Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The amazing naked cat — the Canadian Sphynx — lacks both guard and awn hairs and has only a soft fuzz of down hairs on its extremities . |
| 2 | Your recollections will no doubt revive a lot of memories for many of our older readers and provide quite a few talking points for younger ones . |
| 3 | Away from her mother and father and sister and grandmother was bad enough , but the worst thing for Belle was opening her eyes and seeing only the walls around her . |
| 4 | The gardener narrowed long , grey-blue eyes and made never a move . |
| 5 | Claudia opened her eyes and blinked away the tears . |
| 6 | The vestry itself was so familiar from childhood memories that Dalgliesh could have taken one quick glance , shut his eyes and spoken aloud an inventory of high church piety : the packets of incense on top of the cupboard ; the incense holder and censer ; the crucifix and , behind the faded red serge curtain , the lace-trimmed vestments and the short starched surplices of the choir . |
| 7 | Geelong forward Gary Ablett led his team with a record-breaking nine goals and became only the second person to win the most valuable player award while playing on a losing side . |
| 8 | But , while this is broadly true , many do this within only general guidelines and have therefore an important , if subordinate , policy-making role . |
| 9 | As a politician and a realist , Citrine recognised that his plans needed the support of his new colleagues , and consequently that he would have to make tactical concessions and choose carefully the issues on which to fight . |
| 10 | In 1969 he formed a committee to raise funds and got together a band of volunteers who transformed the churchyard . |
| 11 | It takes them long enough to cut a way through to the chimney of the air shaft , sawing through the rhodie branches and tearing away the brambles and other undergrowth ; then they lever off the iron grating over the shaft without any difficulty , and one of the younger cops , in an overall and a hard hat , wraps the rope around himself — proper climbing rope they had in the back of one of the Range Rovers — and abseils down into the darkness . |
| 12 | But the long smelly trails snaking along the branches and renewed repeatedly every night , also mark out the main highways through the tree so that , if necessary , the bush babies can scamper along them at considerable speed in the pitch blackness . |
| 13 | His red , lumpy features were transfigured and he stopped being a badly assembled mass of fleshy fragments and became instead a vital man . |
| 14 | Often this sort of breathing is accompanied by raising the shoulders and pushing forward the front part of the chest ; it does not take in much air or provide the opportunity to have much control over it . |
| 15 | The achievement has taken 17 months and covers nearly every aspect of Atlas Copco 's business including installation , service schemes , training and inspection testing . |
| 16 | He conquered Cyprus in three months and established there a base of operations for the Christian forces in the East . |
| 17 | The Frisian , Liudger , later bishop of Münster , was studying at York under Alcuin when civil disturbances at York , involving Frisians and presaging perhaps the eventual overthrow of Alhred , obliged Alcuin to send him back to Frisia . |
| 18 | An innovation in organisation sectorisation resulted in the regions losing their business roles and becoming purely the providers of services and facilities . |
| 19 | It is not going to be an easy time for the Government ; but if it fails to face up to the fiscal deficit it will risk a crisis of confidence developing later which would require more drastic remedies and put both the recovery and the reduction in unemployment at risk . |
| 20 | It is not going to be an easy time for the Government ; but if it fails to face up to the fiscal deficit it will risk a crisis of confidence developing later which would require more drastic remedies and put both the recovery and the reduction in unemployment at risk . |
| 21 | From the same console , log in to the other two servers and follow exactly the same procedures , except that you type login rbg-2/supervisor and login rbg/supervisor , using the other passwords supplied . |
| 22 | There are many arthropods associated with human disease , ranging from the larvae of certain flies such as the ‘ Congo maggot ’ which are obligatory tissue parasites and eat away the flesh of an infested person , to the scorpion whose sting can cause serious illness and in some cases , particularly children , even death . |
| 23 | This first violent incident in over three months of continued demonstrations raised political tensions and led both the CDU and LDPD to threaten leaving the government . |
| 24 | On 13 June the Court of Appeal decided that the union was not accountable for its shop stewards and set aside the fines . |
| 25 | When he had turned two corners and gone about a quarter of a mile , he gave Dann the pistol . |
| 26 | It measures some 205 by 30 feet and extends almost the whole width of the building . |
| 27 | Proposals such as these went a long way to alleviate Chinese concerns and brought closer the possibility of a summit meeting between the two leaderships for which Soviet spokesmen had for some time been calling . |
| 28 | Relatively recently , feminist scholars , now drawn closer through common experience to an older generation many of whose values they had challenged , have extended their concerns and pushed forward a more subtle questioning of women 's experience of ageing and how it might differ from men 's as a result of inequalities right through the life cycle . |
| 29 | The intention — set out in Plan for Action — was to increase consultant numbers by 2.8% a year while keeping constant the number of senior registrars and reducing modestly the number of career registrars . |
| 30 | At this time I began , having been converted through reading the gospels , carefully to read the book of Acts and discovered there a level of Christian effectiveness of which I knew very little . |