Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On arrival at the theatre I was met by Mr and Mrs Alexander Heymeyer , the latter was originally Scottish and born on the Isle of Skye . |
| 2 | The input to a program should be clear and kept to a minimum ; the output on the screen should be clear and presented at a sensible speed ; and any ‘ special ’ or complex computer procedures should appear to the user as ordinary and easy to use . |
| 3 | The moon had set , but the sky was clear and lit by a sprinkling of stars . |
| 4 | This use of language is poetic and characterized by the intention being applied not only to content but also to its specific form . |
| 5 | The aqueous solution was made fresh daily and used in the rats at a dose 10 times higher ( 50 µg/kg ) than that shown in separate experiments on these animals to reduce by 50% the platelet activating factor induced hypotension ( ID 5 =5 µg/kg ip ) . |
| 6 | political ideology is male-biased and associated with the values of male supremacy and ferocity ; |
| 7 | The data stored and manipulated within a GIS are of two specific kinds . |
| 8 | There was a woman who wanted me to call her mother , and then called me awkward , exasperated and frightened with the dreams and the screams . |
| 9 | Charlotte made to reply , but suddenly felt exasperated and wearied by the hoops she had been obliged to jump through . |
| 10 | You 'd be sucked in , absorbed and fused with the steel and the plastic and the concrete — fused into the very fabric of the building itself . ’ |
| 11 | The house committee met weekly and dealt with a variety of matters . |
| 12 | Various branches of the former FDP were demilitarized and placed under the control of the Justice Ministry . |
| 13 | ‘ I had a bust up with John Sillett a week or so before and had been transfer-listed and dropped from the team , ’ he recalled . |
| 14 | Mr John Cleese , the icon , has revealed that when his mother dies he intends to ‘ have her stuffed and put in a glass case in his front hall . ’ |
| 15 | A vicar has now joined the ranks of the unemployed and signed on the dole . |
| 16 | The times and places are decided well in advance , usually during the previous November , and invariably the Order of Service is that prepared and recommended by the Council of Churches for Britain and Ireland . |
| 17 | Who stayed upstairs I never did find out , but the house is now well and truly Yuppified and owned by a couple of actresses from good families . |
| 18 | Each time she read the story , she experienced a new shock ; it was the shock of finding the new contained and expressed in the framework and the terms of the old . |
| 19 | Bake in the centre of a moderately hot oven ( 190°C , 375°F. , Gas Mark 5 ) for 25 minutes or until golden brown and shrunk from the edges of the tin a little . |
| 20 | ‘ Does n't look very exciting , ’ said Thiercelin , peering at the mildewed page , brown and cracked around the edges . |
| 21 | This castle , built c. 1130 , is of stone and is about 125 feet high and based on a plan 70 feet square . |
| 22 | A man leaped down from a window five storeys high and drowned in the river . |
| 23 | Mauléon also has a rather wonderful Renaissance chateau in the centre of the town , with a roof to remember , a good thirty feet high and pitched at an angle of 75 degrees . |
| 24 | The tail of an all-black cat , severed and buried under the doorstep of a house , was considered to be a way of preventing all members of the family living there from succumbing to sickness and ill health . |
| 25 | The house was old and situated on the outskirts of London . |
| 26 | After all , it is about the conservation of the old and founded on a suspicion of the new . |
| 27 | Eternal God , we rejoice in your promise that as our day is , so shall our strength be ; and we ask for your help for all who are old and wearied with the burden of life . |
| 28 | But it was old and held to the post with bits of string in proper agricultural fashion . |
| 29 | Fast , quick-witted and determined as a player , demanding and insistent as a manager , there was little doubt that he would snatch his career back from the brink of failure . |
| 30 | As the waves crashed round the hilltops the wizards ' palaces broke free and floated on the surface of the waves . |