Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun pl] and [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New Year 's Eve in those early years had possessed a dull religious sheen , a pewter glimmer , which by much effort and polishing and dedication of the will could bring her a little light , a little hope , a little perseverance : but she had longed for the flames and the candles , the cut glass and the singing . |
| 2 | It is an enabling bill of fare for the rites and the prayer in which the Church urges us all to take our part . |
| 3 | not not look at go for the customers and the deals I think and all that the backup . |
| 4 | Where I could also spend a great deal of time talking about our common enemies , our mutual friends and some of the similarity and our aims for world peace and again , I 'm gon na leave that for the statesmen and the politicians . |
| 5 | Job-creation costs for the zones and the areas around them are high . |
| 6 | Promotion is important for the punters and the club . ’ |
| 7 | The furniture is neither splendid nor plentiful ; as for the carpets and the curtains , the former are threadbare and the latter faded . |
| 8 | Most of them are in it just for the bylines and the booze , you know . |
| 9 | As the campaign entered its final 24 hours , the main parties returned to their central themes : the economy for the Conservatives and the health service for Labour . |
| 10 | The answer to divided loyalties and different loyalties is not murder ; it is respect — respect for the differences and an accommodation of those differences . |
| 11 | I accept Mr. Lester 's submission that there must be a causal link between the benefit provided for the taxpayers and the cost of the benefit referred to in section 63(1) . |
| 12 | The International Court of Justice condemns US support for the Contras and the mining of Nicaraguan ports . |
| 13 | The designation marking the canonization is frequently deleted so that Val merely sounds like a dilettantish scamp with an eye for the girls and a desire for a good time . |
| 14 | Behind and under the stage , there are stairs and passages and many , many rooms — dressing-rooms for the singers and the dancers , rooms for the stage workers , the opera dresses and shoes … |
| 15 | Edith Durham sought to redress the balance in dispatches for The Times and the Manchester Guardian and through indefatigable lobbying in Whitehall and elsewhere . |
| 16 | It was then that the feeling of utter boredom would assail him and he would be driven to join the crowd for the buses and the queue for a seat in the pictures in Hereford to pass the Saturday afternoon away . |
| 17 | Erm and it 's a birthday issue and and a quite an important one for setting up for the Euros and the mail action . |
| 18 | Many young people like myself who were born and grew up on the flat albeit slightly rolling prairies , sometimes feel a yearning for the mountains and the sea , and I was no exception . |
| 19 | The hothouse flowers gardenia and stephanotis had to be coaxed and nurtured into flowering for the posies and the bridegroom 's buttonhole . |
| 20 | These are the most intense parental periods for the birds and the increase in parental arousal affects the frequency of the distraction displays . |
| 21 | So out I went , Halton is ringed with beautiful beech forests and one of my training runs just happened to take me through one of these forests where I felt I was utterly safe except for the birds and the bees . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's only for the players and the managers . |
| 23 | The parade was organised for the players and the public but the day was even more special for 13-year-old Julian Stewart , a sufferer of cerebral palsy . |
| 24 | But the proudest and loudest reception is for the players and the manager who got them there . |
| 25 | That is a measure of the support for the miners and the desire for the country to keep a certain degree of energy self-sufficiency once oil and gas reserves are gone . |
| 26 | It was the outsider when ground share was first muted , but a super-league home for Edinburgh football in the west of the city , handy for the motorways and the bypass might make sense , might it not ? 's the number to dial . |
| 27 | Not that the James Committee was convinced that the CNAA would or could accept a validating role for the colleges and the field of study . |
| 28 | Even the rain is good for the gardens and the farms . |
| 29 | It is the gauge of wire used for the springs and the amount and type of this upholstery that governs how firm or soft the bed is . |
| 30 | ‘ There was a genuine anxiety for the boys and the parents in this case , as there was an awareness of the extent of HIV infection among the prison population . |