Example sentences of "and [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While persecution varies in intensity from country to country and over time within one country , I can think of no Marxist-Leninist government which has not as a matter of official policy harassed , discriminated against and persecuted religious minorities . |
| 2 | I 've left out and altered some things because they were n't right for a court report . |
| 3 | Three new coins have been minted , gold five dollar , silver dollar and clad half dollar . |
| 4 | It generated a large volume of mail and telephone calls and frightened enough members into believing that the electoral consequences would be dire if they failed to support the president . |
| 5 | Her body was weary but her brain was buzzing , trying to make sense of everything she 'd seen and heard that day . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The vet arrived very quickly and prescribed some tablets . |
| 9 | The doctor suggested that she might avoid milk , cheese and butter for a while , to see if this had any effect , and prescribed some tablets to give her extra calcium . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They also created a mythical patron , a just ruler who rewarded the good and punished evil doers by unleashing massive snowstorms . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | James II raised a standing army with which he hoped to subdue parliament and London , and he prosecuted seven Anglican Bishops , also violated the rights of the ancient universities and placed Roman Catholics in key military positions . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The scheme was launched to staff at the end of 1992 , since when the Enterprise Centre has received around 15 enquiries from staff and placed five individuals on training courses as follows : |
| 16 | He preferred to keep acquaintances as such , rarely divulged his feelings and placed little reliance on others . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | He knocked what remained of the spaghetti into a saucepan , and placed four slices of Mother 's Pride bread under the grill of the electric cooker . |
| 19 | They liked calm achievement , and placed much emphasis on apparent control and not being taken by surprise . |
| 20 | To add further confusion to an already muddled picture , the SEI ( Secretaria Especial de Informatica ) is reported to have maintained the similarity examination and placed bureaucratic obstacles in the path of importers . |
| 21 | What has happened , however , is this that the advent of Big Bang , and the consequent emergence of one stop financial conglomerates , has exacerbated the problem of conflicts of interest and duty and placed added burdens on the ability of legislation ( albeit newly designed ) to cope with potential abuses . |
| 22 | They put the catapult into position and placed wooden blocks in front of the wheels to stop it rolling into the sea . |
| 23 | The grant of a flag had many legal implications ( determination of applicable law , in particular in the fields of civil or criminal liability , safety , fisheries , employment and social security ) and placed onerous duties on a state ( control in administrative , technical and social matters ) . |
| 24 | Eventually Maxim 's improvised and placed some leeks , which had been used for consomme " , in front of the King . |
| 25 | This was because they purchased in bulk , often for delivery to a central depot and placed large orders well in advance of the delivery date , thus enabling the manufacturer to organise production more efficiently . |
| 26 | She rubbed her palms together to spread the cream evenly , and placed both fists around his pulsating knob to massage the cream into the smooth , hot surface . |
| 27 | The independence Constitution adopted by the Constituent Assembly on Feb. 9 , 1990 [ see p. 37176 ] , contained strong safeguards relating to human rights and liberties and placed considerable limits on the power of the executive president . |
| 28 | It is axiomatic that traditional agricultural management of the uplands has maintained and conserved these landscapes and their wildlife . |
| 29 | IBM Corp has announced a new Client/Server Computing unit and assigned 900 programmers in the US to it . |
| 30 | Between them they reduced the number of officers and assigned specific duties to those that remained . |