Example sentences of "[vb pp] with a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He affects a certain disinterest in theory , preferring extremely precise experiments that will pick up whatever is going on to those designed with a particular new discovery in mind . |
| 2 | Anyhow , we had open views over the Heath and Vale of Health and it made a lovely family home even if it was badly designed with a huge wasteful " well " in the middle of the house which had the advantage of enabling us to come downstairs in a series of flying leaps , holding on to tall mahogany pillars at the corners of the stairway . |
| 3 | The French , who had been staying away in droves , would also be targeted with a splashy new advertising campaign . |
| 4 | This was rebuilt with a large single-indicator box at each end , and fitted with bench seats upstairs to increase the capacity to 94 . |
| 5 | Arthur 's affability began to be tinctured with a faint new sarcasm . |
| 6 | The tail is suffused with a yellow ochre colouring , and the scale patterning on the upper body is ornamental . |
| 7 | As Kohl ( 1988 ) has reported with a dazzling photographic portrait ( by William Thompson and Galen Rowell ) the fuelwood crisis , which is endemic to the region , is being aggravated by the fuelwood requirements of tourists . |
| 8 | A hospital scan revealed yesterday that the Irish boxer had fought from midway through the second round of the final with a cracked cheekbone after being caught with a vicious right hook . |
| 9 | The façade is richly decorated with a central sculptured portal and large window above . |
| 10 | Inside , the room is richly decorated with a fine scrolled plaster overmantel , dated 1572 , and a little musicians ' gallery which looks down into the hall through a row of arches set high up in the cornice . |
| 11 | Dolors Miró , eighty-year old daughter of the artist , has announced that a large number of the 300 works belonging to the family currently on show at the Fondación ( recently re-opened with a major new extension ; see The Art Newspaper No. 21 , October 1992 , p.7 ) will probably remain with that institution . |
| 12 | In the event , Street was overwhelmed with a similar large-scale commission in later years , with the Law Courts . |
| 13 | This would suggest that the shift to the right after mild acid pretreatment is more important in rats fed diets supplemented with a polyunsaturated fatty acid than oleic acid . |
| 14 | These consist of a specially-designed envelope bearing the latest British stamps , cancelled with a pictorial First-Day-of- Issue postmark : either the Bureau 's Edinburgh postmark , or an appropriate alternative ( eg. Bethlehem , Wales , for the Christmas issue ) . |
| 15 | The royal standard of England no longer fluttered on its pole , a sign that Henry and Wolsey had already departed with a small advance party though Doctor Agrippa had remained , waiting for us in our chamber . |
| 16 | Charles is depicted with a distinctive long , thin moustache ( not quite like his eldest brother 's ) , a long , heavy-jowled face , square chin and a large nose . |
| 17 | But in the final instance , these short-run goals are pursued with a green glinted eye focused on long-run profitability . |
| 18 | That last bomb had taken out those houses as if it had come with a great grasping fist and scooped them up and crunched them into rubble as easily as if they 'd been made of matchsticks . |
| 19 | Come on man , I 've got Come with a nice young lady , intelligent In a cardboard box , informer lick your boom boom there lick your boom boom there with my dibby , dibby dob , police knock my door , they shout my crib , rough me up and I ca n't do a thing , pick up the when the telephone ring informer . |
| 20 | On the other side of Moorlake House was an old mellow wall inset with a shabby white-painted door . |
| 21 | There are 8–9 arm spines on proximal arm segments , 6 on distal ones ; dorsal arm spines are quite smooth while ventral ones are flattened and slightly sabre shaped with a toothed proximal edge . |
| 22 | There is one pointed apical papilla flanked on each side by 3 oral papillae , the distalmost of which is leaf shaped with a rounded outer edge . |
| 23 | The dorsal arm plates are triangular or slightly bell shaped with a convex distal edge and are separated . |
| 24 | THE Duke of Roxburghe is to be presented with a splendid new £3,500 desk made from timber on his Roxburghshire estate , Floors Castle . |
| 25 | Basil believed that students of all ages should be presented with a strong personal challenge , but with the warm support of a sensitive and perceptive teacher . |
| 26 | One of these presented with a perforated small bowel lymphoma and died shortly after diagnosis . |
| 27 | After the dinner , each of the Heads of State was to be presented with a small Luctian art form . |
| 28 | Following the defeat of a superior Turkish fleet in the Scio channel , Standidge was made a knight of Russia , and presented with a gold Maltese cross with a topaz overlaying a lock of hair of the Tsarina Catherine . |
| 29 | A second group of subjects presented with a non-verbal dichotic task yielded a left ear advantage and more eye movements towards the left than towards the right . |
| 30 | was one of two winners presented with a beautiful cut-glass bowl by TV personality Anna Souby . |