by inadequate funds and overloaded by bureaucratic paper work . |
| 29 | There was also an excellent correlation between the quantity of exogenous bicarbonate infused into the oesophagus and that measured and calculated from oesophageal aspirates . |
| 30 | The building has been carpeted throughout and furnished with new blinds and new lino . |