Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Specimens were fixed in half-strength Karnovsky fixative , postfixed in osmium tetroxide , embedded in Araldite , thin sectioned and stained with uranyl acetate and lead citrate in the usual way . |
| 2 | Nothing that makes you happier than a child 's Christmas toy , bought in the land of plenty , broken and forgotten by Christmas night , discarded , swept up , thrown away ; some unbiodegradable bit of plastic , moulded into partial or sentimental shape . |
| 3 | More recently the roach seemed to disappear , the bream , tench and carp became more prevalent and grew onto specimen size . |
| 4 | This is overcome by cutting a slightly ‘ loose ’ joint and lashing with nylon cord . |
| 5 | 4 oz ( 100g ) steak , grilled and served with jacket potato ( approx. 5oz [ 25g ] ) and unlimited vegetables PLUS FRUITY APPLE TERRINE ( see recipe , page 157 ) OR LENTIL ROAST ( see recipe , page 158 ) served with unlimited vegetables PLUS COEURS A LA CREME ( see recipe , page 156 ) |
| 6 | An individual who is passive , utterly apathetic and withdrawn from community life is no true citizen . |
| 7 | He had a photograph of him enlarged and framed in silver gilt on his desk . |
| 8 | Why is that getting pregnant and asking for maternity leave can be seen as a crime ? |
| 9 | At his trial for acting with Waddell in the murder of Mrs Chipperfield , Gentle was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment . |
| 10 | All rooms are air-conditioned and equipped with colour television , coffee and tea making facilities , mini-bar and radio . |
| 11 | The Security Service thought that Ramsay was unbalanced and suffered from persecution mania so far as the Jews were concerned . |
| 12 | Rearing and plunging through bravura passagework and revelling in every opportunity for the richest variety of voicing and texture , he makes the many years since the work 's first performance roll away . |
| 13 | The beer is then filtered and pasteurised and served under gas pressure and heavily chilled . |
| 14 | The slides were then air dried and mounted in glycerine jelly . |
| 15 | Mr Rifkind said the British troops would provide ‘ second line ’ medical support , evacuating UN sick and injured from battalion aid posts to hospitals and only ‘ in extremis ’ helping an injured soldier on the spot . |
| 16 | Please also remember that Ash Wednesday , which is this Wednesday , is one of the only two days a year on which we are asked to fast and to abstain from eating meat . |
| 17 | Golden Minstrel , Forest Ranger , Willsford and Ghofar disputed the early lead and Brown Windsor was with them when , jumping left and colliding with Forest Ranger at Becher 's , he became the race 's most expensive casualty . |
| 18 | TC-cultured LC ( 45% I-A + ) represent BALB/c EC that were cultured for 72h ( ref. 21 ) , TC-treated and enriched by density gradient centrifugation . |
| 19 | Unhappy and stifled by school routine , Diana was desperate to escape . |
| 20 | The two upper ponds are constructed from concrete , sealed and planted with Water Cress ( purchased at Tesco ) , Water Hyacinths and Creeping Jenny . |
| 21 | The floor of the barn was cold stone and slimy and smelled of engine oil and damp cereals . |
| 22 | Iron availability from fibre-rich vegetarian foods can be quite poor and worsened by wheat bran if taken in large amounts . |
| 23 | A three year battle against a vile aluminium flue on the building near to our kitchen window — some 16″ diameter , nearly fifty feet high and noisy to boot ( apart from being illegal and erected without planning permission ) . |
| 24 | All personal details are treated as strictly confidential and remain on computer file . |
| 25 | Both adhesive and grout for wall tiling are usually sold readymixed , in plastic tubs complete with a notched plastic spreader . |
| 26 | The extra room is in the boot , instead — it 's enormous and opens to bumper level . |
| 27 | Places available and starts on Community Action |
| 28 | Large canvases , initially intended as wall furniture , are frequently crowded together into space which is too small and displayed at eye level in emphatic lighting which dramatises the reflective surfaces . |
| 29 | This is a means whereby analogue signals like guitar , vocals etc. can be converted to digital and inputted to computer storage , to be sequenced and looped or whatever digital hocus pocus takes your fancy . |
| 30 | The biopsy specimens were fixed in Carnoy 's fixative overnight and embedded in paraffin wax . |