Example sentences of "[noun] and [vb pp] with [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Under the new scheme , CFCs and water are mixed in a reaction furnace and heated with a high-frequency electric current to about 10,000 degrees Centigrade , at which point electrons are stripped from the atoms to form a plasma . |
2 | The women work and eat and sleep in an atmosphere thick with impalpable hairs and tainted with the sickly smell of the skins … the average daily earnings are 1/1d . |
3 | He woke briefly in the middle of the round with an eagle and a couple of birdies , but eventually slid back into indifference and finished with a level-par score . |
4 | Because of the outbreak of war he abandoned plans to do research and took an industrial job , but in September 1915 he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps as a private soldier and served with the British Expeditionary Force . |
5 | Sixty odd years separate this work from The Birth of Tragedy and compared with a similar span of years since Winckelmann 's revolutionary study of Greet art , the later period , viewed as a period of German Hellenism , is anti-climatic . |
6 | There exists a school of thought , that an expensive Biro , wrought from gold or silver and branded with the potential owner 's name , will become a chenshed possession . |
7 | The smoke curled from her mouth and mingled with the harsh , dry heat from the electric fire . |
8 | Her headdress made from slipper satin and lace was trimmed with pearls and worn with a three tier long veil , both designed and made by Wizard of Goz in Kensington . |
9 | McGowan walked to the car and returned with the long canvas bag and the cardboard box . |
10 | The Great River swept sluggishly through meads that were aflame with buttercups and dotted with the last patches of melting snow . |
11 | This season 27-year-old Llewellyn already has 23 wins under his belt and looks on course to top his previous best total of 53 achieved last term and capped with a Grand National triumph on Party Politics . |
12 | Total RNA was isolated from 2 to 20 ml of whole blood and hybridised with a specific biotinylated oligonucleotide . |
13 | Unless the glider is going to be launched without delay , it should be turned out of wind and held with the into-wind wing down until it is needed . |
14 | The new pitch is made of synthetic Baspograss , packed with sand and backed with a rubber cushion to minimise wear , and has been paid for by a variety of bodies both local and national . |
15 | Sir Guy had little or no Publicity ; he wrote books about Cotswold architecture and mixed with the arty-crafty Sapperton Set — the Gimsons , Barnsley and Norman Jewson . |
16 | Changelings were sometimes said to have been afflicted with ‘ elf-shot ’ , that is , shot with an elfin arrow and afflicted with an unknown disease . |
17 | A founder member of the Films of Scotland Committee and associated with the Scottish Film Council , George was also interested in theatre and music . |
18 | And here was an inspection panel of close-set steel mesh embedded in the wall , sealed with waxen evil-eye hexes and painted with a faded inscription in the hieratic tongue : Hoc sacrificium consecrat nos muros . |
19 | A fortnight after Pedro 's plane plunged flaming into the sea , Angel was shot down behind British lines and escaped with a smashed kneecap and concussion . |
20 | The sitting room sofas were a nondescript grey , dotted with cigarette burns and stained with a grimy black line at head level . |
21 | One more adventurous boy decided to explore the overgrown slope behind the hut and he was pushing his way through the undergrowth when he caught sight of a figure approaching the hut further down the slope ; the boy was close enough to see that the figure was that of a tramp wearing tattered clothing and crowned with a battered trilby hat . |
22 | Rhee never doubted that he was destined to lead Korea and acted with a strange mixture of arrogance , duplicity , cunning and tenacity to establish his power . |
23 | ‘ Tell me ’ — Hope was made irritable by the recollection and interrupted with the acceptable rudeness of the confident social superior , ‘ how do you administer your business ? ’ |
24 | While both painters , and Picasso in particular , led active social lives and mixed with a wide circle of literary and artistic figures , their friendship seems to have rendered them self-sufficient . |
25 | Powered by a 550bhp Perkins engine and fitted with an advanced suspension system , Warrior can move cross-country faster than any other armoured vehicle currently in service with the British Army . |
26 | The musical interlude went on for ten minutes and finished with the mad figures collapsing on the ground . |
27 | Genomic DNA from the ura5-6 strain was digested with different restriction enzymes , run on an agarose gel and probed with the radiolabeled oligonucleotide ( T 2 AG 3 ) 4 ( Fig. 3 ) . |
28 | ‘ Oh , all right , spoilsports , ’ he said , feeling disgruntled , and he sat down , missed his cushion and landed with a painful thump on the floor . |
29 | He had obviously been sleeping ; his hair was ruffled and untidy and his chin unshaven and covered with a short , dark stubble . |
30 | Existing basic pay information was obtained from the BAA computer and associated with the appropriate person 's record . |