Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] and [noun sg] and [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The panels can also be attached to timber frames or ductwork to create new walls or partitions , allowing existing facilities to be refurbished , and new facilities to be created quickly , without the need for bricks and mortar and the inherent hygiene complications which arise from refurbishment . |
| 2 | Refugees bring with them not just a bundle of belongings but an accumulation of skills and knowledge and a real determination to make a positive contribution to their new country . |
| 3 | Combined with shortages of books and equipment and the poor state of maintenance of many schools , the situation for teachers , especially those posted to rural areas , can be discouraging . |
| 4 | Bugsy leads the way with ten nominations followed by JFK ( eight ) , Thelma and Louise , The Silence of the Lambs , Prince of Tides and Beauty and the Beast . |
| 5 | The history of the succession of climates and vegetation and the relative changes in the levels of land and sea have been worked out on the basis of stratigraphical and botanical investigations in great detail by Godwin ( a simple account is given in Darby , 1938 , and a full account of the vegetation zones in Godwin , 1975 ) . |
| 6 | Turkey had hoped for agreement on a range of economic issues , including the lifting of customs barriers , the creation of the infrastructure necessary for the free movement of goods and labour and the establishment of a regional development and investment bank . |
| 7 | The air smells lovely , of leeks and straw and the breeze from the sea five miles away . |
| 8 | The accident records at these schools have been examined in considerable detail by the Departments of Highways and Education and the Police and four areas have been highlighted for further action and detailed investigation . |
| 9 | Then he saw Stefan , blue round the chin , sitting down with a plate of rolls and butter and a jug of milk . |
| 10 | Chancellor Nigel Lawson justified this on the grounds of the alleged identical nature of gains and income and the advantage of removing the incentive to avoidance by eliminating the boundary between them . |
| 11 | Professor Alex McDougall , convener of the institute 's VAT sub-committee , said ICAS had been pressing for Customs and Excise and the VAT tribunal to have to power to mitigate penalties . |
| 12 | The firing hole of the kiln was temporarily blocked with bricks and clay and the control of the burn was in the hands of the ganger . |
| 13 | They had stayed to eat with the family of Chola 's former husband , and they had been feasted with raksi and rice and the meat of the sacrificial goat . |
| 14 | Fill the top slit with prawns and cress and the bottom with cucumber and frisée . |
| 15 | The men escaped with about £500 in notes and change and the police are linking the robbery with at least 2 others in the county . |
| 16 | and choose a life , it 's all going in bricks and mortar and the not |
| 17 | If energy saving is applied rigorously in homes and industry and the power stations clean up their act by switching from coal to other fuels or otherwise cutting their carbon emissions , transport seems set to take over as the biggest emitter of carbon dioxide in Western industrialized countries . |
| 18 | I am nineteen years old and at college in rural Devon , away from friends and family and the city where I spent ten years of my life . |
| 19 | A fraught fivesome with ants in their pants and , presumably , cockroaches in their coat pockets , they 're all about threats and menace and a three-guitar assault which owes rather a lot to tykes like the Pixies but has absolutely no intention of paying the buggers back . |
| 20 | In her books this is to be found at its most extreme in Sara Crewe ( 1888 ) — expanded , following the stage version , as The Little Princess ( 1905 ) — a Cinderella story where a bullied little drudge at a girls ' school is restored to riches and esteem and the tyrannical headmistress humiliated . |
| 21 | Lopsided , belonging not to herself and her inner love , but to doctors and chemotherapy and the loss of all her hair . |
| 22 | I suddenly agreed with you about prizes and fame and the rest . |
| 23 | The contractor claimed £350,000 for delays and disruption and the related delay costs to road users amounted to around £450,000 , the NAO estimated . |
| 24 | ‘ The game is about guts and determination and the drive not to lose , and Sarah has the instincts to go for those shots , ’ said Jones . |
| 25 | Most of the revenue was collected by Customs and Excise and the Inland Revenue . |