Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 … |
| 2 | arguments , all of which can be developed only by a long mental soak in the subject . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Not all were tankers — the second , a South Korean-run oilfield service vessel , was caught close to a Saudi offshore field and sunk . |
| 6 | The hotel is pleasantly decorated throughout with a smart new breakfast room and a lovely restaurant for dinner . |
| 7 | Its growth is considered here as a specific political issue which , for the purposes of both clarity and brevity , is distinguished apart from the broader social history of the period . |
| 8 | However well charted the world may be there is still adventure , danger and hardship for some travellers to endure : Christina Dodwell experienced ‘ cold terror ’ while crossing the rapids of the Laigap River in Papua New Guinea ; Dervla Murphy survived an attack by wolves and several rape attempts ; Rosie Atkins , travelling round the world with her husband and two children , was trapped overnight in a battered old coach by a landslide in Ladakh . |
| 9 | Three hundred and fifty years ago England was being torn apart by a bloody civil war . |
| 10 | Three hundred and fifty years ago England was being torn apart by a bloody civil war . |
| 11 | Hathor is depicted either as a beautiful young woman or as a rather sad cow . |
| 12 | A rectangular coil is located parallel to a long straight current-carrying wire as shown in Fig. 4.19 . |
| 13 | However , as suggested at the beginning of this chapter , the target group for the intervention should be particularly vulnerable in some way , that is , be predisposed biologically to a major psychiatric disorder , or be low in self-esteem , poor in coping skills , or low in support . |
| 14 | In cephalaspids ( Cephalaspis illustrated ) the eyes were placed dorsally with a single nasohypophysial opening and the flattened head shield was fenestrated by enlarged sensory fields connected to the inner ear . |
| 15 | Like George Habash 's PFLP , from which it had broken away in a brutal revolutionary schism , it was opposed to Arafat 's gun-and-olive-branch approach towards Israel and therefore outside Arafat 's control . |
| 16 | It was hidden away down a dingy little cul-de-sac ending in a railway embankment and a station hardly anyone used any more . |
| 17 | SunSoft Inc 's all-important solution for running Microsoft Corp Windows applications on its watershed Solaris 2.0-on-Intel operating system is reportedly being developed outside by a little-known 10-person firm called Praxsys Technologies Inc in Norwood , Massachusetts . |
| 18 | Eventually Helen spotted a reception desk , discreetly tucked away behind a large weeping fig ; they advanced across wastes of polished marble and were directed to a lift . |
| 19 | It had been bought with a United Nations grant of 1980 on the understanding that all the profits would be channelled discreetly into a numbered Swiss bank account to be used exclusively by UNICEF . |
| 20 | One consequence of augmenting the focus registers as in SPAR is that it becomes more common for candidates to be separated only by a weak focusing preference . |
| 21 | The new Marxist government was saved only by a Cuban expeditionary force of at least 20,000 men , with logistical back-up from the Soviet Union . |
| 22 | This mass of people , all dressed in their Sunday best , bedecked with badges and brass , hovers like a human shield , while the Royal in question inspects whatever is on show , shakes a few select hands and exchanges benign pleasantries , before being whisked away in a grand black limousine . |
| 23 | The oil and gas produced in this way can be pumped directly into a nearby combined heat-and-power plant , while the char can be used either as a fuel in its own right , or for filters . |
| 24 | Formed in May 1983 and formally launched that August , it had grown rapidly into a mass-membership anti-apartheid organization , its initial focus being its opposition to the regime 's " tricameral " constitutional plans [ see p. 32599 ] . |
| 25 | It can be applied directly onto a stripped wooden surface without the need for primer . |
| 26 | There was no need for a water-filled moat , although there was a drawbridge , for the nearest stack to land was separated therefrom by a deep tidal creek with beetling walls . |
| 27 | Most often seen either as a long-winged rufous bird flying fast and twistingly out of sight among the trees , or in unmistakable territorial flight ( ‘ roding ’ ) . |
| 28 | In particular , it has a lower jaw so loosely connected with the upper that it can be pushed forward like a long narrow spoon . |
| 29 | The navel , as the central feature of the body , is usually enlarged and emphasized and sometimes the entire stomach is thrust forward in a protruding shield-like form ; the limbs are shortened and seen as simple tubular forms , or reduced to a few incisive , sharply differentiated planes . |
| 30 | With a sigh her lips parted , welcoming him , tasting him , and all at once her mind and her body had grown tight with a sudden aching , urgent need . |