Example sentences of "and [vb pp] to a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the commission accepts that since the simple offence would cover deliberate foolishness which caused cost and inconvenience but which did not damage property or seek dishonest gain , the penalty should be modest and limited to a maximum of three months ' imprisonment . |
| 2 | An executive President would be head of state ; holders of this office would in future be elected directly for a maximum term of five years and limited to a maximum of two such terms . |
| 3 | The head of state is the executive President , elected directly for a maximum term of five years and limited to a maximum of two such terms . |
| 4 | Also , because as served in 99 out of 100 Chinese restaurants , they would arrive sticky with grease and boiled to a hue of nauseously vivid waxy-yellow . |
| 5 | The word originated as a marketing term from Germany and referred to a type of board that was easier to control in strong winds than the earlier boards . |
| 6 | It used the phrase ‘ 60 secs allowed ’ and referred to a sensor where the money was to be left . |
| 7 | Secondly , conflict may be formal in the sense of being openly recognised by the parties involved , and perhaps institutionalised as part of an established bargaining procedure ; or it can be informal , and confined to a sphere of covert activity outside the organisation 's authority structure . |
| 8 | It takes little thought to see that someone who is physically crippled and confined to a wheelchair may still lead a very full life if his mental and higher faculties are in good order whereas a physically fit but totally demented person has little left to give and little capacity to receive except for physical care and a little love . |
| 9 | Jeanne Calment , deaf , almost blind and confined to a wheelchair , gave up smoking last year and no longer drinks her daily glass of port . |
| 10 | Totalling fewer than twenty and confined to a minority of townships , they can hardly have represented more than a fraction of the real number of demises , most of which were likely to have been annual tenancies anyway . |
| 11 | It is dated March 11th 1974 and addressed to a Dr E. Serafin , with copies to Mr Tite and the Establishments Division . |
| 12 | This temperature difference ΔT is recorded and transmitted to a chart recorder where changes such as melting or crystallization are recorded as peaks . |
| 13 | The oscillations stimulated in the sample are picked up by an arm attached to the rigidly fixed end held in torsion bars , and transmitted to a recorder by a linear variable differential transformer . |
| 14 | Shelton 's photograph was fed into the network and transmitted to a scanning device . |
| 15 | I was lifted up and lashed to a stretcher . |
| 16 | Sterling fell heavily in Tokyo overnight and slumped to a record low of Dm2.3235 soon after UK trading began , compelling the Bank to intervene to buy pounds on the currency markets and the Chancellor to make a statement echoing the overnight comments by Eddie George , and ruling out another cut in UK interest rates soon . |
| 17 | First , it is important that centres put the correct start and finish dates on the Form NC5 so that is a subject assessor visits a week before the declared finish date , he will find that students are close to finishing the module — and not that the declared date was fairly fictitious and related to a timetabling convenience . |
| 18 | But the Secretary of State was not prepared to wait until research demonstrated , if it could , that common schools were better than a divided system ; such divisions were , in his view , matters of value rather than of fact and related to a vision of the nature of a social democracy . |
| 19 | But in the 1810s their studied simplicity must have made the post-Adam school of design then current in Edinburgh seem fussy and dated to a degree hard to appreciate now . |
| 20 | As with so many armorial terms the word ‘ quarterings ’ is not used in a conventional way and applied to a shield divided merely into four ; indeed there can be as many ‘ quarterings ’ as there are family affiliations — perhaps the record is held by the five-surnamed Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville family , whose full achievement of arms boasts 719 quarterings . |
| 21 | Phosphocellulose fraction C was dialysed against buffer 3 containing 50 mM ( NH 4 ) 2 SO 4 and applied to a DEAE Sephadex A25 column at a rate of 5mg protein/ml bed volume . |
| 22 | As script is written , sequences of x , y co-ordinates are collected , coded , and matched to a database . |
| 23 | Out of the longer silence while they all digested this fiat and readjusted to a suggestion so unexpected , the earl said with evident satisfaction — indeed , to Cadfael 's ears bordering on glee : ‘ Agreed ! |
| 24 | As night approached , the man was forced to put on a belt packed with plastic explosives and connected to a detonator . |
| 25 | Later , the guard was forced to put on a belt packed with plastic explosives and connected to a detonator . |
| 26 | The tube was concealed behind a chest of drawers and connected to a box . |
| 27 | The buyers paid by cheque and the sellers gave the buyers a delivery order which the buyers endorsed and transferred to a sub-purchaser . |
| 28 | The man who refused to take part was court martialled , cashiered and sentenced to a year 's hard labour . |
| 29 | He is one himself , twice convicted of IRA membership in Dublin in 1973 and 1974 and sentenced to a total of 18 months imprisonment . |
| 30 | ( i ) A person convicted of an offence and sentenced to a term of imprisonment for more than one year — Representation of the People Act 1981 . |