Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [adj] and [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 3 Press a blanched almond into the centre of each round and bake for about 20 minutes until pale golden and set . |
| 2 | The other caught up round the corner and there were two shadowy forms , skimming silently along together , two waverings of light bouncing and jolting to the fore , and two points of red winking at the same level behind , travelling on . |
| 3 | Shreds of rubber twisted and coiled at the edge of the highway . |
| 4 | Under Henry VIII they were used to suspend , modify , or extend the provisions of statutes : a proclamation of 1540 altered and dispensed with some clauses of a statute on aliens ; in 1546 a statute restricting the sale of wool was extended by proclamation to cover counties not mentioned in the original act . |
| 5 | I sat down on a rock in the golden air and stared at the vast expanse of glassy blue and listened to the sucking and lapping . |
| 6 | Around the campfire crouched three red-bearded highlanders , clad in considerable quantities of musty-looking tartan and armed to the yellow teeth . |
| 7 | She wondered whether Philippa had really outgrown her passion for partially disabled men but she seemed oblivious of all this and sat like a springtime sprig in a bed of roses , contemplating her coincidental twin . |
| 8 | ( 2 ) The scheme has to be approved by the members ( or the class of members ) in question by a majority in number representing 75 per cent in value of those present and voting in person or by proxy . |
| 9 | A child who came to school at the age of five dirty and smelling of urine would never be able to benefit from the experience of school if , as a consequence , she were shunned and rejected by her classmates . |
| 10 | Now we take leave of one another and return to our homes . |
| 11 | He had felt the power of his position when he had taken a bottle to the room of any major and propositioned for information on the talk in the mess when he , the KGB 's ears , was not present . |
| 12 | We have already touched on the question of mixed artificial and daylighting in an earlier chapter . |
| 13 | Briefly , serum ( 1 ml ) was diluted with two volumes of isotonic saline and extracted on a small column of octadecysilane bonded silica at 64°C . |
| 14 | But Comdisco made a bundle leasing 3090-Es , upgrading its base of original 3090s and navigating past most of the rocks and shoals of the mainframe disk business , which was adjusting to IBM 's impressive 3380-K drives . |
| 15 | The home attack held no fears for Mike Thomas who scored a fine 78 including 12 fours and shared in an opening partnership of 133 with Chris Minto ( 49 ) . |
| 16 | If their driving is hazardous enough they can be charged with dangerous driving and tried before magistrates or even a crown court . |
| 17 | but it 's erm it does mean that you can , so to speak , design your teeth as a sort of decent engineering job and make them fit with one another and slide over one another and grind and so on . |
| 18 | Despite the time of year she intended to dress herself in mauve silk , a coat and skirt faced with regal purple and embellished with a cream lace jabot . |
| 19 | Steven Welsh , 21 , of Newholme Crescent , Evenwood , appeared before Darlington magistrates yesterday charged with careless driving and driving without proper insurance . |
| 20 | Frequently , urban employment rates fail to distinguish between those living and working in the cities and those commuting in . |
| 21 | But for those living and working in London the decisions made last week by the government ( see p 537 ) have to face a harder test . |
| 22 | There is a case to be made for those starving and living in cardboard boxes just around the corner — |
| 23 | Together they constitute a representative sample of the range of work carried out in English inspired and informed by the broad spectrum of Kristeva 's influential writings , from her early semiotically based work , notably Revolution in Poetic Language , to the later psychoanalytically oriented studies of abjection , love and melancholia . |
| 24 | The club 's open to anyone in Scottish Nuclear and organises at least one outing each month . |
| 25 | Soviet Germans , about two million strong , established a new All-Union Society of Germans in early 1989 and called for the restoration of their autonomous republic , which had been abolished at the outbreak of the war in 1941 . |
| 26 | Also known as WHITE LADIES they dress in pure white and live by streams , so they may meticulously rinse their gowns clean every evening . |
| 27 | And I 'm , I 'm sure that was the reason , there , I mean there are all sorts of er accounts of you know how people poured onto the streets waving their bloody flags in nineteen fourteen and die in the trenches |
| 28 | Well I 'd one come from Malta to England again , in nineteen sixteen and went on an old boat , they called it the Gurkha . |
| 29 | The first Bentley was built back in nineteen nineteen and sold in nineteen twenty-two . |
| 30 | The report , citing diplomatic sources , said that the deal had been signed in late 1990 and provided for Myanma to pay at least half the price in rice and timber . |