Example sentences of "[noun] and [prep] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The party 's in Milton Keynes and to us the only thing worth mentioning for Milton Keynes is the concrete cows . |
| 2 | They rested on elbows , or lay stretched like Stars , stomachs in sand , smooth heads together , a brown hand lifting a white cigarette to a rose-painted mouth , and a line of malachite green smoke going up into the air , which was not here the intense cobalt of the plain of Orange , but pearl-cream-gold , a heavy air , soft and undulating like the pale sand and beyond it the warm , hazed , sand-green sea . |
| 3 | A recognition of the need to maintain that sector and through it the full diversity of recorded music in Britain is one reason why the last few years has seen a new interest in the record industry from public bodies concerned with culture and with employment . |
| 4 | The prime task of the 1905 revolution had been to break up the large estates and with them the political and economic power of the nobility . |
| 5 | Anyone in late eighteenth-century London who was anxious to ‘ insure the removal of barrenness ’ or ‘ improve , exalt , and invigorate the body and through them the mental faculties of the human species ’ , need not have looked further than the Temple of Health where Dr James Graham had constructed what he modestly termed his ‘ medico-magnetico-musico-electrical bed ’ . |
| 6 | A mile and a kick south-west of Bainbridge itself are " the shining levels " of Semer Water and above them the flat-topped hill of Addlebrough , where the Devil and a giant are said to have thrown stones at one another . |
| 7 | In Franco they possessed a leader who , notwithstanding German and Italian annoyance at his lack of dynamism and broad vision , was a first-rate field commander , devoted to the gradual but irreversible conquest of territory and with it the total subjection of the Spanish population . |
| 8 | There was something about the woman which brought out the official streak in Wycliffe and with it the pompous , well-rounded phrases : ‘ I 'm afraid that we shall have to look into your brother 's affairs and into his relationships both inside and outside the family . |
| 9 | Greenall is a centre-half and between them the experienced pair have clocked up more than 700 League appearances . |
| 10 | Autumn was reclaiming summer and with it the sun-gilded image of Samantha , last and most innocent of all the Abberleys . |
| 11 | The ever-rising statistics of delinquency and crime , and particularly violent crime , probably result in large part from a failure to establish the paternal authority in childhood and with it the normal , positive resolution of the Oedipus complex which it produces . |
| 12 | The definition also removes the present reference to expectation and with it the possible argument that goods which are generally of low quality generate low expectations . |
| 13 | Critical reflection is there ; so too is the dynamic dialogue with the students and with it the continuing development in the teacher 's own thinking . |
| 14 | A Mercedes and a Zim , bumper to bumper , blocking both lanes of the carriageway and behind them the menacing silhouette of a T-77 tank , its barrel aimed directly at the oncoming van . |
| 15 | From Schupfheim a spectacular minor road runs south for 17km ( 10½ miles ) following the Forest Emme ( Waldemme ) as this stretch of Little Emme is commonly called , through the hills along the Mariental valley to Fluhli and the little climatic resort of Sorenberg ( 1,159m , 3,802ft ) , near which is a cable railway to the summit of the Brienzer Rothorn which gives an unrivalled prospect of Lake Brienz and beyond it the whole massif of the Bernese Oberland peaks . |