Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They produce neutral mucin and develop into a new small gland . |
| 2 | Scrawny , like most wizards , and clad in a dark red robe on which a few mystic sigils were embroidered in tarnished sequins . |
| 3 | the case that most people regard the way in which the National Library has been built and planned as a total national disaster and a vast waste of public money . |
| 4 | A study in COLOMBIA found that an integrated service with proper medical back-up cost four times as much per person-year of protection as a straight female sterilisation drive and led to a wide-ranging cost-cutting exercise . |
| 5 | The move was condemned by the trade unions as endangering jobs and led to a one-day general strike on March 28 . |
| 6 | Billy Wilder 's movie was a cynical , lacerating indictment of this hollow self-image , narrated by a corpse and centring on a vampish silent star who was thought long dead . |
| 7 | In 1986 I too entered the tomb ; the anthropoid leaden shell was resealed after the 1703 examination and placed in a new rectangular elm shell sans fittings . |
| 8 | The solebars were then attached to this assembly ( the solebars already having the axleguards fitted and riveted by a hydraulic riveting machine adjacent to this position ) . |
| 9 | In fact any subject matter can be examined and taught with a significant resource-based component , although as in our examples above there is likely always to be an important place for the directed expository lesson , whether " lead " or otherwise . |
| 10 | The social worker slowed and stopped beside a dirty white fence . |
| 11 | After the usual pleasantries he took Mark along one of the labyrinth of corridors flanked with busts of the famous , and stopped before a heavy oak-panelled door attended by a liveried usher . |
| 12 | A modern one bedroom End Terrace House built some three years ago of brick under a tiled roof and situated in a small attractive close . |
| 13 | DALE EVANS was born in 1956 and reared on a small Welsh farm in Cwmbran , Tredegar , South Wales , where her father breeds black Aberdeen cattle . |
| 14 | Your call is free and goes to a central advisory unit rather than to your local Social Security office . |
| 15 | Alice , 12 , the youngest daughter of Mr Patten and his wife Lavender , lives with her parents at Government House , and goes to a local English school . |
| 16 | Under the new scheme , CFCs and water are mixed in a reaction furnace and heated with a high-frequency electric current to about 10,000 degrees Centigrade , at which point electrons are stripped from the atoms to form a plasma . |
| 17 | He served us mulled wine sprinkled with cinnamon and heated with a red hot poker and then emptied the contents of a saddle bag on to the table ; it contained a few faded white rose petals and pieces of parchment . |
| 18 | Sobsovich concluded with an idealized vision of Stalinist architecture : ‘ Most likely the typical habitation … will be an immense apartment building equipped with all amenities , electrified and heated by a central thermo-electric plant , fitted out with elevators , mechanical equipment for maintenance and cleaning , [ communal ] baths and showers , perhaps even exercise facilities and so on . ’ |
| 19 | But many member firms are concerned that control of any new system should be taken away from the Stock Exchange and given to a new independent agency , or even the Bank of England itself . |
| 20 | The combined salaries of two or more such offices might keep a government supporter happy , while the sheriffship itself was a stepping stone to an appointment as a baron of exchequer or a lord of session , should the lawyer be well connected and joined to a strong political interest . |
| 21 | It was loose and tumbled in a dark brown cascade over her narrow shoulders . |
| 22 | In which Saint Bob takes up again the slings and arrows of an outrageous career — and turns in a halfway decent record . |
| 23 | For a century , the typical UK employee was male , engaged in manual factory work , and lived in a large industrial city or town — with many implications for leisure and health patterns . |
| 24 | Stamford , one of Hoskins ' ‘ open-field ’ towns , is actually made up of a Danish burgh , founded in 877 on the north side of the River Welland and consisting of a roughly rectangular block bisected by the east-west High Street , and an English burgh to the south of the river founded by King Edward in 918 , and consisting of a neat rectangular area bisected by the north-south St Martins High Street . |
| 25 | One day she may be left alone and weeping in a cold grey city with people who do not care . ’ |
| 26 | Edward left Windsor Castle and got into a large black car . |
| 27 | Renault feel comfortable with the hatched style that they started with the 16 and developed into a smooth aerodynamic shape with the 25 . |
| 28 | NAKAJIMA 'S private venture study for a trans-Pacific bomber , Project Z , was refined and developed by a joint Imperial Army and Navy team to produce the G10N1 Fugaku ( Mount Fuji ) . |
| 29 | They are to be replaced with a cheaper type of brick to be covered in a special layer and painted in a new light colour . |
| 30 | Tony , 37 , bursts into a plush restaurant where Sharon , 41 , is being wined and dined by a romantic Italian rival for her affections . |