Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [conj] [adv] [vb base] a " in BNC.

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1 It also helps to vary the shapes of the flowers as well as their colours : for example , hydrangeas are much more pointed in shape than roses , and the petals of potentillas are widely spaced and so give a more pronounced petal shape .
2 If attitudinal justifications , and criticisms of counter-attitudes , are based upon such common-places , then attitudes by their content are socially shared and thereby possess a social significance beyond the motivations and affective reactions of the individual attitude-holder .
3 Process until all the fruits are well blended but still have a slightly lumpy texture .
4 The reasons for these declines in late-age mortality are not well understood but probably reflect a variety of factors including better health care and improvements in nutrition and other aspects of living conditions as well as improvements in the availability and quality of medical care .
5 Subsequently some of these cells may become fully transformed and hence express an ‘ abnormal ’ phenotype visible different from surrounding cells by promotion of dysplastic clones , in part , by expression of oncogenes especially c-erbB2 .
6 You can do the same using Oliver Neighbour 's The consort and keyboard music of William Byrd ( London , 1978 ) and the various records many now sadly deleted that together achieve a more nearly comprehensive coverage of those two repertories .
7 Larval termites look like those most primitive of insects , the bristletails ; larval horseshoe crabs are visibly segmented and so reveal a similarity with the trilobites difficult to perceive in the adult ; the free-swimming molluscan larva looks very like that of the segmented worms and thus suggests a link between the two groups .
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