Example sentences of "[pron] and [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Griffith was seduced by his own myth of himself and by the preoccupations of the Progressive era into believing that he was a serious thinker , whereas in truth he was an old-fashioned story-teller who had spontaneously discovered how the technology of film could be used to give stories a tremendous power . |
| 2 | Will it not be regarded by them and by the regiments as an admission that he is unable to justify on security grounds the cuts that he has made ? |
| 3 | For the purposes of s 287(1) , the meaning of the term should be confined to releases not given for full consideration , on the grounds that such a limitation was required by the context of s 287(1) itself and by the provisions of TA 1970 relating to company distributions as a whole ( ss 233–237 and 282–286 ) . |
| 4 | The figures generated by the snowball sample itself and by the nominations of this sample group have given us two sets of ratios of the hidden to known sectors . |
| 5 | This restraint was held by the court to be an indirect one and on the facts of the case it was found to be unreasoanble and therefore the plaintiff was not entitled to his pension . |
| 6 | I run past him and up the steps to the street . |
| 7 | The National Portrait Gallery habitually commissions portraits of notable figures for its collection , and , of course , members of the Royal Family are painted regularly , providing a time-lapse documentary of themselves and of the fashions of their age , both in clothes and in painting . |