Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [vb pp] and [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Civil war threatens to explode , ’ warn the leaders of the Church of Christ in Zaire , who are now obliged to communicate with their people through literature printed and distributed from neighbouring Kenya .
2 The best debate in Britain this year took place at the Conservative Party conference when speaker after speaker analysed and criticised what was happening to the economy .
3 In 1991 it received payment from a client for work done and billed ( but without a VAT charge ) prior to October 1986 .
4 Twenty minutes later , wearing her grey flannel trousers and mole-coloured jersey and with her hair casually tied back in a velvet ribbon , Julia walked into the salon , only to be brought up short by the sight of David staring blankly at a yellow form in his right hand , a tumbler of whisky ignored and tilting in his left .
5 Chapter 4 begins with a brief description of the modes of assessment used and contains the main body of the results of testing .
6 Members who undertake CPE , even though for them it is not compulsory , will still be expected to record their compliance with the CPE guidelines on an annual basis and , if necessary , be able to provide details of CPE undertaken and explain the relevance of that CPE to their professional development .
7 These styles and modes of building merged and developed one into another at different dates in different countries .
8 The patterns of interaction explored and illustrated in detail in our eleventh report and briefly summarized here raise important issues for teachers , heads and advisory staff :
9 Many other metals and alloys were of course discovered and used throughout the ancient world .
10 The attack on the norms of Classic realism was of course aided and abetted by the emerging school of structuralist critics , most notably Roland Barthes , who , in Le degré zéro de l'écriture ( 1953 ) and in Essais Critiques ( 1964 ) , espoused the efforts of the nouveau roman ( or , more exactly , of Robbe-Grillet ) in overturning the Balzacian bourgeois novel and its attendant retrograde ideology .
11 Whereas the meeting-point between reader and author in imaginative creative literature is the recognition of particular aspects of experience shaped and clarified , these authors are trying to share their understanding of the means by which all experience can be understood .
12 Acheson would not commit himself on the sums of money involved and indicated that estimates had to be finalised .
13 ‘ There is a huge volume of milk sold and consumed in the UK and that is not going to change .
14 The effects of this shift in expenditure were analysed in detail by the government 's own auditors in an influential report in 1986 ( Audit Commission , 1986 ) , which identified the perverse incentives that such a system of funding created and criticized the organizational fragmentation and failure to match resources to need in community care .
15 The cupboard doors had all been deeply hacked and scored with a knife , every crisp bag had been burst , every stick of rock shattered and splintered : it was a very thorough job .
16 Students studying part-time , and by definition receiving no grant , will graduate on completion of the programme of study planned and agreed between the student and his or her personal tutor .
17 Then , for a few seconds , nothing happened until the beam of light lifted and turned , shining across the face of the man with the lantern .
18 Sun , he said , looks at the level of maintenance required and sends the relevant person for the job — if a high level of expertise is needed to deal with a particular problem , then a highly qualified engineer will see to it .
19 A great deal of blood pumped and washed over the clean tiled floor .
20 Alternatively , you can have a sample of blood taken and sent away to a laboratory for a much fuller analysis .
21 The first-floor room has one of the finest ceilings in Portugal , made of wood carved and painted with shell volutes in the corners .
22 the date when the total quantity of petroleum won and saved from the original 8.62608 per cent interest in the Ninian field attributable to the Group reaches 120 million barrels ; or
23 the same piece of work handwritten and typed .
24 The smart or intelligent chargers tend to take over the user 's responsibility , detecting the amount of charge needed and eliminating any memory problems , but as stated previously , they are many time more expensive than the standard chargers .
25 The fact you have n't got the worry of transport taken and brought home
26 We were the big trading nation , and even today we are the second largest by way of the percentage of GDP exported and imported — we are second only to West Germany .
27 County were battered and bruised , but they still had a bit of bounce left and came back with a goal from Dean Thomas which sent Nicky Hammond the wrong way , only because it took a deflection .
28 The soundlessness of nature impressed and solaced her .
29 The information which receipts and payments accounts give relates to the amount of cash received and paid .
30 Table II compares the actual number of referrals before and after introducing the guidelines by type of examination requested and shows the absolute change in terms of workload and cost .
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