Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A study done by Edwin Colbert and his colleagues showed that a tiny 50 gramme ( 1.76 oz ) alligator heated up 1 °C every minute and a half from the Sun , while a large alligator some 260 times bigger took seven and a half minutes . |
| 2 | ‘ One coin given away with every four gallons of petrol . |
| 3 | For example , the samples of handwriting given above are written cursively ( or ‘ joined-up ’ ) . |
| 4 | Moscow sets terms for unity debate Following are extracts from an address to members of the European Parliament given yesterday by the Soviet Foreign Minister , Mr Eduard Shevardnadze . |
| 5 | So what happens with any acid and any metal with a mes a metal and an acid you 're going to get a salt and hydrogen given off . |
| 6 | However , in 1239 the city succumbed to Tartar invasion and much of the Byzantine architecture was destroyed while church building developed further in areas which suffered less from barbarian attacks . |
| 7 | For the TB given here , . |
| 8 | The background tells more than the people or the happenings : the water-sprinkler on the lawn ; the hateful birds with their ‘ strident and spiteful noises ’ and ‘ those banal exchanges from tree to tree , mockings and bickerings and sudden solo trillings ’ ; the cook with a napkin fastened round her head as if it were a Stilton cheese … . |
| 9 | The example sentence given above would be divided into feet as follows : |
| 10 | I think he 's going to the dentist or something , and he 's a bit frightened so he thinks , he thinks of that . |
| 11 | His long-suffering wife Elsie knew that her man had a mistress tucked away somewhere . |
| 12 | He opened the back of the watch case , and Bathsheba , who happened to be looking , saw that there was a curl of hair hidden inside . |
| 13 | Charles Brown , professor of microbiology at Heriot-Watt University received about £30 000 from Speywood last year to develop a method of producing protein A continuously . |
| 14 | Now , would n't necessarily suggesting that the existing settlement would have to sustain all of the addition given only what it 's got at the moment . |
| 15 | Her features were well-shaped even so early , and the jaw placed finely on the white neck with its blue flush of springing hair . |
| 16 | How thrilled the girl had been to be going to the Holy City , how lovely she had looked in a jacket of scarlet silk , a birthday present given only the day before by Mrs Browning , how she had glowed and shivered with anticipation … |
| 17 | McGregor et al have shown that dextrose given intravenously inhibits meal stimulated intraduodenal bilirubin output . |
| 18 | I admit I 'm a wee bit biased though . |
| 19 | The wind was blowing hard at the Highlanders ' faces , according to the literature given out at the Culloden Visitors ' Centre , and the two armies were in position at one o'clock , approximately four to five hundred yards apart . |
| 20 | The Royal Naval Reserve is trying to get the ministry 's decision overturned so that the new minesweepers can play an effective rôle in war . |
| 21 | An unusual cross-shaped Renaissance building erected about 1600 by Sir Thomas Tresham to symbolise the Passion . |
| 22 | Out of it he could see Barry , his bike propped up against his house , mending his chain . |
| 23 | Suddenly all the fight drained out of her , leaving her weary and spent . |
| 24 | It can not be exactly the algorithm given above because the desired outputs d from the top layer are not known , so it can not calculate y * ( 1-y ) * ( d-y ) . |
| 25 | Moreover , the examples Couturier gives are of multiple discrete points of view carefully distinguished within the novels in question ( The Sound and the Fury , Pale Fire ) , whereas the mutable point of view employed in Verbivore is a technique developed out of the possibilities inherent in print , but moving toward the mutability of cybernetic text . |
| 26 | Judo aces Ray Stephens and Kate Howey have had money stopped just like archer Simon Terry — as revealed in the Mirror . |
| 27 | I 'll see that your salary is made up to this date and a cheque posted on to you . ’ |
| 28 | She was a bit shaken up last night . |
| 29 | You looked a bit shaken up . ’ |
| 30 | The naval support given immediately by Britain for the Korean operation was seen by the Foreign Office as a useful demonstration of Britain 's ‘ capacity to act as a world power with the support of the Commonwealth , and of its quickness to move when action rather than words are necessary ’ . |