Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | That structure need not be rigid or too formalised but it must be clear and known to those in the firm . |
2 | Reports are commonly prosaic , dull , pompous and patronising and written with selfish disregard for the reader . |
3 | The slides were then rewashed in phospate buffered saline and treated with diamino-benzidine tetrahydrochloride ( Sigma , Poole ) for 15 minutes in the dark . |
4 | The children dressed up for mock scenarios which the police experience daily and learnt about legal phraseology . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | All software , of whatever form or kind , is submitted to LIFESPAN , stored and retrieved as one or more LIFESPAN modules . |
8 | All software , of whatever form or kind , is submitted to LIFESPAN , stored and retrieved as one or more LIFESPAN modules . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | carved and polished to great smoothness . |
11 | The trouble was that they voted against the large numbers of unemployed and voted for Fascist and Nazi Governments . |
12 | Bjornsson 's research is thorough , interesting and reported with due emphasis on its areas of possible weakness or unreliability . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | His eyes , flecks of blue mixed with brown and framed by thin lids , did not waver . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | The Caucasus contains Europe 's highest mountain — Elbrus , over 18,500 feet high and surrounded by shapely , challenging peaks . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | sourly old and dressed in musty black , |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | Grief welled into the deep-set eyes and the reply , when it came , was unsteady and uttered through tightened lips . |
26 | ‘ As a man he was kind , genial and respected by all who know him . |
27 | The services shall be free and supported by federal and state funds . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | It was still wet and choked with gritty mud . |
30 | They walked on : the grass beneath their bare feet was smooth and wet and dotted with pink-and-white mountain flowers . |