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

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1 After that the torch was applied to a point on the Wheel and at the same moment the chocks were knocked away .
2 He unbuckled the belt and , leaving it around Newley 's waist , looped it through the wheel and through the glassless window of the door .
3 This was a view unsympathetic to religion and to the imaginative arts ; but it was not characteristic of the leading scientists , who were often interested in all kinds of things beyond their science and continued to resist the appearance of two cultures .
4 Hence , this method preserves the important epithelial/mesenchymal interactions during isolation and during the early stages of cell attachment and proliferation in vitro .
5 This , as we have seen , is precisely what happened with the exile and in the Levitical legislation regarding ritual pollution .
6 Secondly , he is a member of the Irish Bank Officials ' Association and at the Special Delegate Conference , in the Mansion House , Dublin on 13th March , a Resolution was passed calling on all members to support Frank Holden in his quest for justice .
7 Congratulations to Miss Kay Evans MBE , ex-President and Vice-President of the Society and Miss Eileen Alexander OBE , also one of our Vice-Presidents , on being made Fellows of the Physical Education Association for their distinguished contribution to the work of the Association and in the physical education and movement field .
8 Suddenly we were stopped in our tracks by the sight of a mighty torrent , swelled by heavy rain , thundering down the mountainside and into the foaming river below .
9 The downturn in the tyre industry hit rubber prices , which fell to a four-year low in Asia , despite purchases for the buffer stock and by the American government for its defence stockpile .
10 Now let me say with the monthly card and with the daily page , I 'm going to be showing you a very structured approach to planning .
11 They offered Martinez millions to get them out of the Downton deal and into the Kane Corporation .
12 Earlier she had been a research fellow ( 1929–32 ) at Newnham College , now she was director of studies there ( 1933–42 ) ; she was to serve intermittently as an associate and on the governing body .
13 Language orders the world of perception and at the same time constitutes a knowing subject that perceives and yet is distinguished from that world .
14 He must come to terms with living with this consciousness and with the inherent problems he will face in revealing this knowledge to the outside in an ethnographic account .
15 The conference had nothing like the coverage of either the British Medical Association or Royal Institute of British Architects festivities , so its impact on the public at the time was negligible ; but it marked a significant turn in the Prince 's own farming methods , brought environmental concerns slowly into consumer consciousness and in the long term dealt a devastating blow to the agrochemical industry .
16 Yes my Lord er as soon as we went to the main bedroom which was the back bedroom at the same time as as that bedroom door opened , so the second team consisting of er P C P C would have gone into the second smaller bedroom and at the same time as we went in er P C and P C job er was to cover our backs in case of anybody in er the kitchen or the living area , the living room area .
17 Certainly we do wish sometimes to say this of animals and , strictly by analogy and with the appropriate language-game in mind , justifiably do so .
18 At this speed and with the invisible thread doing the damage it is almost impossible to see anything .
19 Winds blow as they should , in the directions that physics tells us they should , at the right speed and in the proper season .
20 In the 1980s there were not only changes in product demand and in imports and exports , but large-scale changes in investment and in the occupational structure .
21 The trills found in bars 1–4 and bars 9–11 should be performed by picking the principal ( un-bracketed ) note and then by pulling-off and hammering-on in quick succession and in the appropriate rhythm to the bracketed note .
22 Needless to say , the condolences of the British monarch , government and people to the President and to the American people were without limit of sincerity or depth , and a search of unexampled vigour was now in progress to identify , find and arrest the culprits .
23 A puff of smoke , the walls falling inward like dominoes , a cascade of masonry and through the submerging tide of dusty plaster , broken tiles and splintered wood there emerged , untarnished and intact , one metal bath .
24 There is a rich tradition of epidemiological work in geography and with the increasing availability of spatially referenced medical data the scope for GIS applications is wide ( Gatrell 1987 ) .
25 One could propose BSL as appropriate in a class learning politics , or economics , or geography and in the same school find a signed English form in the teaching of English or science , or foreign languages .
26 In the 1960s , however , the great improvement in the range and quality of astronomical observations led to new interest in gravitational collapse and in the early universe .
27 He propelled me off the terrace and through the shuttered dining-room .
28 Then he was leading her across the terrace and through the open doors of the villa , across the drawing-room and out into the hall .
29 Environmental issues , too , promote public awareness of the need for global solutions , both to the immediate dangers arising from atmospheric ozone depletion and to the longer-term threats associated with global warming .
30 It was not a final closure and by the new century a younger generation was challenging the social-purity consensus .
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