Example sentences of "[vb pp] with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unemployment mixed with the political and racial problems have been blamed for the soaring crime rate . |
| 2 | These include polystyrene/ poly ( α-methyl styrene ) below M 70 000 , and the polyacrylates mixed with the corresponding poly vinyl esters , e.g. and |
| 3 | Gold in its natural form glows deep amber yellow , but when mixed with the various alloys it takes on a variety of hues . |
| 4 | The cooking fire had been put out , but the smell of wood-smoke lingered , mixed with the cloying richness of fresh and sour milk and pine . |
| 5 | Local order-wardens mixed with the general population , smiling and laid-back . |
| 6 | He liked to decide who was guilty early in an investigation after gulping down his own potent brew of intuition and prejudice mixed with the available evidence — and then squeeze a confession from the suspect . |
| 7 | Sir Guy had little or no Publicity ; he wrote books about Cotswold architecture and mixed with the arty-crafty Sapperton Set — the Gimsons , Barnsley and Norman Jewson . |
| 8 | The felspar crystals in some granite have become weak clay , called kaolin , which remains mixed with the gritty but loose crystals of quartz and mica . |
| 9 | What we have here is the untarnished pop of Pet Shop Boys mixed with the stylish swish of Pixies and the expertise of REM all rounded off with the insane power of a contemporary Wagner . |
| 10 | Then it would be mixed with the hot water in a possing tub , which was made from wood in the early days , but eventually we acquired a zinc one . |
| 11 | There was the usual panoply of McDonald 's and other American fast-food imports mixed with the traditional shops . |
| 12 | The last lane shows the footprinting pattern obtained when the radiolabelled DNA fragment is mixed with the unlabelled calf thymus DNA before adding actinomycin . |
| 13 | Switching between the different combinations of effects and processors produced the same results , and apart from inventing some really stupid effect chains I found plenty of interesting combinations ; these could be mixed with the dry signal without losing any of the basic guitar sound . |
| 14 | Nearby , alum has been worked for centuries and we could still see the remains of the old landing stage where little coasters brought brimming vats of urine from London , which was mixed with the local mineral to produce dyestuff fasteners for textiles . |
| 15 | A sense of humour mixed with the weighty seriousness of our companion of the night is shown to the full in this place . |
| 16 | Cook the chopped onion , garlic , courgette flesh and tomato flesh in the wine and water mixed with the soy sauce and tomato puree . |
| 17 | The seeds of eternity have mixed with the beautiful human ideas and have formed some strange hybrid blossoms . |
| 18 | Pozzolana when mixed with the excellent lime from the local limestones formed an extremely hard concrete , to which base was also added brick and travertine fragments to provide a solid core for walling and vaulting . |
| 19 | Mixed with the undersize , it was then hand sorted into three grades : solid chalcopyrite ; good ore with some gangue or rock adhering ; and low grade stuff The solid ore was passed to the bucking shed where maidens using heavy buckers , hammers with wide flat heads , beat it on iron plates , each fed from a small hopper ( See Fig. 22 ) , to about thumbnail size . |
| 20 | A dark , handsome face stayed in her mind , the present man mixed with the past dream . |
| 21 | Are these pictures simply transcriptions of power , in which the hard approach is mixed with the soft , and the Church is allied with the State ( and in this case hinting as well , not just at the foreigner 's domination of the native inhabitants but also at class conflict within colonial society , since the angel is a mélange of Spanish and Inca aristocracies ) ? |
| 22 | Includes a special Protein Intensive Treatment which is mixed with the waving lotion to protect and restore hair during perming . |
| 23 | Once mixed with the waving lotion and applied to hair , this milk protein restores the hair shaft , inside and out , during the perming process . |
| 24 | He inserted the key almost furtively and stood in the small vestibule and smelt the place — floor polish mixed with the bitter scent of chrysanthemums in a blue bowl . |
| 25 | Large amounts of mercury are mixed with the crushed gold bearing rock , and are agitated in a concrete mixture . |
| 26 | If our English binge had been held in a medieval university we should have had , mixed with the bawdy songs , tragical and even devotional pieces , equally authorless and handed on from mouth to mouth in the same way , with the same individual variations . ’ |
| 27 | The occasional burst of singing wafts up through the yellow leaves , mixed with the mouldy astringent smell of rotting apples . |
| 28 | The oil mixed with the glutinous juices which oozed from her agitated vagina to create a mess such as she 'd never known between her legs . |
| 29 | There is a component of the overtone , and this component must have mixed with the fundamental to produce two bands of similar intensity , each being more-or-less half fundamental and half overtone . |
| 30 | As lead singer of Ultravox Midge was surrounded with the slick imagery of rock stardom . |