Example sentences of "[art] [adj] and [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So she murmured soothing words and patted Eleanor 's shoulder until , little by little , the rocking and moaning subsided like the vibration of a spring coming to rest . |
| 2 | Young people , the unemployed and women returning to work after a long period at home will have to show extra ingenuity to extract evidence of their work skills and potential from their life history . |
| 3 | The Eclaireur de la Côte D ‘ Ivoire became a popular anticolonial paper voicing grievances against the police and some of the chiefs , and campaigning for the unemployed and farmers hit by the world recession . |
| 4 | For the unemployed and people threatened by redundancy |
| 5 | He said Labour would set up Skills UK , an emergency employment package to provide new jobs and training programmes for the unemployed and people returning to work . |
| 6 | ‘ THEY do n't know it , but they have killed children , ’ said Phil Green as he surveyed the charred and sodden remains of medicine , food , clothing and toys which should have been bound this month for Bosnia and Romania . |
| 7 | It is thus possible , indeed common , for each of two rival lineages to claim , as the British and Germans did in the First World War , that ‘ God is on our side ’ . |
| 8 | The British and Japanese went for much more cautious moves in a deregulatory direction . |
| 9 | She felt her hand being placed against his cheek , and then his lips pressing kisses upon it ; she pulled his hand back , and casting all caution to the winds pressed his palm to her own lips , fondling it , examining the scratched and chisel scars on his knuckles until he wanted her hand back again — and the manner in which they took it in turns to kiss hands through the wall became a competition between them to see who could demonstrate the greatest fondness , a competition that Jennifer was now desperate to win because all her instincts were telling her that Tristram was the only man she could ever love , and that through him lay her path to freedom and independence . |
| 10 | The census of population , the monthly and annual digests of statistics and the annual statistical reports of the various ministries and other national bodies ( such as the Prison Commissioners ) and local authorities produce a great deal of extremely valuable data for the sociologist to work on . |
| 11 | ‘ The committee took into account his exemplary record , his contribution to the game , both with his county and nationally , and also the fine and suspension imposed by Northamptonshire . ’ |
| 12 | But the main source of money for releasing the poor and insolvent came from the rich and solvent ; Neild placed advertisements in the newspapers appealing for donations . |
| 13 | The official history of the movement sees it as the outgrowth of ‘ homes and refuges for the destitute and institutes opened in the evenings with a mainly educational purpose in view ’ . |
| 14 | In the case of immigration , a rare insight into the selection of the Great and Good occurred in January 1986 , when , under the thirty year rule , government documents of the mid-fifties were declassified . |
| 15 | Just as the classical and baroque triumphed in the design of state capitols and ultimately fed back into railway stations , so did Australia cling to forms which had never entirely been superseded as the official architectural language of imperialism . |
| 16 | This could result in the blind and pleats falling at an angle to the window . |
| 17 | The Tibetan Plateau , located between the Himalayan and Karakorum ranges to the south , and the Kunlun and Altyn Tagh ranges to the north , is a roughly triangular area some 1000km from north to south and 1700km from east to west ( Fig. 3.21 ) . |
| 18 | It is now generally accepted that words prefixed by pett or pit ( similar to the Welsh and Cornish peth for ‘ thing ’ or ‘ piece ’ ) are of Pictish origin , as in places such as Pitlochry ( ‘ stony share ’ ) and Pittenweem ( ‘ share of the cave ’ ) . |
| 19 | As one who did get into quite a few scrapes , Henry Schwartz admits that the Viennese and Berliners divided into rival camps , but thinks that the seriousness of the fighting was overstated . |
| 20 | Council tenants , perhaps the ‘ fortunate few ’ in villages that do not have many local authority houses , are usually the more poorly paid rural workers and can include the homeless and ex-tied-cottagers rehoused under statutory obligations of councils . |
| 21 | The pop music and fashion industries were geared specifically towards the young and magazines flourished in order to promote these trends . |
| 22 | To make the young and pensioners pay for prescriptions is equal to having Claymore mines for us to step on . |
| 23 | The profit margin on one sheet was much lower than the other and Emily drew in her breath sharply . |
| 24 | So great was the carnage that warriors fought over bodies of the dead and ravens feasted on the wounded trapped inside the mounds of corpses . |
| 25 | Now , the common understanding of this is that , they 're Christians , these are those who are followers of Jesus , they 're the Christians , and Jesus comes and er , ee er , there 's the little , there 's the one who is wandering away , who 's a stray and Jesus goes after them and brings them back into the fold and so on . |
| 26 | Henry Marston ( 25 ) , a Constable with the Liverpool City Police , and Angus Gray ( 28 ) , an ex-Constable , were remanded in custody in Liverpool … charged with breaking into Beaumont Street Post Office and stealing a safe and contents valued at £500 . |
| 27 | It adds that a tender and documents given by LCH to a buying member are deemed to comply with the contract terms unless the buyer notifies LCH to the contrary by 10 am the next day , in default of which he must pay for them . |