Example sentences of "and [vb pp] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dossier , which said the town centre was clogged up with traffic , polluted by soot and plagued by accidents , was sent to the county council , DoT , and MPs . |
| 2 | Some had excessive swings of mood , and were either excessively energetic or elated , or , more often , inert and plagued by beliefs of their own worthlessness and guilt ; the manic-depressive psychosis . |
| 3 | It was not at all surprising that the main road to Poltava town near Makarenko 's colony was full of travellers and plagued by bandits . |
| 4 | esteem that arise from unwitting acceptance of the injunctions may be mirrored and compounded by assaults on public esteem , if the community in which people work gives its collective assent to the same injunctions . |
| 5 | To assert that conduct is orderly is , from our point of view , to imply that it is directed by a sense of social propriety — that not only is it non-random but that it is both generated and limited by prescriptions and the possibility of sanction , in particular the sanction of expressed disapproval . |
| 6 | Just over 100,000 square kilometres in extent , Iceland is still largely barren and battered from its fiery birth , and the landscape continues to be shaped and racked by volcanoes . |
| 7 | Above was a steep-sided cone , usually timber-framed like a roof , with a plastered internal finish and clad with tiles or slates externally . |
| 8 | A variety of information can be recorded and catalogued including contacts , agencies and job applications . |
| 9 | At a recent NRA seminar for interested parties , speakers from the NRA brought out the key points of the plan and explained to delegates what the scheme is all about ( Chem . |
| 10 | At the same time documents have to be read , thinned down and explained to colleagues , usually with a footnote to mention that there is more documentation that the head will protect them from . |
| 11 | Boxes and pots in good condition can , of course , be sorted and arranged on shelves . |
| 12 | Books and files are classified by subject and arranged on shelves and in filing cabinets by the alphabetic class mark or alpha–numeric file code . |
| 13 | They also inevitably include such universally popular compositions as Dowland 's ‘ Lachrimae Pavin' which seems to have originated as a lute solo , been turned into a song ( ‘ FIow , my tears ’ ) , arranged for viol consort with six sequels in the 1605 book , and arranged for virginals by Byrd , Morley , and Farnaby . |
| 14 | These men also bailed out the thieves if they were arrested , and arranged for lawyers , false evidence , and the intimidation of witnesses . |
| 15 | The company 's doctor was on the spot in no time , attended the patients , examined the sanitary arrangements , disinfected and closed the station well , and arranged for tanks of pure water to be conveyed from 62 miles away . |
| 16 | Freud 's mistake was to think he was trying to bring order into the information gathered and arranged by biologists , instead of trying to bring order into the information gathered by psychoanalysts . |
| 17 | The letters or symbols are exactly measured , of decreasing size and arranged in rows . |
| 18 | Each situation on the list should then be rated on a score out of ten , and arranged in terms of difficulty . |
| 19 | They will make themselves seen and heard like fireworks on a dark night , and their services will always find takers . |
| 20 | Today , the Garvey 's home at Teddington was still sealed and guarded by police . |
| 21 | The establishment was ringed with barbed wire , and guarded by men of the R.A.F. Regiment whose N.C.O.s kept discipline by threatening their men that misdemeanours would result in their being sent ‘ inside the Park ’ , as if it were some sort of madhouse . |
| 22 | If this facility is available , the map should be displayed on a graphics display terminal and checked for errors before it is sent to the film writer . |
| 23 | Of course I had n't bargained on technology , because once the hide is cut to size and checked for blemishes it 's actually put on a cutting form and sent through a roller press . |
| 24 | The stories are suggested and checked by doctors , nurses and ambulance experts . |
| 25 | The big man looked into a face blotched with superficial burns and punctuated by tufts of singed beard . |
| 26 | The baths stood a hundred yards down the rue Foch , past the Mairie , the printing works and la maison du sauvage , where a hermit lived in a courtyard barricaded with oil drums and fastened with chains and umpteen locks . |
| 27 | The dunes are carefully conserved — the Dutch government boasts an inspectorate of dunes — and criss-crossed with paths . |
| 28 | Most writings seem to agree that leadership vision , or ‘ visioning ’ , as the process has sometimes been called , can be broken down into three distinct stages : ( 1 ) the envisioning of ‘ an image of a desired future organizational state ’ ( Bass , 1987 : 51 ) which ( 2 ) when effectively articulated and communicated to followers ( Bennis and Nanus , 1985 ; Tichy and Devanna , 1986 ; Gluck , 1984 ) serves ( 3 ) to empower those followers so that they can enact the vision ( Sashkin , 1987 ; Srivastva , 1983 ; Conger and Kanungo , 1987 ; Robbins and Duncan , 1987 ) . |
| 29 | They elbowed and fought and gave each other tongue-sandwiches , and spat at passers-by and in each other 's faces , there in the cold and rain of decaying London , with the indifferent police looking on . |
| 30 | It has three pretty bedrooms , decorated in well-chosen fabrics , and furnished with antiques and pine . |