Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] and [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just want to end up by saying I know it 's all about reduction for unemployed and the telephone this union has worked very hard with the community in Salford throughout the country if you just give me a moment , Mr President , I 'll get this unclear |
| 2 | At a post-crisis discussion between Mikoian and a State Department official , Mikoian was ‘ clearly influenced by commitments to Castro to make a strong case on Castro 's behalf ’ and tried to establish the idea of a protocol signed by all three countries ‘ [ attaching ] a good deal of significance to Cuba being one of the signatories ’ . |
| 3 | Although many of us are now working around disability issues professionally , the lull in activity by self-organized disability groups such as SAD and the Liberation Network feels as though it might be coming to an end . |
| 4 | So are Barcelona under Johan Cruyff , as if participating in a benign conspiracy : two good results for Real and the Toshack era takes off . |
| 5 | This time it is for real and The Black Crowes know it . |
| 6 | Johns suggests that in both English and Brazilian academic papers , the indicative/informative distinction correlates with the choice of tense : the present tense is used for indicative and the past tense for informative statements . |
| 7 | On July 18 the Kuwaiti Army was placed on a state of alert and the recently elected National Council [ see p. 37549 ] held an emergency session in camera to study the Iraqi charges . |
| 8 | There was also the occasional case of petty theft , street fighting or traffic offences which often ended up with a plea of Guilty and a fine of a few dollars or a short period in goal . |
| 9 | Within the Cabinet , it was , paradoxically , Snowden — usually regarded as a sea-green incorruptible on the issue of free trade — who , overcome by hatred of Labour and a desire to smash his old party , appeared to relish the idea of an early election in which Labour would go down to defeat . |
| 10 | A coalition consisting only of Labour and a party to its left would have immense trouble foisting the trauma of withdrawal on Israel . |
| 11 | He also felt strongly that a moderate reform programme was an essential means to destroy the menace of Labour and an essential prerequisite of military success and imperial expansion . |
| 12 | At Christmas receipts were £500 below normal and the club owed £100 in rent to the County Cricket Club . |
| 13 | It recognises the great value of oralism but it does not despise the natural language abilities of the deaf ; it utilises the efficiency of fingerspelling and recognises the limitations of lipreading and the inevitable imperfections in speech for the deaf although it does not reject them . |
| 14 | Besides his pioneering support for Russian and east European studies , Burrows was also responsible for the establishment of the Cervantes chair of Spanish and the Camoens chair of Portuguese . |
| 15 | Unemployment is clearly a more serious problem the greater is the number of unemployed and the longer is the average duration of unemployment spells . |
| 16 | When the laser reaches the pale stone surface the light emitted is bounced back instead of absorbed and the process ceases . |
| 17 | Everyone in the immediate area gets a present of fond and the following day other little presents of cake or Arabic sweet are often sent in return as a thank you . |
| 18 | The demes were organized into three groups ( or trittyes ) , coastal , in land and city , and these were artificially aggregated into bigger units called tribes , phylai : a trittys of coastal , a trittys of inland and a trittys of city demes went to make up one of the ten tribes of Attica , each of which sent fifty councillors to Athens . |
| 19 | In each tribe , as we have seen , there were a number of coastal , a number of inland and a number of city demes , about sixteen councillors from each type going to make up a trittys ( only in the tribe to which Acharnai belonged was this system modified , because twenty-two out of fifty councillors is already well over a third ) . |
| 20 | The smell of damp and the whisper of cobwebs combined to create an eerie , haunted feeling . |
| 21 | He must be a physician , having books of physick and a herbal by him . |
| 22 | They deserve a more sensitive environment that does not so harshly relegate them en masse to the category of ‘ old people ’ and does not emphasize , in attitudes and actions , their increasing dependency ; many need help , too , in coming to terms with the process of ageing and the major adjustments it entails — to retirement , to relinquishing their home , etc . |
| 23 | But policy assumptions about the economic costs of the elderly in future are premissed on bleak models of ageing and the ageing process , which Gail Wilson summarises as " downhill all the way " ( Wilson 1991 ) . |
| 24 | A highly individualistic vision , coloured by time and experience , focuses on everyday objects suggesting associations tinged with both the sadness of ageing and the insights of maturity . |
| 25 | Rudston is basically a farming community , but mechanisation and modernisation have resulted in much less employment than of old and the majority of people now travel out of the village to work . |
| 26 | Went round taking photos of old and the new . |
| 27 | I simply went and fetched a squeezer of magi-blue and a pair of my socks , in a pleasing electric blue . |
| 28 | As the distilled purity of pastoral and the fullness of desire give way to the absences which constitute them , so the journals move towards disenchantment , the acknowledgement of loss , and a sense of the futility of returning in order to recover an original intensity of being : |
| 29 | It still surprises me sometimes how difficult some children find it to distinguish between the drama world of pretend and the real world . |
| 30 | Incentives to do this may include avoiding the costs of a full hearing , and an opportunity to agree the level of fine and the wording of any press notice . |