Example sentences of "and [vb pp] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a society that legitimises its forms of truth by appeal to ‘ science ’ and ‘ objectivity ’ , a person 's case will certainly appear stronger if she or he can demonstrate that the other side is ‘ context-bound ’ and limited in their deployment of such logical abilities as ‘ abstraction ’ . |
| 2 | I have to say that I find this criticism surprising since , as I have already said , the section is in my judgment clear , unambiguous and limited in its scope . |
| 3 | I see him sluggish and stoned in my mind 's eye , his ginger hair and heavy lidded eyes , his clammy , groping hands and nothing to call his own . |
| 4 | The Wilton weaving department was moved and centralised into its present location . |
| 5 | Faced with a massive majority in the House of Commons and racked by their own internal problems , for much of the decade the opposition parties had a distinctly toothless appearance . |
| 6 | We noticed the wide range of realizations in chapter 4 ( table 4.2 , p. 97 ) and commented on its regularity . |
| 7 | The second reason for urban bias was the fact that the radio broadcasters themselves lived in the towns : the people who spoke to them and commented on their programmes were living in the same environment . |
| 8 | People read it and commented on his interpretation of events , and many were familiar with his version of the battles of Kawz and Hawaria . |
| 9 | David Quarmby , joint managing director , took an informal tour and commented in his opening address : ‘ A quality business deserves a quality environment for all those who work hard to support Central and Western stores , and that is what this office represents . ’ |
| 10 | At the Hulsta Mill , near Stockholm , thousands of trees are brought in and stripped of their bark every day . |
| 11 | The Iraqi military leaders were arriving out of sight of cameras , under allied escort , and stripped of their weapons . |
| 12 | By a strange twist of fate , the first Chilean to welcome Valenzuela to his new home in France was Castro , a ‘ Mirista ’ who was captured in broad daylight and stripped to his underwear back in December 1974 , while Valenzuela stood guard at the corner . |
| 13 | The consequences strike at the right of the people of this country to live under the laws made and altered by their representatives in Parliament . |
| 14 | It did n't , I did and clad in my cagoule , glasses steamed up , and mouthing curses at the weather , I walked through the grey rain to Attermire and back to Malham . |
| 15 | Fully discussed with and explained to your customer in advance to ensure they are clearly and fully understood , |
| 16 | He drew the attention of the soldier-in-charge and explained about his position in the club . |
| 17 | Physicians for Human Rights , based in Boston , and the New York group Human Rights Watch brought the samples back last summer and arranged for their analysis at the British chemical weapons laboratory at Porton Down , Wiltshire . |
| 18 | When his brother retired from business , the husband took over the company , changed its name to Eratex Ltd. and arranged for his wife to become secretary and co-director of the company . |
| 19 | He knew her every move and she had seen and heard of his like since childhood . |
| 20 | Few of the youngsters will have been to a big match ; what they are emulating is what they have seen on television in shop windows and heard on their transistors . |
| 21 | All matters concerning Colin Olivier Louis Tuck were dealt with in that small group of offices behind their own perimeter fence and guarded by their own troops . |
| 22 | She wandered through to the kitchen to get her bag , and checked through her notes for the name and address of the Rose Bowl 's usual wholesaler . |
| 23 | This was a vehicle with all mod cons at the rear of the bus , which I had followed many times and checked on its progress flying over the route ; oddly enough , on my last night in Mespot I was to sleep in the Imperial Airways rest fort at Rutbah Wells , I had refuelled there many times and had wondered with awe at the vast ugly route-flying Imperial aircraft — Handley Page HP42s — and even more so at the passengers who took an even greater interest in our tiny single-engined Wapiti aircraft , and furthermore asked endless questions about our aircraft and of our life in Baghdad . |
| 24 | ‘ Tomorrow I 'm to take a look at some building plots which Paulo considers might be a good buy , ’ Vitor explained , ‘ So I arrived in Carvoeiro an hour ago and checked into my hotel . |
| 25 | DNA was isolated from the reaction mixtures and checked for its susceptibility to cleavage by restriction endonuclease Eco RII , which fails to cleave CC A / T GG sites methylated at the inner cytosine residue . |
| 26 | Full spatial relationships can be obtained and checked in their orthogonal views . |
| 27 | He saw the stone face and the living face unbelievably alike , and checked in his steady advance , himself for a moment still as stone . |
| 28 | If Cullam had noticed anything as he walked it would have been the rubbish , the flotsam that the river sucked in and gathered on Its journey through the meadows . |
| 29 | She had out-lived three husbands and gathered in their respective estates , investing the money shrewdly , knowing to a penny what she was worth . |
| 30 | It is here that your values and ideas about preparing children ( i.e. guiding and training them ) for life need to be worked out clearly and communicated to your youngster in the form of reasons . |