Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] and [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Romans used spas and bathed in warm spring waters wherever they could find them . |
| 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 | PER CENT ( PERCENTAGE ) — A proportion or a part in a hundred ; i.e. the number of cases of a part divided by the number of total cases and multiplied by 100 . |
| 4 | " The concept of the Labour aristocracy has had its value in drawing attention to differences within the working class but if it implies the existence … of a labour elite distinctly separated from lower strata and marked by political behaviour of an acquiescent type then it is a concept that does more harm than good to historical truth " . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The one-day course , held at Brunel Technical College and attended by 25 people , began with lecture demonstrations explaining the scientific principles of cooking and ended with a gourmet meal in the company of tutors and guests , which provided an opportunity to discuss science in general . |
| 7 | For the ground about him , with its padding of last year 's thick leaf-fall sodden and trodden into soft pulp , showed no disturbance , but lay moist , dark and flat , unmarked by any convulsions of his feet or arms , or any trampling of an assailant round him . |
| 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 | They are allotted by tender each Friday and issued on each working day by the Bank of England . |
| 10 | It was draped with ruby velvet and furnished with gilded chairs . |
| 11 | The daily output of faeces was slightly enhanced by dietary calcium and decreased by dietary phosphate ( Table I ) . |
| 12 | Moody and Eclipse — built by Marine Projects and distributed by Marine Secol , Britain 's largest and most caring dealer . |
| 13 | The most popular marine live food available is Artemia or brine shrimp which are reared in commercial hatcheries and sold as live adults . |
| 14 | This approach was carried to its furthest extreme by the embryologist E.W. MacBride , who argued that all the different invertebrate types were degenerate offshoots from various points in the main line of vertebrate progress : ‘ It is therefore broadly speaking true ’ , he wrote , ‘ that the Invertebrates collectively represent those branches of the Vertebrate stock which , at various times , have deserted their high vocation and fallen into lowlier habits of life . ’ |
| 15 | But Virgin wanted compensation to cover commercial damage and pushed for limited undertakings regarding BA 's future conduct . |
| 16 | This reluctance to accept death as a ‘ natural ’ and inevitable stage in the cycle of life recalls the doctrine set forth in the Old Testament and enshrined in orthodox Christian teaching . |
| 17 | Here is the archetypal mid-Wales upland village , set at a confluence of river valleys among tree-lined pastures and overlooked by forested hills . |
| 18 | reprints from the stereotype plates of the double-columned Cheap Edition , with a different frontispiece and bound in pictorial green glazed boards . |
| 19 | The other market incentives/deterrents that might be expected to align management and shareholder interests will be briefly noted at the end of this chapter and examined in some detail in Chapter 4 . |
| 20 | After a shaky start , Tyrone moved into top gear and led by five points at half-time with a series of spectacular points by Ciaran McBride , Colm Donnelly and Brian Catterson . |
| 21 | With great reluctance , Reagan bowed to pressure from his advisers and compromised the Kemp-Roth principle somewhat by agreeing that the first cut should be delayed for a few months and reduced to 5 per cent in the first year with 10 per cent cuts in years two and three . |
| 22 | This workshop , prepared by a group of staff at Robert Gordon 's Institute of Technology , led by , was held on 30 May and repeated on 6 June 1989 at Perth College of Further Education . |
| 23 | The foliage is light green and splashed with purple markings . |
| 24 | Brought up in a broken home and educated in segregated schools , Herenton overcame his early disadvantages , worked unloading boxcars to pay for college education and served as Memphis school superintendent before becoming mayor . |
| 25 | After he had been found guilty of homosexual offences and sentenced to two years ' imprisonment with hard labour , the press subjected Oscar Wilde to vicious attack . |
| 26 | A number of studies have investigated the disorders of defecation in spinally injured people , but most involve patients with incomplete lesions at different sites and caused by different mechanisms . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It must be a proper sport and conducted as such . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The edited files ( Appendices 1 and 2 ) contain 550 doctorate theses resulting from research on Scottish geology , geochemistry and geophysics , undertaken in British universities and completed between 1960 and 1983 . |