Example sentences of "[verb] and [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , insects and land snail shells are identified , sorted and quantified in the same way as animal and plant remains . |
| 2 | Business letters and enquiries for the attention of the management or various departments should be date stamped , sorted and distributed to the appropriate departments immediately upon arrival . |
| 3 | As part of the normal processes of a river , the stones in these shoals are neatly sorted and graded by the flowing water into an overlapping fish-scale pattern known as ‘ armouring ’ , which makes them relatively stable . |
| 4 | The teacher could provide containers ( boxes , drawers , jars , etc. ) , perhaps labelled with colour pictures , so that equipment can be sorted and put in the right place . |
| 5 | Reaction against him , in the predominantly Roman Catholic island , grew until , on 9 August 1846 , the quinta where he lived was surrounded and attacked by a large crowd of people . |
| 6 | High above them the constant roof of clouds would merely lighten and darken in a long solar axial period of 116.8 days . |
| 7 | Outside in the howling , flobs of rain were twisting and twining around the few remaining hutches . |
| 8 | And thus , it would roar through the upper reaches of the Severn , twisting and turning through the green fields of Gloucestershire . |
| 9 | She turns the water to steam and frees the light inside her , twisting and turning in a sparkling , spinning column . |
| 10 | The tournament doctor may be able to reduce the dislocation by twisting and pulling on the injured limb , but even if he is successful , that is the end of your day 's competition . |
| 11 | The cash flows should be classified by operating , investing and financing activities , and the components of cash and cash equivalents should be disclosed and reconciled to the equivalent amounts in the balance sheet . |
| 12 | The small device which enables Canned Draught Guinness to pour as if from a pub fount looks simple , but well over 100 techniques were designed and tested before the final development of the patented in-can system . |
| 13 | As Boxes 1 and 2 make clear , there is a great deal that needs to be done if a residential area is to be designed and operated as a safe and habitable district . |
| 14 | The detectors are now designed and constructed in a high- tec purpose-built 15,000 sq ft complex in Garland , a suburb of Dallas , Texas . |
| 15 | Audit and standard setting of measures common to all or most practices may best be designed and supported by a central body with nationwide aegis . |
| 16 | Mr Hughes believes it is the only such electronic game aimed at an adult market and the only one not designed and manufactured in the Far East . |
| 17 | An appropriate performance metric is required and has since been designed and applied to the original results , to reveal more objective patterns in the data ; |
| 18 | It had now become clear that it was necessary to understand why what had been designed and certified as a fail-safe structure had collapsed in the air in quite normal flight operating conditions . |
| 19 | In the quiet scene every figure , with the exception of the chariot-horses , is designed and carved as a separate statue . |
| 20 | The buildings on all the estates are of modern construction , designed and built to a standard acceptable to institutional purchasers . |
| 21 | The original Superspec was designed and built in the late 80s in a joint venture between Wimpey Homes , Wimpey Environmental and the Building Research Energy Conservation Support Unit ( BRECSU ) to look at ways of reducing the amount of energy needed to run a home . |
| 22 | Belgo was designed and built by a bald bloke called Arnand Zenz whose witty interpretation of the concept includes strange tubing that pours out from the kitchen and opaque glass bricks for the toilet walls . |
| 23 | In particular , CEB engineers considered that stations designed and ordered by the separate municipalities and companies led to a proliferation of designs and a failure to gain the advantages of replication . |
| 24 | But only the genuine Toyota part is designed and engineered to the same high standards of quality as the original equipment . |
| 25 | Both productions are designed and directed by the same team responsible for last year 's successful production of IOLANTHE . |
| 26 | The air-conditioning of the Palace was designed and installed as a single system . |
| 27 | 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 |
| 28 | Curfews are broken , drinks are tanned , discos are dismantled , golden opportunities are recklessly squandered , and matches are won and lost with a callous disregard for the nation and its emotional stability . |
| 29 | Between £60 and £70 million will be won and lost on the Grand National ; a fortune riding on 40 horses . |
| 30 | We enjoyed walking and playing in the surrounding countryside . |