Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] and [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others painted professionally and relied on the sale of works of art to earn a living — these included Thomas Davidson , William Trood , Rupert Dent and John T. Rennie Reid . |
| 2 | A modern spacious terminal , situated alongside and integrated to the railway station just inside the main harbour entrance , provides passenger and car booking offices for P&O European Ferries and Sealink British Ferries , a travel centre for Northern Ireland Railways and the Northern Ireland Tourist Board , bookstall , buffet , currency exchange and car hire facilities . |
| 3 | Collections of small objects should always be gathered together and arranged in a group rather than being thinly spread around the house . |
| 4 | Loopholes had already been made in the stone walls of Gemioncourt 's huge barns which , like the buildings of so many of the isolated farms in the low countries , were joined together and protected by a high stone wall , making the whole farm into a massively strong fortress . |
| 5 | They may be made from aluminium , fibreglass or plastic , and can be anything from a simple pair of flexible aluminium or plastic bars to a complicated collection of alloy pieces riveted together and linked to the harness . |
| 6 | Such measures will ensure that the child is carried successfully and born in a healthy condition . |
| 7 | Then if a micro-instruction contains the control bits 10011 followed by zeros , the paths from the accumulator to the left-side of the adder , from the SDR to the right side of the adder , and from the result latches to the accumulator are opened ; thus the contents of the accumulator and SDR are added together and placed in the accumulator . |
| 8 | The agreed sums would then be added together and announced in the ‘ autumn statement ’ on public spending plans . |
| 9 | Ignition typically required about 1 g of a mixture of sodium borohydride and charcoal , when equal portions of each were mixed together and formed into a pile . |
| 10 | Although this interest in pseudo-historical connections was Morgan 's primary concern , he was also one of the first anthropologists to understand that the names used to designate relatives are not simply determined by linguistic rules without reference to social factors ; kinship terms have an important social dimension , since relatives grouped together and called by the same term exhibit , at least in certain respects , shared patterns of behaviour . |
| 11 | At other times it is relatively hidden , smoothed over by extensive cultivation , familiarity and the techniques of what Bourdieu calls ‘ legitimation ’ , only to be revealed when constituent elements are wrenched away and placed in a new setting . |
| 12 | Rain fell heavily ; the plain they were crossing became inundated ; the policeman 's Scotch terrier was suddenly carried away and drowned in a swollen torrent . |
| 13 | It had taken her three full days and now they were to be carried downstairs and arranged in the hall , after which her sister would take them to the post office . |
| 14 | Jacob had rung instantly and spoken to the man who now sat opposite him . |
| 15 | The crash above their heads had come when it was lifted bodily and flung across the deck . |
| 16 | Whereas at Hamilton Terrace Minton had lived and worked in a large , more or less empty room , with peeling wallpaper , bare floorboards and an overwhelming smell of turpentine , at Allen Street the house , except for his studio room , was carpeted throughout and furnished in a modern style . |
| 17 | The hitherto important military department was to be dissolved completely and replaced by an advisory committee subject to the direct control of the politburo . |
| 18 | If only he had known enough , he might have come privately and hoped for a reward ! |
| 19 | And for what reason had Sir Thomas Vaughan , his chamberlain , a man he trusted and respected above most , been marched away and imprisoned like a common thief ? |
| 20 | At about 2 a.m. he had fallen downstairs and slumped in a heap by the front door . |
| 21 | In many modern machines the stress and strain values are collected digitally and processed by a small computer to give direct values of and tan — . |
| 22 | These vouchers are collected together and despatched with an account to the respective credit card companies , who will then pay the amount owing less commission , direct to the hotel . |
| 23 | In particular , the silver picture plates of the Late Antique , examples of which have been collected together and published by the late Professor Toynbee and by Kenneth Painter . |
| 24 | The quay , which acted as the customs shed , was three rusting barges lashed together and covered with a roof of corrugated iron . |
| 25 | An ear the size of a flying saucer appeared for a moment and then was whisked away and replaced by a no less monstrous nose and half an eye . |
| 26 | Their twelve-year-old son had crept downstairs and listened at the door . |
| 27 | Liver biopsy specimens were taken whenever rejection was suspected clinically and according to a protocol — usually at 7 , 14 , and 21 days , 6 months , 1 , and 2 years . |
| 28 | Arguing that Glasgow wages were already higher than those in Edinburgh , and pointing out that the Glasgow printers had successfully blacked firms trying to employ women , he went on ( in rather clotted prose ) : I am satisfied that the employment of female compositors in Glasgow , while it would increase the total volume of work done there and admit of the natural development of the Glasgow book trade , would not injure the position of the Glasgow men printers , while it would enable the Glasgow printing trade , employed as well as employers , to obtain and retain work which at present ought to come to Glasgow , or at least might come to Glasgow but now goes to Edinburgh . |
| 29 | As the dragoons beside the cannon prepared to advance , the Highlanders dashed forward and slashed at the horses ' noses , which sent the unfortunate animals , maddened with pain , into headlong retreat , scattering the supporting line behind them . |
| 30 | If the hon. Gentleman asks me whether I agree that the Irish issue should be pushed upstairs and taken off the Floor of the House , I certainly do not . |