Example sentences of "and the [noun] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In France , incentives for development plans on farms are enhanced , and the conditions of eligibility somewhat relaxed , in the LFAs . |
| 2 | In addition , individual investors face the extra paperwork of dealing in such shares and the cost of banks etc converting the dividends into sterling and holding the certificates . |
| 3 | Zen and the Art of Makebelieve maybe . |
| 4 | Different tiers of government refused to co-operate ; Liverpool City Council disbanded inner-city working parties and incorporated Urban Programme issues into mainstream committees ; and the Secretary of State steadily distanced himself from what he perceived to be a largely meaningless ‘ talking shop ’ . |
| 5 | If the list of persons is compiled in accordance with an Order made by the Secretary of State and the Secretary of State then makes the appointment , then it is the Secretary of State who is responsible for all stages of the process and we still have a centrally appointed er part of the of the er of the local authority . |
| 6 | It would be rather pointless , for example , to count the number of nouns per sentence , or the number of intransitive verbs per noun : these frequencies would be difficult to interpret , because the result would be affected by independent variables , namely the length of sentences , and the frequency of nouns respectively . |
| 7 | The common threat of war produces greater cohesion in a community , reducing the risk of individual isolation and the level of suicide too . |
| 8 | However , the evidence upon which basic standards were criticised was far from sound and the level of analysis about , for example , a core curriculum was low . |
| 9 | Macmillan , however , saw that amalgamation of the Service Ministries and the Ministry of Supply concurrently with sweeping changes in Defence policy would be more than the Defence establishment could take . |
| 10 | THE Japanese government is expected to introduce further measures to prop up Tokyo 's fragile stock market next week , following a meeting between the ‘ big four ’ stockbroking companies and the Ministry of Finance yesterday . |
| 11 | Within its shaking beams , there was nothing to be heard and nothing to be felt but the scream and roar of the wind , and the clattering percussion of objects striking the walls and the shutters , and the thunder of water outside , becoming louder and louder under a chattering ground-base of discarded boulders . |
| 12 | The film opened on 2,400 screens across the United States before opening in Britain and the rest of Europe later in the summer . |
| 13 | The people did so , and the Archbishop of Canterbury then addressed the assembly on the theme ‘ the voice of the people is the voice of God ’ , saying that by the unanimous consent of all the magnates Edward had been deprived of the government of his kingdom because of his inadequacy and his offences against Church and kingdom . |
| 14 | And go to words of meaning , erm and the descriptions of colours where men are more likely to say purple whereas women would describe it as aubergine or plum and go into more detail about the shading than the colour . |
| 15 | There is a tragic postscript to the tale of Vasco Núñez — a man judged by today 's historians to have been ‘ as kindly , loyal and competent a conquistadore as ever brought the cross and the banner of Castile overseas … |
| 16 | In the sultry haze of late August , the only noises were the cicadas , the splash of the children in the pool and the rumble of thunder away over the Gorges du Verdon . |
| 17 | Problems were more often solved when , after a day of hard , heated riding , the King repaired with his shrewdest advisers to the cool belvedere suspended over the castle 's north precipice , with its stupendous view to the sea , and the mountains of Asia beyond . |
| 18 | The reek grew stronger of flesh and carbon and gunpowder and smoke , and the chaos of noise more ferocious as at last Dulé came up behind the gaggle of the English defenders . |
| 19 | A happy , approachable Oliver Stone is a new phenomenon indeed — he is no a man known for his relaxed attitude on set , and the actors in Platoon especially were pushed to the limit . |
| 20 | The Developmental model of leadership advocated by Banner and Blasingame will require greater responsibility and the identification of leadership lower down the organisational structure than has traditionally been the case within either central or local government . |
| 21 | He embraced topics as diverse as oxygen recycling , air sterilisation using hydrogen peroxide and the treatment of sewage under zero gravity conditions . |
| 22 | An example of Wimsatt 's ( 1958 : 147 — 8 ) is what he calls the metaphor , and many would call the simile , in the last line of this passage from Donne 's ‘ A Valediction : forbidding mourning ’ ( like Eliot , the New Critics were particularly attached to the Metaphysical poets ) : The comparison between the lovers ' separation and the hammering of gold into leaf-form brings together two terms which are clearly quite different and therefore might justifiably be described as opposites ; and the conjunction of meanings thus established creates a series of connections ( the relationship between the separated lovers is like gold leaf in that it is ethereal ( ‘ ayery ’ ) , delicate , easily damaged , but at the same time precious , pure , bright , etc. ) , which when related to real experience possesses considerable illuminating force . |
| 23 | Rosenthal comments that ‘ the history of science generally , and the history of psychology more specifically , suggest that more of us are wrong longer than we need to be because we hold our theories not quite lightly enough . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Wine is excellent value for money and the range of wines now available to the Northern Ireland public has increased immeasurably . |
| 25 | For instance , the mean value for complete humeri for the kestrel assemblages is 44 per cent , and the range of values over three samples is 33–47 per cent . |
| 26 | So Paul is looking to the unconverted in Spain , the church in Rome at the heart of the secular empire , and the church in Jerusalem where there were social needs of poverty to be lovingly dealt with . |
| 27 | These include the idea of joint review of progress by students and teachers , and the idea of centre rather than pupil accreditation as the basis for the external moderation of records of achievement . |
| 28 | ‘ After Felt finished , I got the name and the idea of Denim straight away . |
| 29 | The whole of a small fortune might have gone down the drain , dribbled , you might say , through my inexperienced hands , but she never said a single word and the idea of failure never crossed my mind . |
| 30 | They are using all sorts of means to raise the cash , and despite the sacrifice and the lack of vacancies today , I am convinced that those who join now will all get jobs when they are qualified . |