Example sentences of "[adj] and [pron] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd look to advice from the Ministry of Agriculture on this and their view to m their their willingness to make a positive contribution to the development of the e er assessment in terms of the er erm the availability and distribution of the the best and most versatile land . |
| 2 | The proposed change involved the deletion of this and its substitution by the following : |
| 3 | Me old man right , me uncle , me uncle used to live in a house which used to digging in the back garden , this piece of fucking dirt and he pulled out this and its sort of round , my old man 's gone , no he , he said er I would n't dig there any more |
| 4 | This and his link with Stevenson 's had served him well over the last few years , and he had become something of an expert in railway funding , especially in European railways . |
| 5 | This and his expression of heavy-lidded scepticism gave him more the appearance of an Old Etonian stockbroker than a policeman . |
| 6 | He commented specifically on this and his use of the Faulkner quotation by saying , ‘ When the writer has some urgency to speak , the subject matter becomes almost irrelevant . ’ |
| 7 | He was able to give a pagan friend power of attorney to act on his behalf , and so found an elegant way of keeping his conscience clear and his standing with the church unaffected . |
| 8 | Should the message be unfamiliar and its manner of delivery unappealing or otherwise distant from the recipient , its relevance or value are unlikely to be accepted . |
| 9 | He graduated in 1884 with a second-class honours degree in modern history , taking his BA in 1885 and his MA in 1897 . |
| 10 | As conditions were calm and my position at that time left me right for a downwind left join in an easterly direction , I elected to land this way and flew a normal downwind base and approach . |
| 11 | The agreement , reached after a meeting on Oct. 10-11 had ended in deadlock over the issue of Soviet tank quotas , followed a decision by the Soviet Union to cut its allocation of tanks by 150 to 13,150 and its artillery by 500 to 13,200 pieces . |
| 12 | Although they eschewed the large houses and endowments of the monks , they frequently attracted considerable wealth because of lay support for their fiery preaching and their concentration on the towns . |
| 13 | Secondly , this decline in fertility did occur in depressed industrial towns and among industrial groups whose prospects of unemployment were high and whose access to the ‘ acquisitive way of life ’ must have been limited by the fact that they were receiving some form of unemployment or health benefit and struggling to survive . |
| 14 | Entrance is free and our team of experts will be on hand to offer help and advice between 12 noon and 7pm daily . |
| 15 | Moreover his style is pleasantly direct and his inclusion of occasional personal allusions will encourage the lay reader to trust his judgement as a person and not only as a philosopher of science . |
| 16 | Recent data on the stratigraphy of the top surface of the Carboniferous and its depth below the Permian , Mesozoic and Cainozoic cover , as well as new gas fields ( found since 1978 ) have likewise been incorporated . |
| 17 | Kempe was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1881 and its treasurer in 1898 . |
| 18 | Most assemblies are , however , ‘ consociations ’ resulting from behaviours in which animals respond to each other 's presence in ways that establish their spacing in relation to one another and their occurrence in groups of certain age and sex composition . |
| 19 | Ironically , the autarkic model foisted by Stalin on his charges in the 1940s to maintain their isolation from one another and their dependency upon him had , by the 1960s , become something of a rallying point for regimes who in no other sphere enjoyed any tangible measure of independence . |
| 20 | Captain Kinloch himself died in 1775 and his widow in 1782 . |
| 21 | Edward had gained only the Agenais in 1279 and souther Sain-tongue in 1286 , although these were valuable additions to his lands , partly because of the number of new settlements or bastides previously founded in the Agenais by Alphonse de Poitiers , count of toulouse , between 1259 and his death without heirs in 1271 . |
| 22 | Hegel 's use of this Romantic tradition to develop his idealism with respect to the rationality of the actual and his striving for the transcendence of duality do , however , find their parallel in Simmel 's highly positive attitude to art , affirming its ability to express and overcome fragmentation . |
| 23 | We had not actually been ‘ on air ’ in Scotland for two years , such publicity as we had received had been more critical than favourable and our image in the marketplace had slipped . |
| 24 | However , it was on financial policies that he chose to oppose his senior colleague , the lord treasurer Thomas Osborne , first Earl of Danby [ q.v. ] , and in May 1676 he was dismissed , losing his pension in 1678 and his place in the council in 1679 . |
| 25 | It shows that something more must be said about what a convention is , about how much and what kind of agreement is necessary in order that a particular proposition of law can be true in virtue of a particular legal convention . |
| 26 | What was obvious , though , straightaway was that Mr Carver did n't talk much and his greeting of Mick was as to one of the family , indicated with a nod and a ‘ Hello , there ! ’ |
| 27 | These two areas will be case-studies in the second project which is a preliminary investigation into the transformation of ‘ regional economies ’ in England from 1500-1900 and their integration into a ‘ national economy ’ . |
| 28 | Most of their readers are young , white and male and their interest in the music scene is intense . |
| 29 | Unlike the people of the other Islamic groups , the Hui look Chinese : they are racially Chinese rather than Turkic and their classification as a ‘ national minority ’ is almost entirely on religious grounds . |
| 30 | I had a lot of help from people and erm well I 'm fairly adaptable and I sort of took over this job of Chief Administrator 's Assistant . |