Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] with [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a control , sections from all patient and control lungs were stained with ET-1 antiserum that had been immunoabsorbed with synthetic ET-1 overnight at 4°C , or incubated with normal goat serum instead of the primary antisera . |
| 2 | The only member of the squad who could ; the others hammered or pecked with two fingers , swore picturesquely , and reached for the erasing fluid . |
| 3 | Some are intersected with elegant stripes or studded with radiant spots ; others affect to be genteelly powdered or neatly fringed . |
| 4 | Flowers can transform the appearance of drinks , desserts and salads when they are sprinkled with petals , or garnished with whole flowers . |
| 5 | Meadows would be cut for hay once a year , and pastures would be grazed and never ploughed , planted or plied with artificial fertilisers and pesticides . |
| 6 | Main trends : Christian Religious Knowledge syllabuses are rapidly developing joint denominational approaches ( Lesotho and Uganda ) and more slowly , but nevertheless steadily beginning to widen syllabuses , based on Bible knowledge and catechism , towards greater discussion of local and contemporary moral issues ( Kenya and Zambia ) ; local beliefs and customs are no longer excluded or contrasted with Christian beliefs . |
| 7 | We were given a lot of work to prepare in our spare time and I remember trying to keep warm in the daytime in an overcoat and scarf while I wrote an essay or struggled with Latin composition . |
| 8 | But whereas those first person narrators are fairly transparent surrogates for the implied authors of those novels , the first-person narrators of modernist texts are more ambiguous , less reliable witnesses to their own experience , and are often framed by or counterpointed with other narrators — as , for example , in Henry James 's The Turn of the Screw or Conrad 's Heart of Darkness . |
| 9 | Gasping at the totally unexpected movement , and the searing shock of his touch , Polly stared up into eyes that gleamed with cold fire . |
| 10 | Table 5 shows the percentage of respondents that agreed with particular statements about solicitors . |
| 11 | He could see by the dark light that came down from the night sky , a sky that glowed with vivid city lights , that on stands in nearby cages other eagles were listening to his story and staring at him silently . |
| 12 | Open stone staircases swept up to bedrooms that bristled with floor-to-ceiling windows . |
| 13 | She poked again — dug right down to the bottom and up through the shambles came something that signalled with painful clarity . |
| 14 | Mr Hadley , who teaches at the Grants School of Wine , cites studies which have found that compared with lifelong abstainers , moderate drinkers show a 26 per cent reduction in the incidence of heart trouble . |
| 15 | In summary , this study shows that compared with medical treatment the heater probe reduces the rebleeding rate in a non-bleeding visible vessel by 62% , there was no death , and complications were minimal . |
| 16 | In my case , for four or five years I think I was probably the only person that played with digital delays and two amps and all that , and it was like a new thing . |
| 17 | Camb looked compassionately at the quivering febrile mouth and the long unfiled nails that played with those rings . |
| 18 | I have few clues that would let me construct a picture of my mother 's childhood , that would explain her denial of mine as my own , and the rage that came with that denial . |
| 19 | The tears that came with this knowledge were now true tears of grieving for his father 's death , and the knowledge that they would never communicate with each other . |
| 20 | The opening music was greeted by a torrential shower of rain that drummed with deafening force on the stage and put out the fires of Hell . |
| 21 | A police chief has warned that faced with soaring crime rates , his officers have little chance of catching petty offenders . |
| 22 | Sometimes the movement of farmers into these regions is actively encouraged by government policies ; elsewhere it is an indirect result of policies that have forced peasants off their lands in order to develop cash cropping and ranching , a process that began with colonial settlement ( section 4.4 ) . |
| 23 | Says Marcus Phipps , co-ordinator of the Orangutan Foundation 's Taiwan office : ‘ It 's a tragedy that something that began with such joy and expectation has ended so miserably . ’ |
| 24 | The movement that began with Greek sculpture rapidly added other new areas of study to the familiar territories of language and literature , issuing in a serious concern not simply with " the classics " , but with ancient civilization in all its aspects : aspects that might well centre on the " facts " of ancient life , its physical relics , its customs and institutions : all of which to be summed up in the German word Realien . |
| 25 | There is a fundamental difference between the behaviour of lithosphere capped with oceanic crust ( oceanic lithosphere ) and that covered with continental crust ( continental lithosphere ) since only oceanic lithosphere can be generated at mid-oceanic ridges and subducted at oceanic trenches . |
| 26 | The Labour Party refused to consider the United Front proposals and for over two years the only form of " Unity " was that established with some difficulty between the ILP and the Communist Party . |
| 27 | Even the programme that went with that performance has been kept . |
| 28 | She knew the terrible suffering that went with mental disorders like delusion and obsession , and the words just slipped out . |
| 29 | Stan however , already had an established place in the order — just beneath the human pack leaders — and was n't about to relinquish the privileges that went with this position . |
| 30 | Turbine engines had not been introduced into regular airline use when I joined the Branch ; also one 's practical application of aerodynamics had to be radically modified to cope with the characteristics of high speed flight with swept wings and all the associated developments that went with this revolution in flying . |