Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Commercial and industrial property is usually subject to longer agreements , while by the time domestic rates were abolished most domestic property was either owner-occupied or rented from a local authority or other public agency . |
| 2 | What kid , home-grown or imported from a neighbouring household , could resist pulling a handle and watching all that water gushing out ? |
| 3 | The cost of his travels and his books ( many of which were distributed free or sold at a subsidized price ) was heavy . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Briefly , serum ( 1 ml ) was diluted with two volumes of isotonic saline and extracted on a small column of octadecysilane bonded silica at 64°C . |
| 6 | Well , it was heigh-ho for the nearest cookshop and , if I remember correctly , a quail pie , the crust golden and crisp , the meat fresh and smothered in a rich sauce , and a jug of new Bordeaux . |
| 7 | The right hand was high and rested on a vertical spear , the left is on the hip . |
| 8 | Beneath it , she wore loose silky pants in the same colour , pleated and gathered into a deep , fitted waistband and tapering at her ankles , one of which sported a fine gold anklet . |
| 9 | HOLLAND 'S only commercial reactor at Borssele is just about as ordinary a nuclear power plant as you could expect to find : 477 megawatts , 10 years old and saddled with a 20-year contract to supply electricity to the neighbouring Pechiney aluminium smelter at a third of the present going rate . |
| 10 | Church ‘ A' is seven years old and located in a new development area of detached houses . |
| 11 | Another item that really suffers when seen dry , but once in the tank , wet and covered with a little algae , comes into its own . |
| 12 | But you stand a better chance of your material being used if it is topical , lively and written in a similar style to that employed by the particular newspaper or radio station . |
| 13 | If it were possible to unfold the entire long history of the world 's religions in such a manner that it could be scrutinised , assimilated and judged in a single all-embracing operation , the verdict would be that it had strayed so far from the basic human need , and so far from the intentions of those good and sincere people who have throughout that history struggled to maintain its integrity , that it might well be condemned outright as a story of failure unmatched by anything else that has ever happened on earth . |
| 14 | Similar experiments have been reported from the Ivory Coast by Roose ( 1986 ) who has compared runoff and erosion from several plots , one of which was deforested and maintained as a bare soil by ploughing , and others in which a variety of perennial , annual and tree crops were grown . |
| 15 | The apple room was dim and scented with a mysterious sweetness like the breakfast honey . |
| 16 | However , because the transcriptional properties of ATF1 and CREB are fundamentally different when fused to a heterologous DNA-binding-domain ( 30 ) it is apparent that changes in the relative proportions of ATF1 and CREB will have important consequences . |
| 17 | Therefore there is a real tradeoff involved , between the need for any bonus to he relatively generous when compared with a flat salary , and the need for there to be some bonus element . |
| 18 | English as spoken by a non-native speaker who shows a lack of knowledge of English grammar , syntax and vocabulary . |
| 19 | Coal-and gas-powered stations are more economical when used for a shorter period . |
| 20 | Carpets consist of fibre tufts or loops , woven or stuck to a durable backing . |
| 21 | On July 4 , 400 people were reported killed or wounded after a massive explosion aimed at police headquarters in the northern oil city of Kirkuk . |
| 22 | The analysis of the information is therefore not always comprehensive nor undertaken in a consistent way . |
| 23 | This is clearly the case in East Horsley , Surrey , where Connell ( 1974 ) has shown that spatial segregation was most clearly defined in the council estates , which were often morphologically distinct and separated by a considerable distance from the remainder of the village . |
| 24 | Developed and tested in a rigorous programme of long-distance sailing , Musto believe that the M1 and M2 have been the subject of more intensive research than any other seaboots . |
| 25 | And towards morning , when the snow turned again to rain , the whole hillside under which they were camped had become furrowed and scoured by a hundred brooks scurrying and leaping downwards into the river valley , till the level of the flood crept up towards their outposts , and its tributaries carried down into it everything movable that came in their way , including some of the hobbled horses , and the wreckage of tents , and drowned men . |
| 26 | The May evening was warm and filled with a golden light , and as he passed the Maria-Therese gardens the scent of the lilacs hit him with an almost physical pain . |
| 27 | By day the hammock was lashed-up and stowed in a convenient corner , again keeping the decks clear . |
| 28 | Dr Anthony Storr , author of the recently-published Churchill 's Black Dog , in which he showed how senior politicans often turned stresses of up-bringing into strengths , said yesterday : ‘ I 'm interested because the gates must mean that she 's feeling increasingly insecure and threatened in a simple , straightforward way ; and that 's an interesting phenomenum in itself because she 's been so absolutely certain of herself . |
| 29 | It stood in a group of small houses , each separate and surrounded by a little stone wall . |
| 30 | He thought the piling up and saving of images for future use pointless if corrupted by a consumeristic present . |