Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The predominantly transparent colours of the gouache gave my washes a strong tint , and so allowed me to apply the broad washed demanded by a large watercolour . |
| 2 | In Maya territory , complexes of canals and raised fields , some first indicated on a large scale by aerial radar surveys ( New Scientist , 12 June , 1980 , p 232 and Science . |
| 3 | times , hold on , forty five divided by a hundred times two hundred |
| 4 | The SL-90 offers 240 characters per second print speed , 360 dots per inch resolution , 20k buffer , plus two system fonts with another seven provided as an upgrade option . |
| 5 | Vegetables do , ’ He guffawed , then gave a grotesque imitation of a witless paraplegic slumped in a wheelchair . |
| 6 | A serious few entered with a low dive , thrusting |
| 7 | An LTTE attack on two army camps on the Mannar peninsula in the north-west on March 19-23 ended in a major defeat for the guerrillas , according to official reports , with 23 soldiers killed as against some 300-500 guerrillas dead , and 100 more killed in a clash nearby on March 30 . |
| 8 | A similar study , using 7–11-year-old children as subjects compared dream reports following a violent western compared to a bland film about baseball . |
| 9 | We do have this process where we can edge-glue the broken pieces so when a piece is broken and a previous glazier put in a piece of lead we can edge bond instead |
| 10 | To make chocolate buttercream , add 15g ( ½oz ) cocoa powder to the mixture , and for a coffee flavour add 5ml ( 1tsp ) coffee — either first dissolved in a little water or the ‘ Camp ’ variety . |
| 11 | Curiously , although the proof had incorporated Alistair 's corrections , the published version revered to the typescript , in which Brad escaped from the Nebulan lab seemingly without concern for a Chelsi last glimpsed on an operating table with a syringe full of Phobian viper venom being eased into her neck … |
| 12 | But that all changed after an incident in training . |
| 13 | Now what you did when you worked out seventy eight per cent , you say seventy eight over a hundred , and you put it in your calculator , and you did seventy eight divided by a hundred , and that gave you nought point seven eight . |
| 14 | Many of those who constitute it would adhere to a world-renouncing ethnic based on a doctrine of separation from the world . |
| 15 | In 1981 these amounted to an inflow of 65 000 and an outflow of 34 000 , compared with a resident and working-in-area total of 220 000 . |
| 16 | Keane put Orlygsson away on the right and the Icelandic international sent over a low centre . |
| 17 | As I looked at the faces marching past with a smart eyes right , I could n't help thinking of those who would have liked to have been on this parade ; those still manning the trenches , and all those buried in a shallow grave in the orchards around the village . |
| 18 | He could not help it if his use of the colonial patronymic sounded like a challenge . |
| 19 | b , The frequency of C within the dynamic fractal generated by a single D invading an infinite array of C. At generation t , the width for the growing D structure is , and the frequency of C , f C ( t ) within the square of size ( centred on the initial D site is shown as a function of t . |
| 20 | The departments are staffed by professional civil servants , each one headed by a Permanent Secretary . |
| 21 | It was during a short stay in December 1986 with friends at their cottage near the village of Carno in beautiful Mid Wales that first learnt of a nearby former railway station coming up for sale . |
| 22 | Under the FSM 's electoral system the 14-member Congress was composed of 10 senators , each elected for a two-year term , and four at-large senators — one each elected for a four-year term from the four states , Chuuk ( formerly known as Truk ) , Kosrae , Pohnpei and Yap . |
| 23 | The tentacle pores are quite small each armed with a very small tentacle scale . |
| 24 | Nevertheless it can come as a shock to a trained accountant to discover that 21 billion of net expenditure is accounted for in this way : no assets ; no liabilities , just an excess of payments over receipts of 20 ; 8 billion compared with a budgeted excess of 20.6 billion . |
| 25 | A more appropriate comparison is the profit before tax this year of twenty four point five million compared to a profit before tax last year of twelve point seven million an increase of ninety three per cent . |
| 26 | A drunk lay slumped against an oil drum , a bottle wrapped in a brown paper bag beside him . |
| 27 | The profit on ordinary activities with more taxation was forty four point one million compared to a loss last year of twelve million but of course these two figures are not comparable . |
| 28 | Ali Rajavi , a first secretary at the Iranian embassy in London , was ordered to leave the United Kingdom by Aug. 25 , as announced on Aug. 14 , in retaliation for the expulsion in July of Geoffrey Brammer , a UK diplomat in Tehran [ see also p. 39027 ] ; on Aug. 15 the Iranian government ordered an Indian national employed as an accountant at the UK embassy in Tehran and two UK citizens to leave the country within one week , accusing them of involvement in " illegal activities " . |
| 29 | In the morrow of great victory , will they show some equanimity and , above all , not give business in this country or abroad the impression that in practice we are any less committed to a single currency than any of the Twelve or that we are any less likely to be a part of it ? |
| 30 | My other half ordered from a catalogue disc drives to assemble compu , er a home computer and he was looking very carefully cos computer parts can be quite expensive and he was looking at national catalogue for the best prices . |