Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] and [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dorsal arm plates are fan shaped , much wider than long and separated from one another . |
| 2 | The dorsal arm plates are wider than long and separated from one another . |
| 3 | The dorsal arm plates are oblong , wider than long and separated from one another . |
| 4 | The increase was worse than expected and led to widespread predictions that base rates will not be cut before next spring at the earliest . |
| 5 | This style also reflects the attempt by the political élite in Moscow to hand down to the provinces general directives which were as sophisticated as possible and based on Marxist tenets in so far as they could be understood at lower levels . |
| 6 | Cash was handed to the men both described as white and aged between 30 and 35 . |
| 7 | Although Cornwall was not the only county where nothing less than 40s. was reckoned as substance , the making of an independent return by each hundred resulted in five sets of officials taking different views of the native poor , the complement of which tapered off from the modest ( 15 per cent ) in the eastern parts to the negligible ( 0.4 per cent ) in the far west , balanced to some extent by aliens , who were classed as poor and accounted for one-eighth of this category , making Penwith the antithesis of East hundred , notwithstanding that many who were subsequently taxed in Kerrier hundred were passed over in 1522 . |
| 8 | A conducted tour of the house by the whole family , brought him at last to the top floor where his bedroom was proudly displayed , which , though huge and filled with awesome furniture of hideous elaboration , impressed him less than the meticulous care with which his soldier servant — batman was apparently a naughty word in the Guards — had unpacked his belongings and laid all essentials neatly in the right places . |
| 9 | She has never had a period ; at eleven she was diagnosed as anorexic and hospitalised for ten weeks . |
| 10 | With this proviso , the book can be recommended as readable and illustrated with several case-studies to reinforce the authors ' points . |