Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] and [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was draped with ruby velvet and furnished with gilded chairs . |
| 6 | The daily output of faeces was slightly enhanced by dietary calcium and decreased by dietary phosphate ( Table I ) . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | But Virgin wanted compensation to cover commercial damage and pushed for limited undertakings regarding BA 's future conduct . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | reprints from the stereotype plates of the double-columned Cheap Edition , with a different frontispiece and bound in pictorial green glazed boards . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The foliage is light green and splashed with purple markings . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 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 must be a proper sport and conducted as such . |
| 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 | Not when they were in a public place and surrounded by other people . |
| 19 | When Philip of Burgundy abandoned the English alliance and returned to that of France in 1435 , he released French troops from eastern France whose services Charles VII could now employ in the south-west . |
| 20 | Completed in 1869 , it is privately owned and in its heyday was a large linen warehouse , built of Scottish sandstone and designed in opulent Venetian Renaissance style . |
| 21 | Briefly , the ethanolic extracts were dried under an air stream , mixed with 200 µl pyridine and acetic anhydride and kept for 18 hours in the dark , at room temperature . |
| 22 | Briefly , the ethanolic extracts were dried under an air stream , mixed with 200 µl of pyridine and acetic anhydride and kept for 18 hours in the dark , at room temperature . |
| 23 | SEEN RECENTLY at the old Riga Airport , which was closed some 15 years ago to commercial traffic and relegated to military helicopter use , were a number of Soviet aircraft , old and not so old . |
| 24 | Mix together the ingredients for the dipping sauce and put into four bowls . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Later still , it may be dissociated from this role and used for general storage , in which case its previous specific symbolic role is ignored , and it is no longer of consequence whether its ritual status accords with that of its contents ( Miller 1985 : 172–83 ) . |
| 27 | We also changed the definition of an accident to the satisfaction of my French colleague and piloted through two more of our items . |
| 28 | Unlike the apartment in Venice , this room was decorated in the English style and furnished with two plump single beds covered in chintz counterpanes . |
| 29 | This was a position which also continued to express the preference of most abolitionists that government intervention be limited to policy guidelines to be rendered into detailed legislation and implemented by local assemblies and officials except in the Crown Colonies . |
| 30 | Rice salad : a bowl of chopped peppers , tomatoes , onion and cucumber mixed with cooked ( boiled ) brown rice and served with soy sauce . |