Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In letters to both John Major and Ian Lang , the Scottish Secretary , he asked for the full cost to be disclosed and expressed concern over the waste of public money . |
| 2 | The Boots Travel Adaptor for worldwide use is neatly designed and good value at £4.99 . |
| 3 | Paley here appreciates the difference between natural physical objects like stones , and designed and manufactured objects like watches . |
| 4 | In some continental European countries , where workers were confronted with deep-seated social and political inequities , unions have been markedly political in orientation , seeing themselves as committed and class-oriented agents of social change on behalf of all workers , and not merely union members . |
| 5 | Piquantly , for the caring generation , the desire for natural quality materials has also caused a boom in the leather trade : it is an extremely committed and unusual member of the new elite who can resist the high style leather goods that now abound . |
| 6 | In 1979 , the economic crisis deepened and real premonitions of doom began to be felt . |
| 7 | Stressed and unstressed plants of various ages were viewed with a Micro-Robotics ‘ Snap ’ dynamic RAM camera and a Milton radiometer . |
| 8 | We have encoded and used versions of them from the past we study . |
| 9 | The objective of the research is to gain a better insight into the labour market processes and labour market and social policy measures which are contributing to the ‘ marginalization and exclusion of older workers ’ and , as appropriate , to make recommendations which will enable social costs to be minimized and social benefits to be maximized . |
| 10 | The pitched roof of the main block was re-tiled and large areas of the painted external weatherboarding ( including the whole of the rear gable ) were taken down and replaced with new material backed with a lining of bituminous felt to better exclude the wind . |
| 11 | From the results of the survey it can be seen that many of the welfare assistants had varied and substantial experience of children and schools . |
| 12 | Only that we would want all students to experience these things to the fullest , so that they all have varied and rich experiences in all these spheres , and that we make special efforts to provide the time and space for the students to explore and develop their abilities and inclinations to learn and develop personal qualities without being directed . |
| 13 | This is a very simple example ; it is easy to conceive of extremely varied and complex patterns of linkage appearing in various contexts . |
| 14 | This may lead to an increasingly varied and complex network of ‘ family ’ relationships . |
| 15 | He found the force varied and changed polarity with the lunar cycle . |
| 16 | CAMRA has produced a series of fact sheets on the Campaign , how beer is brewed and other aspects of the modern brewing industry . |
| 17 | Evacuation required the help of a large number of middle-class voluntary workers in the rural areas who , perhaps more than any other section of the population , had very fixed ideas of social propriety ; it was this lobby that propagated the wildly exaggerated and inaccurate stories of the evacuees ' condition . |
| 18 | ‘ His brain was bruised and many bones in his head were broken , ’ Mr Maguire told Preston Crown Court . |
| 19 | Points were dropped and three defeats over Christmas , which left Arsenal trailing five points behind Everton , made the Double look like something of a pipe dream . |
| 20 | There are numerous opportunities for an idea to be dropped and few occasions for it to be carried through . |
| 21 | By then the mist had lifted and sharp needles of rain had driven into them relentlessly . |
| 22 | Coved and panelled ceiling with central light natural brick fire grate . |
| 23 | A MAN who was attacked and left unconscious outside a pub at Buckley two weeks ago is said to be in a stable condition in hospital . |
| 24 | Gavin Lees was attacked and left unconscious by a railway footbridge . |
| 25 | As quickly as they had arrived , the pack scattered and disappeared upslope into the maze of boulders and gullies , the odd stone rattling to mark their passing . |
| 26 | As it turned out , the Boeing 2707 was cancelled and large fleets of SSTs have not yet materialized . |
| 27 | In one-party states , spontaneous political participation by the masses is actively discouraged and realistic threats to the prevailing order tend to be focused on changing the people at the top , coup d'etat , rather than on changing the conditions under which global capitalism operates . |
| 28 | Father-daughter incest , and particularly stepfather-daughter incest , is an increasingly reported and prosecuted form of child sexual abuse , and the urgent need for prevention outweighs the value of any post hoc cures , penal or therapeutic . |
| 29 | Much has changed since the Middle Ages when a large beast was ideally roasted and carved whole at table : head and all . |
| 30 | The Life of Edward the Confessor , written some fifty years later , claims that when she was pregnant with him all the men of England took an oath to accept the child as king should it be a boy , while the Norman Inuentio et Miracula Sancti Vulfranni of c.1053-4 alleges that he was anointed and consecrated king as a boy . |