Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [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 | These people are very primitive and live in small groups , moving from place to place . |
| 13 | She had long given up the tussle with French and lapsed into straight English ( which Therese , damn it , was supposed to understand ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The sky was clear and glittering with icy stars . |
| 17 | Reports are commonly prosaic , dull , pompous and patronising and written with selfish disregard for the reader . |
| 18 | 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 ; |
| 19 | My own autograph hunting was conducted with boyish enthusiasm at Trent Bridge in the late 19920s and early 30s and began in inauspicious circumstances . |
| 20 | The slides were then rewashed in phospate buffered saline and treated with diamino-benzidine tetrahydrochloride ( Sigma , Poole ) for 15 minutes in the dark . |
| 21 | The children dressed up for mock scenarios which the police experience daily and learnt about legal phraseology . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | This comparison was made more difficult by the existence of two organisations with a number of disparate functions , each using similar information but stored and utilised in different ways . |
| 25 | He sold the chemist 's business in 1872 and moved to new premises at Plymouth Hoe . |
| 26 | He was slim and fit with well-brushed thinning hair . |
| 27 | carved and polished to great smoothness . |
| 28 | A combination of the country 's high external debt and recently introduced liberal economic policies has severely increased the numbers of unemployed and led to mass migration from rural to urban areas . |
| 29 | The trouble was that they voted against the large numbers of unemployed and voted for Fascist and Nazi Governments . |
| 30 | This move of resources into the community was entirely unplanned and arose from local initiatives . |