Example sentences of "and [vb past] [prep] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After nearly perishing on the moors , she is taken in and cared for by the Reverend St John Rivers and his sisters Mary and Diana . |
| 2 | If the terms are such as to leave the seller free , if he should wish to do so , to obtain more wine of the same description for delivery to the buyer , then the contract goods have not been identified and agreed upon at the date of the contract and the contract is not one for the sale of specific goods , Re London Wine Co . |
| 3 | These are defined in section 61 as ‘ goods identified and agreed upon at the time a contract of sale is made . ’ |
| 4 | ( a ) The meaning of description If goods sold by description are defined in terms of being identified or earmarked , then in the case of a contract for the sale of specific goods , non-correspondence with description ought logically to be impossible since s61(1) of SGA 1979 defines " specific goods " as including those identified and agreed upon at the time of the contract of sale . |
| 5 | For us an Act of Parliament duly passed by Lords and Commons and assented to by the King , is supreme , and we are bound to give effect to its terms … |
| 6 | The nature of the cleavages identified and capitalized upon by the parties reflects the structure of the society although if certain cleavages are ignored by parties ( thereby ‘ organizing out ’ certain biases ) the party system need not faithfully represent all the divisions within a society . |
| 7 | The inquest was local , held in the parish hall and presided over by a doctor from the big resort town further down the lake . |
| 8 | The Republic of Maldives ( called the Maldive Islands until 1969 ) has an executive President elected for a five-year term by universal adult suffrage , a Cabinet appointed and presided over by the President and a 48-member Citizens ' Assembly ( Majilis ) , 40 of whose members are elected for five years and the remaining eight appointed by the President . |
| 9 | The Cabinet is appointed and presided over by the President . |
| 10 | The Cabinet is appointed and presided over by the President . |
| 11 | The Cabinet is appointed and presided over by the President . |
| 12 | It has an executive President elected for a five-year term by universal adult suffrage , a Cabinet appointed and presided over by the President . |
| 13 | The outer door to the estate office slammed and the inner one opened with its uneasy stick and snuffle past the strips of draught-excluders worn down and added to over the years . |
| 14 | An SPR may report a fault which has previously been reported and replied to via an SSR . |
| 15 | An SPR may report a fault which has previously been reported and replied to via an SSR . |
| 16 | She took a deep breath and stepped from behind the curtains . |
| 17 | He was called Paolo , and he was a handsome , elegant , simpatico boy whom I often saw and talked to during the school holidays , without ever suspecting that he was interested in me personally . |
| 18 | he went on , ‘ the one that they carried home and looked after like a baby for days until , in the end , it died . |
| 19 | Come back through England and went to on the boat . |
| 20 | Wirral 's heroin ‘ epidemic ’ ‘ incubated ’ unnoticed and in documenting this fact we can do no better than quote an epidemiologist ( Hughes 1977 ) working within a similar heroin outbreak in Chicago during the early 1960s : ‘ In this epidemic there was a tragic time lag between the contagious stage during which heroin use spread and the stage when the epidemic 's full impact was felt and reacted to by the host community . ’ |
| 21 | Cleo did another circuit of the room and emerged from behind a chair with a well-sucked Teddy Bear . |
| 22 | Soon the summer revels of BB at the then uncrowded , unchic little port of St Tropez , with a succession of young actors and guitar players ( Trintignant soon withdrew to the peace of Army service ) , were spied on and peeped at by the photographers and published in countless magazines and newspapers . |
| 23 | Little wonder it is acclaimed in song and story and longed for by the expatriate Scot ! |
| 24 | Even if the suggestion that is made is not feasible , it should be listened to with courtesy and responded to with the respect that such an offer demands . |
| 25 | Taken together , the historical and contemporary British and American examples reviewed above suggest that the way trade unions are perceived by society and responded to by the state are key factors in the genesis of industrial confrontation . |
| 26 | So erm the first week of the er of hostilities I I went and volunteered to for the A R P . |
| 27 | He decided to wait , watching as the driver switched off the engine and slid from behind the wheel . |