Example sentences of "and [prep] [noun pl] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An understanding of environmental problems is needed as a basis for policy making by national and local government , for the work of national and international agencies concerned both with use and conservation of natural resources , and for industries which inevitably have an environmental affect and education . |
| 2 | And for runners-up we also have 50 copies of Eric 's Unplugged album . |
| 3 | She was a fairy who married a mortal to gain a soul , and made a pact that he would never spy on her on Saturdays , and for years he never did , and they had six sons , all with strange defects — odd ears , giant tusks , a catshead growing out of one cheek , three eyes , that sort of thing . |
| 4 | However , the lack of any popular interest in the subject , and the opposition of the local authority associations and of councillors who often hold posts in the constituency organizations of their parties , prevented any action . |
| 5 | Cabinet minutes do not reveal the numerical division of opinion for and against decisions which then become Government policy by which , in theory at least , all Ministers are bound . |
| 6 | He pushed his bicycle up the hill from Wheatley station in the company of another new student who had a strangely similar background : of nonconformist origins , with his father an official of a nonconformist Church ; a young man who postponed his own confirmation into the Church of England because his parents might be hurt ; and who swung at the university from his very Protestant background into a sense of the devotional stature in Anglo-Catholicism , and into convictions which never left him for the rest of his life ; a graduate of Balliol College , by name Austin Farrer . |
| 7 | This is hardly surprising when it is remembered how far the world has changed in living memory , and in ways which inevitably made their mark on theology itself . |
| 8 | Sometimes they went to the cinema , sometimes they sat in coffee bars holding hands across the table , sometimes they walked in the park , and on Saturdays they almost always went to the dance . |
| 9 | And to women it rarely gave any opportunity at all . |
| 10 | In the first place the experience knitted these men together , both to one another and to others who subsequently made up ‘ the Establishment ’ . |