Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 450g/1lb leeks , trimmed , sliced and freshly cooked 1 × 113g/4oz can green chillis in brine for Mexican cooking 25g/1oz butter 3 cloves garlic , crushed or finely chopped 225g/8oz cream cheese salt and pepper 1 × 5ml/tsp paprika watercress to garnish |
| 2 | The buildings themselves are no longer self-contained or fully circumscribed forms but are opened up completely into the space around them to form a composition of interpenetrating , shifting planes , suggesting an extremely complicated transparent sculpture in low relief . |
| 3 | The Protector was n't too pleased by this and later summoned Richard Baxter to a private audience during which he lectured Baxter for an hour . |
| 4 | He despised himself for this and consequently admired Elsie all the more . |
| 5 | He understood that heaven and hell were here on earth , and that little by little heaven would drive out hell , and that the efforts of men of intelligence and goodwill should be dedicated to hastening that process ; and that even the word ‘ should ’ , with its implication of duty and overtones of guilt , was in this brave and newly discovered world , inappropriate . |
| 6 | The rivalry between the US and the USSR was sometimes direct and sometimes involved proxies . |
| 7 | I handled some and so did Mueller . |
| 8 | Also , surgical morbidity related to biliary drainage remains high in these alcoholic and often debilitated patients . |
| 9 | These phenomena included ‘ the unexampled diffusion of wealth ’ ; ‘ uniformity of prices ’ ; ‘ an ‘ independence ’ of manners ’ ; ‘ the ‘ realistic ’ tendency in art and behaviour ’ ; ‘ the unprecedented growth of population ’ ; ‘ the astounding cheapness of most necessaries ’ ; ‘ the universal and sometimes frenzied spirit of competition ’ ; the ending of feudalism and the introduction of freedom . |
| 10 | A minimum of 25 different and well oriented columns were considered sufficient to evaluate the proliferative pattern of the epithelial cells ; cases with fewer than 25 columns were excluded from the analysis . |
| 11 | The new offence becomes the occasion for another and now legitimized act of retribution . |
| 12 | ‘ Given there are some 100,000 climbers in the UK and only 100 or so took part , I ca n't help but think that a tremendous message of indifference . |
| 13 | That one small doubt became a huge question mark two days later when , before the opening home game with Arsenal , Knighton took the field in a United playing strip ( having refused the previous day to be photographed holding a United shirt ) and juggled , headed and kicked a football in front of a at first incredulous and then delighted Stretford End . |
| 14 | They uneasy structure militated against spontaneity or the development of real humour — the show looked uncomfortable and so did Normski . |
| 15 | Oliver poured orange juice , drank half of it in the kitchen while looking very thoughtful and then carried Rain 's to the bedroom . |
| 16 | Now stained with bird droppings and weathering , it shows a pair of intertwined and horribly mutated lovers . |
| 17 | Mosimann has also noted that on some revegetated pistes there are sharp boundaries separating well-vegetated and poorly vegetated areas . |
| 18 | With reference to real , external time , by day 9 of the experiment he was acting like a night-worker , even though he always go up at what he called 0800 and then ate breakfast . |
| 19 | But if the theory was mathematically consistent and always gave predictions that agreed with observations , we could be reasonably confident that it was the right one . |
| 20 | According to the report , the New York-based Lawyers ' Committee for Human Rights had obtained evidence that the 17 had been charged with " vague and broadly worded offences " under a 1965 government decree which outlawed actions " opposing any of the goals of the revolution , or advocating any disorderly acts or publishing false news with the aim of causing disorder " . |
| 21 | The following morning I worked as usual and then asked Kathleen if I could have a couple of days off . |
| 22 | of dry , hilly and thinly soiled areas ( Stewart 1975 ) . |
| 23 | When I told her that Umbarak was still alive and sometimes visited London , she asked , ‘ Why does he not come to sit with Zayed ? ’ |
| 24 | FABULOUS 208 : Started life as Fabulous and then became house mag of Radio Luxembourg . |
| 25 | However , after a short period in 1732 at the Dissenting Academy in Findern , Derbyshire , he became a justices ' clerk in Sheffield until 1737 and then commenced work as a carrier between Sheffield and Macclesfield . |
| 26 | We must be careful not to assume that this ‘ beads on a string ’ pattern is the norm , because in such areas there is frequently abundant prehistoric and Romano-British settlement on the dry and now abandoned chalk uplands . |
| 27 | Mal could of course revert to right back , but that would mean dropping the speedy and much improved Gary Fleming ! |
| 28 | The pupils had obviously reflected upon their experience because this session was much more successful with more searching and carefully worded questions . |
| 29 | Dzerzhinsky had been made Commissar for Transport in the first place to deal with internal troubles among the railwaymen , many of whom had opposed the Bolsheviks in 1917 and nearly brought Lenin 's government to its knees after the October Revolution . |
| 30 | Pippin II was still at large and still had supporters . |