Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew exactly how I would do this and explained in some detail , finding Alec Reid equally fascinated . |
| 2 | That structure need not be rigid or too formalised but it must be clear and known to those in the firm . |
| 3 | Reports are commonly prosaic , dull , pompous and patronising and written with selfish disregard for the reader . |
| 4 | The slides were then rewashed in phospate buffered saline and treated with diamino-benzidine tetrahydrochloride ( Sigma , Poole ) for 15 minutes in the dark . |
| 5 | The children dressed up for mock scenarios which the police experience daily and learnt about legal phraseology . |
| 6 | The Draft Directive describes a database as : a collection of works or materials arranged , stored and accessed by electronic means and the electronic materials necessary for the operation of the database such as its thesaurus , index or system for obtaining or presenting information . |
| 7 | This comparison was made more difficult by the existence of two organisations with a number of disparate functions , each using similar information but stored and utilised in different ways . |
| 8 | All software , of whatever form or kind , is submitted to LIFESPAN , stored and retrieved as one or more LIFESPAN modules . |
| 9 | All software , of whatever form or kind , is submitted to LIFESPAN , stored and retrieved as one or more LIFESPAN modules . |
| 10 | Accept this and the gateway to other worlds will slowly swing wide for you and each day will bring forth new wonders , so that you become once more as a child , absorbed and enchanted by all there is of which to learn . |
| 11 | carved and polished to great smoothness . |
| 12 | The trouble was that they voted against the large numbers of unemployed and voted for Fascist and Nazi Governments . |
| 13 | Bjornsson 's research is thorough , interesting and reported with due emphasis on its areas of possible weakness or unreliability . |
| 14 | The dinner menu is interesting and varied with many dishes incorporating locally caught fish and shellfish and all the vegetables are locally and organically grown . |
| 15 | Inside , the rooms are light and panelled with elegant pedimented overdoors , and it is sad to think that the full splendour of Bullen Reynes 's house was only enjoyed by his son and his family for a few short years ; the bulk of it burned down in 1704 . |
| 16 | As well be fried and roasted on that side of the door , as turned to something very nasty by the Robemaker and fed into the furnaces . |
| 17 | His eyes , flecks of blue mixed with brown and framed by thin lids , did not waver . |
| 18 | If we study drug addicts , they will surely tell us and we will be bound to report that they believe the outsiders who judge them are wrong and inspired by low motives . |
| 19 | These are habits that must now be reworked to meet threats that are vaguer , more elusive and spread across more of the world than precisely identified units of the Soviet army . |
| 20 | Your visit will include the Kuthodaw Pagoda , the Palace site , the Maha Muni Buddha image ( the figure is 12′ 7″ high and coated with gold leaf ½ an inch thick ) , and the Zegyo market . |
| 21 | The Caucasus contains Europe 's highest mountain — Elbrus , over 18,500 feet high and surrounded by shapely , challenging peaks . |
| 22 | Walking upstream , the finest aspect of Ben Nevis is revealed : an intimidating succession of cliffs and rock buttresses 2000 feet high and riven by fearful gullies and palpably the preserve of expert cragsmen only . |
| 23 | sourly old and dressed in musty black , |
| 24 | It had been set aside for no obvious purpose with a low table and several padded vinyl seats ; they were old and split with yellow foam bulging out , and on the walls were two art-school lithographs bearing optimistic prices . |
| 25 | Very large lenses up to 50 m thick form extensions of the permafrost , giving rise to steep-sided hills called pingos which in many tundra regions provide the highest relief Pingos may be many centuries old and covered with permanent vegetation . |
| 26 | Grief welled into the deep-set eyes and the reply , when it came , was unsteady and uttered through tightened lips . |
| 27 | ‘ As a man he was kind , genial and respected by all who know him . |
| 28 | The services shall be free and supported by federal and state funds . |
| 29 | The double tracked and 9½ mile line was started in 1808 and completed in 1811 . |
| 30 | If protected in some way , either by vegetation or by falling into holes in the ground , small mammal bones quickly become buried and protected in this way from weathering . |