Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He permanently secretes a thick , transparent mucus about this body , which is clad only in an ancient blue-black robe . |
| 2 | ‘ You 've fallen in with a right bad pair there , chief . |
| 3 | Yet , between the upper strata of the landed aristocracy and the wealthiest members of the industrial and commercial society there were many links ; and gradually these two elements came to be joined together in a single ruling group … |
| 4 | arguments , all of which can be developed only by a long mental soak in the subject . |
| 5 | The screens are slotted on to an amazing new printer which cost the company an arm and a leg a couple of years ago . |
| 6 | Here the coal that was brought up from underground was tipped on to a slow-moving endless belt : the boys , standing alongside , took off the slag or rubbish that was mixed with the coal . |
| 7 | A players ' strike was averted only after a top-level six-hour meeting last week , but Fry revealed some players were still not happy with their pay-slips , allegedly short of £60 . |
| 8 | But she had done it in a very peculiar way : she had booked in to a private Well Woman Clinic under an assumed name . |
| 9 | Yawning , not hiding it , them an sat down on an ancient easy chair on one side of the dead fireplace . |
| 10 | THE best of east and west are being fused together in a new joint venture designed to give Courtaulds a dynamic presence in coil coatings throughout Europe . |
| 11 | Not all were tankers — the second , a South Korean-run oilfield service vessel , was caught close to a Saudi offshore field and sunk . |
| 12 | The hotel is pleasantly decorated throughout with a smart new breakfast room and a lovely restaurant for dinner . |
| 13 | Wallace had come up with a great zoological truth . |
| 14 | A firm has come up with a new high-tech way to beat credit card fraud . |
| 15 | Merkel had come up with a sinister final solution to the population explosion . |
| 16 | BIOTECHNOLOGISTS have come up with a surprising new way of repairing many scars and wrinkles — using purified cow-hide . |
| 17 | Following new yarn developments in France , Charnos have come up with a beautiful lustrous leg look that is built for comfort — ‘ Sheer Lustre ’ tights at £2.99 with 10 denier appearance leg . |
| 18 | Recognising that a lot of women are taking to the hills , and that they may feel a little intimidated by such a male-orientated sport , especially since they all dress in the same fluffy things as us now , I have come up with a startling new innovation . |
| 19 | Ernst & Young in the US has come up with an interesting new way to reduce overheads , according to the Public Accounting Report . |
| 20 | There 's nothing more romantic than mother nature herself and Schwarzkopf have come up with an exciting new product for colouring hair — the natural way . |
| 21 | Together with American businessman David A Gold and technical experts from West Germany , they have come up with an exciting new development for hair . |
| 22 | Milton 's maintenance of the traditional Renaissance literary values of art , imitation , and exercise allowed him to be appropriated by a culturally elitist agenda indivisibly caught up with an elitist social and political agenda . |
| 23 | With the genre scenes , part of the secret lies again in the way natural-sounding dialogue is skilfully caught up into a formal musical structure . |
| 24 | Cut-price chains Presto and Lo-Cost , caught up in a bloody head-to-head battle with discounters like Kwik Save , managed only a small profits increase . |
| 25 | She seemed to be caught up in a permanent giddying whirl , of trying to run the nightclub , making herself available to the police whenever they needed her , and coping with the demands of a sensation-hungry Press which had swooped on to the drugs-bust story with its famous heroine like a pack of vultures . |
| 26 | Mud , as a solution to the world 's housing problem , is thus caught up in an intricate economic , social and political web . |
| 27 | Felicity had come out in a severe facial rash and spent the time either screaming or staring fixedly at the paperknife on her desk . |
| 28 | The ‘ best ’ rooms have chimney-pieces picked out in a canny false-stone effect ( in fact no more than mortar ) or else ornamented by rubbed and painted bricks . |
| 29 | Interviews and observations carried out during a long-term follow-up study in fifty classrooms revealed that the classroom practice of nearly 50 per cent of the respondents had not changed in any perceptible way as a result of their attendance at such courses . |
| 30 | A particularly ambitious study of this kind , carried out over an entire geographic region , was that done by Ken Green , Rod Coombs , and K. Holroyd of the Tameside region , near Manchester ( Green et al. 1980 ) . |