Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The input to a program should be clear and kept to a minimum ; the output on the screen should be clear and presented at a sensible speed ; and any ‘ special ’ or complex computer procedures should appear to the user as ordinary and easy to use . |
| 2 | The input to a program should be clear and kept to a minimum ; the output on the screen should be clear and presented at a sensible speed ; and any ‘ special ’ or complex computer procedures should appear to the user as ordinary and easy to use . |
| 3 | The moon had set , but the sky was clear and lit by a sprinkling of stars . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The data stored and manipulated within a GIS are of two specific kinds . |
| 6 | The house committee met weekly and dealt with a variety of matters . |
| 7 | Mr John Cleese , the icon , has revealed that when his mother dies he intends to ‘ have her stuffed and put in a glass case in his front hall . ’ |
| 8 | Who stayed upstairs I never did find out , but the house is now well and truly Yuppified and owned by a couple of actresses from good families . |
| 9 | Well , it was heigh-ho for the nearest cookshop and , if I remember correctly , a quail pie , the crust golden and crisp , the meat fresh and smothered in a rich sauce , and a jug of new Bordeaux . |
| 10 | Often described simply as brown and used in a rather careless manner , burnt sienna should instead be regarded as a particularly transparent , slightly neutralised orange , and used accordingly . |
| 11 | BHC cut the machine in half and put in a central section to carry more cars and passengers . |
| 12 | Two tomatoes cut in half and sprinkled with a little castor sugar . |
| 13 | This castle , built c. 1130 , is of stone and is about 125 feet high and based on a plan 70 feet square . |
| 14 | The right hand was high and rested on a vertical spear , the left is on the hip . |
| 15 | Beneath it , she wore loose silky pants in the same colour , pleated and gathered into a deep , fitted waistband and tapering at her ankles , one of which sported a fine gold anklet . |
| 16 | HOLLAND 'S only commercial reactor at Borssele is just about as ordinary a nuclear power plant as you could expect to find : 477 megawatts , 10 years old and saddled with a 20-year contract to supply electricity to the neighbouring Pechiney aluminium smelter at a third of the present going rate . |
| 17 | After all , it is about the conservation of the old and founded on a suspicion of the new . |
| 18 | Church ‘ A' is seven years old and located in a new development area of detached houses . |
| 19 | Fast , quick-witted and determined as a player , demanding and insistent as a manager , there was little doubt that he would snatch his career back from the brink of failure . |
| 20 | Then it was back to Mick 's summer stamping ground at Henna Cliff , one which Mick dubiously claims is getting ‘ very popular ’ , and climbed Henna Fall ( grade III/IV and claimed as a three-star 95 foot classic ) . |
| 21 | These teeth are also shorter and set at a different angle from the other teeth . |
| 22 | Its symbolism may or may not be universal for all mankind , or for all within one culture , but enough dream material is common for others to be interested and gripped by a person who recounts his dreams . |
| 23 | Another item that really suffers when seen dry , but once in the tank , wet and covered with a little algae , comes into its own . |
| 24 | But you stand a better chance of your material being used if it is topical , lively and written in a similar style to that employed by the particular newspaper or radio station . |
| 25 | Deep , pulsing , mind-boggling and overlaid with a cloak of dark and haunting atmospherics , Voov come at you like an express train on Uptime . |
| 26 | If it were possible to unfold the entire long history of the world 's religions in such a manner that it could be scrutinised , assimilated and judged in a single all-embracing operation , the verdict would be that it had strayed so far from the basic human need , and so far from the intentions of those good and sincere people who have throughout that history struggled to maintain its integrity , that it might well be condemned outright as a story of failure unmatched by anything else that has ever happened on earth . |
| 27 | Similar experiments have been reported from the Ivory Coast by Roose ( 1986 ) who has compared runoff and erosion from several plots , one of which was deforested and maintained as a bare soil by ploughing , and others in which a variety of perennial , annual and tree crops were grown . |
| 28 | It is not surprising that such symbolism should unconsciously echo or evoke those infantile structures of representation through which identities and differences are first negotiated and invested with a sense of mastery , or that these models should be reproduced in the way racism is itself conceptualized . |
| 29 | The apple room was dim and scented with a mysterious sweetness like the breakfast honey . |
| 30 | There were drunken brawls that rolled from one vessel to another and ended with a splash in the cloudy river , or there were glimpses of painted female faces , bodies barely concealed by thin silk shafts . |