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

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1 There are people who have been brought in unconscious for no apparent reason , who have had car accidents and been cut free by the fire brigade and rushed in for emergency treatment following accidents .
2 Draper had tried to veto Event , and been proved right ; he had tried to veto Top Nosh , and been proved right on that too .
3 Draper had tried to veto Event , and been proved right ; he had tried to veto Top Nosh , and been proved right on that too .
4 ML 6 , caught in a searchlight , was also hit and afire , and survivors from the two craft drifted down river on rafts , many of them badly wounded — Micky Wynn had lost an eye and been rescued unconscious from the MTB 's charthouse .
5 Many animals have since recovered and been found new homes by an animal welfare workers , some of whom were in court to listen to the evidence .
6 Only problems were that one of them had had been snapped off at the legs and been reglued direct to the base , presumably in an effort to replicate Bremner 's short stature , and also in an effort to simulate Albert Johanneson ( or was it Gerry ? ? ) brown paint had been splurged all over one player , rendering his kit a mucky pink .
7 ROLLERSKATE SKINNY sound like hyperactive urchins who 've had one bottle of Strongbow too many and been let loose in the local guitar shop .
8 Whatever the structure of the organisation , good communication lies at the heart of success — and , because of the complexities we have already looked at and the many factors which influence the way in which messages circulate and are received good communication is perhaps more difficult to achieve than good product design , manufacturing productivity or success in the market place .
9 Nineteen were killed and two went missing and are presumed dead .
10 Some services are financed out of general taxation and are made available for all of us to consume .
11 All candidates accepted for training are on probation for at least six months and are made aware of this .
12 ‘ When you travel round the world , and being brought up in a family like mine , you learn that what happens on the field is actually very important to people elsewhere , and you feel , perhaps not so much a sense of responsibility , as a sense of focus in which people identify nationally for the best kind of reasons , and are made aware of who they are and what they came from .
13 Deep anaphors , on the other hand , take their meaning directly from an element of the content-based representation , or mental model , and are renamed model-interpretive anaphora .
14 Both are moving and sincere pieces , finely crafted , and are given well-prepared performances by , respectively , the Robert de Cormier Chorale and the Washington Cathedral Choir .
15 They stand in water , which corresponds to their boggy native habitats , and are given additional light overnight to supplement the illumination from fluorescent strips ; such are the practicalities of plant-of-prey nurture .
16 In most cases Members are offered a cheaper rate to attend events and are given preferential admittance over non members .
17 They are usually stuffed away in dark corridors or storerooms that are of little use to the centre itself , and are given low priority , so receive only small funding .
18 In the St. Nicholas Street pavement in fact , they are on a square background and are given bulbed tips between every second petal .
19 UDCs are the most controversial of the urban innovations , and are given separate consideration later in this chapter .
20 Barristers are specialist consultants and advocates , and are given exclusive rights of audience in the superior courts ; this creates a class of specialists whose services are available to all solicitors .
21 In sum , alongside group orientation and dependence , individualism and autonomy are significant components in the psycho-cultural dynamics of life in a Semai community and are given explicit cultural expression in notions such as pehunan and segat .
22 Around 100 trainees come to the Rathbone Society in Darlington every year and are given initial training at its base on the Lingfield industrial estate .
23 We can only try to provide an efficient service if we are clear what it is you need and are given sufficient time to do something about it .
24 As more and more survive and are kept alive beyond the utmost limit of working life , the economic or social function of the individual provides less and less of a motive or framework for his survival ; and when we ask Why ? we find ourselves thrown back upon purpose in a sense which is neither economic nor social nor even secular .
25 There are also statutory covenants requiring landlords , of properties let at a low rent , to ensure that they are both fit for human habitation at the start of the tenancy and are kept fit for habitation throughout the lease :
26 When viewed at visible wavelengths the Cytherean clouds are rather featureless , and are tinged yellow , perhaps by small quantities of sulphur .
27 The colours are bright and are called fluorescent to distinguish them from the normal opaque colours in the usual felt-tip pens .
28 Most occupational schemes pay a proportion of your earnings when you retire and are called final earnings schemes .
29 Such effects owe their origin to gradients in the field and are called tidal effects .
30 Left-handed shells are sometimes found produced in this way and are called ultradextral or hyperstrophic ( and no doubt left-handed mutations of L. peregra are also found looking like normal righthanded snails ; hyperstrophic also but now ultrasinistral ) .
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