Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only in rats subjected to stress did bFGF ( given subcutaneously in a large dose ) cause a small but significant attenuation of the mucosal lesions and this was accompanied by increased gastric blood flow suggesting that the maintenance of gastric circulation in stressed rats could explain this protection . |
| 2 | Benbulbin ought to have been called Benbulbous , for one end of the barbaric table bulged upward in a great curve , with lesser knuckle-shapes on each side . |
| 3 | It 's important to go somewhere with a good kindergarten where they can just be looked after or taught to ski . |
| 4 | The gates led right onto a busy road , there were some derelict public loos next door and a boating lake opposite . |
| 5 | The gravel track led downhill into a narrow belt of silver birch and rowan . |
| 6 | But in our present context , it raises the question as to whether the call of the Killer whaler is recognized instinctively by a new-born seal or porpoise or whether it is learnt during adolescence , while in the company of parents . |
| 7 | It is likened locally to a stranded whale , and dominates the area . |
| 8 | The fibres of a healing tendon are initially arranged microscopically in a criss-cross pattern with little strength associated with this scar tissue . |
| 9 | As usual it will be less well-off smokers who suffer most as a disproportionate amount of their income will be swallowed up in tax . ’ |
| 10 | 2 The defender drives upward with a full knee spring out of the attacker 's reach . |
| 11 | At the end of the incubation period , the gel piece is transferred into a new plastic tray containing 300 ml of freshly made DMS-stop buffer ( 0.5 M β-mercaptoethanol , 150 mM Tris-HCl , pH 7.3 , 5 mM EDTA ) and shaken vigorously on a rocking platform for 10' at 37°C ( at this temperature DMS is rapidly hydrolysed accelerating its inactivation ) . |
| 12 | One could perhaps say that the pronoun here refers successfully via a discourse-deictic reference to a prior NP . |
| 13 | In recent years , employment prospects have been excellent and geographers have been placed successfully in a wide range of employment in research , industry , commerce , government , and the professions , either entering directly or by using their first degrees as a foundation for further qualifications . |
| 14 | By the same token , back payments of income support were to be limited only to a three-year period starting in April 1988 . |
| 15 | Yachts wishing to use the canal are limited only by a maximum mast height of 80ft ( 24.5m ) . |
| 16 | A hundred thousand soldiers seems to have been the maximum any Hellenistic state was able to gather together for a decisive battle . |
| 17 | It was n't just the sustained rumbling growls rising to a frenzy as two dogs threatened each other then lunged together in a bitter embrace , each asserting its place in the hierarchy , the priority of its rights over the red bitch . |
| 18 | When it begins to set , splash a little water on to it , and rub gently with a pointing trowel in a circular motion , to smooth flush , leaving little or no sanding . |
| 19 | They sit together in a non-smoking section . |
| 20 | It is better to regard the system of county government as a body of professional people placed together in a large office at County Hall , who can call upon the representatives from all places throughout the area which they administer . |
| 21 | The casual and amateurish character of much British diplomacy in particular , even in the eighteenth centry , is reflected in the fact that when an appointment , especially a relatively minor one , fell vacant without any suitable new holder of it being immediately available , it was sometimes filled merely by a casual volunteer . |
| 22 | Design ( colour , shape , and form ) and minimalism of ingredients were the identifying marks of the new fashion , epitomized by the archetypal and exquisite composition of three pink slices of duck breast laid on a discreet puddle of clear burgundy coloured sauce , fanned by four mange-touts : and one thimbleful of puréed carrot placed thoughtfully beside a similar amount of finely diced kohlrabi ; all on a highly polished hexagonal plate ( preferably black ) . |
| 23 | All , however , can be gathered together under a common theme : that concerned with the genetics of psychosis . |
| 24 | Instead of just inspecting records within the Input range you can define n output range so that all the records found as a result of the search are gathered together into a separate table . |
| 25 | Eliot recognized that this was not simply the last poem in his sequence but also its culmination , in which the themes and textures of the preceding three parts would be gathered together in a final statement . |
| 26 | That goes nicely behind a six foot trestle or whatever it is . |
| 27 | It argues that renewable energies are not developed enough for a higher goal , but if more money for research was made available , the future could be very different . |
| 28 | His pursuit of the same approach in his cantatas arose perhaps from a firm conviction of what would succeed in a genre so closely allied to opera , perhaps from innate conservatism . |
| 29 | The quarters were pressed together in a compressed air jig , and then placed on a bench and the panels , mouldings and windows fitted to them . |
| 30 | The carriage doors were all made so as to be interchangeable , the doors being first of all pressed together in a compressed-air jig , and then panelled up . |