Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] 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 | Moody and Eclipse — built by Marine Projects and distributed by Marine Secol , Britain 's largest and most caring dealer . |
| 5 | The most popular marine live food available is Artemia or brine shrimp which are reared in commercial hatcheries and sold as live adults . |
| 6 | Here is the archetypal mid-Wales upland village , set at a confluence of river valleys among tree-lined pastures and overlooked by forested hills . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | For instance , enabling a robot to recognise a wide variety of objects in different positions and lighting-conditions is currently beyond the state of the art , as is building a robot or desk-computer that will understand many different sentences , on different topics and spoken by different speakers . |
| 11 | The goal is to market and distribute technology with SVR4.2 enabling software vendors to write , package and distribute one single version of their applications that can run unchanged on laptops , workstations , servers , mainframes and even supercomputers , from different vendors and based on different microprocessors . |
| 12 | Inland the scenery is mostly flat or of gently rolling hills covered with silvery olive groves and dotted with ancient castles and the unique ‘ Trulli ’ houses of stone . |
| 13 | He was arraigned on three different charges and sentenced to three periods of one year 's imprisonment with hard labour to run consecutively . |
| 14 | There is a broad tendency for the lunar samples , compared to the Earth , to be enriched in refractory materials and depleted in volatile materials . |
| 15 | In 1944 the Ingushis and the Chechens had been among several ethnic groups charged en masse with collaborating with the Nazi German invaders and deported to Central Asia . |
| 16 | This too made a number of very steep turns and made for nearby cloud , though its port engine was believed damaged , and possibly the rear gunner killed . |
| 17 | They were convicted of armed robberies and sentenced to 15 years and 14 years respectively . |
| 18 | Light is absorbed by dark surfaces and reflected by lighter surfaces . |
| 19 | Then it was packed into various sizes of moulds from pint pots for quick unmatured sale , to the larger , more standard shapes and pressed with huge stone weights for twenty-four hours . |
| 20 | An ancient black Volkswagen , covered with vicious spikes and fitted with all-black windows , slipped out from a back street lock-up in Sheila na gigh . |
| 21 | Composed of an allover arrangement of repeating vases and considered by many experts to be one of the most aesthetically accomplished of all Persian designs . |
| 22 | The Canadian Pacific , in both its western and its eastern guises , had been designed to alleviate this dependence , to keep Canadian grain on Canadian metals and shipped through Canadian ports . |
| 23 | Pelted with rotten eggs and faced with armed threats , the protesters eventually turned back . |
| 24 | His jumpers , unused through the past three months of the hot season , were folded round humidity-absorbent packs and bagged in strong plastic . |
| 25 | Perhaps because I was involved with other things , perhaps because at that time I was still trying to find my feet as a bisexual and felt isolated by straight sisters and excluded by some Black lesbians . |
| 26 | BLENHEIM Group , the leading exhibitions organiser with a strong City following , yesterday revealed better-than-expected annual results and hinted at better to come . |
| 27 | So they have little screws to , you know , to go into the bone and little er delicate instruments which are highly developed instruments and manufactured by certain pattern . |
| 28 | The floor had been specially tiled with small red and white lozenge-shaped stones and covered with woollen rugs . |
| 29 | Moreover , the Soviet Union has constructed only limited installations and relied upon temporary docking facilities in Cam Ranh Bay . |
| 30 | One of the most useful sources of documentary evidence is that afforded by maps and plans , particularly if they are of large estates and augmented by written records . |