Example sentences of "and [noun sg] [prep] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he was irritated by Blanche 's upper-class accent , cleverness and rapid promotions , Brian Spittals secretly admired her obstinacy and willingness to buck the system . |
| 2 | He was the scion of a noble and highly educated family , and correspondent of Gregory the Great . |
| 3 | If one photographed the boat with the sun behind one , as regulation photography requires , the film would record a white haze of boat , and contrast into darkness the less intensely lighted surrounds . |
| 4 | Acquired as a corroded fuselage frame , upper/lower wing panels and a fin & rudder in 1988 , restoration has meant fabricating the undercarriage , acquiring a Lynx radial engine ( on loan from the Italian Air Force Museum ) and building from scratch the tailplane , elevator and engine cowlings . |
| 5 | This initial mobilisation was carried out at the beginning of March with all staff receiving company induction , full food hygiene training and safety induction and familiarisation on board the two installations . |
| 6 | The contract is for catering and housekeeping on board the accommodation vessels the Safe Holmia and Port Royal . |
| 7 | So when Scotland Yard sent us photographs of criminals that we were dealing with , we used to have to take this descriptive form and photograph to Walters the photographers in Plane , and he charged sixpence to copy the photograph . |
| 8 | Only 80 of the Royal Navy 's 124 ships of 50 guns or more had proved fit for service , fewer than the 40 Spanish and 50 French ships of the line , and both in seaworthiness and weight of gunfire the best French and Spanish ships out-classed the finest English vessels . |
| 9 | Here the total absence of signals led to every kind of confusion , but its point was a testing of the function of such signals : did the normal ‘ framing ’ of such situations , which at the restaurant table might follow word by word and action by action the scene of a play , inhibit or qualify the responses of ‘ others ’ / ‘ an audience ’ ? |
| 10 | Subsoil East and north-east of Sézanne the subsoil is substantially chalk , both Belemnite and Micraster . |
| 11 | In the middle of May they had imprisoned Sir Roger Clarendon , who was , so the common people said , natural son to the great Edward , the Black Prince , and half-brother to Richard the king . |
| 12 | Having proved he can hurt everyone , Clinton then has to do the Democrat thing , and attempt to fine-tune the economy . |
| 13 | The resolution gave the USSR President , Supreme Soviet and Council of Ministers the responsibility of ensuring " the legal rights of every person living in Lithuania " and the observance on Lithuanian territory of " the rights and interests of the USSR and the union republics " . |
| 14 | Very little , given the security and peace of mind the benefits give you . |
| 15 | And it was asking too much of readers that they should insulate Eliot the editor and editorialist from Eliot the poet ; so that they should read ‘ Ash-Wednesday ’ without feeling that they were being nudged into the Roman Catholic or the Anglo-Catholic church — |
| 16 | What I often do is get the drummer to play , and if he 's a little uneven with his touch , I 'll take what he 's played from the tape machine , go through a MIDI trigger device and record onto Creator the notes from his bass drum and snare . |
| 17 | In the death and resurrection of Jesus the two gardens of Eden and eternal life are joined . |
| 18 | Gradually , the animal is moved nearer and day by day the phobia can be reduced in intensity until eventually the victim can actually hold a kitten . |
| 19 | There 's piles of junk and stuff in tins the children should n't touch and stuff like that … ’ |
| 20 | Through the love and compassion of Jesus the missionary is able to return time after time until this love has broken through and the message is accepted . |
| 21 | At the close of the service , while Charles kneeled in prayer , Leo placed a diadem on the king 's head and pronounced : ‘ God grant life and victory to Charles the Augustus , crowned by God great and pacific Emperor of the Romans ’ . |
| 22 | He sees surveillance as the ‘ mobilising of administrative power ’ with the storage and control of information the key way in which such mobilisation takes place . |
| 23 | In Minister for Arts , Heritage and Environment v. Peko-Wallsend the property in question comprised mining rights held by the respondents in an area known as Kakadu National Park , Stage 2 . |
| 24 | Although in Minister for Arts , Heritage and Environment v. Peko-Wallsend the treaty had been entered into prior to the listing of Kakadu , in Re Ditford , ex parte Deputy Commissioner of Taxation the case was cited as authority for the proposition that Australian courts have disclaimed entitlement to adjudicate upon decisions by the executive concerning the exercise of its treaty-making power . |
| 25 | Finally , the general nature of relations and activities in units , a tendency to interrelate with users on a very personal level , influenced the general style and approach to instruction the librarians/information officers viewed as desirable . |
| 26 | Right Comfort and style on board the luxurious ‘ Orient Express ’ . |
| 27 | As the guardians and voice of nature the green pressure groups are more effective than any political party . |
| 28 | Gary McKeown slanted over an inviting ball , but it was criminal negligence for the visitors to allow Gary Paterson the time and space to chest the ball down before burying it in the net . |
| 29 | Gary McKeown slanted over an inviting ball , but it was criminal negligence for the visitors to allow Gary Paterson the time and space to chest the ball down before burying it in the net . |
| 30 | About a third of the public water supplies in Britain come from groundwater ; in the south and east of England the proportion is locally much greater . |