Example sentences of "and [vb pp] [adj] " 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 | A series of reports have illustrated and catalogued several hundred of these houses . |
| 5 | Most of the Orphists were Cubists who had broken away and formulated new stylistic and aesthetic principles . |
| 6 | He said that the last of the 14 fences was too brightly painted and frightened some of the horses . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Forms of expertise would be exclusively held and arranged such that the ideal of the specialist-expert would be the basis for individual or occupational specialist or sub-unit empowerment in the system . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Her body was weary but her brain was buzzing , trying to make sense of everything she 'd seen and heard that day . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Dr. Corrigan suggests that ‘ by the time the World Health Organisation have listed and checked all the herbs which could be used , doctors may find themselves prescribing herbs which were once dismissed as old wives ' tales ’ . |
| 13 | The vet arrived very quickly and prescribed some tablets . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | For if I can do that — if I can get people to begin to comprehend the universality and the depth of our perversion — I would have achieved something rare and precious for the starving and dispossessed two-thirds of mankind ( sic ) from whose ranks I come , and for whose cause I must now fight . ’ |
| 17 | It could now be argued that , throughout the history of the earth , Nature had rewarded those who were able and energetic , and punished those who could not keep up with the race towards higher things . |
| 18 | They also created a mythical patron , a just ruler who rewarded the good and punished evil doers by unleashing massive snowstorms . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He lifted Denis 's hand and placed all the money in it . |
| 23 | A central register of information blacklisted certain people , particularly those who passed bad cheques and placed fraudulent overseas orders . |
| 24 | He picked up the two chairs and placed one on each side of the fireplace . |
| 25 | He pushed his chair back slightly , leaned back and placed one cavalry-twilled leg over the other . |
| 26 | They were straightened , then cut to length on a saw , drilled , and placed adjacent to their assembly points . |
| 27 | But the king 's cause attracted a motley crew of discontents and zealots , and placed many moderate men in a dilemma over their allegiance to state or church which dominated politics for the next 150 years . |
| 28 | In stark contrast to the attitude of the Scribes and Pharisees , Jesus pointed to a poor widow who had just come into the Temple and placed two small coins into the offertory box . |
| 29 | 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 : |
| 30 | Niki had a big cushion on the third-place car , eased off and placed second . |