Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The limited availability of materials for building and the primitive methods of construction meant that the houses lasted only about a generation and were often rebuilt and frequently added to as the family increased . |
| 32 | The Queen and Prince Philip survived it only because it came upon them in middle age — when any youthful indescretion or misbehaviour had long since been enjoyed and then forgotten in the mists of time . |
| 33 | Rates can be queried and even contested through a rate tribunal . |
| 34 | Centrally spaced and firmly screwed to the wall , adjustable spotlights can be angled outwards to provide efficient lighting for reading without disturbing your partner . |
| 35 | Air vents in stone-built barns were normally slits or single holes , often widely spaced and sometimes arranged in rows . |
| 36 | This common misconception is fostered and perhaps shared by a great many retailers . |
| 37 | One year on the workforce stands at 300 , a lean organisation with a name that is respected and well known in the trade . |
| 38 | Then our eyes will be firmly caught and firmly held by a bent female figure hurrying in through the door and across the room towards us . |
| 39 | The real truth about Crabb will never be known , but it does seem that he was expected by the Russians , was caught and either died of a heart attack or was murdered , and his body dumped over the side as the ships left Portsmouth . |
| 40 | The attempt of one of the leaders concerned to implement these extreme tactics resulted in his being caught and summarily executed by the local military commander . |
| 41 | Officers are fed up with seeing offenders caught and then released by the court . |
| 42 | Among the arriving troops , however , Mr Ford noticed several squadrons of lancers trailing the green flag of Islam ; they looked much too well drilled and well equipped to be merely returning deserters . |
| 43 | With this diversity , extended distribution and mobility , came new forms and opportunities of artistic and cultural independence ; or , to put it more strictly , forms of direct dependence , within relatively monopolistic social and cultural reproduction , were modified and sometimes replaced by forms of more variable dependence on more diverse modes of such reproduction , and within this diversity there was some significant innovation . |
| 44 | Having become the political expression not just of the state appropriate to Ireland but of Irish catholics as well , the Irish nationalist tradition contained and still contains within its confines a culture of violence antithetical to the church 's traditional teaching . |
| 45 | Their failures can all too readily be excused and even hidden by further infusions of state funds . |
| 46 | These subjective factors open up the number of variations that need to be considered and hence leads to an underconstrained design situation that can stimulate major changes in product concepts . |
| 47 | She concludes that women 's views need to be considered and then synthesised with men 's to ‘ find a human whole ’ . |
| 48 | The leaves are nearly always the part of the plant used , newly picked and freshly chopped at once , or used dried , provided they are no older than six months . |
| 49 | Controversy rages over their safety , and value-added components of any variety in our diet are mistrusted and often suspected of being there largely for the benefit of the manufacturer , not the consumer . |
| 50 | There is a less obvious reason for having doubts about the value of the rank-ordering permitted and indeed encouraged by the STV . |
| 51 | Access to the island is permitted and usually made by hired boat from Tarbet across the Sound of Handa ; to avoid disappointment , visits should be pre-arranged . |
| 52 | And like sheep they had eventually been ridden down by soldiers as her husband had been ridden down at Peterloo , the crowd dispersed and then hunted over the open fields like running hares , so that of Luke 's companions one had crawled into a hedge with a leg that might have been mangled in a bear trap and had bled t death there ; two or three others had taken refuge in haystacks and barns ; two had been arrested and sentenced to hard labour . |
| 53 | That breakdown was reflected in the art of the period , which — as in Francis Bacon — partly protested and partly rejoiced in the excremental quality of the age . |
| 54 | The aim , of course , is to have education dominated and totally controlled by the massive central bureaucracy of the Department of Education and Science which in turn is dictated to by a Minister of Education . |
| 55 | This is a well-run , friendly hotel , owned and tastefully improved by the Giglio family . |
| 56 | In no sense could they be said to be members of industrial co-operatives : that is , of organisations set up for the manufacture of goods or the provision of services and wholly , or very largely , owned and ultimately controlled by those working in them . |
| 57 | Sammy was presently delivering one of our Nautor Swans to its Massachusetts owner ; many of the charter yachts were privately owned and only leased into Cutwater 's care on condition that we delivered them back to their owners for the northern summer . |
| 58 | These are now privately owned and only emerged from obscurity again a few years ago : sphinxes and winged sirens , the heads of minotaurs and owls , personifications of night and masks with invisible eyes . |
| 59 | Double Silk , owned and still ridden at home by retired , 66-year-old farmer Reg Wilkins , was plunged on from 7–2 to 5–2 favourite . |
| 60 | Mr Nasta has used two large rooms to display the works , all of them privately owned and personally lent for the occasion . |