Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Doctor had fallen on to plush green grass . |
| 2 | In such conditions , a brown forest soil seems to have developed widely from late glacial times through to the Bronze Age . |
| 3 | Roared on by considerable vocal support , Matt Cook took his goal tally to eight with two more goals , and then set up Becky Ashdown to round off a 3–0 win . |
| 4 | It is unlikely that more than a tiny proportion of farms will attain the bureaucratic structure associated with agribusinessmen farmers , but they are regarded suspiciously as possible Trojan horses introducing alien patterns of labour relations into the countryside . |
| 5 | The specimen is an aggregate of rock and mineral fragments and glass spherules welded together by streaky brown glass ( Figure 8 and cover picture ) . |
| 6 | An outline is given below of important legal controls on hotel premises . |
| 7 | These arguments were repeated in 1973 when , in the aftermath of the Israeli-Arab War , the Middle-East oil-producing countries joined together with other sympathetic states under the banner of OPEC ( Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries ) . |
| 8 | If large goals are broken down into small specified short-term tasks , a sense of purpose is created . |
| 9 | Taylor believed in the division of labour since tasks could be broken down into simple repetitive jobs . |
| 10 | They are fully bio-degradable in a maximum of three days * , by which time all the active ingredients are broken down into natural harmless substances . |
| 11 | Fibre by definition can not be broken down by our digestive systems , but it can be broken down by normal healthy bacteria in our large bowel . |
| 12 | The table top and the bottle provide the main compositional accents , while the remainder of the surface is broken down in secondary vertical and horizontal sections . |
| 13 | The importance of this task needs to be explained especially to young married couples . |
| 14 | Evidence about who actually acts as an unpaid carer has to be pieced together from various statistical sources , but the best informed estimates seem to be that very few people are cared for by non-relatives , and that women provide about 75 to 85 per cent of relative care . |
| 15 | The new bass essentially follows Warwick 's well-known design philosophy , but this time it 's crafted entirely from flamed German rock maple to give a different tonal character . |
| 16 | You can also create beautiful designs in outline , which are then filled in with full satin-stitch embroidery in up to five different colours . |
| 17 | SIR — Early stages of gallbladder carcinoma ( T1 , T2 ) are usually diagnosed only at definite histological examination of cholecystectomy specimens . |
| 18 | The solvent is cooled slowly with continuous stirring to minimise supercooling ( see previous section ) . |
| 19 | There , women sat squeezed together on long wooden benches . |
| 20 | The term New Historicism has come in for considerable hostile criticism both from those who claim that there is nothing particularly new about it and among those who admire new historical methods but feel the term incorrectly suggests a unified theoretical field and subsequent critical practice within a body of critical writing in which much contending diversity exists . |
| 21 | In Britain alone , Glasgow St Enoch 's was torn down in European Architectural Heritage Year ( 1975 ) ; Birmingham Snow Hill was allowed to rot for years and finally demolished on safety grounds , epitomizing a technique in all too frequent use — deliberate and wanton neglect given as a justification for removal . |
| 22 | One of these is the size of existing stocks , considered together with various logistic factors discussed in Chapter 10 . |
| 23 | These diverging tendencies in Nizan 's life-style , on the one hand a genuine aspiration towards a communist future , on the other hand a residual implication in a bourgeois past , were symptomatic of a " tension " in Nizan 's life and work at this time , a " tension " that was resolved only in late 1932 and early 1933 , when he became a permanent official entrusted with the task of compiling the weekly " notes de lecture " in L'Humanite and of supervising the party newspaper 's bookshop located at 120 rue Lafayette . |
| 24 | With the Bubble Act still in force , such a form of enterprise was permitted only through specific parliamentary enablement . |
| 25 | Addiction to ( rather than simple excessive use of caffeine and nicotine can be considered along with other addictive drugs . |
| 26 | Their third conclusion is that ‘ when new technology is introduced an inappropriate form of work organization — that associated with the technical trial of the machinery — tends to be carried over to subsequent operational units ’ ( Trist et al. 1963 , 293 ) . |
| 27 | Now a plastics firm called FOLARPILO has come up with tiny semi-permanent condoms for guppies . |
| 28 | Many people have looked at this before and they 've come up with various prognostic markers , some of which are extremely complicated . |
| 29 | It was so hot that Perdita would have liked to have worn shorts or a dress , but her mosquito bites had come up in huge red bumps and were oozing and itching like mad , so she settled for her pale pink jeans and a dark blue shirt . |
| 30 | But again there is ambivalence over whether they should be encouraged into the countryside : to the farmer and conservationist alike a vision is conjured up of marauding inner-city teenagers and other undesirable aliens , wreaking havoc in an environment best kept well away from ‘ those kinds of people ’ . |