Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They tempted the women by treats and presents , and when that failed by psychological means . |
| 2 | Dressed in a sea-blue gown with matching head-dress , each studded with small mother-of-pearls , she looked so beautiful ! |
| 3 | Ten people lived on ordinary wards at the beginning of the study , and eight lived in special units reserved for those with the most challenging behaviour . |
| 4 | The view taken was that in order to get the best allocation of investible resources between public and private industries , the discount rate used in the public sector should be similar to the return which private firms would consider acceptable on new investment … it seemed sensible to set a rate for public enterprises which corresponds broadly with that sought by large private firms of good standing engaged in low-risk business . |
| 5 | The dose of 40 mg omeprazole once daily is higher than that recommended for peptic ulcer therapy , but is regularly used in reflux oesophagitis , while a duration of five days was chosen because it has been shown that the effect of omeprazole on gastric acid and serum gastrin stabilises after three days of treatment . |
| 6 | It was the duty of the ruling sultan , at least in principle , to extend so far as he could the area controlled by true believers at the expense of that ruled by Christian infidels . |
| 7 | ( Similar allegations in 1971 led to one MP 's being suspended from the House . ) |
| 8 | Students of human memory have long recognized that performance on a retrieval task tends to be superior when the test context is similar to that experienced during initial training . |
| 9 | The life may take a different form to that experienced by most of us , and may not be rewarding in our terms , or in the terms by which society judges these things . |
| 10 | In April 1947 a policy paper placed before the FEC had envisaged an industrial level designed to give the people of Japan a standard of living approximately equal to that experienced in 1930–34 . |
| 11 | That led to another line of thought . |
| 12 | Mrs Brown lived in Morrell House , Burton Stone Lane , York , but before that lived for 70 years in New Earswick . |
| 13 | By contrast , the presence of CRP allows occupancy of the lac P1 promoter , giving an extensive protection against DNAaseI cleavage from -80 to +20 interrupted by some hypersensitive bands [ 14,22,23 ] . |
| 14 | We were unable to obtain a footprint of the α-truncated polymerase at wild-type lac promoter in contrast with the wild-type enzyme which , in conjunction with CRP and cAMP , gave an extensive protection from -80 to +20 interrupted by several hypersensitive bands . |
| 15 | To date over 200 SVQs have been accredited , with a further 500 expected by early 1993 . |
| 16 | Four thin , wooden gods watched the rotting dead , each made of twisted lengths of birch-branch , no thicker than an arm but twice Tallis 's height . |
| 17 | The principles of exercise for coronary patients is no different from that applied to normal individuals trying to get fit . |
| 18 | When James succeeded his brother Charles as king in 1685 he showed that he was willing to make the power of the Crown more effective in North America by pressing on with the creation of the Dominion of New England , but he had neither the surplus revenue nor the obedient bureaucracy needed to run a system like that applied by continental monarchs . |
| 19 | Percentage measures of performance should therefore be compared to that expected from random selection . |
| 20 | Some of the most exacting university degrees , such as those in the biological and physical sciences demand a level of work load from the conscientious student which is greater than that expected in most occupations . |
| 21 | ‘ Papert asks why half the population are maths phobics , afraid of numbers , and woolly headed about abstract concepts , ’ the narrator announced Any suspicion that this was the preface to yet another attempt to instil numeracy via some twist of new math , quickly disappeared . |
| 22 | Often the Phantasms — daemon-masked , each dabbed with different costly scents , and gowned in luminous silk appliquéd with lascivious emblems — would bomb around the broad upper avenues on their jet-trikes , and through almost deserted midnight malls , seeking stylised mayhem with another brat gang or hunting for an odour bar or an elegant brothel which they could take over for a few hours before fleeing just ahead of a Judge patrol . |
| 23 | We submit that even scores such as the Glasgow coma scale and the Apgar score , which are assumed to be independent of medical management , may , in fact , be susceptible to a similar effect to that demonstrated with APACHE scoring . |
| 24 | And do you know when that stopped at all ? |
| 25 | A deal on the government 's actual policies was done , again like that proposed in 1910 , except that the Unionists now held rather more of the cards . |
| 26 | Response to music is believed to be dominant in the right hemisphere and as a result would be expected to exact a similar reduction in left field advantage to that found for right field advantage in the trigram tasks discussed here . |
| 27 | Here , it is assumed that the severity of any language problem is indicated by the extent to which a child 's language differs from that found among other children of a similar age . |
| 28 | This is a much larger proportion than that found among teenage women , where only about 1 in 3 were cohabiting at the time of the birth . |
| 29 | The sensitivity of Bio-Rad GAP Test IgG described in our study is almost identical to that found by another groups , but the lower specificity could be explained by one or more of the following : their reliance on histology as a standard , which might be difficult to interpret in the presence of very few organisms ; the exclusion from their study of patients with chronic superficial or atrophic gastritis in whom H pylori was not identified , thus reducing the number of true negatives ; the relatively high number of cases of chemical gastritis in their H pylori negative group without specifying whether these patients had been treated with NSAID ; and the presence in their H pylori positive group of chronic atrophic gastritis in 117 of 160 ( 73% ) , which may have been paralleled by a rise in the number of false positive cases . |
| 30 | The plasma fatty acid profile in Crohn 's disease was similar to that found in ulcerative colitis ( Table III ) . |