Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] and [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 yeah ten for the left and ninety for the right and the reason we talked about this and the way that 's involved in communication is that we said well if there 's a lot more power or a lot more contribution to the design of what we 're doing of a spatial nature and that is how the the audience 's brain work more powerfully in the spatial nature let's present what we have let's design it and then deliver it as close to a spatial nature as we can okay .
2 agencies contracted to do community care assessments , such as Edinburgh and East of Scotland Society for the Deaf and the Society for the Welfare and Teaching of the Blind ;
3 Labour , wholly in thrall to this feminist cause , will create a Ministry of Women ( as well as a Minister for the Disabled and a Minister for Children ) to generate ‘ legislation for women ’ .
4 ‘ It 's a devastating blow for the stable and the owner , ’ said Fanshawe .
5 His mock-learned apparatus — appendices , maps of Middle-Earth and indexes — suggest a sense of erudition amiably mixed with bonhomie and fun ; his no-nonsense Christianity a hunger for the spiritual and a yearning for roots .
6 Just as Ella had cared for the poor and the prostitute whom no one had wanted to know so Eva began to appreciate feelings she had only known before in her work in Africa .
7 He denounced the immoralities which had prevailed in Northumbrian society since the days of King Aelfwald and contrasted the adornments of dress and hair and the luxurious standard of living of Aethelred 's court-circle with an absence of concern for the poor and the starving .
8 It changes the taste of food to the extent that some dishes no longer appear to have any connection with their oil-less counterparts : a fresh sardine , for example , is quite different from one which has been transformed by being preserved in oil ( a point implied by the existence in the Czech language of two quite different words for the fresh and the oil varieties : a sardine in oil is called olejovka , from olej=oil ) .
9 Coun Platt 's charities during his year of office will be Guide Dogs for the Blind and the RSPCA .
10 National Democratic Front ( NDF , ostensibly a wide coalition of leftist groups , but in practice tends to operate as a legal front for the CCP-ML and the NPA , Antonio Zobel ch. , Saturnino Ocampo spokesman ) ; Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas ( PKP — Communist Party of the Philippines , established in 1930 , pro-Soviet , Felicisimo Macapagal pres . ) ;
11 Theatre architecture is far less of a handicap to the absorption of an audience in the plight of Miller 's characters than his creaky dramaturgy and reverence for the banal and the hokey .
12 If , as seems probable , most teachers will sort out their pupils into the high and the low fliers at a fairly early stage , and if there is a whole separate set of papers in some subjects for the high and the low , then the difference between the higher grades of GCSE and O levels will not turn out to be very great .
13 It must have tangible benefits for the unemployed and the community .
14 He had a shrewd eye for the false and the fraud .
15 Police said a report had been prepared for the procurator-fiscal and a man is expected to appear at Dumfries Sheriff Court on Monday .
16 It is a place where there is no real distinction between the civil and the military .
17 A crucial first step in our account takes up again a theme , introduced in the previous chapter , about the continuity between the normal and the psychotic .
18 The difference between the normal and the schizophrenic is , then , solely a matter of degree , depending upon the extent to which the products of autism become fixed in place or , alternatively , remain under rational control .
19 You have failed in your attempt to convince me of the coincidence between the bourgeois and the human .
20 between the good and the evil ,
21 evidence of contact between the accused and the victim on their bodies and clothing :
22 This sequential representation , on the other hand , does not characterize the verbs of perception in their basic perceptual sense , where the relation is rather one of coincidence in time between the perceiving and the phenomenon being perceived .
23 Dorothy Heathcote 's own thinking oscillates between the thematic and the concrete .
24 Because fewer farm workers ' sons are willing to work in agriculture the contrasts between the traditional and the modern , between the old dependency and the new independence , are imported into the families of those older workers who have remained on the land .
25 Modernization theories of the global system are largely based on the distinction between the traditional and the modern .
26 Our four teachers represented the best in modern ideas about teaching English , the new consensus between the traditional and the progressive which had become increasingly dominant in Britain during the 1980s .
27 Part of the drive to improve inner cities is deliberately to reward success , increase the gap between the working and the non-working , retain business and talented and successful people in these areas , and charge those who use services the economic cost of these services , so that if they do n't like the price they will be encouraged to move out to areas where ‘ the price is right ’ .
28 This is a necessary condition for a reductionist view of the mind but , particularly given the absence of any effective demonstration of a causal connection between the mental and the neural , it is certainly not a sufficient condition .
29 Certainly there is no need , as is sometimes supposed ( Thorp , 1980 , pp. 43–4 ) , to consider whole mental states in connection with the relation between the mental and the neural .
30 Rand : a protective strip of rubber covering the join between the upper and the sole .
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