Example sentences of "and [vb pp] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Person 2 would certainly not pay the higher price necessary to induce a competitive supplier to expand production beyond the output Q. Person 2 is thus a free-rider enjoying person 1 's purchase Q. And the total quantity privately produced and consumed in a competitive market lies below the socially efficient quantity Q * ; |
| 2 | In accordance with the procedures governing Roger Hall 's comedy , they do so at regularly-spaced intervals , each entering with a gasp and clad in a ridiculous profusion of scarves , hats and rainwear , so that his droll point about the awfulness of the country 's climate can be adequately appreciated . |
| 3 | Scrawny , like most wizards , and clad in a dark red robe on which a few mystic sigils were embroidered in tarnished sequins . |
| 4 | They may seem inexpensive , but a will is a legal document and should be drawn up carefully and signed and witnessed in a particular way . |
| 5 | The model is described and explained in a simplified form , thus : i ) inputs : information inputs about the alternative products or services available to the interested individual/ potential customer will include the facts about those products ( brands available , product specification , quality , price etc ) . |
| 6 | One of the best known models was constructed by J. Sheth , and this model is described and explained in a simplified form , thus : i ) Information sources : a variety of information sources will be available , ( some of which have already been discussed in detail in this and the previous chapter ) . |
| 7 | Two or three lounge chairs borrowed from the staff room and arranged in a neutral corner of the classroom in an informal way for the interviews provides a much more relaxed atmosphere for an exchange of views and information . |
| 8 | The simple molecules from which the DNA is mainly built are of only four kinds , but they are grouped in trios and arranged in a particular and significant order on the immensely long DNA molecule . |
| 9 | A subfamily of the Ophiuridae characterised by the disk comprising scales completely or partially covered with a coat of granules sometimes also covering the radial , adoral and oral shields ; the teeth are papilla-form and arranged in a single series ; the second oral tentacle pore opens within the mouth slit ; the adoral shields are usually long and flared distally ; the oral shields are small , triangular or arrow shaped ; the arms are long , often flat and wide , tapering slowly to the end of the arm ; the dorsal and ventral arm plates are large and successive ones may be contiguous ; the tentacle pores are variable in size , sometimes enlarged , armed with one to several scales . |
| 10 | Collections of small objects should always be gathered together and arranged in a group rather than being thinly spread around the house . |
| 11 | When this happened , however , even the traditional features became more stereotyped because choreographers used only those which the audience could easily recognise and which were commonly seen and heard in a particular country . |
| 12 | Here some of the younger women had thrown down their tools and gathered in a big circle , singing and dancing , while older women and children watched from the sidelines , shouting encouragement . |
| 13 | Gradually , almost stealthily , all the brothers had crept out of their stalls , and gathered in a circle about this altar and the group debating at its foot . |
| 14 | Scrambling to their feet , they stumbled to safety , back to where their comrades had left their vehicles and gathered in a group , staring grim-faced at the roaring inferno . |
| 15 | Andrew was a cross between Dennis the Menace and Jean Paul Sartre , and in the late forties and fifties his flat was full of the aroma of coffee made with milk and boiled in a saucepan , and the company of people like Davy Donaldson , Alfie Avella , Bill Henry , Bet Low , Ernie , a motor bike philosopher who pre-dated Jack Kerouac by 1,000 years , and various other artists , and literati , who were encouraged by Andrew to give up their jobs driving buses or whatever and accept the roving hard-luck life of the creative . |
| 16 | It was n't until the early 18th century that this thick porridge became a solid , round pudding which was wrapped in a cloth and boiled in a pot . |
| 17 | Oak Bank itself is a beautiful 19th-century house , made of local green slate and furnished in a simple country style , much in keeping with its external character . |
| 18 | Whereas at Hamilton Terrace Minton had lived and worked in a large , more or less empty room , with peeling wallpaper , bare floorboards and an overwhelming smell of turpentine , at Allen Street the house , except for his studio room , was carpeted throughout and furnished in a modern style . |
| 19 | In the first place she is anxious because she has been taken from her companions and familiar environment , and placed in a foreign country . |
| 20 | Stony Stratford men could have their lunch cooked at home and placed in a basket , labelled , and school children would then rush them to the top of the town and the tram would make an express run for one penny per lunch basket . |
| 21 | The amount provided in the original cash float is deducted and placed in a separate banker 's bag . |
| 22 | The young squirrel had been caught and placed in a box . |
| 23 | He proved that all 17,000 verses could be minutely inscribed on a piece of parchment 10.8 in by 8.4 in , which could then be folded up and placed in a walnut shell . |
| 24 | In 1986 I too entered the tomb ; the anthropoid leaden shell was resealed after the 1703 examination and placed in a new rectangular elm shell sans fittings . |
| 25 | In 1984 , a faculty to examine the St John vault for these items proved that it had been extensively reordered in the early eighteenth century when the decayed earlier coffins were cleared and placed in a charnel cistern within the vault . |
| 26 | When he was 3 years old , Fashanu was taken from his mother and placed in a Dr Barnardo 's home in London . |
| 27 | A young boy , Michael , was admitted to compulsory care against the wishes of his parents and placed in a group home . |
| 28 | Some 60 letters written by Sir William Hillary to the Institution between 1824 and 1845 and now in the RNLI 's archives have recently been treated for preservation and placed in a presentation box — the cost being met from money raised by the Lifeboat Enthusiasts Society . |
| 29 | For this , he was completely undressed — which makes his body itch to the point of agony — and placed in a UV cabinet , his arms held above his head to stop him scratching . |
| 30 | I had made up a sort of flattened octopus-like creature , with electrically lit eyes , which we stretched out onto a frame and placed in a shallow trough of water so that it was only just submerged . |