Example sentences of "power and [noun sg] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ross … please , Ross … ! ’ she gasped , desperate for the power and thrust of his flesh , which alone could bring release from the ever-mounting , passionate excitement that was shaking her slender form . |
| 2 | The melodic line must stand out with the greatest power and clarity in our arrangement , and obviously calls for a great sweep of strings . |
| 3 | The less upward social mobility is possible , the more visible class boundaries become , and the harder it is for energetic , ambitious and talented people from non-elite backgrounds to move into positions of power and prestige through their own efforts . |
| 4 | The rivets of personal weapons were capped with silver in order to make them better symbols of the superior power and prestige of their owners , not to render them more effective in actual warfare ( fig. 24 ) . |
| 5 | But Modigliani saw the torment in the deep , hooded eyes and admired the power and fantasy of his work . |
| 6 | But on the other hand , when the great came into contact with the king , when he held his councils and parliaments , when he decided that a mighty subject had stepped out of line , or had acquired too much power and wealth for himself , as happened to James V 's former favourite Sir James Hamilton of Finnart , executed in 1540 : then there was a high level of direct interventionist rule , very tough and irresistibly powerful . |
| 7 | This type of imbalance , it is suggested , reflects deeply rooted divisions of power and wealth in our society . |
| 8 | It can only be realised fully by involving able people and delegating power and responsibility to them in ways which allow the whole organisation to take responsibility for outcomes and for future action . |
| 9 | Steam power and storage of their catches in ice were among the developments that brought increased efficiency to the trawler fleets , but the fleet — once Britain 's largest — has been depleted because of over-fishing and the ‘ Cod Wars ’ with Iceland . |
| 10 | He turned suddenly and saw her and she was held motionless by his gaze , caught without any hope of escape , mesmerised by the power and intensity of his whole being . |
| 11 | Bentham and the utilitarians , Marx and Engels , Pareto and Mosca , the Fabians , the American pragmatists , provide examples of political thinkers — admittedly differing widely in the power and range of their theories — who have influenced political life by giving a new orientation to the actions of classes , elites or other groups in their societies , partly by shaping opinion , partly by a direct involvement in social movements and political parties . |
| 12 | Pre set microwave programmes take the guess work out of cooking by calculating over temperatures , microwave power and timing for you . |
| 13 | The oboe tends to lose power and body in its upper register , but with the clarinet the opposite is the case . |
| 14 | Such knowledge is always centred in a self even though it is outward looking , searching for power and control of what is other to it . |
| 15 | Two aspects , its leading role as patron of the arts , and its growing power and ambition in its relationship with the kings , are amply documented . |
| 16 | To all whom this epistle shall come , Greetings — Whereas we have been credibly informed by our well-beloved subject the right honourable Lord Clovelly , of Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk , and on behalf of our well-beloved subject Christopher Everard , Gentleman , that the said Christopher Everard hath lately discovered several Islands in the Hesperidean seas towards the continent of America , the one called Saint Thomas 's , alias Everhope ( though this be error ) , or in the native tongue Liamuiga , and another , as the savages of those parts name it , Oualie ; that we are further informed that these said Islands are possessed and inhabited only by the aforementioned savages and heathen people , and are not , nor at the time of the discovery were , in the possession or under the government of any Christian Prince , state or potentate , and thereupon the said Christopher Everard , being set forth and supplied on our shores for that purpose , made entry into the said Islands for and on behalf of our dear Father in heaven , and hath since with the consent and good liking of the natives made some beginning of a plantation and colony and likewise of an hopeful trade there , and hath caused divers of our subjects of this realm to remove themselves to the said Islands with purpose to proceed in so hopeful a work : KNOW THEREFORE that the said Lord Clovelly and Christopher Everard may be encouraged and the better enabled with the more ample maintenance and authority to effect the same , We do command the said Christopher Everard to be possessed of the said Islands and all our other loving subjects under him : And of our especial great and certain knowledge have given and granted unto the said Christopher Everard during our pleasure custody of the aforesaid Islands and of every creature , man , woman and child upon them together with full power and authority for us and in our name and as our Lieutenant to govern rule and order all . |
| 17 | Within the Tory Party , what ultimately matters is not how many friends you have , but rather the power and strength of your enemies . |
| 18 | The spectre of the great apostasy was always a threat to the more ideologically committed evangelicals but Terence O'Neill 's reforms , tepid and half-hearted as they were , raised the spectre to a power and status from which it threatened a far greater number of rural Presbyterians who saw the proposed changes as proof that Paisley had been right all along . |
| 19 | Pizzorno argues that the modern underdevelopment of the south of Italy can only be understood in terms of the historical relationship of area to the locations of power and productivity by which it has been dominated and to which it has been marginal . |
| 20 | In the period between albums , they 've managed to harness the raw power and aggression of their songs to greater effect live . |
| 21 | El " The Deity " , God in the power and distinctiveness of his divine nature . |
| 22 | Unlike Margery , this wife knows exactly the power and value of her own sexuality — its power to allure and gratify men ( and herself ) , and its current exchange value in direct cash terms . |