Example sentences of "and [pron] [be] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ With money so tight and nothing is heard from local communities the facility could be lost by stealth .
2 The ambulance came and I was filled with delicious brandy but was instantly sick when I got to Imtarfa Hospital .
3 My mother found me floating face downwards and I was saved by artificial respiration .
4 My mother called an usherette to have me removed , and I was handed into strange-smelling arms behind a bright beam that dazzled me .
5 Gold allowed the easy storage of wealth because of the high ratio of value to bulk , and its being minted by royal and ecclesiastical courts may reflect the need to administer justice , maintain officials and finance commerce , and goes hand-in-hand with the development of written law and taxation ; in the oldest Kentish laws , fines were listed in gold ‘ shillings ’ and in silver .
6 That date is especially important for those Japanese cars built on what Levy described as ‘ the Japanese aircraft carrier that is the UK , and which is pointed towards continental Europe ’ .
7 The basis for status may vary : it may he anything a social group claims as giving superiority and which is recognised by other groups — examples might include wealth , religious purity .
8 Eric Midwinter is quite categoric in his chapter about the discrimination which exists against older people in government appointments to voluntary office and which is applied by voluntary organisations themselves towards their older volunteers .
9 It will also need to be aware that concerns such as these expose a major limitation of the school-controlled model of INSET which Leeds , in common with other LEAs , has adopted , and which is reinforced by current government funding arrangements and LMS .
10 Here , then , we have a stratification system whose strata are defined in terms of ascribed status attributes and which is legitimated by religious values .
11 She is not interested in data as entities to be modeled but in texts as purposeful acts of communication which carry meaning and which are related to other texts .
12 The ‘ collegiate ’ quality of the three-level dwellings which are sited in the topmost section of the nave and which are reached via integral winding staircases is particularly delightful .
13 The Perfumer will then test one or more of the eight basic perfume modules , the basic building blocks of perfume which Guy Robert has created in Paris and which are displayed in rich glass jars .
14 Effective and profitable national M&A practices which enjoy the support of local senior management and which are invested with sufficient professional and technical resources to allow the provision of an appropriate scope of M&A advisory services .
15 Disabled Facilities Grants are available to people who are disabled , for works which improve their access to essential facilities and which are supported by Social Services Department as being ‘ necessary and appropriate ’ .
16 During the year , the residential courses which we have organised since 1985 and which are aimed at young people aged between 16 and 19 years , produced our 1,000th graduate .
17 Anything less would be to return to representations of our bodies which do not belong to us , and which are produced in other languages than our own .
18 One witness said a security video at a takeaway restaurant which captured two men running down Pitteville Street in Cheltenham , and which was shown on Central South News , prompted her to make a statement to the police .
19 Do n't use a varnish finish unless the door is very well protected by a porch and you are prepared for regular and frequent maintenance to keep it looking good .
20 The importance of these sources of income has implications for the income in old age of men and women who are now in their fifties and who are faced with long-term unemployment or early retirement .
21 Groups demand illusions , not truth , and Freud links this with his observations of neurotics whose mental life has a predominance of phantasy material and who are guided by psychological rather than objective reality .
22 We think of a being who shows various emotions towards creation — love , wrath , anger , sorrow , mercy and so on — and who is associated with particular activities that we think of as actions taken by persons , such as judgement .
23 In early 1988 we reported in this journal the short term outcome in 33 patients referred to the National Heart Hospital between late 1984 and the end of 1986 and who were accepted for urgent cardiac transplantation .
24 Coenred , son of Wulfhere , was a man of at least 30 years of age , possibly older , who abdicated five years later in 709 to live as a monk at Rome ( HE V , 19 , 24 ) and who was succeeded by Aethelred 's son , Ceolred .
25 hippopotamus goddess , a benign divinity who helped women in childbirth and who was associated with domestic life .
26 Her international trade negotiations are already hindered by Norway 's attitude to whaling and sealing , and she is blamed for poor results .
27 The one unshaded light bulb shone continuously down at her , and she was kept in complete silence .
28 She considered her fear , and with it the probability that before long Johnny would find her again , and she was shaken by unreasoning panic .
29 Her bright hair was hidden under a sunhat , and she was disguised with dark glasses , but no one had shown the slightest interest in her .
30 All our goods are handmade and we are committed to natural materials . ’
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