Example sentences of "and the [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that he was clear of the hawthorn scent of the hedge and the reek of cattle dung , he became fully aware of what had already been drifting into his nostrils while he was lying among the thorn . |
| 2 | Eventually the attaché case and the slip of paper were retrieved from Colonel Bowers and taken to the rear seat of one of the cars . |
| 3 | But the overall Australian performance contained a number of false notes , and Messrs Sawle , Benaud ( J. ) , Higgs and Simpson extended themselves by dropping two from the squad , the doughty vice-captain Marsh and the toast of cricket a year ago , Mark Waugh . |
| 4 | The comedy in ‘ Hamlet ’ comes mainly from the scenes involving Hamlet 's mockery of the foolish Polonius ; and the gravediggers in Act V , Scene I. These scenes do indeed provide comic relief for the audience ; but they also show the way in which Hamlet vents his feelings ( Polonius ) and the fragility of life ( Gravediggers ) . |
| 5 | The work of Pawson Williams Architects exploring ideas on composition and the fragility of modernism in the city , at the Blanc de Bierges Gallery , Business Design Centre , Islington , London N1 . |
| 6 | Immediately , the cameramen who had been standing at the sides of the rows of chairs moved , and the flash of lights and the clicks of their equipment bewildered him slightly . |
| 7 | They and Damjanovic 's wife , who is charged with lesser offences , were led into the packed courtroom in handcuffs amid heavy security and the flash of cameras . |
| 8 | For Rees , macho characteristics comprise ‘ guts rather than integrity ’ and the portrayal of violence as an admirable personal quality . |
| 9 | Lyddy thought of the basket that had been ordered filled with mince pies and a cold chicken , and chestnuts and oranges and the decanter of port , to Penman 's misery , carefully wrapped in napkins . |
| 10 | A positivist and a materialist , convinced of the importance of an inductive approach to science , he believed in the physical basis of mental illness , and developed the evolutionary ideas of Herbert Spencer and Charles Darwin [ qq.v. ] and the neurophysiology of W. B. Carpenter and Thomas Laycock [ qq.v . ] . |
| 11 | Catchpool ( known to his friends as ‘ Jack ’ and to his colleagues as ‘ Catch ’ ) combined in his personality the innocent enthusiasm of a child and the tenacity of purpose of a mature and deeply spiritual man , enlivened by a puckish sense of humour . |
| 12 | Skills that pupils need in mathematics , for example , include : — comprehension , and the enumeration of possibilities — translation skills from words to numbers — translation skills from numbers to graphs or equations creation of mathematical models of the problem as well as more traditional mathematical skills now taught explicitly . |
| 13 | Their interpretation lacked soul , the dying fall of nostalgia and the abandon of passion being supplanted by a more relaxed air of complicity . |
| 14 | And the tightness of product markets is out of union control . |
| 15 | Based on our clinical experience , we arbitrarily chose to dilate these patients at weekly intervals and one to six bougies were usually passed on each occasion , depending upon the patient 's tolerance and the tightness of strictures . |
| 16 | and the breaking of day in the |
| 17 | Pride can not co-exist with reprogramming , reconditioning and the breaking of habits if these are done with a wish to improve ourselves . |
| 18 | Down the hill and past the Rotunda do Infante ( roundabout with fountains ) and the statue of Dom Henrique ( Prince Henry the Navigator ) , we pass the Centro Comercial do Infante , which has a large variety of shops and restaurants . |
| 19 | ‘ There is no reason why we should n't finish , ’ said the affable driving instructor from Magdeburg , who is trying to cross the Atlantic in a rowing boat and the Statue of Liberty is not far off . |
| 20 | In 1162 the senate of Rome made great efforts to preserve the column of Trajan for the Roman people and visitors to Rome were beginning to admire the great classical monuments of the past — the Arch of Constantine , the Pantheon and the statue of Venus . |
| 21 | The ceiling frescos depicting the Old and New Testaments are by Vilém Kandler , the paintings on glass by Jan Zachariáš Quast and the statue of St John Nepomuk is by Emanuel Max . |
| 22 | Go into the s transept with its rose window of the Last Judgement by Max Švabinský , 1935–8 , the Emblem of Prague City in metalwork by Karel Štipl , 1946 , a statue of Christ by Čeněk Vosmík , a fine memorial of 1921 dedicated to those who fell in the Great War by K. Pokorný , and the statue of St Wenceslas by Karel Dvořák , 1922 . |
| 23 | Although this example has dealt with the analysis of pottery , the same basic approach of identification , sorting , grouping , quantification , comparison with examples from elsewhere , and the formulation of conclusions from the evidence is used in the study of most finds and environmental samples . |
| 24 | In response to the introduction of the local management of schools the LEA organized a series of measures to train and inform governors on such topics as the appointment of staff , provision for children with special educational needs , and the formulation of school policy on discipline , equal opportunities , child protection and a number of other matters . |
| 25 | In addition , their training in the scientific method and their daily exposure to clinical problems results in the development of ideas and the formulation of questions and hypotheses . |
| 26 | Of far more significance to the war itself , however , was the political price represented by acceptance of Communist leverage within Republican Spain , and all that this proved to carry with it : interference in the composition of cabinets and the formulation of strategy ; the reversal of social revolution ; the persecution of political enemies ; and the steadily declining popular morale . |
| 27 | A third disability lay in her constitution : Sparta had no satisfactory apparatus for decision-making and the formulation of strategy . |
| 28 | In accordance with these principles , arrangements should be made for " the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of Israel from the occupied territories in Palestine , Syria and Lebanon ; Syria 's withdrawal from Lebanon ; a withdrawal between Iraq and Iran ; and the formulation of arrangements for the situation in Kuwait " . |
| 29 | The ‘ council movement ’ was especially vigorous , and was widely debated among socialists in the years immediately preceding and following the First World War ( Renner , 1921 ; Pribicevic , 1959 ) ; and more recently it again aroused growing interest as a result of the experience of workers ' self-management in Yugoslavia , some tentative steps in that direction in other East European countries during the 1970s , and the formulation of ideas about ‘ participatory democracy ’ that arose from the new social movements of the late 1960s . |
| 30 | the stimulation of relevant research and the formulation of research guidelines ; and |