Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the new scheme , CFCs and water are mixed in a reaction furnace and heated with a high-frequency electric current to about 10,000 degrees Centigrade , at which point electrons are stripped from the atoms to form a plasma . |
| 2 | Besides a full set of stamps mounted on card and protected by a transparent sleeve , each pack opens up to reveal a wealth of information , accompanied by full-colour illustrations . |
| 3 | He woke briefly in the middle of the round with an eagle and a couple of birdies , but eventually slid back into indifference and finished with a level-par score . |
| 4 | A LAWYER-FREE small claims procedure , easily operated by the do-it-yourself litigant and staffed by a new body of volunteer ‘ civil justices ’ , is needed to combat problems of cost and delay Lord Donaldson , the Master of the Rolls , said . |
| 5 | With the exception of two seminars on the assessment of enterprise skills , the focus on teaching and learning was taken out of the programme and shifted to a two-day conference ( with a menu of sessions to which staff can opt in ) held in June 1993 in conjunction with the Educational Development Unit . |
| 6 | Sixty odd years separate this work from The Birth of Tragedy and compared with a similar span of years since Winckelmann 's revolutionary study of Greet art , the later period , viewed as a period of German Hellenism , is anti-climatic . |
| 7 | Once they start to hatch the emerging fry will be picked up in the parent 's mouth and deposited into a pre-dug pit , or under the edge of a rock . |
| 8 | A modern one bedroom End Terrace House built some three years ago of brick under a tiled roof and situated in a small attractive close . |
| 9 | A file on the alleged offences was compiled by the Suffolk force 's internal discipline department and sent to a special section of the CPS in London which deals with allegations against English police officers . |
| 10 | Alternatively they may be subsumed within the department and treated as a poor relation . |
| 11 | The bow is made out of a separate piece of fabric and stitched to a basic straight tie-back . |
| 12 | About 1.45am a few other hostages and I were herded into a red van at gunpoint and driven to a private home in the wealthy neighbourhood where General Noriega lives . |
| 13 | A MAN was being quizzed by police yesterday after a schoolgirl was kidnapped at gunpoint and subjected to a terrifying three-hour sex ordeal . |
| 14 | This explanation is consistent with the increase in bending angle reported to take place in the ternary complex and interpreted in a similar way by Zinkel and Crothers [ 27 ] . |
| 15 | The shorts , printed with the fish motif , are full cut and gathered onto a wide , basque style waistband which is elasticated at the back . |
| 16 | Beyond it , to the east , was a meadow , thick with fritillaries in spring and surrounded by a wooded path , known ( after the essayist and moralist who was a fellow of the College in the early eighteenth century ) as Addison 's Walk . |
| 17 | Both rejected positivistic literary scholarship and called for a renewed attention to literature as literature ; both insisted on the differences between literature and other kinds of writing , and tried to define these differences in theoretical terms ; both gave a central role in their definitions to ideas of structure and interrelatedness , and treated the literary text as an object essentially independent of its author and its historical context . |
| 18 | SRI LANKA 'S Tamil Tiger guerrillas announced yesterday that they had renounced violence and registered as a political party . |
| 19 | This season 27-year-old Llewellyn already has 23 wins under his belt and looks on course to top his previous best total of 53 achieved last term and capped with a Grand National triumph on Party Politics . |
| 20 | Anthony Andrews , so often seen as the archetypal urbane Englishman , turns in a performance of immense depth and sympathy as Miller , who is accused of spying and cast into a barbarous prison camp . |
| 21 | CHURCHMEN and intellectuals in East Germany , worried about the new , aggressive tone that has crept into the emotional issue of reunification , yesterday warned against confrontation and called for a temporary end to mass street demonstrations . |
| 22 | Total RNA was isolated from 2 to 20 ml of whole blood and hybridised with a specific biotinylated oligonucleotide . |
| 23 | Interest is paid annually upon each anniversary of the first deposit to your TESSA and calculated on a daily basis on cleared balances ( including any interest credited but not withdrawn ) . |
| 24 | He passed his arm over the guardrail and settled into a comfortable position . |
| 25 | That evening Lieutenant-Colonel Dudley Clarke set down his thoughts in brief notes on raiding parties carried by ship to the French coast and drawn from a special force . |
| 26 | The new pitch is made of synthetic Baspograss , packed with sand and backed with a rubber cushion to minimise wear , and has been paid for by a variety of bodies both local and national . |
| 27 | But Laura herself quietly went in the next day , spent hours cleaning up the mess and advertised for a new manageress . |
| 28 | The methanolic eluates were pooled in the original round bottomed flask and dried on a rotary evaporator . |
| 29 | The only possible way was to the north-east and east along Glen Spean where a level contour could be maintained for nearly twenty miles until , at Tulloch , the first opportunity of circumventing the mountain barrier was presented by the deep trench of Loch Treig to the south and reached by a steep gradient . |
| 30 | McCredie and Horrox ( 1985 ) illustrated how children , who had lost one parent through divorce and adjusted to a lone-parent family , expressed anxiety and often outright resistance to any further changes , particularly remarriage of their parent/s . |