Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 January was the 28th consecutive month in which bankruptcy cases involving debts equivalent to £58,400 or more rose above year-ago levels .
2 First , each mare is encircled , or nearly encircled by tall mountain ranges that could be the remnants of the rim of a large impact basin or the most prominent rim of a multi-ringed basin .
3 The principal precursors of acid precipitation are the anthropogenic and natural emissions of oxides of sulphur and nitrogen which are subsequently catalytically or photochemically oxidized to sulphuric acid ( H 2 SO 4 ) and nitric acid ( HNO 3 ) , respectively , in the atmosphere ( figure 4.10 ) .
4 The finish is up to you , whether you clock is in kit form or assembled and polished , you can choose from traditional polished finishes and colours , or lacquer finish in black or white , or even limed in pastel colours .
5 In both cases people who were directly or indirectly implicated in racial harassment were asked to reflect on their actions and attitudes by an outsider who did not share their views ; moreover , as a researcher I was concerned to elicit evidence about racist assumptions or practices which as an educator I was also concerned to challenge .
6 We then sequenced parasite DNA from nine Gambian isolates ( Fig. 2 , legend ) : in each , the ls6 epitope was identical to the published sequence , indicating that it is largely or completely conserved in this population .
7 News that standards had stayed the same or actually fell in several instances is pretty alarming , especially the apparent deterioration in reading skills among less able pupils .
8 According to Plutarch , writing in highly refined Greek circles in the early second century AD : ‘ Before this , Rome neither had nor even knew of these exqusite and refined things , nor was there in the city any love of what was charming and elegant ; rather , it was full of barbaric weapons and bloody spoils . ’
9 He was mechanically ventilated with 100% oxygen and eventually extubated after intravenous flumazenil .
10 The people of Scotland considered these eight options and duly replied with ninety percent of the rep replies including Tory councillors , and Tor Tor and some Tory , Tory-run councils , totally rejecting any form of water privatization in Scotland .
11 There were rainbow clumps of raw colour which sizzled and suddenly coiled into snakelike forms as she approached and lifted serpentine heads to hiss at her ; there were pouring cascades of things that had appeared to be silk or velvet , but which were molten gold when she got nearer and made her remember Fael-Inis and the cascading River and the salamanders .
12 The only natural light came from an extremely tiny oblong of glass in the roof , but this was so filmy , and so splattered with accumulated bird lime , that it let in the flimsiest of light .
13 ‘ The only natural light came from an extremely tiny oblong of glass in the roof , but this was so filthy , and so splattered with accumulated bird lime , that it let in the flimsiest of light .
14 His mother obviously adored him and merely said with unconvincing sincerity , ‘ Now , Pino , mind what I say . ’
15 They believed , by contrast , that all the parts of the embryo were preformed from the very beginning and merely grew during embryonic development and so gradually became visible .
16 Of course , outside Japan , elsewhere in the world , there may also turn out to be losers on a wider scale , those trapped and organizationally outflanked in modernist organization forms as the leading edge turns ever more postmodern .
17 He disappeared into the hedgerow , and soon reappeared with four others , two of them were carrying a wounded Officer between them .
18 Between 1981 and 1986 the average hospital stay for a patient aged 85 and over decreased by 7.7 days .
19 Each sample was loaded onto a C8 reverse phase silica cartridge with metal frits ( Bond-elute , Anachem ) previously prepared with washes of methanol and water at pH 3.5 ; washed with 1 ml each of HPLC grade water , 10% ethanol and hexane , and finally eluted with 1 ml of methanol .
20 An abandoned salt mine near Carrickfergus , Northern Ireland , showed signs of activity in September and early October 1990 , and finally collapsed on 19 October , causing a depression 200 metres in diameter and 7 metres deep [ see photograph on page 19 ] .
21 A distorted face appeared , and gradually congealed into human lineaments .
22 With great glee Odd-Knut told us that the fat Germans showered ten times every day for a week and still reeked of rotten whale .
23 The high temperatures of 10 mill K and more lasted for many milliseconds , and implied that there was a high degree of plasma stability , and large reduction of the unaccountable loss of energy and plasma across the magnetic field found in early experiments on Zeta pinches and on stellarators in the US ( though indeed some unaccountable loss still exists ) .
24 Notes from this meeting were kept by Colonel Hossbach and later fell into Allied hands .
25 Table 4.1 Numbers of coho salmon released and later recaptured in two rivers in Washington , with and without their olfactory sense impaired .
26 They were hunters , metal-workers , cattle raisers and also engaged in primitive agriculture and the gathering of roots and nuts .
27 As an area for on-going research , the system could be both extended to allow input from other recognisers for alternative applications , and also restricted to particular domains .
28 The mission , said to reflect a growing realization that the Afghan resistance had failed to achieve the US administration 's objective of overthrowing the Kabul government , was in anticipation of a meeting later in the year between US Secretary of State James Baker and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze and also came amid accelerating efforts by the UN to secure Soviet support for its own peace initiative .
29 Sanderson et al showed that an elemental diet was as effective as steroids in acute childhood Crohn 's disease and also resulted in improved growth .
30 After retiring , he became a radio commentator on cricket and rugby and also wrote about both sports for Sunday newspapers .
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