Example sentences of "and [prep] [noun prp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nowadays they are usually performed in an ossified Kabuki style and for Ninagawa the task was to throw all this off and recover their original spirits . |
| 2 | And for Meg a tiny Han ivory . |
| 3 | They arrived at the police station , and for Polly the next half-hour was a blur . |
| 4 | The deck was already beginning to dry and for Polly the sun 's luxuriant warmth on her soaked head was like a blessing . |
| 5 | Last year it had been glass sculpture , a strange green tree , a very Ygdrasil , for Burden 's sanctum , and for Wexford an inky-blue , amorphous pillar that in some lights grossly resembled the human figure . |
| 6 | And for Hobbes the idea of the sovereignty of the ruler was paramount . |
| 7 | But for the later Barthes , for Foucault and for Derrida the object is constituted empirically in language but is treated as a system of signifieds — discourse . |
| 8 | Jack and I have known God 's strength and grace for the many tasks we have been involved in as Crossroads staff , and for Jack the difference is that we work a six and sometimes seven day week and we 're open for business outside office hours ! |
| 9 | Faster she did it , and faster , and for Creggan the worst thing was this : agonized and frantic though she was , she never called out or made a sound , yet her beak was open in a silent scream . |
| 10 | Yet , if Durham had special strategic and political features which made Fordham unacceptable there in the eyes of the Crown 's opponents and of key northern lords , Ely was notoriously the rich neo-sinecure of English bishoprics , and for Fordham a homecoming . |
| 11 | Looked at another way , The Possessed and the two remaining novels he had in him to write , A Raw Youth and The Brothers Karamazov , are all generation-gap stories , and for Dostoevsky the generation gap is only subordinately topical and tendentious and mixed up with Turgenev . |
| 12 | This ruling appeared to have been accepted , however reluctantly , by Sassou-Nguesso , and during April the conference began to take on the character of a national assembly . |
| 13 | In April and after mid-October the winds are unpredictable and sometimes dangerously strong . |
| 14 | We were flying first to Nassau where the senator was to be guest of honour at an American Embassy reception for senior officers of the naval units taking part in Exercise Stingray , and after Nassau the Maggot and I would fly on to Grand Bahama where he lived and where Wavebreaker was docked . |
| 15 | Before early June and after mid-September the frequency of strong winds drops and October has ideal weather for novices . |
| 16 | The Celts were pressing on the Macedonian frontiers at the time of Philip 11 and of Alexander the Great . |
| 17 | The identity of those annalists is important too : they reflected the views of Lothar and of Louis the German , whose interests were adversely affected by this grant to their young half-brother . |
| 18 | He assisted at the baptism of Henry 's daughter Eleanor in 1161 and at the translations of dukes Richard I and II at Fécamp in 1162 and of Edward the Confessor at Westminster in 1163 . |
| 19 | This still widely-held interpretation of ninth-century history , and of Charles the Bald as a Bad King , is there in embryo in the final section of Montesquieu 's book . |
| 20 | They were also the days of a community serial killer called Category D , and of Eldra the never-say-die Eldon Lane and District Redevelopment Association . |
| 21 | Soon after Mandela 's release another Ismael , Fatima Meer 's nephew and like Ayob a lawyer , was being faxed daily by an American publisher bidding for an autobiography . |
| 22 | He 's played charity games against top class county opposition against Warwickshire in 1964 led by the England captain Mike Smith and against Worcestershire the following year with test players Basil D'Olivera , Don Kenyon and Tom Graveney . |
| 23 | And with Ariel a prisoner her young caveys seemed to forget how once they too had loved to hunt . |
| 24 | With piracy increasingly under control in the countries of the Pacific rim , as a result of pressure from the West and as they themselves become information product originators , and with China the last major country to implement a copyright law , copyright has conquered Asia . |
| 25 | Meisel 's criticism centres on the notion that the ruling elite is claimed to be a class ; this is already an important point in Pareto 's theory , and with Mosca the flaw becomes a fatal one , for he founds the power of the elite precisely on their greater organisational capacity , with necessary implications for their internal characteristics . |
| 26 | Perhaps the most poignant echo in the tale comes towards the end where the townspeople , laughing at John , " " kiken and … cape " " , " peer and gape " , into his roof ( 3841 ) , repeating the verb used of Nicholas pretending to be transfixed by his astrological vision ( 3444 ) : the " " folk " " here align themselves with Nicholas — and with Nicholas the trickster , not Nicholas of the branded bum . |
| 27 | The Draco Normannicus written in 1168 by Etienne de Rouen , a monk of Bec , saw Henry II as a great continental prince , negotiating on equal terms with Frederick Barbarossa and with Henry the Lion , his own son-in-law . |
| 28 | With dad and with Dave the butcher . |
| 29 | Push him a bit and under Mario the American driver you 'll always find the Italian kid who wanted to make good in grand prix racing . |
| 30 | When a weak-form word is being contrasted with another word , e.g. : ‘ The letter 's from him , not to him ’ A similar case is what we might call a co-ordinated use of prepositions : ‘ I travel to and from London a lot ’ ‘ A work of and about literature ’ |