Example sentences of "and [art] [noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 The two standby men would then take their rest days when the main body of the crew returned and the cutter operated during their absence .
2 Aspects of the history of the organ , harpsichord , clavichord and early piano ; the development , design , construction , specification and action of different instruments ; the relationship between instruments ' capabilities and the music written for them .
3 Léonie did n't know where to put herself and the knowledge dumped on her by Thérèse .
4 So now he could be caught behind the safety of the fence , and the rope attached to his headstall was no longer needed .
5 Only when the police and parents advertised the child 's disappearance was the mistake discovered and the child returned to her family .
6 His financial transactions extended throughout the eastern counties , and although the bulk of his fortune almost certainly came from moneylending , his six houses in King 's Lynn and the quay attached to his own stone house in Norwich suggest that he also had interests in trade .
7 And then they were over the bar into a small , natural harbour and the deck steadied beneath her feet as Penry piloted the boat skilfully into a mooring where the Angharad would wait for their return .
8 He is both rudderless and becalmed , and the futurity conjured by his letter blends the metaphysical frustration of a brilliant unhoused intellectual torpor with human impossibility : you ca n't cross a river on a chip of wood .
9 Nuadu stopped and the Robemaker stopped with him , as if he might be saying : well , Wolfprince ?
10 The capacitors are the ‘ buckets ’ , and the electricity stored in them is the ‘ water ’ .
11 Los Angeles , San Diego , Phoenix , Las Vegas — 20 million people , and two million acres of irrigated farmland — are helplessly dependent on its water and the electricity produced by it fourteen dams .
12 Again , the uncertainty involved in investigative work and the stress associated with it can not be emphasized enough .
13 To change the subject he turned to an easel in the most sheltered corner of the veranda , and the painting propped on it that had not yet been put away in Faye 's studio .
14 ‘ That 's it , then , ’ Joe said , and he lay back on the bed with the receiver to his ear and the handset held on his chest .
15 Carefully , oh so softly , the old man and the boy folded to their knees .
16 She stood against the glass partition by the double-leaved doors with the violin and the suitcase wedged behind her calves .
17 Though ultimately the methodological bases of such findings must induce caution in the researcher , nevertheless the findings may lead to plausible conclusions about the workings of elite groups in local communities , in particular about the economic base of the members and the support given to their power by specific cultural norms .
18 These developments and the support provided for them were constantly underpinned by the continued demonstration of commitment to partnership by the school 's Governors and senior management team .
19 God , you did hate her , reflected Dexter , and the thought fired through his brain that perhaps Jane Pargeter had foreseen Nicola 's murder after all .
20 Zack studied Quinn and the assembly strapped to his chest over his shirt , and swore softly but violently .
21 She threw the ball across the lawn and the cat bounded after it over the frosted grass , the muscles rippling under the black sheen of his coat .
22 And then , early one morning , when the affair was still unsettled and he could see the Indian girl asleep on a sofa with one arm through the strap of her handbag and the sari drawn over it , a delayed flight from Jamaica arrived with twelve unaccompanied West Indian children on board .
23 If your report is bound with a spine , is the name of the company and the year shown on it ?
24 In making the award , the adjudicating panel will take into account the age of the nominees and the work published by them during the past five years .
25 This undertaking was given to the High Court in London but in March last year Vice Chancellor Sir Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson found Raper and the man described as his ‘ sidekick ’ , Douglas Allen , guilty of the ‘ most deliberate and serious ’ contempts .
26 The sanction imposed is real and effective since it satisfied all three conditions required by Community law ; it is adequate in relation to the damage sustained by the claimant , since the claimant is put in the position in which she would have been had the discriminatory refusal to hire her not occurred , both as concerns the post of employment and the income therefrom ; it has a real deterrent effect on the defendant bank who will not only have to pay the amount of about seven years ' monthly salary , plus interest , but will furthermore find itself with an additional employee ( the claimant and the man hired in her stead ) ; it is the same sanction as the one imposed for any other illegal refusal to hire .
27 Greenwich was set up as a new meridian which would suit the astronomers ' convenience , and the government relied on them to make the new meridian into a suitable base-line for calculating the longitude .
28 Furthermore , the system also came under attack as being unfair — hence undermining consent by calling into doubt the legitimacy of both the mode of election and the government produced by it — and for facilitating the adversary relationship between the parties , a relationship that significantly influenced public policy , but did so in a manner harmful to the interests of the country .
29 She is with child and the bumping added to her sickness .
30 It was dark now , but warmer than when they had left the coast nearly two hours before , and the air tasted like something breathed through a hot towel .
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