Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colour the remaining fondant a pale cream colour ( use a tiny amount of diluted yellow food colouring ) and knead in a tiny amount of brown until almost mixed in but still a bit ‘ muddy ’ . |
| 2 | There was a turquoise stone set in a pendant and hanging from a fine gold chain at Debbie 's throat . |
| 3 | They were automatically members of a minority which was loathed and persecuted by a substantial section of society . |
| 4 | Soon one could ignore it , except now and then when the fire seemed to take a huge breath and glowed with a sudden fierceness which sent sparks flying crazily up the chimney . |
| 5 | Tim considered them , glanced back at his shelves , noticed a gap and pounced upon a rectangular block of tikka masala sauce . |
| 6 | Person 2 would certainly not pay the higher price necessary to induce a competitive supplier to expand production beyond the output Q. Person 2 is thus a free-rider enjoying person 1 's purchase Q. And the total quantity privately produced and consumed in a competitive market lies below the socially efficient quantity Q * ; |
| 7 | The loft space was then imitated by the galleries of the Seventies and Eighties , to be reproduced again by the new museums of the Nineties where they were perfected and neutralised into a well-lit , white shoebox . |
| 8 | Rowed by a team of friends she was soon alongside , aboard and tucking into a substantial breakfast . |
| 9 | ‘ We 've had to chop and change on a regular basis this season , but it could hold us in good stead because when everyone is fit again , we 'll know we have people who can operate well in different positions . ’ |
| 10 | To conduct an in-depth cast study of the National Marriage Guidance Council ( NMGC ) in order to examine the dynamics of survival and change within a voluntary organisation . |
| 11 | Limited liability means that the financial liability of each person responsible as a member of the business is fixed from the outset and limited to a fixed amount . |
| 12 | Such further offer shall be made in the same manner and limited by a like period as the original offer . |
| 13 | Such further offer shall be made in the same manner and limited by a like period as the original offer . |
| 14 | The pulsar has a period of 102ms and slows with a characteristic age of 17,300yr . |
| 15 | They produce neutral mucin and develop into a new small gland . |
| 16 | In accordance with the procedures governing Roger Hall 's comedy , they do so at regularly-spaced intervals , each entering with a gasp and clad in a ridiculous profusion of scarves , hats and rainwear , so that his droll point about the awfulness of the country 's climate can be adequately appreciated . |
| 17 | Scrawny , like most wizards , and clad in a dark red robe on which a few mystic sigils were embroidered in tarnished sequins . |
| 18 | They may seem inexpensive , but a will is a legal document and should be drawn up carefully and signed and witnessed in a particular way . |
| 19 | the case that most people regard the way in which the National Library has been built and planned as a total national disaster and a vast waste of public money . |
| 20 | The model is described and explained in a simplified form , thus : i ) inputs : information inputs about the alternative products or services available to the interested individual/ potential customer will include the facts about those products ( brands available , product specification , quality , price etc ) . |
| 21 | One of the best known models was constructed by J. Sheth , and this model is described and explained in a simplified form , thus : i ) Information sources : a variety of information sources will be available , ( some of which have already been discussed in detail in this and the previous chapter ) . |
| 22 | Antoine Bloye is not simply the story of the life of a father recounted and explained by a communist narrator for the edification of a son . |
| 23 | An American patchwork surrounded by pictures and arranged above a curved headboard is a simple way of creating a stunning bedhead . |
| 24 | Many such BESs are small and arranged on a local basis by accountants or solicitors . |
| 25 | Two or three lounge chairs borrowed from the staff room and arranged in a neutral corner of the classroom in an informal way for the interviews provides a much more relaxed atmosphere for an exchange of views and information . |
| 26 | The simple molecules from which the DNA is mainly built are of only four kinds , but they are grouped in trios and arranged in a particular and significant order on the immensely long DNA molecule . |
| 27 | A subfamily of the Ophiuridae characterised by the disk comprising scales completely or partially covered with a coat of granules sometimes also covering the radial , adoral and oral shields ; the teeth are papilla-form and arranged in a single series ; the second oral tentacle pore opens within the mouth slit ; the adoral shields are usually long and flared distally ; the oral shields are small , triangular or arrow shaped ; the arms are long , often flat and wide , tapering slowly to the end of the arm ; the dorsal and ventral arm plates are large and successive ones may be contiguous ; the tentacle pores are variable in size , sometimes enlarged , armed with one to several scales . |
| 28 | Make sure they know the most suitable clothes to wear , how to make the best of themselves while taking the opportunity to be seen and heard by a vast number of people . |
| 29 | When this happened , however , even the traditional features became more stereotyped because choreographers used only those which the audience could easily recognise and which were commonly seen and heard in a particular country . |
| 30 | Often these people believed that each of the components of nature — the forest , the rivers , the sky — was occupied and guarded by a jealous god , and they behaved as if that were the case . |