Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bradenham hams should be presented uncrumbed or coated in white breadcrumbs . |
| 2 | There is no indication or evidence that under such circumstances contact can be confusing or lead to divided loyalties . |
| 3 | A window is a screen display stored in the computer which can be created , recalled , modified , scaled , repositioned and combined or overlapped with other windows by user messages . |
| 4 | Herbally-based remedies of old , using parts of plants fresh or dried in simple infusions , poultices or decoctions , have been found to have great health benefits but , though their method of application is simple , their prescribing is not , since they have to be tailored not only to a given malady , but to the person concerned . |
| 5 | The Kerry has an unusually long history as a specialist dairy breed and it has been suggested that it was being bred for milk production in early Irish Celtic times when , it is thought , milk formed a major part of the people 's diet , either fresh or preserved in various ways . |
| 6 | For those widowed or bereaved in other ways , victory must have had a hollow sound . |
| 7 | In looking at them one will frequently find that the main element of dissatisfaction is sexual or allied to sexual matters . |
| 8 | For decades women have agonized over their breasts — either too big or too small ; their overall body shape — no waist , bum too big , legs too short ; and the various component parts of face and hair , all of which have to be altered , enhanced or de-emphasized at regular intervals . |
| 9 | In the last fifty years there have been problems for the fishermen and most have become unemployed or moved to other jobs . |
| 10 | Even if the use of social class as a speaker variable were feasible in this rather fundamental practical sense , it would be unlikely to yield much insight into the interplay between social and linguistic differentiation ( for the rather obvious reason that a social class index can not distinguish in an illuminating way between members of a group who are mostly unemployed or concentrated in low-status occupations ) . |
| 11 | If I do him brown or put in white all round |
| 12 | In one of these dusty tomes he read in wonderment of the treasures of Tutenkamen and it was this that ignited in young Garrett a fire of enthusiasm for treasure hunting that still burns strongly today . |
| 13 | Nor is it clear that support for proportional representation would win votes : in the ITN exit poll , 52 per cent said they preferred the present system , including 45 per cent of those who voted Labour . |
| 14 | It is , as suggested earlier , becoming clear that support for applied research is more attractive to funding bodies than support for fundamental research . |
| 15 | ( 3 ) In terms of acquiring 100 per cent control , a Court Scheme can be quicker than relying on compulsory sales under CA 1985 , s429 following a takeover offer . |
| 16 | It described the high that ensues from smoking crack ( 'Crack is both spacey and intense' ) and the downs that follow ; it told his readers how he bought it and what the morning after was like . |
| 17 | Adjusting to small changes is always easier than adjusting to large and the whole aim is that the school should be a nicer and more effective place for everyone . |
| 18 | It also brought Victorian attitudes dictating that dancing lessons in dance schools were more acceptable than dancing at large public Assemblies . |
| 19 | These people are very primitive and live in small groups , moving from place to place . |
| 20 | She had long given up the tussle with French and lapsed into straight English ( which Therese , damn it , was supposed to understand ) . |
| 21 | All language teachers should be encouraged to teach about the nature of language and should be explicitly trained in methods of doing this and co-operating with other teachers in so doing . |
| 22 | All language teachers should be encouraged to teach about the nature of language , and should be explicitly trained in methods of doing this and co-operating with other teachers in so doing . |
| 23 | The sky was clear and glittering with icy stars . |
| 24 | Reports are commonly prosaic , dull , pompous and patronising and written with selfish disregard for the reader . |
| 25 | the complexity of company records , which are not only subject to mysterious , ( but relief-bringing ) disappearances down the corporation vortex , but when occasionally discovered are often so specialized and riddled with technical jargon that the average jurist finds them unintelligible — naturally corporate lawyers render them intelligible in ways which favour their clients ; |
| 26 | My own autograph hunting was conducted with boyish enthusiasm at Trent Bridge in the late 19920s and early 30s and began in inauspicious circumstances . |
| 27 | The slides were then rewashed in phospate buffered saline and treated with diamino-benzidine tetrahydrochloride ( Sigma , Poole ) for 15 minutes in the dark . |
| 28 | The children dressed up for mock scenarios which the police experience daily and learnt about legal phraseology . |
| 29 | It was the flotsam and jetsam of every seaside gift shop , the debris of 10 million suburban mantelpieces , but blown up to epic proportions , made mythic and crafted by European artisans to Koons 's instructions . |
| 30 | The Draft Directive describes a database as : a collection of works or materials arranged , stored and accessed by electronic means and the electronic materials necessary for the operation of the database such as its thesaurus , index or system for obtaining or presenting information . |