Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [prep] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each small request is invariably met , each question carefully considered , points either debated with an academic botanist or explained to an amateur gardener with patient thoroughness . |
| 2 | After last summer 's trouble 's at Blackbird Leys some roads were narrowed or treated with an anti-skid surface . |
| 3 | When asked to put their minds and bodies at rest , no one ever visualized themselves in the middle of Piccadilly waiting supermarket , or crushed in an underground train . |
| 4 | PCT application 82/03520 explains how an automatic shutoff unit can either be built into a domestic appliance or installed as an add-on unit to existing equipment . |
| 5 | Her hearers found it difficult to believe that this screaming was involuntary ; some thought she was drunk , or ill , or possessed by an evil spirit , but most of them just wanted her out of the way : ‘ some wished she was on the sea in a bottomless boat ’ . |
| 6 | Among writers alone — and even excluding those discussed in the present volume — he concludes that all of the following were either schizophrenic or suffered from an affective psychosis : Strindberg , Baudelaire , Kant , Swift , Shelley , Johnson , Hölderlin , Donizetti , Conrad , Kafka , Coleridge , Schopenhauer , Barrie , Schiller , Crane , Chatterton , Rousseau , Tasso , Maupassant , Balzac , and Boswell . |
| 7 | Though there are exceptions , the leaves are mostly palmate or shaped like an outstretched hand . |
| 8 | These can be seen dotted about the vineyards , either lit manually by the vigneron when the temperature drops to freezing setting off noisy alarms in the middle of the night , or fed by an automatic system which fires the burners by thermostatic control . |
| 9 | Or hung in an amber cavern of weeds |
| 10 | Taking the rather obvious theme of the mother and child , for example , this is used over and over again by artists , though each time it must be expressed or interpreted in an individual way . |
| 11 | Subject to certain exemptions , s 57 of the FSA provides that investment advertisements must be issued or approved by an authorised person . |
| 12 | If the exemption does apply , the parties will be able to conclude the acquisition by private contract in the usual way without any need for the documents to be issued or approved by an authorised person . |
| 13 | If art 4 does not apply to the offer , it will be necessary for it to be issued or approved by an authorised person . |
| 14 | ( 5 ) The offer documents will be investment advertisements for the purposes of FSA 1986 , s57 and will need to be issued by or approved by an authorised person , usually the offeror 's merchant bank or stockbroker ( see para 11.4.2 below ) . |
| 15 | That will be achieved in one of two ways : ( 1 ) by providing for its automatic accruer in consideration of or linked to an appropriate payment ; or ( 2 ) by giving the continuing partners an option to acquire the share at an ascertainable price . |
| 16 | Police say the dog could have been used in a fight or dumped by an uncaring owner who could not afford to have the animal registered under dangerous dog legislation . |
| 17 | The dough should be covered with a cloth after each session to prevent a crust forming , or stored in an airtight container . |
| 18 | While the band were recording the single , Gedge either had a flash of sheer inspiration or hit upon an elaborate chat-up method . |
| 19 | the invitation must not be associated with or followed by an immediate application for listing on The Stock Exchange or some other trading facility . |
| 20 | I experienced my hands being numb and slightly swollen , then being pressed or clasped by an unseen force . |
| 21 | If only social workers and other professionals familiarized themselves with these research findings and integrated them into their everyday practice both tragedies and unwarrantable interventions could be avoided or kept to an absolute minimum . |
| 22 | They should be either burnt or laid out flat to dry , or kept in an airtight tin . |
| 23 | Anyone who has seen or lived near an opencast coal mining site will understand and agree with a statement which appeared in the First Report of the House of Commons Energy Committee ( 1986–87 ) : ‘ We agree with the CPRE that ‘ opencast mining is one of the most environmentally destructive processes being carried out in the UK ’ . |
| 24 | We need a more active approach to the promotion of new knowledge provided by research … to carry out large numbers of research projects and then put them on shelves and in pigeon holes is appallingly wasteful , as is also the vast amount of information available in hundreds of central and local government reports published each year and then forgotten , and never collated or analysed within an overall framework of reference . |
| 25 | Sir Robert last night rejected calls for his resignation and explained that 50 of the recommendations made by Sir Anthony were already in hand or implemented at an estimated cost of £20 million . |
| 26 | Grilled beef can take any style providing that it 's not too sweet ( as German mustards are ) or flavoured with an unsuitable herb such as dill . |
| 27 | Although situated near an industrial area , its location on the banks of the Tennant Canal makes it a tranquil and memorable site . |
| 28 | And in my experience , this sort of transcendence is not involved in anorexia nervosa , where the material world has to be grappled with and controlled , rather than dismissed as an ultimate unreality . |
| 29 | Although defeated as an independent candidate at Mile End in January 1916 , he achieved success two months later at another parliamentary by-election in East Hertfordshire . |
| 30 | This is mainly because salaries have not kept pace with the rise in house prices which , until this year 's slump , had more than tripled from an average £19,925 in 1979 to £61,965 by August this year , according to the Building Societies Association 's latest figures . |