Example sentences of "[adj] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eyes scanned the wounded propped against half-demolished walls , lying amidst smashed furniture , or sprawling on the floor , and those who lay with faces covered . |
| 2 | She was at home on the lonely hills , but she felt guilty surrounded by innocent nature . |
| 3 | Is it possible to begin to understand the difficulties minority elders face , those of ordinary ageing compounded by extra factors ? |
| 4 | He quickly realised a ten year old in swimming trunks can run a good deal faster than a twenty eight year old clad in hip high waders with a bloody great salmon on his back . |
| 5 | The Spanish Frente Popular relied on Liberal and Socialist support in the Cortes and on toleration by the syndicalist unions and anarchist peasant movement in the country . |
| 6 | There were plates — not always empty wedged in odd places . |
| 7 | Patients who remained ulcer free attended for clinical review every two months and had a mandatory endoscopy at 0 , 4 , 8 , and 12 months or if symptoms suggestive of ulcer recurrence developed . |
| 8 | Deep down , I believe that our century will not be very interesting compared to other centuries . |
| 9 | We were back again in the Wolverton area , but now I did not care , and the house itself was luxurious compared with past billets . |
| 10 | Higgenbottam ( 1973 ) obtained comparable results in as much as the greatest RVF superiority was shown by his familial compared with non-familial sinistrals . |
| 11 | The high speed of magnetic compared to optical media would help to disguise some of DVI 's current limitations and would also facilitate a smooth , seamless multimedia presentation . |
| 12 | It is a popular dish , and tunny steak ( bifes de atum ) is tasty served with local onions . |
| 13 | DoH figures reveal a 65 per cent increase in the number of children between ten and 14 years old admitted to psychiatric hospital . |
| 14 | ‘ The socialist order is in danger in Hungary because internal and external reactionary forces have launched a counter-offensive aimed at restoring capitalism , ’ warned the manifesto of the party 's ‘ Marxist Unity Platform ’ which was read out at a mass rally in a Budapest stadium . |
| 15 | The terms on which the peasantry were set free perpetuated in new forms many of the obstacles to economic growth and social change characteristic of serfdom . |
| 16 | Apart from specific treatment for N. battus infection , lambs should be treated at weaning , and if possible moved to safe pasture ie. those not grazed by sheep since the previous year . |
| 17 | Sabine turned in swift astonishment . |
| 18 | soft padded back with no frame ; sewn-in , well-padded shoulder harness with tension adjustment straps ; simple sewn in padded hip belt with lumbar pad and side tension straps . |
| 19 | Each evening there were General Meetings , in the Philharmonic Hall or St George 's Hall : at one the President , Lord Harrowby , gave an address ; at another , Owen talked about the anthropoid apes ; and one evening Edward Sabine talked about terrestrial magnetism . |
| 20 | Nor is it enough if the accused acted with wilful blindness , even though in some areas of criminal law wilful blindness is treated as knowledge : Griffiths , above , Pethick [ 1980 ] Crim LR 242 and Moys ( 1984 ) 79 Cr App R 72 . |
| 21 | In s.18 the prosecution must prove that the accused acted with intent to do some GBH or resist arrest or prevent apprehension or detainer . |
| 22 | Coenwulf now wanted London to supersede both Lichfield and Canterbury as the single metropolitan see of the southern province in accordance with the plan of Pope Gregory I , and was therefore concerned to minimize any argument for more than one archbishopric based on territorial extent ; Pope Leo , on the other hand , was anxious to disassociate the papacy and his predecessor , Hadrian I , from complicity with Offa in acting against Canterbury for so base a reason as Offa 's antagonism to the people of Kent . |
| 23 | Although efficiencies are tiny compared to solid state solar energy systems ( unc per cent compared to 12 to 18 per cent ) it is the best yet for biomimetic devices . |
| 24 | In terms of institutions of art , London is often seen as relatively insular compared with major capitals in Europe or the United States . |
| 25 | At 14h of development , pax[b] expression in the posterior midbrain of uninjected embryos was prominent compared to pax[b] expression in the stalk ( Fig. 4 b ) . |
| 26 | The surface of machine made paper is rather mechanical compared to handmade paper or mould-made sheets . |
| 27 | A subfamily of the Ophiacanthidae with simple arm spine articulation surfaces on the lateral arm plates , not forming a comma-shaped surface ; disk delicate , sack-like covered with small thin semitransparent scales ; radial shields absent or internally concealed ; jaws as broad as long often with numerous flattened distally projecting papillae arranged in two or more rows covering the surface of the jaw ; arms noded , often standing vertically around the disk position found in preserved specimens ; tentacle pores large open with up to five tentacle scales ; arm spines often numerous varying in length . |
| 28 | Thus , where the first coordinators fulfilled a brief dominated by special needs , with curriculum development and TTT level-pegging a little way behind , they and their successors in 1989 were as likely to be concerned with curriculum management and teaching , in collaboration or alone . |
| 29 | Things are less comfortable measured against corporate investment : the ratio is well down from its 1988 peak , and heading for a level not seen since the 1974 recession . |
| 30 | Crescent-shaped , it has an austerity that is unusual compared to other palaces . |