Example sentences of "and [vb pp] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Three new coins have been minted , gold five dollar , silver dollar and clad half dollar .
2 Her body was weary but her brain was buzzing , trying to make sense of everything she 'd seen and heard that day .
3 The simple act of starting out on the route from Tunbridge Wells to Bourne End was nevertheless sufficient to call to her mind every detail of what she had seen and heard that afternoon .
4 As in the past preservation will be influenced not by what historians want but by the needs and fortunes of the social structures which created and guarded such information .
5 Both novels see the world in colonial colours — as determined by empires , in the furtherance of which races have defeated and enslaved each other , in which they have met and married , in which a black mercenary might marry a daughter of Venice .
6 They were suspicious of preaching and the personal interpretation of scripture by the laity , and placed great stress on the sacraments as sources of grace .
7 One gang , which consisted of four coachmakers and two labourers , prepared and placed all timber , panels and other materials on the spot where it was required , and no man who was engaged on actual repairs was required to leave the job to look up any material .
8 He preferred to keep acquaintances as such , rarely divulged his feelings and placed little reliance on others .
9 Therefore , we obtained additional mucosal biopsy specimens , divided the tissue samples in half , and placed each half in a Krebs-Ringer solution having a pH 11 , one with and one without allopurinol ( 100 uM ) .
10 They liked calm achievement , and placed much emphasis on apparent control and not being taken by surprise .
11 Mike was silent and withdrawn that evening , and just after ‘ appel ’ he beat the shit out of Macier who had put his feet on Mike 's blankets .
12 They realised that the college site , inaccessible at the top of a hill and situated half way between two communities , was in fact serving neither .
13 He set up a pile of cushions on the sofa and propped two telephone directories against them .
14 She might then have sought and received public assistance or have pledged her husband 's credit with tradesmen : in which case the National Assistance Board might have summoned him before the magistrates , or the tradesmen might have sued him in the county court .
15 Claiming that although in the end ‘ their services had not been required ’ , he thought that nevertheless ‘ they would have expected and received some share of the proceeds ’ and it was presumably while Griffiths was being handed his share of the proceeds from Mr Ross 's safe that bits of brown paper and bits of white paper could have found their way into his overcoat pocket .
16 In this study we measured adenylate and guanylate cyclase activities and cyclic nucleotide values in the biopsy specimens of duodenal mucosa from patients with untreated and treated coeliac disease .
17 He managed to remember hid and hidden this morning , instead of hidded
18 SCHOOL governors should be treated like magistrates and given paid leave of absence from work , the Assistant Masters and Mistresses Association has told the National Commission on Education .
19 The broad legal mandate of the agencies about water pollution control is transformed into policy by senior officials and given practical expression in the setting of pollution standards .
20 Wood , cork and well-laid vinyl tiles can be painted with gloss paint and given extra protection with a few coats of polyurethane or yacht varnish .
21 The contract itself recognises usages as well as rules and it seems more likely to me that the rules may , in some cases at any rate , have developed out of and given partial expression to usages rather than that they should indicate the absence of usages beyond what is contained in the rule . "
22 Of course , some small firms do offer growth potential , but these have to be identified and given appropriate support rather than a general subsidy linked to premises or land .
23 Such people should be diagnosed by experts and given appropriate treatment which will prevent them from re-offending ; if necessary they can be detained to incapacitate them in the meantime .
24 The United Kingdom and France in particular argued that refugees should be accommodated and given appropriate assistance as near as possible to their place of origin .
25 ‘ The importance of maintenance as a specialist element within the sphere of building is undeniable and yet so often we are portrayed as unprofessional and given little credence .
26 Under the Communist regime , orphans were treated as mentally handicapped and given little help .
27 He was pursued all over Galloway , Carrick and Kyle , and given little respite , but still he preached at well-attended conventicles , baptised children , and officiated at weddings .
28 Southall , who admitted speeding at an earlier hearing , was fined Pounds 700 and given six penalty points .
29 He was fined 300-pounds and given six penalty points for careless driving .
30 The Medellín cartel had pressed for the confession stipulation to be dropped ; it wished to be considered as a group and given political status [ see p. 37851 ] .
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