Example sentences of "and [is] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He played Alan Crabbe , a nineteen-year-old who falls for the older Eileen — played by Nyree Dawn Porter — and is later beaten up by her fiancé . |
| 2 | The longer stretch which contains the Creole part of the turn , beginning with " I did n't mind " and ending " but to dance " — disrupts this pattern and is thus set off from the rest of the turn . |
| 3 | The most difficult operation is transferring the ants to the housing , and is best done out of doors . |
| 4 | We have found that this sort of discussion requires a certain amount of structure , but a great deal of flexibility , and is best carried out in environments other than our normal working environment . |
| 5 | Budding is most commonly used to propagate roses ( but is equally successful with other plants ) and is normally carried out in summer . |
| 6 | Typically such a group starts out as a married couple ; the couple acquire children ; the children grow up , marry and set up nuclear households of their own ; the original household declines in size and is finally wiped out by death . |
| 7 | The design project is aimed at preparing specifications for a complete industrial process and is generally carried out with the co-operation of an industrial sponsor . |
| 8 | This can be made from 2-mm ( -in ) hardboard , and is either cut out with a saw or with a heavy-duty craft knife . |
| 9 | In some contexts , and particularly where the document to be served originated abroad , an informal mode of service is used ; typically the document is passed to a local police station , and is either taken round to the defendant 's address or the defendant is invited to call in to collect it . |
| 10 | He added : ‘ The picture of politics which survives , however , is completely different , and is largely made up of the petty squabbles of shopkeepers and the airy superiority of the ironmasters . ’ |
| 11 | The area is intersected only by minor ‘ B ’ -class roads and country lanes , contains no large towns and is largely given over to agriculture . |
| 12 | The first of these principles is laid down in Article 5 of the EEC Treaty , which requires Member States to take all appropriate measures to ensure the effectiveness of Community law ; the second principle underlies the constitutional tradition common to the Member States and is also laid down in Articles 6 and 13 of the European Convention of Human Rights . |
| 13 | The position used to be quite clear and is well summed up in what Scott LJ had to say in the wartime case concerning the soap flakes : |
| 14 | But the piece bubbles with character and is well laid out for the medium . |
| 15 | Finally they are ambushed and taken prisoner by the enemy ( the former lager-louts risen from the dead and now wearing masks ) ; Hadfield goes catatonic with terror , and is solicitously carried off to re-education in the jungle . |
| 16 | Known as the prostatic-specific antigen test , it costs £15 and is currently used by about 20% of GPs . |
| 17 | Infection occurs with the transfer of data and is often passed on via an infected floppy disk . |
| 18 | Infection occurs with the transfer of data and is often passed on via an infected floppy disk . |
| 19 | Sometimes the definitions can border on the eccentric : the American admiral who commands all his country 's ships , airmen , soldiers and marines in what the pentagon regards as ‘ the Pacific ’ — as in the admiral 's official title CINCPAC , Commander-in-Chief , Pacific — holds sway over an ocean which has its westerly shores oft Mombasa , and is arbitrarily cut off along a line running due south from the border between Mexico and Guatemala . |
| 20 | The well was completed and tested from the Sedco 700 and is now tied back to the Thistle platform . |
| 21 | When this sterling is used to pay for UK exports and is then deposited back in the banks by the exporters , credit will be created on the basis of it , leading to a multiplied increase in money supply . |
| 22 | The water then passes to a coil in the indirect solar cylinder , and is then pumped back to the bottom of the solar panel . |
| 23 | In the first the message is received in full and is then given out to the person ; in the second the message is received and is simultaneously translated into the second language . |
| 24 | As soon as a truck is loaded it is removed by a ‘ traverser ’ on to a clear inner set of metals , and is then drawn out into the outer goods yard . |
| 25 | This hatred builds up and is then passed on to the next generation . |
| 26 | It passes through a sponge where mechanical and biological filtration takes place , and is then passed back onto the water . |