Example sentences of "and [vb pp] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus social hierarchy is fixed , rigid , and transmitted across generations in these societies . |
| 2 | Put another way , she had been plucked and prepared for meetings like this as carefully as a goose is dressed for the oven . |
| 3 | Kohl , in eastern Germany for the first time since the December 1990 general election , was jeered and pelted with eggs by several hundred protesters on April 7 in Erfurt ( where enthusiastic crowds of over 100,000 had greeted him on his last visit in February 1990 — see p. 37260 ) . |
| 4 | They were breeding in huge numbers in all the hollows of the tall eucalypti that grew on the banks of the Mokai , and fed in flocks of many hundreds upon the grass seeds on the plains , descending in great noisy crowds on the pools by Gould 's tents to drink . |
| 5 | If she 'd been at home and beset by devils like this , she would most likely have gone for a walk . |
| 6 | They had first closed the door itself , but within seconds it was bristling like a porcupine with glittering bayonets within a few more seconds it had been hacked and splintered to pieces by these bayonets , and now it no longer existed . |
| 7 | It was common ground that if the pre-1873 jurisdiction of the judges as visitors to the Inns of Court in disciplinary appeals was a jurisdiction exercised by them sitting elsewhere than in court or chambers , when acting as judges in pursuance of any statute , law or custom , then the jurisdiction was vested in the High Court and exercised by judges of that court sitting as such and was not amenable to judicial review . |
| 8 | During the workshop discussions , participants stressed the lack of communication between these countries and English-speaking Africa , and called on Africans of all backgrounds to ‘ contribute positively to current changes in Africa . ’ |
| 9 | The thesis is simple : the immense , amorphous city of cars and telecommunication , both many-centred and centreless , and predicated by theorists throughout this century , has finally arrived . |
| 10 | With unbounded patience they sought and sent plants , wrote requests and provided information , waited months for replies and maybe tried again , eventually to receive those novelties to be propagated in nurseries and distributed to gardens on either side of the Atlantic . |
| 11 | Dragging two musty-smelling blankets from the storage locker outside her door , she left one folded up as a pillow , shook the other one out and wrapped it around her , then lay down on one of the settees which provided seating and converted to pilot-berths on either side of the drop-leaf dining table . |
| 12 | Apart from being laid low by a raging fever and covered in spots for several weeks , a mysterious stomach ailment left me very shaky . |
| 13 | Fearful of damnation , and angry at the priest 's reproof , she went out of her mind , and was ‘ wondrously vexed and laboured with spirits for half a year , eight weeks and odd days ’ . |
| 14 | The extent to which the organization 's assets and interests are accounted for and safeguarded from losses of all kinds . |