Example sentences of "[art] pair [prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ILHU president , Joan McCloy , presented the pair with silver shamrocks at a function in the House of Sport last night . |
| 2 | IF THE Hongkong and Shanghai Bank goes ahead with a takeover of Midland Bank , it may have to replace the pair of bronze lions that grace the entrance to its headquarters with a more appropriate symbol — such as a couple of ducks . |
| 3 | The sperm , too , develops by division of a 46-chromosome cell , but the pair of sex cells differs — one is X-shaped ( " female " ) and one Y-shaped . |
| 4 | ( 10.14 ) With this , ( 10.13 ) reduces to the pair of Legendre equations ( 10.15 ) and a class of solutions of ( 10.13 ) can be expressed as a sum of products ( 10.16 ) where and are Legendre functions of the first and second kinds respectively , and a n , q n , Pn and b n are series of arbitrary constants . |
| 5 | The pair of boxing gloves supposedly illustrating a rival party 's ‘ double whammy , ’ or twin blows , misused an Americanism . |
| 6 | The alert might recall that various groups have made unusual , tenuous ‘ crystals ’ out of small numbers of ions suspended in a magnetic field ; the pair of mercury ions in the new experiment constitutes the simplest such crystal . |
| 7 | Here one of the pair of reaction primers is deliberately designed so that its 3' terminal residue lies precisely at the point mutation site . |
| 8 | White flung the pair of lemon panties he 'd had scrunched up in his coat pocket on to the arm of the chair I was sitting in . |
| 9 | They were standing on the lawn in front of the lovely red-brick house with its weathered old red tiles and its tall chimneys , and Miss Honey still had the pair of garden clippers in one hand . |
| 10 | So probably a total stock of a dozen or more White Clouds , a dozen Zebra Danios , five female and one male American Flags ( females have a dot on the dorsal fin ) , six Black Widows and Six Red Eyes , with perhaps six Rosy or Aurulius barbs ( though I have my doubts about the later having once come across three three-inch specimens that tried to eat Corydoras for breakfast ) and the pair of sluggard cats . |
| 11 | What the pair of county ladies thought of its mid-thigh hemline Harry could not imagine , but he for one was not about to object to the brush of her black-stockinged knees against his drab-trousered legs . |
| 12 | But when someone tried to test the security of the spare wheel attached to the side of the body by pulling at it roughly and then , intrigued by the pair of leather driving-gauntlets resting on the front seat , fitted them on and passed them around for general examination he decided it was time to leave . |
| 13 | Designed especially for the North and South Duveen Galleries , this work is closely related to ‘ Two forged rounds for Buster Keaton ’ , the pair of steel cylinders shown at Larry Gagosian 's downtown space in New York exactly a year ago . |
| 14 | The pair from council flats in Morpeth Avenue , Easterside , had to be treated for the effects of smoke inhalation at South Cleveland Hospital . |
| 15 | Every pair of training shoes should carry a government health warning : ‘ Danger jogging can damage your health ’ … |
| 16 | A few are known , however , in the fourth century , including a pair with turf walls in the extra-mural area at Towcester and two late timber examples at Alcester . |
| 17 | I had a pair of tennis shoes , but Callahan vetoed these along with my ‘ suit ’ . |
| 18 | Ryan , who gave Johanna a pair of satin pyjamas for Christmas , said they often went to the seaside at Great Yarmouth together and he got on well with her parents . |
| 19 | While in the summer you might get away with a pair of trail boots , I would always want to wear something more substantial for traditional British hill-walking . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's got a pair of cutter things ! |
| 21 | A pair of oak armchairs by George Walton , whose design was used in the famous Charles Rennie Mackintosh Buchanan Street Tearooms in Glasgow brought £6,000 ( est. £400–600 ) . |
| 22 | Striped blazer with brass buttons , tennis ‘ whites ’ , blue shoes with white spats , a pair of kid gloves held casually in his left hand , here was young , working-class Glasgow out on a spree . |
| 23 | Helen 's magpie instincts for collecting extend to her bedroom , home for her £8 bed , where a simple decorating scheme is enhanced by a nostalgic collection of old hats and hatboxes , a pair of kid gloves , some theatre posters , a china doll and a host of other pretty objects , many gleaned from local markets . |
| 24 | ‘ According to her , a peaked cap in a fine black-and-white check , a pair of kid gloves and his wrist watch . |
| 25 | The two women stopped and each bought a packet of sewing needles and a pair of collar studs . |
| 26 | Further investigation revealed a small space which would nevertheless accommodate a pair of bunk beds , a chest of drawers and a rail for clothes . |
| 27 | After a while the bag of shoes came up , then two of the men , then a pair of sea boots , floating soles upwards . |
| 28 | A pair of buckskin breeches was provided for him , as well as a coat and waistcoat of cloth and a plain round hat , with a fustian close jacket for morning work . |
| 29 | The Toyota has a pair of Simulknit levers labelled 0 and S. These should be on S for Simulknit and O for everything else . |
| 30 | Anyone who could hold a pair of knitting needles was expected to knit socks , balaclava helmets and scarves for the fighting men . |