Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [conj] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frederica said to Alexander , before he could say it to her , that there was an intrinsic problem in writing about artists , for how could he dramatise the battle with the colours and forms as opposed to the whore and the rival , the father , the brother , the nephew Vincent Van Gogh ? |
| 2 | They were promoted by local landowners and farmers or industrial and commercial interests and even by the clergy , and their active promoters in groups of around a dozen ran their affairs at monthly meetings , employed the paid surveyors and labourers and contracted for repairs . |
| 3 | She had become expert in at least three dishes while under the tuition of Sister Cecilia : the meat pudding , a lamb stew thickened with lentils , barley , and vegetables and topped with dumplings , and , a real piece of expertise : the making of light pastry with either pig 's fat or beef dripping . |
| 4 | A supplementary Chairman 's Statement incorporating financial forecasts and projections and issued with a view to deterring further takeover attempts . |
| 5 | Two of the best-known studies are Sutcliffe 's Bedford Survey and subsequent work mainly in Bedford , reported in Sutcliffe ( 1982a ) , and the study of the black community in Dudley , West Midlands , carried out by Edwards , Sutcliffe and associates and reported in Edwards ( 1986 ) . |
| 6 | Its task is the Defence of the Realm as a whole , from external and internal dangers arising from attempts at espionage and sabotage , or from actions of persons and organizations whether directed from within or without the country , which may be judged to be subversive of the State . |
| 7 | Indeed , tourism has been one of the crucial components in the west 's construction of the east , and a passage from Thomas Cook 's brochure for tours of Egypt and Palestine in 1925 encapsulates the Orientalist attitude : ‘ Native life and manners as seen from the steamer are as quaint a study as can well be imagined . |
| 8 | Nuclear extracts were prepared from UF9 and DF9 cells and nuclear proteins 32 P-labelled with protein kinase A , immunoprecipitated as described in materials and methods and analysed by SDS-PAGE . |
| 9 | The prosecution wanted the officers , who infiltrated a group of suspected hooligans , to testify behind a screen in sight of lawyers and defendants but hidden from the public to protect their identities . |
| 10 | The procedure of bringing the nail down and taking it back up is performed using a small platform , worked by an ancient system of ropes and pulleys and known as La Nivola , the ‘ little cloud ’ . |
| 11 | She wore smocked Liberty dresses and sandals and smoked in the street , considered very daring . |
| 12 | Milk was a local produce from Fauchon 's , Marsh Farm , this would be delivered around Lower Halling by hand-cart loaded with a churn and buckets and dispensed from the buckets with a half pint measure into jugs placed on windowsills , and covered with beaded doilies to keep out flies and dust . |
| 13 | The crowd of cockneys were singing along , rocking from side to side , men with arms around their wives and girl friends , tables stacked with glasses and bottles and littered with ashtrays and empty crisp packets . |
| 14 | The document was drawn up by the Association of Premier League and Football League Referees and Linesmen and launched by its president , John Deakin , at a London hotel yesterday . |
| 15 | Mark asked him how he could reconcile his views with what was clearly Britain s basic needs ; the need to maintain a strong manufacturing base as a defence capability ; the need to correct a massive and worsening trade deficit on manufactured products ; and the need to provide talented school-leavers with creative career opportunities in the manufacturing sector as designers , physicists , chemists and engineers as opposed to the more mundane jobs in the service sector as warehousemen and handlers of other countries ' goods . |
| 16 | Its overall conclusion was that such a policy increased the mutual respect and understanding of social workers and parents and contributed to improving the thinking , discussion and decision making . |
| 17 | Taking a photograph , I had stepped forward onto nothing and found myself flying through the air , cartwheeling like a rag doll , striking sharp edges and corners and buffeted by hard objects . |
| 18 | Whilst these original materials are no longer available , with the exception of red sanguine , modern equivalents in the form of crayons , chalks and pastels and made from related materials , are on sale in most art shops . |
| 19 | The charge that Braudel fails to relate événements to structures is , as we saw , amply justified ; but it comes to seem less destructive once we think of holists and individualists as engaged in separate projects . |
| 20 | Its task is the Defence of the Realm as a whole , from external and internal dangers arising from attempts of espionage and sabotage , or from actions of persons and organisations whether directed from within or without the country , which may be judged to be subversive of the State . |
| 21 | assists the Security Service [ M15 , M16 ] in defending the realm against attempts at espionage and sabotage or from the actions of persons and organisations whether directed from within or without the country which may be judged to be subversive to the State . |
| 22 | Educationalists and teachers , as well as members of the Government , must come to think of schools , polytechnics , and universities as engaged in a common enterprise . |
| 23 | According to the House of Commons Environment Committee our waste control regulations are a ‘ shambles ’ , and nothing has been done about nitrates and excessive use of pesticides and fertilizers as requested by the EC . |
| 24 | Indeed , Althusser claims to identify the origins of such an attitude in the law ; he suggests that the ideological notion of the legal subject as the owner of property was taken over by Kant and Descartes and transformed into the philosophical categories of subject and object . |
| 25 | Instead , despite the ostensible commitment to ‘ flexibility ’ there was apparently just one version of good practice , presented as a package of recommendations and principles and exemplified in the model classroom . |
| 26 | But discussions about quality in health care are characterised by lack of agreement about definitions and concepts and riven by struggles for professional " turf " ( Pollitt 1992 ) . |
| 27 | The emergence of the stream-of-consciousness novel at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries was obviously related to a huge epistemological shift in culture at large , from locating reality in the objective world of actions and things as perceived by common sense , to locating it in the minds of individual thinking subjects , each of whom constructs their own reality , and has difficulty in matching it with the reality constructed by others . |
| 28 | This offer may not be combined with any other offer or discount and is subject to Butlin 's normal terms and conditions as detailed in the current brochure . |
| 29 | This offer may not be combined with any other offer or discount and is subject to Butlin 's normal terms and conditions as detailed in the current brochure . |
| 30 | Sewell received some ‘ useful instruments for relieving sheep and cattle when afflicted with an over-distension of the stomach , from gas being evolved called Hoven ’ . |