Example sentences of "and [noun] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The emotional problems contained in ‘ customs , ceremonies and dogmas left behind by the original relation to the father may have made it possible for later generations to take over their heritage of emotion ’ . |
| 2 | In the corner of one of their fields the younger brother 's wife built a shelter of leaves and twigs draped across with a shawl and put her baby beneath it to shield her from the alternate onslaughts of sun and showers . |
| 3 | Past a small shop where there were farmers ' boots and garden forks and rakes stacked outside despite the rain , and stickers in the window for frozen foods . |
| 4 | Owls and foxes called eerily in the breathy chill . |
| 5 | THE NUCLEUS sits at the heart of the atom , its constituent protons and neutrons bound together by the strong nuclear force . |
| 6 | Most younger counsellors will have learnt about the war from texts , films and documentaries based essentially on the political view of history . |
| 7 | Baseball fans point out that Jackson bats right-handed and throws left instead of the other way round and was anyway more villain than hero , a theory the film never discusses . |
| 8 | Mrs Rumney was shout to lead me through to the kitchen when the door burst open and Cedric bounded delightedly into the midst of the company . |
| 9 | The Frenchman nodded his assent without displaying any interest in the request , and Joseph bounded immediately into the lower branches of the tree nearest him . |
| 10 | Biblical criticism had undermined the Bible story , and physicists and geologists chipped away at the events depicted in the first book of Genesis . |
| 11 | Only a trickle of progress reports have so far found their way back to Buckinghamshire 's education department , but they confirm the trend nationally of a poor overall response and turnout confined principally to a hardcore of parents , generally stalwarts of a school parent-teacher association . |
| 12 | The medium-rise deck access maisonettes and flats built here on a slum clearance site in the 1960s were very unpopular and by the late 1970s had become difficult to let . |
| 13 | It 's a frustrating exercise to wander backwards and forwards through a full-sized abstract , its plans and pages held together by a thread or a rusty pin , pursuing some trivial and tedious point . |
| 14 | Ash and smoke blown away on the wind ! ’ |
| 15 | It showed three little girls in sandals and sundresses grouped together with a spaniel dog . |
| 16 | The triggers for Britain 's nuclear bombs were tested within their thick concrete walls and they housed the first experiments into radar.The buildings , on a remote spit of land on the Suffolk coast , may not be the oldest but they are certainly among the most historic and sinister in the ownership of the National Trust.They are on Orford Ness , a desolate wildlife haven , which has become the Trust 's latest acquisition at a cost of £3.5 million.Yesterday , in pouring rain and silence broken only by the eerie shriek of gulls , the buildings were shown to journalists for what is thought to be the first time since they were erected.Strands of barbed wire and a Ministry of Defence ‘ keep out ’ notice are now the only remaining evidence of the tight security , overseen by armed guards , which surrounded one of Britain 's most secret research establishments . |
| 17 | From the middle of the nineteenth century , Glasgow 's population rocketed , to make it Britain 's third largest city , and its docks and shipyards stretched westward from the Govan and Clydebank districts towards the estuary as far as Port Glasgow and Greenock ( q.v . ) . |
| 18 | Yet the sensitivities of both for the sufferings of men , women , and children drawn unwillingly into the war reflect something of the way in which thinking men asked themselves whether war was , in fact , not so much a way to peace as the prolongation of bitter conflict . |
| 19 | But if noise is the point at which language buckles and culture fails , then you could argue that noise occurs in moments , tiny breakages and stresses dispersed all over the surface of music , all kinds of music . |
| 20 | Without engaging in processes such as these , nobody would have been able to create the procedures and systems mentioned above in the first place . |
| 21 | And streets laid straight as a die , ’ |
| 22 | ‘ All costs charges and expenses incurred hereunder by the bank or by the receiver in perfecting or otherwise in connection with this security or in respect of the property hereby charged including ( without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing ) all costs of all proceedings for the enforcement of the security hereby constituted or for obtaining payment of the moneys hereby secured or arising out of or in connection with the acts authorised by clause 7 hereof ( whether or not such costs charges and expenses and moneys or part thereof would be allowable on a party and party or solicitor and own client taxation by this court ) shall be recoverable from the companies as a debt … and shall be charged on the premises comprised herein … |
| 23 | The largest cemetery with both inhumations and cremations extended southwards along the London Road , with more isolated burials at Murrell Hill and Botcherby . |
| 24 | Others are bound to arise ; not least because , as the Soviet Union cracks apart , documents and material taken there after the war may drift back into the hands of historians . |