Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] and [verb] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sport was the true province of private persons in private clubs and tampering with this smacked of an authoritarianism foreign to all that Britons — Labour , Liberal , and Tory — held most dear . |
| 2 | My husband was going out to Qatar , that pear drop of moonscape pitted with rich oases and edged with ancient trading posts , the Emirate that had refused at the last moment to join Sheikh Zayed 's dream of unity . |
| 3 | Simply boil for about eight minutes and serve with parmesan cheese . |
| 4 | Within a plain exterior there was a large booking hall with long slender windows rising to an arched roof and decorated with Italian mosaics depicting aspects of Malayan life . |
| 5 | He then began a period in which he combined private study and writing with public service as Commissioner of Appeals and of the Board of Trade and Plantations . |
| 6 | These trussed rafters are scientifically designed for maximum economy , and rely on a number of angled struts and ties with special pressed metal connectors for their strength . |
| 7 | When a nerve impulse gets there this chemical is released by the nerve terminal , crosses the narrow cleft and reacts with special receptors on the muscle side of the junction , which , when they 're stimulated by this chemical , lead to muscle contraction . |
| 8 | Twenty four hour ambulatory oesophageal pH monitoring was performed in 26 patients with Barrett 's columnar lined lower oesophagus and combined with 24 hour ambulatory gastric pH monitoring in 16 . |
| 9 | It was draped with ruby velvet and furnished with gilded chairs . |
| 10 | Below the screen , oblivious of the carnage , sat a group of downtowners radiating Guerlain and Old Spice and mixing with real people . |
| 11 | In due time the Latin Church decreed that Easter should be ‘ celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon on or after 21 March ’ , and although this simplified matters slightly Easter Day might still fall on any one of thirty-five days , starting with 22 March and ending with 25 April , and the whole of the calendar was controlled by this wide spectrum . |
| 12 | The myth of declining sexual potency and need with increasing age is now being actively questioned . |
| 13 | In the first place it is clear that ‘ modern ’ , ‘ Western ’ , ‘ industrial ’ or ‘ capitalist ’ society is not some homogeneous whole but one which contains many varieties of patterns of living , many different communities and subcultures with differing degrees of openness to the wider society , differing historical experiences , differing ways of relating as families and as individuals to the major changes in the economy and in ways of earning a living . |
| 14 | The foliage is light green and splashed with purple markings . |
| 15 | In its lively style , the chapters cover the basics of instrumental design — both mechanics and electronics — the standard photometric systems , and the calculations necessary to apply the corrections required to appreciate the quality of the results ; all with clear exposition and laced with good advice . |
| 16 | It is , however , a recognition that employees are entitled to information regarding the financial health of their employers and that the public and the Government should be enabled to judge to what extent the company is recognising social obligations and complying with social legislation . |
| 17 | Although he is often characterized as retiring and eccentric , he entertained distinguished visitors in style , and studio staff were frequently welcomed to Old Place and treated with considerable generosity . |
| 18 | The Squadron was equipped with the Blenheim IV as part of 2 Group and tasked with offensive operations , mainly by night , over Germany and Occupied Europe . |
| 19 | Inland the scenery is mostly flat or of gently rolling hills covered with silvery olive groves and dotted with ancient castles and the unique ‘ Trulli ’ houses of stone . |
| 20 | In Brighton in 1934 the torso of a woman was found in a ply-wood trunk , wrapped in brown paper and tied with blind cord . |
| 21 | Unlike the apartment in Venice , this room was decorated in the English style and furnished with two plump single beds covered in chintz counterpanes . |
| 22 | Rice salad : a bowl of chopped peppers , tomatoes , onion and cucumber mixed with cooked ( boiled ) brown rice and served with soy sauce . |
| 23 | The state has two specific tasks : to maintain social order and to compete with other states . |
| 24 | Livingstone has conducted a weekly surgery and dealt with some 20,000 constituents ' queries while an MP . |
| 25 | Although the most recent writings on Mary have taken us away from the image of pantomime villainess or fairy queen , created in the sixteenth century and revived with such enthusiasm in the eighteenth and thereafter , and provided us instead with a human being of more believable proportions , nevertheless Mary still remains an infinitely more shadowy figure as queen of Scotland than her Stewart predecessors and successors . |
| 26 | I removed the completed bowl at this stage and finished with three coats of Danish oil , the first two applied within a half an hour of each other , the final coat applied the next morning and allowed to dry until the evening . |
| 27 | ONCE FREE technical help and support with fast and efficient access to the expert knowledge of our specialist consultants backed up by the latest online information sources . |
| 28 | Then it was packed into various sizes of moulds from pint pots for quick unmatured sale , to the larger , more standard shapes and pressed with huge stone weights for twenty-four hours . |
| 29 | An ancient black Volkswagen , covered with vicious spikes and fitted with all-black windows , slipped out from a back street lock-up in Sheila na gigh . |
| 30 | He 's pledged to reform teacher training , a crackdown on violent crime and to proceed with long-term plans for Britain 's place in Europe . |