Example sentences of "the [adj] and [adj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few tho' the faithful and fierce the foe , |
| 2 | As in the 1830s and 1840s the discourse of social investigation , circulated by novelists and journalists , social scientists and government commissioners , represented working-class immorality as a major source of anxiety . |
| 3 | Henry ( born Buck Henry Zuckerman ) who , like Nichols , had been a performer in an improvisational theatre group in Chicago , had written only one film , the offbeat and unsuccessful The Troublemaker , three years previously . |
| 4 | This is the level of the watertable and all the joints in the rocks below are filled with water — they are saturated . |
| 5 | And the bigger and sharper the spines , the longer this effect lasts . |
| 6 | Light : Needs good light and the stronger the light available , the brighter and lusher the whorls grow . |
| 7 | It was this latter purpose which attracted most money , for in the 1940s and 1950s the government saw the development of youth clubs as one of its priorities . |
| 8 | During the 1970s and 1980s the problem became redefined . |
| 9 | ‘ Paramedics would be used , field hospitals set up at the scene if necessary , helicopters from Whitechapel would fly out casualties , ’ added Mr Whitehead who said a triangle of hospitals would deal with the injured and all the plans were agreed by the airport 's consultative committee . |
| 10 | All the great and all the small . |
| 11 | Anyway I started there , I got the ten and three a week and er eventually not very good , at that time quite a lot of short time . |
| 12 | In assuming the title and arms of King of France in 1340 , he laid much stress on his God-given duty to recover his right , and in the speeches made by the Chancellor at the opening of parliament in the 1340s and 1350s the commons were asked to grant aids ‘ in pursuit of the king 's quarrel to recover his rights ’ , or in consideration of ‘ the pursuit of our right ’ . |
| 13 | Throughout the 1340s and 1350s the king played on the commons ' fear of a French invasion of England : the threat that the French might ‘ destroy the English tongue and occupy the realm of England ’ was used more than once to persuade the commons to grant money for the war , and the discovery at the sack of Caen of a French plan for the invasion of England in 1339 was a gift to royal propaganda . |
| 14 | His successors did not share his passion for maritime affairs ; and in the 1730s and 1740s the fleet he had created was allowed to decline sharply in numbers and efficiency . |
| 15 | The rationale , let us call it Cash 's law , appears to be the sillier the Christian name the faster and nastier the bowler . |
| 16 | But it will not be obvious on a violin or even on the upper register of a ‘ cello because the higher pitched the sound , the faster and smaller the vibrations become . |
| 17 | In its heyday in the 1920s and 30s the nursery used to supply the seventeenth century Misarden house with fruit and vegetables . |
| 18 | There was no limit on the number of clubs then , and by the 1920s and 1930s the pros were beginning to take advantage — much to the dismay of the caddies , who often faced knee-buckling rounds hauling thirty clubs at a time . |
| 19 | Moreover , there is evidence to suggest that by the seventeenth century both literacy and Bible reading were on the increase ; in the parish of Keevil in Wiltshire , for example , only 4 per cent of testators who died during the decades between 1590 and 1630 appear to have possessed a Bible , whereas during the course of the 1630s and 1640s the proportion rose to 18 per cent . |
| 20 | It is a fitting that is suited to both submersible and surface pumps , but the more powerful the pump the higher and wider the sprays produced , with a proportionate acceleration of the time lapse between each change of spray pattern . |
| 21 | During the Twenties and Thirties the tram service gradually expanded until , by August Bank Holiday 1933 , every one of the 156 cars was on the road . |
| 22 | With the 3-year-old and older a sticker chart is a useful incentive to using the lavatory correctly . |
| 23 | In the 1880s and 90s the state moved a little more decisively into the fields of housing , factory reform , and public health . |
| 24 | In the periods of high unemployment of the 1880s and 1890s the Mansion House fund , with COS support , introduced work-creation schemes for the London unemployed . |
| 25 | During the 1770s and 1780s the Congregationalists built more chapels in south Yorkshire than did the Methodists , but significantly they erected no new buildings between 1836 and 1851 , whereas at that time the various forms of Methodism were building chapels enthusiastically . |
| 26 | Along with all the rest of them , he voted to apply the poll tax , through that guillotine procedure , against all the Scots , as well as against all the Welsh and all the English . |
| 27 | The abbot of Cîteaux enjoyed at first a patriarchal , supervisory role like his brother of Cluny ; but in the course of the 1120s and 1130s the machinery of the Order was perfected , and in principle every abbot of the Order went to Cîteaux every year for general chapter , and every abbot visited his abbey 's daughter houses every year . |
| 28 | When I was at school in the 1930s and 1940s the canon would have included King-lake 's Eothen , Thomas Hughes 's Tom Brown 's Schooldays , Charles Kingsley 's The Water Babies and the essays of Charles Lamb , all little read by the young today . |
| 29 | Through the 1930s and 1940s the habit quickly spread through Britain , at far too fast a rate for it to have taken place by the natural selection of Mendelian genes ( Figure 3.12 ) . |
| 30 | In this benighted country , simple solutions — banning traffic , arresting illegal parkers , giving the wealthy and powerful a police escort through the streets — were apparently too complex for its befuddled government . |