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

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1 Not in a career sense , because the leaden weight that lay on her heart told her that his career was now Loxford with Quindale , Church End , New End and Snead until relieved by the trumpets of Doomsday , but as a person .
2 A Celtic deity associated with their craft was Tanaris ( or Taranis ) , the sky god , responsible for lightning and thunder and equated by the Celts with Jupiter .
3 But it is the Duchess herself who most obviously embodies those qualities of courage and fidelity that act as an antidote to the surrounding evil .
4 The author should imagine at his elbow a Querying Counsel criticising and cross-examining every phrase and sentence and pouncing on every lapse into " jungle " English or common jargon .
5 The charts given here are a little misleading , because Deneb has to be drawn on one section and Vega and Altair on the other , but the overall aspect is obvious enough .
6 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 ?
7 ‘ I 'm sure I do n't know for what act of yours the Deity has seen fit to bless us with mounted Normans , and shiploads of mercenaries , and woods that burn in a trice , but you must have dropped a word somewhere that commended itself . ’
8 A gene regulating testis determination and derived from a common mammalian ancestor would be expected to be conserved in sequence between eutherians and marsupials and to map to the marsupial Y chromosome .
9 Globally , the issue at stake is the complex relationship between Marxism and literature as exemplified in the life and work of a specific interwar French intellectual .
10 Even afterwards , when I was a teenager , I paid for my bad timing , coming just too early to enjoy the fun and freedom that waited round the corner .
11 Finally , it is pointed out that if times are indeed bad then , in the name of justice and humanity , more rather than less should be spent on those services in cash and kind that cater for the welfare of those in need .
12 David Land of the Bristol Hilton won the prize for best starter with his Cornish lobster poached in its shell , infused with dill , lemon and thyme and topped with a soft cheese sauce .
13 Hamburgers , oozing with fatty juices , bathed in mayonnaise and ketchup and partnered by a mountain of French fries , are hardly the stuff superman — or woman — is made of .
14 Mix breadcrumbs and herbs and press onto the lamb .
15 A PR executive thus needs to be placed so that he or she is aware of all issues , policies , attitudes and opinions that exist in the organisation that have a bearing upon how it is perceived by the organisation 's publics .
16 Fields in bird breeding areas directly to the north and west of Anglesey and Holyhead and bordering on the north west coastline of the Llyn Peninsula were excluded along with fields in breeding grounds of the bottle-nosed dolphin on the Moray Firth in Scotland and in Cardigan Bay , West Wales , were excluded .
17 Havelock is here , of course , giving authority to Goody 's distinction between ‘ oral ’ and ‘ literate ’ thinkers and their connection respectively with the concrete and experience as opposed to the abstract and impersonal .
18 Only by using as much knowledge and experience as resides in the whole school can both the broad issues of school management and the minutiae of its efficient operation be appropriately financed .
19 Nope we sat and le and the other day we got some chips , you know , me and Mikila and sat in the park
20 In the preamble to the final version of the Declaration released by Egyptian officials , contracting parties reaffirmed their " rejection of the aggressive course and alignment that occurred during the Iraqi aggression and occupation of the state of Kuwait " and recognized that it had " destroyed many of the concepts and achievements of joint Arab action " .
21 He has been stonewalling throughout the whole month since Lamb told the world , through the Daily Mirror , how the Pakistanis scuff and scrape and scoop at an old ball until it swings as though it was factory fresh .
22 Secondly , because the reserves in question , notes and coin and balances at the Bank of England , are liabilities of the Bank of England , then the Bank is itself the sole supplier of such reserves .
23 The Requalification team began to work closely with the co-ordinator and the authors , identifying the criteria to be achieved and monitoring and assisting with the progress documents .
24 SPSG does not itself undertake research : it facilitates , co-ordinates , organises , reviews and disseminates , the research work of others through the organisation of workshops and seminars ( particularly bringing researchers and policy-makers together ) ; helping to manage research for customers or ad hoc consortia ; evaluating research proposals and completed work and commissioning new work to fill gaps in our knowledge ; keeping UK policy makers aware of the results of research , whether originating in the UK or overseas ; and monitoring and advising on the training of science policy analysts and research administrators .
25 She gave us parties and disapproved of me teaching : Jennifer darling , surely you can get a job in a nice private girls ' school But when I was 14 and had awful tonsillitis she brought me lemon and honey and sat on the edge of the pillow holding my damp hand .
26 It produces an ice quite Ben Nicholson in the uniformity of colour , and there is an almost Rodinesque sumptuousness about the lumps and knobs that accumulate at the ends of the shelves .
27 Throughout this book I have suggested that it is important , in training children , to convey a reasonably coherent idea of the aims and objects that lie behind the training and supervision .
28 Have your tea , then you can either go up to the nursery and play or come in the kitchen with me and help me make a pie , whichever you like . ’
29 He was born deaf , dumb and blind and was also mentally-deficient , and died in 1902 before he could accede to the bewildering duties and titles that went with the Dukedom of Norfolk , Earl Marshal of England .
30 They stole cash and gems and escaped in the parents ' Mercedes .
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