Example sentences of "and [prep] [adv] [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Television had brought golf to the working class and for just a moment television gave us an idea of what it meant to them . |
| 2 | There had been heated argument in the Supreme Soviet about the method of electing a President , and for over a week members of the opposition Democratic Party of Tadjikistan had been on hunger strike in support of popular elections . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's perfect , ’ the woman had said ; and for once a shop assistant had said no more than the truth . |
| 4 | In the larger towns many parish priests were singing the majority of their masses for the dead with no family member present and with only an altar server to chant the responses . |
| 5 | From Drewsteignton a steep lane drops to Fingle Bridge and from here the route heads upstream along the gorge , picking its way through woodland which grows thickly right to the water 's edge . |
| 6 | In quantum physics the Big Bang is seen as a point of infinite density within which the whole universe is contained and from where the universe springs . |
| 7 | I would be inclined to choose Abbado 's COE versions ( DG ) as the finest available recordings of the Fourth and Sixth Symphonies on modern instruments ( or Wand 's on RCA if you really must have full orchestral forces ) , and until now the Hanover Band under Roy Goodman ( Nimbus ) have had the field to themselves , ‘ authentically ’ speaking . |
| 8 | The narrow strait is Kylesku and until recently a car ferry operated across it , this providing the only possible continuation of the main road on the west side of Sutherland . |
| 9 | The Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement ( Pasok ) candidate , Yannis Alevras , won 125 votes and Konstantinos Despotopoulos , the candidate of the communist-dominated Coalition of the Left and Progress , and until recently the Education Minister , 21 . |
| 10 | Already for nearly a century the syllabub had been keeping company with the trifle , and in due course the trifle came to reign in the syllabub 's stead ; and before long the party pudding of the English was not any more the fragile whip of cream contained in a little glass , concealing within its innocent white froth a powerful alcoholic punch , but a built-up confection of sponge fingers and ratafias soaked in wine and brandy , spread with jam , clothed in an egg-and-cream custard , topped with a syllabub and strewn with little coloured comfits . |
| 11 | From 1 October , 1980 , applications to the MAFF for agricultural capital and development grants were to be notified to the park authority ; and since then the park authorities have at least had a chance of commenting and . |
| 12 | McGilligan 's subsequent achievements in the Ireland jersey have been well chronicled and since then the Dungiven joiner has been very much up with the big boys . |
| 13 | Jesse Owens ' mastery of multiple athletic disciplines is well known and since then the sprint events have become virtually the property of American blacks with figures like Jim Hines in the 1960s , and hurdler Ed Moses in the 1980s , exerting unparalleled supremacy in their respective events . |
| 14 | An ad hoc Committee of the Select Committee carried out an inquiry into Staffing of Community Institutions and produced a report which received little public attention but had considerable long-term influence on the way in which the Community Institutions recruited and transferred its staff and on how the United Kingdom sought to obtain its proper share of senior posts . |
| 15 | All were lifelong non-smokers , had a normal electrocardiogram , a baseline forced expiratory volume in one second ( FEV 1 ) greater than 60% predicted , and at least a 15% rise in FEV 1 after 400 µg inhaled salbutamol . |
| 16 | The seasonal migrator needs an accurate cue to anticipate the seasons , and at least a compass sense to guide it . |