Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dressed in a sea-blue gown with matching head-dress , each studded with small mother-of-pearls , she looked so beautiful ! |
| 2 | Ten people lived on ordinary wards at the beginning of the study , and eight lived in special units reserved for those with the most challenging behaviour . |
| 3 | It was the duty of the ruling sultan , at least in principle , to extend so far as he could the area controlled by true believers at the expense of that ruled by Christian infidels . |
| 4 | Mrs Brown lived in Morrell House , Burton Stone Lane , York , but before that lived for 70 years in New Earswick . |
| 5 | Four thin , wooden gods watched the rotting dead , each made of twisted lengths of birch-branch , no thicker than an arm but twice Tallis 's height . |
| 6 | The principles of exercise for coronary patients is no different from that applied to normal individuals trying to get fit . |
| 7 | When James succeeded his brother Charles as king in 1685 he showed that he was willing to make the power of the Crown more effective in North America by pressing on with the creation of the Dominion of New England , but he had neither the surplus revenue nor the obedient bureaucracy needed to run a system like that applied by continental monarchs . |
| 8 | Some of the most exacting university degrees , such as those in the biological and physical sciences demand a level of work load from the conscientious student which is greater than that expected in most occupations . |
| 9 | ‘ Papert asks why half the population are maths phobics , afraid of numbers , and woolly headed about abstract concepts , ’ the narrator announced Any suspicion that this was the preface to yet another attempt to instil numeracy via some twist of new math , quickly disappeared . |
| 10 | Here , it is assumed that the severity of any language problem is indicated by the extent to which a child 's language differs from that found among other children of a similar age . |
| 11 | This is a much larger proportion than that found among teenage women , where only about 1 in 3 were cohabiting at the time of the birth . |
| 12 | The sensitivity of Bio-Rad GAP Test IgG described in our study is almost identical to that found by another groups , but the lower specificity could be explained by one or more of the following : their reliance on histology as a standard , which might be difficult to interpret in the presence of very few organisms ; the exclusion from their study of patients with chronic superficial or atrophic gastritis in whom H pylori was not identified , thus reducing the number of true negatives ; the relatively high number of cases of chemical gastritis in their H pylori negative group without specifying whether these patients had been treated with NSAID ; and the presence in their H pylori positive group of chronic atrophic gastritis in 117 of 160 ( 73% ) , which may have been paralleled by a rise in the number of false positive cases . |
| 13 | The extent of the reported inhibition is comparable with that found in other studies using similar amounts of calcium carbonate or calcium lactate . |
| 14 | But here it reveals a concept of women very close to that found in dominant discourses of femininity . |
| 15 | Each contributed in different ways to the Watkinson counter-reformation that began soon after he took over as Minister of Defence in October 1959 . |
| 16 | This method was used by the Court of Appeal in Whiteside [ 1989 ] Crim LR 436 : The defendants were selling counterfeit cassettes at a price much cheaper than that charged for real tapes . |
| 17 | The definition of breakdown now adopted is in line with that used by other companies . |
| 18 | This letter has a different format from that used in previous years — again , the result of widespread consultation with centres . |
| 19 | However , he was struck by the apparent paucity of linguistic skills in the right hemisphere of normal subjects compared to that reported for commissurotomised patients . |
| 20 | The percentage improvement in spinal bone mineral density is similar to that reported in normal women receiving this dose of oestrogen . |
| 21 | DNA extracted from the gastric mucosa of smokers tended to have a dense pattern of adduct spots similar to that reported in other tissues of smokers . |
| 22 | The BrdU index obtained in this material was higher than that reported by Risio et al , and lower than that reported in other studies . |
| 23 | This estimated rate of ulcer recurrence is similar to that reported in lifetable analyses of other maintenance trials using both cimetidine 400 mg once daily ( median annual recurrence reported=31% , range 21–55% ) and ranitidine 150 mg once daily ( median annual recurrence reported=35% , range 18–49% ) . |
| 24 | The polymorphic pattern was identical to that reported in white populations . |
| 25 | The recurrence rate was similar to that reported after two years ' treatment with omeprazole . |
| 26 | One way to test this possibility is to ask direct questions about the incidence of these experiences in housework , and compare them with that reported by other groups of workers . |
| 27 | Active chronic duodenitis in patients not taking NSAIDs was more commonly diagnosed in our study than in that reported by some workers , who studied this abnormality in patients with non-ulcer dyspepsia . |
| 28 | The acceptance of his first article in about 1895 led to regular contributions to popular journals , including the Spectator and the Cornhill Magazine , with syndication in American journals . |
| 29 | This passed through preliminary stages and was debated during the period prior to the date of the election . |
| 30 | If she 'd meant to lie , she 'd have planned the lies ; as it was , it was more like someone else speaking , someone for whom all the tales might be true : the tales of the amorous husband who would not be denied , or even delayed ; of her horrified discovery that her tried and trusted dutch cap had let her down after all these years , of her disappointment that she would not now be able to train as a doctor or run a campaign for more zebra crossings or offer a home to her poor ailing mother ; and then of course there were the medical difficulties , what with her diabetes and the early mongol child that died and all those Caesarians ; and the home where there was n't an inch of space and how the baby would mean eviction and bankruptcy ; and the fear that the baby might be too obviously of mixed-race ; and the over-riding , gut-rending terror that the baby might have royal blood ( of course if ever this got outside these walls there would be no answering for the political consequences for the western world ) and in the circumstances it seemed kind that the child should never be born . |