Example sentences of "and [adv] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 PATRICIA COCKBURN was the widow of the journalist Claud Cockburn and a remarkable and resourceful woman , an intrepid traveller , an inspired gardener and latterly a creator of shell paintings .
2 If the question of professional misconduct had been pursued the issue would not merely have been the efficacy of the Code but the power of the employer against the strength and stature of the profession , and thence the credibility of the profession .
3 But , once it exists , it can become a shackle rather than an inspiration , and when it does do so , one has to seek to destroy it , and thence the animus of Russell 's attacks on organized religion .
4 The inedibility of the early land plants to animals and , apparently , fungi led to the great Coal Measures of the Carboniferous and thus to the fuel of the Industrial Revolution and thence the technology for the destruction of those forests ' successors .
5 The formative advantages of the record are considerable ; it provides an on-going record which can be used for evaluative purposes by student , teacher and parent , and thereby a basis for the consideration of future planning of learning and teaching .
6 So far we have considered man-made materials where the composition reflects the processing , but the composition of materials such as stones and gems , which were used without chemical modification , can also sometimes indicate their source , and thereby the authenticity of artefacts made from them .
7 These indicators of the native film industry 's weakness encouraged The Federation of British Industries to intensify its campaign to bring attention to the way in which the disappearance of British films from the world 's screens impacted on ‘ the prestige of the country as a whole , and thereby the prestige of British industry also ’ .
8 Sandor Rado , in an article devoted to the elucidation of manic-depressive disorders , expresses the opinion that ‘ At the bottom of the melancholiac 's profound dread of impoverishment there is really simply a dread of starvation … drinking at the mother 's breast remains the radiant image of unremitting , forgiving love , ’ and he adds that ‘ It is certainly no mere chance that the Madonna nursing the Child has become the emblem of a mighty religion and thereby the emblem of a whole epoch in our Western civilization .
9 New drug delivery systems could make use of the interactive facility of the ocular glycoproteins and the corneal surface to prolong the retention of , and thereby the bioavailability of , drugs .
10 In 1912 , Key wrote of the women 's movement as ideally winning back ‘ the wife to the husband , the mother to the children , and thereby the home to all ’ .
11 Now I felt in a position to explore the fate of this culture , and thereby the roots of the contemporary political landscape .
12 And by improving the condition of any one of these four vital aspects of yourself , you will actually be improving the other three and thereby the quality of the life you live .
13 This more positive role adopted by the CNAA in recent years as a direct consequence of the financial cuts inflicted on polytechnics by the government and by the local authorities , cuts which if they go too deep are bound adversely to affect the quality of the work and thereby the quality of the courses validated by the CNAA .
14 In this section we want to look firstly at why banks have an interest in expanding the volume of deposits and thereby the stock of money .
15 As a successful town , it is not unlikely that it also became a pagus centre for part of the Dobunni and additionally the residence of the regionarius mentioned above ( p. 34 ) .
16 Contact is then set up between these groups and eventually a member of the computer department , called , usually , a systems analyst , will be assigned to assess the feasibility of such a system , and a communication or dialogue is begun between the systems analyst and members of the user department .
17 He also studied the problem of how a single original population becomes divided up into varieties ( subspecies ) and eventually a range of distinct ‘ daughter ’ species .
18 The result would have been world wars and migrations and eventually a weakening of life-instincts in favour of a self-destructive ethic of murder and suicide like that of the Fijians .
19 It was therefore timely that the RIBA should have been approached by a number of parties interested in publishing the Journal and eventually a deal with The Builder Group was struck by the Institute .
20 From the primitive ‘ animism ’ ( a word invented by him ) the road led to the higher monotheistic religions , and eventually the triumph of science which , capable of explaining increasingly large areas of experience without reference to spirit , would ‘ in one department after another substitute for independent voluntary action the working out of systematic law ’ .
21 He started in plastics , working from Coventry and Spondon , and joined Courtaulds Central Trading in the mid-1970s — a move that took him to East Germany , Yugoslavia and eventually the whole of Eastern Europe .
22 It is believed that the last trip was run on April 16th , and eventually the Ministry of Defence advertised the track and other materials for sale by tender , the closing date being 4th October 1966 .
23 This has not yet been discovered and we do not know what the machines are for — rather as nineteenth-century people did not know about plutonium and nuclear reactors — so we do not know what such developments will lead to in terms of aesthetic and economic considerations , and eventually the effects on the landscape and the settlements in it .
24 Boys will choose their mothers as sexual object , and eventually the identification with the father conflicts with the object-choice of the mother .
25 The nested technique is often helpful , and eventually the products of polymerase chain reactions may even be analysed by Southern blotting to gain further absolute sensitivity .
26 Certainly , mixed race children are regarded as black by society and eventually the majority of such children will identify with blacks , except in instances where reality and self-image have not merged ( Bagley and Young , 1982 ) .
27 Both rows converge upon St Machar 's Cathedral , and then wander their separate ways through Seaton Park to the River Don , and eventually the Brig o' Balgownie — ; although Johnson does not seem to have walked that far .
28 A void grows around the sewer or in the vicinity of it and eventually the ground above collapses into the void .
29 The tenant 's business was rendered uneconomic and eventually the terms of the lease were renegotiated at a cost of £122,220 to the tenant .
30 The result was that , as late as 1953 , 30MW sets were still being ordered , no decisive commitment to the larger sets with more advanced steam conditions had been made , and effectively the majority of the sets planned for the whole of the 1950s were of conservative design .
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