Example sentences of "[art] [noun] and [art] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The break-up of Pangaea ( Fig. 2.16 ) generated a considerable length of passive continental margins and analysis of the palaeomagnetic record of the continents and the subsequently created ocean floor has given us a fairly good idea of the timing of most of these rifting episodes . |
| 2 | The sober red brick exterior of the building and the newly painted green double doors had given no hint of the chaos inside . |
| 3 | Until recently , high trade barriers have existed between countries of the Communist East and those of the capitalist West , stimulated by both the clear political opposition of the ‘ cold war ’ and the incompatibility between the free market system of the West and the centrally planned and controlled system of the East . |
| 4 | Instead there is searing pain , blistering of the skin and a rapidly discovered aversion to swimming in the sea . |
| 5 | Worst off were the private serfs , whose numbers grew with the extension of serfdom to the Ukraine and the newly settled lands of the south . |
| 6 | The exhibition ‘ Santiago Calatrava ’ in both the Gallery and the newly refurbished Florence Hall attracted huge crowds during the Autumn and received a great deal of publicity . |
| 7 | The TUC was never able to offer its full support for fear of challenging the law and a lawfully elected government . |
| 8 | Arguments of this sort which confused the " lower sorts of men " with the " higher sorts of ape " were not simply exercises in increasingly refined scientific discrimination ; they were closely meshed in with an ongoing dialectical debate , the original purpose of which had been to establish a synthesis between the theological doctrine of the Fall and the newly discovered facts of human geography . |
| 9 | These well-protected dinosaurs each diversified into a number of genera ; the three main groups are : the stegosaurs of the Jurassic , with paired plates along the back and a nastily spiked tail ( Stegosaurus ) ; the ceratopsians , horned , rhinoceros-like dinosaurs of the Cretaceous , including the familiar Triceratops ; the spiky armoured ankylosaurs , tanks on stumpy legs . |
| 10 | The City was alarmed at the hefty slide into the red and a heavily reduced dividend payout and knocked 19p off the share price to 173p . |
| 11 | A mountain of research has shown that the population of a species is commonly limited by shortages of resources in a density-dependent manner ; the larger the population the greater the shortage and the more marked the effects of starvation . |
| 12 | By this time it was only the bullards and the newly created orders of masons that held the knowledge of the bull . |
| 13 | By the turn of the decade , the partners and a specially created employee trust bought the business back from Henderson Administration — by way of a cash payment and a short-term fixed interest debenture — long before the term ‘ management buy-out ’ became part of everyday business vocabulary . |
| 14 | These differences are important , just as it is important to highlight the political position taken by the editors of the volume and the empirically based nature of some of the chapters ( chapters 8 and 9 ) compared with the more abstract nature of others ( chapters 5 and 6 ) . |
| 15 | She stared , fascinated by the carpets on the floor and the brightly painted candles , and wondered why the Catholics lit candles too if both sides had hated each other as much as they had in her school history books . |
| 16 | For much of 1981 we were running not only behind Labour but also behind the alliance formed by the Liberals and the newly created Social Democratic Party of David Owen , Bill Rodgers , Shirley Williams and Roy Jenkins . |
| 17 | For one thing there are usually very many other things at an event which need to be organised and directed by the PRO and a well briefed photographer can take at least one burden off the PRO 's shoulders . |
| 18 | By permitting one side of the frame to touch the basement membrane , the subepithelial zone was divided into areas of 0.008 mm , which usually included the whole lamina propria of the villi and the so called ‘ mixed cell zone ’ of the Peyer 's patches domes . |
| 19 | He must have been about fifty summers old , his copper-coloured face was lined , his swept back hair silver-grey , but the moustache and the neatly clipped beard still showed traces of a golden youth . |
| 20 | In anticipation of an army coup , Croatia and Slovenia had placed on alert the security forces under their control — the police and the newly formed gendarmerie , the so-called specijalci . |
| 21 | Bentley says of them ‘ With a silly thought in the middle and a sillily conducted in its several points . |
| 22 | At the same time , an association must be made between the unit and a previously specified media type . |
| 23 | It is obvious that the more we are aware of the feelings , the more we understand about the filter and the better placed we are to minister to an individual 's needs . |
| 24 | I was giddy with the heat and a little flown with the wine . |
| 25 | Leaving the heat and the nearly finished bridehouse , I returned to soak up the last of a cool , green English summer . |
| 26 | By tradition , the construction industry is the first to feel a recession and the hardest hit — and this recession is no exception . |
| 27 | Working with a video camera capable of converting an image into digital form , a computer and a specially designed software programme , the trio were able to create photographically convincing composite portraits . |
| 28 | The accused , a 40-year-old police officer with a wife and a recently discarded mistress , claimed that the woman in question , to whom he had casually given a lift , offered him sex in return . |
| 29 | Despite this , the evacuation was successful , partly because the accident occurred at a weekend and the immediately affected area was sparsely populated . |
| 30 | I was banned , however , not because I am a convicted criminal , I think — like the unfortunate Simon Hayward — but because I wanted to wear a false nose out of consideration for the feeling of my associate , Mark Chapman , who , as I explained last week , has just had an inch and a half lopped off his . |