Example sentences of "[verb] and [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The relatively fine grained unimodal sand deposits from many parts of the world yielded similar characteristics : beach sands were well sorted and negatively skewed , whereas river sands were less well sorted and usually positively skewed . |
| 2 | Catcleugh was stocked with a Loch Leven strain of fish , pink-fleshed , which were splendid fun to catch and always fought furiously . |
| 3 | Gardens which have been carefully designed and closely planted may appear to be unsuitable for additional plantings of herbs , but a herbaceous border , for instance , which needs to be re-dug every few years , with some of its incumbents divided or discarded , can well take some herbal plants , to supply flowers and/or architectural quality . |
| 4 | With the wisdom of hindsight , it is easy to see now that the Stag 's troublesome V8 , designed and inadequately developed in-house by Triumph before it merged with Leyland , should have been ditched and replaced by Rover 's proven ex-Buick 3.5-litre V8 ( still used by Land-Rover , Morgan , TVR and others ) that was already on the shelf . |
| 5 | Power stations have been designed and successfully operated on the basis of that knowledge . |
| 6 | The questionnaire was an adaptation of one designed and successfully used by DNs in the Paddington and North Kensington Health Authority . |
| 7 | Research methods are to be treated as a collection of tools designed and thereby suited for particular jobs . |
| 8 | In general this is a well designed and well made sweater with a stud fastened neck closure and medium height collar . |
| 9 | You must therefore be well protected from the conditions , which demands clothing and equipment that is tough , carefully designed and well made . |
| 10 | But , although it was well designed and firmly built , Columbia Square was also grim . |
| 11 | The monograph published by Prestel , by contrast , has to rank as one of the most beautifully designed and sensitively photographed volumes on a contemporary artist . |
| 12 | The Law Commission thought that this would exclude products " designed and normally bought for commercial use " , but that there might be borderline cases . |
| 13 | Better designed and better tested materials than ours have met with a similar fate . |
| 14 | Ever felt the clothes on sale in British high streets could be better designed and better made ? |
| 15 | Unable to practise , he turned to teaching at Cheltenham School of Architecture close to the home he had designed and substantially built at Malvern , despite his affliction , and became deputy principal . |
| 16 | Roman bridges were well and simply designed and solidly constructed . |
| 17 | Constructor of quality narrowboats , Stowe Hill Marine produces individually designed and fully fitted traditional craft and also carries out refurbishment . |
| 18 | The fact that flat-dwelling in the public sector has become a relatively stigmatised form of housing in this country means that women dependent on public sector housing are caught in a design ‘ Catch 22 ’ : deviance is punished with badly designed and poorly maintained housing ; conformity is rewarded with better standard living conditions that nevertheless tend to reproduce patriarchal power relations . |
| 19 | At Stocks Hill Huggate is an individually designed and superbly appointed detached country house of spacious proportions situated on an elevated plot of some one third of an acre . |
| 20 | As such , criminal law categories are resources , tools , instruments , designed and then used to criminalize , demoralize , incapacitate , fracture and sometimes eliminate those problem populations perceived by the powerful to be potentially or actually threatening the existing distribution of power , wealth , and privilege . |
| 21 | The distinction is between the Continental concept of the ‘ universal rights of man ’ , innate and natural rights which it is the duty of the state , bound by the Constitution , to safeguard on behalf of the citizen , and the British concept of the ‘ rights and liberties of the freeborn Englishman ’ , hard won and historically based rights which it is the duty of the citizen himself to defend from Government encroachment . |
| 22 | As he grew older , however , he gave up walking and seldom stirred from his club in St James ; there he could be seen reading newspapers , endlessly , indiscriminately , about great events and small in the order they appeared on the page . |
| 23 | In this pamphlet and elsewhere , Keynes proposed the inflationary gap theory of inflation : upward pressure on money wages and prices would be felt with increasing severity as the pressure of demand approached and eventually exceeded full employment output , Y * ; . |
| 24 | As a consequence of the suggestion Laureen Williamson was approached and readily agreed to undertake the daunting task . |
| 25 | A training database is created by encoding samples of handwriting using this technique , and at run-time the input is similarly encoded and then compared with the characters stored in the database . |
| 26 | It was also commonly described by an interpretation of modern society as ‘ mass society ’ , in which such different elements as very large audiences , relative ‘ impersonality ’ of transmission or ‘ anonymity ’ of reception , and the ‘ unorganized heterogeneity ’ of ‘ democratic and commercial ’ societies were fused and indeed confused . |
| 27 | After incubation the terminal leaflet of leaf 1 or leaf 2 , as required , was harvested and immediately frozen in liquid N 2 . |
| 28 | Following these conditions , seedlings were incubated at 30°C for 4h under fluorescent lights providing 200μmolm -2 s -1 photosynthetically active radiation before the terminal leaflet of leaf 1 was harvested and immediately frozen in liquid N 2 . |
| 29 | The ability of ductile metals to be permanently distorted and therefore shaped either cold or hot is of course an outstanding advantage of metals . |
| 30 | Five of the seven ethnic groups that were relocated in this way were rehabilitated and partially repatriated to their native territories in 1956–7 . |