Example sentences of "[verb] and [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To one side , just in view , stood a magnificent funerary couch , the grey stone of its side engraved with images of gardens and pavilions in which ancient scholars sat enthroned while the women of the household wove and prepared food , sang or played the ancient p'i p'a . |
| 2 | Early results of the DSR ( Dream State Reactivity ) — the so called , Night Jerk — research suggest the remarkable possibility that the inhibiting function of the DSD ( Dream Suppression Device ) , sometimes referred to as the ‘ Gateway ’ , may indeed be chemically overridden for periods as great as .073 of a second when the brain is in Dream Mode ; this state being identifiable by the usual REM ( Rapid Eye Movement ) sleep and related EEG brain rhythms . |
| 3 | The surface of this β- sheet is predominantly composed of charged side chains in both domains , but in domain 2 these are almost exclusively lysine and arginine residues which results in a very pronounced patch of basic potential ( Fig.3 e ) . |
| 4 | Proteon 's announcement that it is splitting its business into two divisions ( one for adaptor boards and wiring centres ; the other for internetworking and intelligent hub systems ) is in line with what has been happening internally for some time , says Swan . |
| 5 | The Westborough , Massachusetts company is also splitting its business into two divisions , one for adaptor boards and wire centres , and the other for internetworking and intelligent hub systems . |
| 6 | The local and wide area networking company says that it intends to merge Adaptive with its Network Applications Division , which is to focus on the development and manufacturing of local area network , internetworking and broadband products . |
| 7 | In letters to both John Major and Ian Lang , the Scottish Secretary , he asked for the full cost to be disclosed and expressed concern over the waste of public money . |
| 8 | If the court considers that a matter has not been disclosed and that matter might have affected shareholders ' decisions on how to vote , it is unlikely to sanction the scheme ( see , for example , Re Jessel Trust Limited [ 1985 ] BCLC 119 and Re MB Group plc [ 1989 ] 5 BCC 684 ) . |
| 9 | In Spain shareholdings are not disclosed and structural barriers are a serious inhibition for contested bids . |
| 10 | For James Tranter 28 , a wealthy interior designed and 27-year-old Kevin Swan , a successful , equally wealthy jazz musician , it 's the end of a long orgy of theft throughout London 's top stores , including Jaeger , Austin Reed and Blazer |
| 11 | Each yoke carries a properly designed and built-in PTT button , unlike some of the Jubilee clipped-on afterthoughts I have seen on a great many Wichita and Lock Haven singles , with the associated ‘ curly cable ’ disappearing behind the lower instrument panel . |
| 12 | He learned to knit clothes for himself and others , and on the wall of his Stuttgart home there hung a big , beautifully designed and stitched carpet which he made in 1952 while recovering from an illness . |
| 13 | Taking into account that the pump and heater is included in this price , I was pretty pleased with such a relatively-small outlay for what is a very well designed and competent filtration unit . |
| 14 | The Boots Travel Adaptor for worldwide use is neatly designed and good value at £4.99 . |
| 15 | It has been known for the hinges on a canopy to fail or for poorly designed and faulty catches to fail in flight , resulting in a lost canopy . |
| 16 | The most perfectly designed and constructed intervention programme is valueless unless the parents accept it . |
| 17 | Paley here appreciates the difference between natural physical objects like stones , and designed and manufactured objects like watches . |
| 18 | Brazil , in its Proalcohol programme , extracts ethanol from crops and has designed and manufactured cars to run on the fuel ( see the beginning of this chapter ) . |
| 19 | As a general principle the bigger the machinery the more justified is the use of pressure jetting and special brushes . |
| 20 | Management won and this official himself took redundancy in November 1986 . |
| 21 | For those who are interested in taking up more formal exercise , the best types are aerobic exercises such as swimming , walking and stationary cycling , which most people can perform , regardless of their fitness level . |
| 22 | Even scrambling might cause a problem , but using the jacket for walking and general leisure is OK . |
| 23 | Appearance and habits often lark-like , e.g. undulating flight , aerial song flights , walking and running gait , tendency to avoid perching in trees . |
| 24 | George says he will miss the many contacts he has made in BNFL and URENCO over the years but is looking forward to spending more time on his hobbies , particularly gardening , walking and amateur dramatics . |
| 25 | These included a green wax jacket , walking and rubber boots , tapes and a rug . |
| 26 | This pegged and tapered generation have learned from punk , will never repeat the glaring abuses of an earlier rock aristocracy . |
| 27 | With sirens wailing and blue lights flashing the red fire engine sped through the city . |
| 28 | But at the time , as one American policy was ending and another beginning , Vietnam seemed to be exempt from similar considerations . |
| 29 | It is necessary to attract and select staff , to train them , to provide them with various services and with potentiality for advancement as their skills increase with experience . |
| 30 | ‘ But the Devonport proposals for nuclear submarine work are going in parallel to that , and that was put forward by ourselves really delinked from what the chairman was saying , as our initiative to attract and secure work . ’ |