Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The assisted area map may well change after the general election , but I can assure my hon. Friend that we ensure absolute fairness between assisted areas and that no one area is disadvantaged or advantaged in relation to the others . |
| 2 | Since we have no preconceived ideas about research fields , the programme is not coherent or balanced in terms of disciplines and there are very few areas where interests overlap , as was intended . |
| 3 | The easily identifiable tartan mark is your guarantee that the salmon you are buying is genuinely Scottish and produced in accordance with a stringent set of quality standards , enforced by Food From Britain inspectors . |
| 4 | The Bourequat brothers — three French citizens who had been imprisoned without charge for over 17 years — were pardoned by King Hassan II on Dec. 30 and returned to France on Jan. 3 . |
| 5 | Deep acting medicines ( Lycopodium , Calc Carb etc. ) can be used several times daily and repeated for months at a time if necessary . |
| 6 | ‘ You have to strike a happy medium between looking like royalty and looking like a housewife , ’ a helpful Mrs Tony Newton , wife of the Leader of the Commons explained after she and four Cabinet Minsters ' wives for being lip-glossed and back-combed into shape by the Mail on Sunday . |
| 7 | The disk is round , often indented interradially , high and covered with skin with small scattered spines attached to small plates within the skin ; diameter up to 30 mm . |
| 8 | Before its disappearance it was described by the head of the Austrian delegation at the Bourbon court in Naples as ‘ two feet high and decorated with friezes of intermingled ears of corn , fruit and heads of goats ’ . |
| 9 | A package of reforms to the criminal code , designed to improve Turkey 's human rights record , was approved by the Grand National Assembly early on April 12 and signed into law by President Turgut Özal a few hours later . |
| 10 | The new arrangements will be monitored throughout 1993 and reviewed in detail in December 1993/January 1994 . |
| 11 | His partner was much shorter and wrapped from head to toe in a brown cloak . |
| 12 | ‘ She was most surprised to see him standing at her door , dripping wet and covered in leaves from the pool . ’ |
| 13 | A great deal of strike activity turn out , on closer inspection , to be spontaneous and based on resistance by specific groups of workers . |
| 14 | Apart from the above conditions , the externally intermediated currency , e.g. dollar , DM , Sw.Fr. , etc. , must be reasonably sound and held by non-residents in substantial amounts for trading and investment purposes . |
| 15 | The long façades of these redbrick buildings were adorned with Mughal arches ; the interiors were provided with airy loggias and wide verandas , from which sprang a whole succession of open towers adorned with lattice-work and capped by domes of varying sizes . |
| 16 | Mary Tudor rode to London in order to claim the throne and with the intention of reinstating the Roman Catholic Church , but the fact that she was married to Philip of Spain and wished to make him King of England , was also not acceptable and led to hostility in London . |
| 17 | Ian took ‘ A ’ Levels in Latin , French and German and graduated in Law from Downing College , Cambridge in 1982 . |
| 18 | Verse 14 : Egyptian custom dictates that Joseph must be shaven and dressed in linen for an appearance at court . |
| 19 | However , Whitelocke , like Cromwell himself , was not ‘ wedded or glued to forms of government ’ , and in 1657 he was one of those who urged Cromwell to accept the crown , in the hope that it would wean the Protector from his military power-base . |
| 20 | Teddies were first developed in Germany in the early 1900s and named in tribute to former American president Teddy Roosevelt who refused to shoot a defenceless small bear while out on a hunting trip . |
| 21 | Copy the following and put in place of the dots , the correct signs . |
| 22 | It would be even better if that model were made explicit and tested for validity against a more complete analysis of the firm 's competitive position — the manager may , after all , be wrong . |
| 23 | I kept trying to remember what a good time Sugar and Spite had been — and Goodstyle , a history of art revue I 'd written and pinched and compiled for Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art , Dundee , when I 'd been writer in residence . |
| 24 | Products of primer extension reactions were cleaved by I- Sce III and electrophoresed in parallel with enzymatic sequence reactions using the same radioactive primers and template . |
| 25 | It felt inappropriate that my introduction to live sex was wholly voyeuristic and accompanied by images from Looney Tunes . |
| 26 | The West German leader , far from seeking to slow down the process leading to monetary union , said the treaty revision should be agreed by the end of 1991 and put into force by the time the EC single market was completed at the end of 1992 . |
| 27 | Treated by theology as one of the deadly sins and recognised and discussed without inhibition by philosophers , poets , psychologists and other observers of the human scene until the present century , it has all but disappeared from view in our own time and reference to its existence , let alone study of its function , has been sedulously avoided . |
| 28 | Protein content was determined by the method of Lowry et al with bovine plasma albumin as a standard and expressed as milligrams of protein per total pancreatic tissue wet weight . |
| 29 | Fearing a tragedy of epic proportions — her mind leapt at once to Penini and then to Miss Arabel — she knocked on the open door and Mr Browning came through from the other room , so haggard and drawn in contrast to his morning self that once more she was convinced something dreadful had happened . |
| 30 | The European Commission did n't prove that helpful either : Hinsley makes no secret of his frustration with the Esprit parallel processing projects , which he sees as obsessed with making Unix parallel — a quest that he sees as fundamentally misguided and doomed to failure in the long term . |