Example sentences of "and forward [prep] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Located in the centre of Birmingham , it looks back to the city 's rich heritage with its colourful canalside setting ; and forward to a dynamic future through its direct link with the International Convention Centre and renowned Symphony Hall . |
| 2 | A prolific contributor to magazines — first The Cricketer since his teens and , since 1981 , WCM — he can look back on more than 20 books , and forward to a number still in gestation . |
| 3 | Together , we can look back on a year of consider- able success , and forward to a new year of challenge . |
| 4 | This is the process by which the manager sets aside perhaps an hour per year to talk privately to each adviser , to look back over the year and forward to the next and discuss any concerns that the manager and adviser may have . |
| 5 | The fire of the Lady of the Hearth also symbolizes the way in which we can reach back to the past and forward to the future . |
| 6 | The Occupation changes , like the events following the Restoration , aroused in the people of Japan reactions which looked both back to the past and forward to the future , and which highlighted Japan 's dependence on , yet difference from , the other cultures of the world . |
| 7 | But the , the motor car was used firstly for taking people back and forward to the station . |
| 8 | Action round-up time now … two big events this week … we 're looking back on the RAC Rally and forward to the Hennesey Gold Cup |
| 9 | But perhaps most severe of all are tests for susceptibility to motion sickness : they will be blindfolded , and have to move their heads and upper parts of the body back and forth or up and down ; and they will be pushed back and forward on a track every five seconds for 20 minutes . |
| 10 | Then I sort of hold her hands tight while she rocks back and forward on the bed . |
| 11 | The second half of the verse , ‘ Gesture of orang-outang/ Rises from the sheets in steam ’ simultaneously forces us back into human prehistory , before even polyphemus , and forward into the present of Doris and Mrs Turner , since monkey evolves into human where ‘ orang-outang ’ becomes homo erectus ; yet ‘ knots of hair ’ makes the modern return to the ape , and shaving Sweeney , for all his performing the action of his namesake , the demon barber , seems as crude and brutal as the Cyclops — such is the grotesquely comic evolutionary irony of the loss of hair . |
| 12 | farther east , Russian campaigns against the Buryats around the southern end of Lake Baikal went on from the 1630s to the 1680s , causing great turmoil as some Buryat and Mongol tribes withdrew to Mongolia , or were buffeted back and forward between the two aggressive empires . |
| 13 | As her bobbin shot back and forward between the wools , she sang the old Gaelic songs that had been passed down from mother to daughter for centuries . |
| 14 | In a sense , an ideal hypertext environment would emulate the way in which the human mind examines and researches information , not in a step-by-step , linear fashion , but moving in different directions and by jumping backward and forward within the information resource . |
| 15 | Evans sobbed drily , gulping in great mouthfuls of air , and rocked back and forward against the mantelpiece which was lined with Christmas cards . |
| 16 | She recognised him at once from the blunt-nosed profile and pepper-and-salt hair en brosse and the large tinted lenses of his glasses , and the way he hooked his head to one side and forward like a boxer butting . |