Example sentences of "[vb pp] with water " in BNC.

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1 Mixed with water , aluminium sulphate becomes increasingly acid .
2 Milk-free baby rice , mixed with water , expressed breastmilk or formula .
3 Soils which are water soluble are so often mixed with water insoluble soils that they are not readily dissolved by water on its own .
4 Slurry may be mixed with water and spread by tanker or irrigation pipeline .
5 While supplies lasted , breakfast was a combination of the foods I disliked , but felt to be essential : glucose , oats and Sanatogen powder , mixed with water , milk powder and cocoa to disguise the taste .
6 Wine was carefully mixed with water , because drinking undiluted wine was considered barbaric .
7 Today 's factory farms , which dispense with straw for bedding and have little use for natural manure , turn out thousands of litres of slurry — dung and urine mixed with water — every day .
8 Although this is available in tablet form it is often prescribed as a powder , to be taken mixed with water — this combats Candida in the mouth and throat , as well as in the intestines .
9 The Anglo Saxons ' solution to chapping and peeling was a poultice of beet , lettuce , coriander , herbs and crumbs mixed with water .
10 I have known it to be successfully treated with black sulphur powder mixed with water but prevention is better than cure .
11 He said we should learn to live on curry powder , mixed with water !
12 The food consisted of seeds mixed with water , and various other delicacies , favourites of the particular species of bird — insects for the sparrows , caterpillars for the tits , nuts , of course , for the nuthatches .
13 There has been a waterworks at Bocking since 1912 , and the two boreholes now extract five million litres of water a day which is then pumped to the Panfield reservoir , where it is mixed with water from other sources at Petches Bridge , Codham and Notley Road .
14 If you prefer a natural look , use a cake mascara mixed with water to colour lashes without clumping them , or only colour the ends of lashes for the lightest look of all .
15 Such gases , mixed with water vapour , were subjected to electrical discharge and ultraviolet light .
16 English mustard is a yellow powder which is mixed with water and consists of a mixture of black and white mustard seeds .
17 It contained sourish milk mixed with water , and Miss Logan drank somewhat nervously .
18 Rachel and Nicky love getting up to their elbows in gloop , a slimy mixture of nothing more than cornflour mixed with water and food colouring .
19 Cement is the term in common use for a powder which hardens when mixed with water and is used to bind together aggregates of gravel and stone to produce concrete .
20 This is available as a white powder which is mixed with water and painted on to the concrete .
21 The days of milling raw materials are long gone , as the main ingredients — bone , stone , sand , felspar and flint — are supplied in ‘ slip ’ ( mixed with water ) form .
22 If the family 's chickens have produced an egg this is mixed with water and an onion and divided amongst the children , from Christopher aged 22 to Catherine aged 10 , Mrs Kizza and myself .
23 Where volcanic debris is mixed with water a rapidly moving mud flow , or lahar , can be produced .
24 Yet their mash consisted simply of a partly baked bread mixed with water which was allowed to ferment .
25 The penetrating scents of pine , eucalyptus , lemon and orange oils are released when mixed with water and act as a mild preventative disinfectant .
26 The combined use of the matting and beads , when misted with water , produces a spray effect as skiers come down the slope and the continuous surface is claimed to have safety advantages .
27 Its labyrinth of canals was clogged with water hyacinths , and small bands of moorhens pushed their way through the shiny leaves .
28 The price paid is that the air in the lung is saturated with water vapour , which is lost when the animal breathes out ( although some will be retained in the nasal passages if the air is cooled down before it leaves ) .
29 This is because the underlying tissues ( unlike ordinary fat ) are saturated with water and stagnant wastes .
30 The conductance of the intergranular system having a volume V 1 with a porosity ( with respect to V , ) and with a cementation exponent m p , coefficient a equal to I , saturated with water of conductivity , will have a conductance for a sample of length L.
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