Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] and [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Construction showed a massive increase , with 121 key projects completed and commissioned including 8 new coal pits and the Gezhouba dam project in Hubei . |
| 2 | But his contemporaries were impressed by a literate and articulate sixteen-year-old , his political views formed and matured in the Irish conflict . |
| 3 | The waste is a small perquisite that hath been granted us for several hundred years past , which we are able to prove by our ancient Books of Record , which have been no less than 14 or 15 times ratified and confirmed at the General Quarter Sessions . |
| 4 | The chain joining the handcuffs chinked and pulled at her wrist as he moved , and resentment won . |
| 5 | of those retiring now own their own homes , they do so thanks almost solely to the policies pursued and enacted by the Government . |
| 6 | Of these , 54 are company owned and operated by salaried managers , while the other 99 are tied houses owned and operated by tenants . |
| 7 | There are now some 275 all over the country : they 're savings-and-loans clubs owned and run by their members . |
| 8 | Swirls of clouds billowed down from the Towers and the glaciers hung vertically , suspended like gigantic icicles , while flocks of birds scattered and spun before them , helpless in the wild turbulence . |
| 9 | Images scanned and printed on a 300dpi system using 32 levels of grey look surprisingly good ; better than you might expect at any rate . |
| 10 | Although no breakthrough was achieved in the discussions , the Japanese delegation offered its approval of North Korea 's signature of the safeguards accord and called for an early inspection of the country 's nuclear facilities . |
| 11 | Although , and it is important to stress this , most of these methods arose and developed from a diverse range of sources and traditions , their contemporary unity was a rather later achievement , as that collection of ideas we can refer to as variable analysis . |
| 12 | Maria Luisa was transfixed with shock , her eyes glazed and locked on Steve 's face . |
| 13 | / All their products are made on looms designed and built by their own engineers , and recognized as the most technically superior weaving plant in the World / . |
| 14 | / This and the company carries out all steps of production in its factories , from preparing the yarn to weaving it on looms designed and manufactured by company engineers , and Brintons factories are considered the most advanced weaving factories from the technical aspect in the whole world , also Brintons company is considered among the largest weaving companies with a production capacity exceeding 100,000 square metres per week / . |
| 15 | All were aspects considered and dismissed by the Institute in its consultative paper . |
| 16 | An assessment was made of the numbers and species of animals caught and killed by cats in and around this particular village . |
| 17 | During the clashes , the replacement workers sat with their heads bowed and covered in the buses as the vehicles inched forward against the press of bodies . |
| 18 | How many died , how many wretches suffered and starved in that particular disgraceful military episode , so that the workers should be duped yet again in the name of the Empire ? |
| 19 | The need for this is revealed by Massey 's notion that spatial structures of production succeed one another but with successors shaped and influenced by the character of predecessors . |
| 20 | In that same instant , the other man turned his head to face him , and for a brief moment their eyes met and locked in a bond of mutual hate . |
| 21 | He turned , their eyes met and held for a long , tense moment , then suddenly Penry flung away , so precipitate in his hurry to leave that he forgot to duck . |
| 22 | As their eyes met and held across the coffee-table , Ronni felt a sudden sharp frisson go through her . |
| 23 | But imperfection and incompleteness are normalcy ; sheets get tom rugs stained and sent for cleaning pictures need reframing spice jars break on stone floors . |
| 24 | Opportunity to view attractive and unusual animals preserved and bred in pleasant park and lakeland setting . |
| 25 | The use of the computer is subject to guidelines agreed and approved by the police service . |
| 26 | What little new fiction by youngish writers there has been has tended to be incestuous tales of fast-track living in the media boomtown of the Eighties : books sold and written in the Groucho Club bar . |
| 27 | She found her eyes drawn and caught in his dark gaze . |
| 28 | With sufficient strength left , my legs bleeding and covered with burns , I ran to Fonds-Saint-Denis , six kilometres from St Pierre . |
| 29 | His squinting eyes slithered and shifted like mercury on a plate . |
| 30 | And after the barbed wire was another fence that was higher and again the floodlights played and caught on the cutting edges … and after the high barbed wire was a wooden fence that was three yards high . |