Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 Cheered on by a large crowd , they added two more goals .
2 For comparison , omeprazole given subcutaneously at a dose of 30 mg/kg resulted in almost complete inhibition of acid output ( 12 ( 2 ) µmol/30 minutes ) and pepsin output ( 0.15 ( 0.04 ) mg/30 minutes ) .
3 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 .
4 This study shows that the long acting somatostatin analogue SMS 201–995 given subcutaneously in a dose of 25 µg three times daily can abolish hypergastrinaemia induced by five days ' treatment with omeprazole ( 40 mg once daily in man .
5 Maid service can normally be arranged locally at a supplement .
6 Yet years on how come that it is Cecil who is regarded mostly as a flawed but well meaning sweety-pie and Miss Keays as someone who has all the charisma of an old battleaxe ?
7 It will be treated rather as a set of conditions relating to the sale of goods or the supply of work and materials for the purposes of the comparative analysis carried out in this chapter .
8 I must have fallen on to a sharp stick , I thought .
9 My candle had fallen on to a Bible on the shelf and was burning it .
10 From the safety angle , the Bosch tacker will not fire if picked up by the trigger — the nose must be pressed on to a surface for firing .
11 His long spine ached , and his eyes felt hot and flat against the windshield , like eggs broken on to a rock .
12 More than anything else could have been , it was searingly expressive of the contempt in which he held her , because he had ignored her face where her personality and individuality were written , his attention given wholly to a part of her body — and a body was just a body as far as she was concerned , with nothing to do with one 's emotional identity .
13 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 .
14 As far as the extent of this limited edition being only 200 is concerned , my only reservations are outlined above : namely that a guitar is designed to be used and not coveted wholly as an objet d'art to be hung on the wall , which I suspect is exactly where the bulk of these models are likely to end up .
15 Only five survivors of Woking 's 1990-91 heroes are expected to feature tonight — Buzaglo , Mark Biggins , Trevor Baron and Wye brothers Shane and Lloyd — but they will be roared on by a 6,000 capacity crowd .
16 Roared on by a massive contingent of supporters , Gloucester then went for the kill .
17 Circles , straight lines and zig-zags can be chalked or painted on to a hard surface for children to walk , run , jump or skip along .
18 Others were painted on to a dry plaster surface .
19 Pictured right is a saffron-gatherer whose image , painted on to a wall in Thera ( now Santorini ) in the first century BC , was preserved under ash even as the volcano which produced it was destroying civilisation on the island .
20 To mitigate his appearance , he had grown a beard — though it was so fine , to conform with custom , that it might have been painted on with a kohl-brush , an impression reinforced by the methodical severity with which the rest of the face had been shaved .
21 It is likened locally to a stranded whale , and dominates the area .
22 A sheet of cloth has been placed on to a stripped bed , the winding-sheet has been folded over the left-hand side of the corpse , the remainder drawn over the right , whilst the arms have been folded across the body in line with the bottom of the rib-cage .
23 To produce the latter the inner coffin was placed on to a width of lead which was then cut so as to be three inches larger all round than the coffin itself ; this was then turned up and tacked to the wood .
24 What sent me into a fear-filled frenzy was the news — hidden somewhere between a report on the seasonal suicide rate and an article on bogus Santas — that I had bought a ride-on fire engine for my baby son that had a dangerous fault and should be returned to the manufacturers immediately .
25 He 's probably got a private cache of cheap cider or meths hidden somewhere under a paving slab to help him nod off at nights , and a pile of newspapers to keep him warm .
26 The fate map should be regarded rather like a train timetable — it tells you only what will normally happen .
27 The fibres of a healing tendon are initially arranged microscopically in a criss-cross pattern with little strength associated with this scar tissue .
28 The taxi had stopped eventually at a crossroads in a suburb , and the target had paid it off and walked straight to a man who waited on the pavement .
29 Has a repeated ‘ kik ’ note , and a ‘ song ’ rendered as ‘ wait , wait ’ uttered slowly on a rising or falling scale .
30 The American boy stared at his empty glass , which he had drained nervously at a gulp , and looked uncertainly towards the figure of his mother fast disappearing among the crowd .
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