Example sentences of "[noun] and [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the one hand there are the conventional rules of good manners and of correct behaviour ; on the other , the rules concerning sympathy and respect for others , keeping faith , honesty , and so on . |
| 2 | Yet in intellectual and to some extent in practical terms her attitudes were overwhelmingly conservative . |
| 3 | Spanish and Portuguese N. lapillus tend to live under mussel clumps and in this habitat banded shells are undoubtedly cryptic . |
| 4 | He wanted to settle , once and for all , the question of whether Riddle had made his last journey inside the Wheel and for that reason he was resolved to have it closely examined by an expert . |
| 5 | None the less , the attention they have rightly drawn to parochial religion and to non-predestinarian elements within the church should not be allowed to obscure the fact that during the period from 1560 to 1625 credal predestinarianism claimed the allegiance of the great majority of Elizabethan and Jacobean churchmen , or that during the 1630s this creed came under a concerted and unprecedented attack from the ecclesiastical authorities . |
| 6 | Myres believed that ‘ it should be possible to extract … some valuable information on the origin and distribution of the settlers , their relationship to the pre-existing population , their social and economic development , and their notions of religion and of decorative art ’ ( 1969 , p. 11 ) , although only the first and last of these aims were satisfied to any degree via the pottery . |
| 7 | They continue to have an impact on women 's involvement in public religion and on social attitude towards ‘ the female ’ . |
| 8 | He was very preoccupied with religion and at any hour of day or night might summon Alvares for a religious discussion . |
| 9 | He then spent eleven years in Leeds , first as curate at St Peter 's ( 1932–8 ) , during which he obtained an MA in the history and philosophy of religion and in Chinese studies at Leeds University , then as vicar of St Matthew 's , Holbeck . |
| 10 | Moreover , as patrons or practitioners of the arts and as future adult learners in all spheres of life , pupils should be given every opportunity to become familiar with — and derive pleasure and understanding from — the widest possible range of oral presentations : from plays , films and broadcasting to debates and public lectures . |
| 11 | It is central alike to a study of the arts and of such institutions as the monarchy and Parliament . |
| 12 | Or is Bailey merely articulating an ideology of Bohemianism for the arts and of undirected radicalism for social and political thought in general ? |
| 13 | The Emperor Hadrian , who was a great lover of the arts and of Greek architecture in particular , supervised the work himself . |
| 14 | The general degrees are named the MA(General) , the BSc ( SocSc ) and the BSc respectively , and the honours degrees are named the MA in Arts and in Social Sciences , and the BSc(Hons) in Science . |
| 15 | The other , hand-written , was similar : ‘ Lib Dem supporter voting Labour to kick Tory out in Croydon NW and for electoral reform . ’ |
| 16 | None can work well in isolation and for that reason it is reassuring that the CBI , in pressing its case for the TECs to be the local regulators of vocational training , stresses the importance of the young person 's ( and the adult worker 's ) " personal file " , building on the existing good practice of records of achievement in schools . |
| 17 | Other techniques may also be used , both in isolation and in various combinations . |
| 18 | In short , we still have to deal with a harmonic problem — the satisfactory effect of note-combinations both in isolation and in horizontal movement . |
| 19 | In 1816 , the year Davy 's lamp was introduced , J. H. H. Holmes , a mining inspector , published a book containing ‘ accounts of the explosions from fire damp which have occurred for the last 20 years ; their causes and the means proposed for their remedy and for general improvements of the mining systems by new methods of ventilation . ’ |
| 20 | He took the remedy and within ten minutes was fast asleep again . |
| 21 | ‘ Humpty Dumpty Haypot ’ , as Hayman was known by his colleagues , on account of his naked domed head , at once resigned his directorships , from the South Oxfordshire Conservative Association and from various charity committees — though he remained a member of the Travellers ' Club in Pall Mall and of MCC . |
| 22 | While much of the thinking during drowsiness maybe humdrum , as experiments involving waking people up during this state have shown , there are undoubtedly some unusual characteristics of style of thinking and of dreamlike imagery during drowsiness . |
| 23 | In early development there are styles of thinking and of social interaction that could constrain the design and management of computer-based resources . |
| 24 | Through traffic is usually reduced by road closures and speeds are cut by carriageway narrowings , small roundabouts and by various types of humps , which additionally increase conspicuity of intersections and other traffic . |
| 25 | a local government official , lawyer , accountant , banker , customs broker , labor contractor and in most cases the owner of factory land and buildings . |
| 26 | In the face of such unmitigated evil , the reaction of the community and the Government is one of grief and of righteous anger ; but I and my colleagues are absolutely determined that it must also be one of resolute and vigorous action . |
| 27 | Also , to use a light-pen system would require production of a database of the total library stock and of individual users . |
| 28 | This match was not just a game , it was a landmark and to all intents and purposes one ignored by the BBC . |
| 29 | It is impossible to exclude such liability in a consumer deal and in any non-consumer deal the clause is subject to the requirement of reasonableness . |
| 30 | Contributions were made to related work on fee tendering and on co-ordinated conditions of engagement by the Construction Industry Council . |