Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the new scheme , CFCs and water are mixed in a reaction furnace and heated with a high-frequency electric current to about 10,000 degrees Centigrade , at which point electrons are stripped from the atoms to form a plasma . |
| 2 | A convoy of four low-loaders carrying the dismantled D furnace and accompanied by a police escort set out from Brymbo for the docks yesterday . |
| 3 | Subsequently Clough Williams-Ellis bought the handsome inn outside the gates of Attingham , Shropshire , which he renamed the Mytton and Mermaid and promoted as a staging post for guests en route to Portmeirion . |
| 4 | When the chip is incorporated into a smart card and inserted into a mock up cash machine , the user only has to speak into a microphone to be recognized and given the cash . |
| 5 | Besides a full set of stamps mounted on card and protected by a transparent sleeve , each pack opens up to reveal a wealth of information , accompanied by full-colour illustrations . |
| 6 | Only a week later I was noticed by a scout and engaged for a pantomime in Manchester , to play the Princess in Jack and the Beanstalk . |
| 7 | Reactions were incubated 15 min RT and separated on a 4.2% polyacrylamide ( 29:1 ) gel . |
| 8 | There entrepreneurs identified the existence of a seller 's market just waiting to be developed , and created their own demand , which gathered its own momentum and benefited from a snowball effect . |
| 9 | Humming to himself , he went back into the bedroom and put on a pair of grey corduroy trousers , a red shirt and a bright turquoise jumper , stained with food . |
| 10 | The higher the premium is on conversion then the more the issue will be treated as a fixed interest investment and valued on a yield basis , with attention given to the financial strength of the issuing company and the number of times the interest/dividend payment is covered by available profits . |
| 11 | During the course of the story Tottle is arrested for theft and taken to a sponging-house , from which he is rescued by Parsons . |
| 12 | A documentary credit is issued by the importer 's bank in favour of the exporter and forwarded to a bank in the exporter 's country for payment . |
| 13 | Joe and Terry had finished their training and were due to come on leave when Joe was promoted to Lance Corporal and sent on a course , and Terry came home alone . |
| 14 | He woke briefly in the middle of the round with an eagle and a couple of birdies , but eventually slid back into indifference and finished with a level-par score . |
| 15 | Hercules is often depicted holding a club and draped with a lion 's hide . |
| 16 | Mortified at what she had done she leapt out of her seat and collided with a waiter , sending the plate of egg fried rice he was carrying flying through the air . |
| 17 | A LAWYER-FREE small claims procedure , easily operated by the do-it-yourself litigant and staffed by a new body of volunteer ‘ civil justices ’ , is needed to combat problems of cost and delay Lord Donaldson , the Master of the Rolls , said . |
| 18 | With the exception of two seminars on the assessment of enterprise skills , the focus on teaching and learning was taken out of the programme and shifted to a two-day conference ( with a menu of sessions to which staff can opt in ) held in June 1993 in conjunction with the Educational Development Unit . |
| 19 | Something of the flavour appears in a cryptic note sent from North to Rafsanjani late in 1986 , when Ghorbanifar had been dropped from the equation and replaced by a more promising-seeming young Iranian official , the ‘ Second Channel ’ . |
| 20 | Last year , when his party was in opposition and locked in a leadership battle , 60% of its supporters voted No . |
| 21 | Sixty odd years separate this work from The Birth of Tragedy and compared with a similar span of years since Winckelmann 's revolutionary study of Greet art , the later period , viewed as a period of German Hellenism , is anti-climatic . |
| 22 | Pollock , 18 , equalised with a 25-yard shot eight minutes after the break and celebrated with a somersault before being mobbed by fans who invaded the pitch . |
| 23 | The ideas of the Laingians in part struck a chord because someone with mental disorder causes enormous disruption and upset in a family — so it is no wonder that relatives appear deeply concerned and closely involved , a factor which professionals often forget . |
| 24 | ‘ Mervyn had suggested we should make the Dalek transport machines out of cardboard tubes — sprayed silver and fitted over a person 's legs . |
| 25 | Once they start to hatch the emerging fry will be picked up in the parent 's mouth and deposited into a pre-dug pit , or under the edge of a rock . |
| 26 | Prey is immediately carried to the mouth and killed with a bite from the bird-like beak , tucked away among the tentacles . |
| 27 | A modern one bedroom End Terrace House built some three years ago of brick under a tiled roof and situated in a small attractive close . |
| 28 | The one feature that does survive in various historic towns is the Georgian summer house , often square with a pyramid roof and perched on a corner above a garden wall to take advantage of the view . |
| 29 | No. 4 is a timber stores arranged in three bays for panel and more delicate woods , and No. 2 a large shed with corrugated roof and known as a timber hoist , this building being open at the sides and spanned by an overhead crane serving the various storage compartments . |
| 30 | ENGLISH LAMB FILLET , ROASTED AND TOPPED WITH A HERB CRUST AND SERVED WITH A MUSHROOM AND LEEK TIMBALE IN A PIQUANT SAUCE |