Example sentences of "and [prep] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They expound their policy of minimal state interference to find the ‘ least detrimental available alternative ’ — one in which child placement and procedure for child placement ‘ maximises , in accord with the child 's sense of time , the child 's opportunity for being wanted and for maintaining on a continuous , unconditional and permanent basis , a relationship with at least one adult who is or will become the child 's psychological parent ’ ( Goldstein et al. , 1979 , p. 189 ) . |
| 2 | In 1981 , at the 150th anniversary meeting in York of the British Association for the Advancement of Science , the University of York conferred its degree of doctor on J. G. Crowther ‘ For creating the profession of scientific correspondent , for scholarly contributions to the history of science and to the social aspects of science , and for acting as a healthy irritant to the scientific establishment for 60 years . ’ |
| 3 | On arrival , guests take off their outdoor shoes at the ryokan entrance and are supplied with slippers ; shoes are handled by the management ( ie , placed at the entrance for you to leave ) , and for walking within the ryokan garden , they supply sandals or traditional geta ( wooden clogs ) . |
| 4 | Firms are assumed to have unbounded capacity for working out strategies and payoffs , and for working through the abstract chains of reasoning which lead them to non-co-operative equilibrium strategies . |
| 5 | Promotion is awarded to the person who demonstrates they are the most suitable for the advertised vacancy and for working in the higher grade . |
| 6 | His care for disabled children spans work at the orthopaedic hospital in Oswestry , Alder Hey Hospital , Liverpool , and through Riding for the Disabled . |
| 7 | From Morvich , where we suspended our journey south on page 93 , the old road turns south to join the A.87 coming over the causeway on Loch Duich and after passing through a huge cutting arrives at Shiel Bridge , a pleasant wooded oasis sheltered by high mountains . |
| 8 | He was a member of the Medical Research Council 's Burns Unit at Glasgow Royal Infirmary ( 1942-44 ) , and after serving with the Royal Army Medical Corps in north Europe and India he was appointed consultant plastic surgeon to the West of Scotland Plastic and Oral Surgery Service . |
| 9 | It is not difficult to tell from casual chat at court who does what and after dealing with a few claims you soon get to know who is on the other side acting for the insurance companies . |
| 10 | The voyage took eight months , and after stopping for a short time in Malaysia , we arrived in the Gulf of Tongking . |
| 11 | Lawrence is far happier at wheeling and dealing on the transfer market than Jack Charlton and after managing on a mean budget with Charlton Athletic it must be a joy to him to have money to spend . |
| 12 | He started going to ‘ Aid Spain ’ meetings and after listening to a medical student who had returned from the country he decided to help in the most direct way . |
| 13 | The big challenge came from everybody 's favourite Ginny Leng … she was riding Welton Romance and after racing around the 28 fence course was just two penalty points down from the leader … less than once fault in the showjumping … |
| 14 | He had been a founding member of the Socialist Youth Movement , and after fighting in the civil war he had been held in detention in ( French ) camps in Algeria , before moving to the Soviet Union . |
| 15 | He also denies a further charge of conspiring to the unauthorised modification of computers and of conspiring to the unauthorised access of computer material . |
| 16 | The tragedy of these kinds of development is that the opportunity may be lost of creating an integrated community , and of benefiting from the social advantages that can accrue from good design ( Masser and Stroud 1965 ) . |
| 17 | Reality itself then became a construct of knowing and being known , and of living with the alternative possibility . |
| 18 | Their function is simply that of dealing with the business aspects of terrace life and of negotiating with the outside world . |
| 19 | The stimulus of individual and group recovery and of working in the professional field of addictive disease and recovery is that each new discovery brings not only its own understanding and rewards but also the promise of more . |
| 20 | Nonetheless the suggestions outlined in this paper would put new teachers in a strong position to teach language awareness , and make them familiar with important issues in the social dimensions of language in Britain today , both with respect to minority languages and with regard to the linguistic needs of society as a whole . |
| 21 | Many considerable advances were taking place in scientific discovery with regard to the structure and composition of the physical world surrounding human beings , and with regard to the physical nature and make-up of human beings themselves . |
| 22 | and with regard to the three bedrooms do you actually need three bedrooms or if a a two bedroomed cottage came up with perhaps an extra room downstairs or something would that be okay ? |
| 23 | 17 passives were produced when actor and acted-upon came from the same class . |
| 24 | One autumn night , when Liz was preparing for Oxford and Cambridge entrance , Shirley had come home at ten from the Harpers ' , flushed from sexual excitement and from running through the cold streets under the yellowing smoke-scented suburban trees , her body on fire , and had found Liz still sitting where she had left her , two hours earlier , at the kitchen table , staring at the pale-green wall , as though in a catatonic trance . |
| 25 | I was not alone in the way I identified with the saga of the March family , nor was I alone in identifying with Jo ( and presumably all readers do ) in her hurts and disappointments , her longings for femininity that clashed with her dreams of independence and achievement ; and in wishing for the ultimate fairness of all things as they were shaped by those nineteenth century moral certainties . |
| 26 | He advanced money , in ever-growing sums , especially during the second and third Anglo-Dutch wars ; and showed great skill in securing repayment , in discounting operations , and in profiting from the high rates of interest which the government had to pay for ready cash . |
| 27 | This was achieved by a religious ritual which may have stemmed from one in which the original parricides mutilated themselves ( and especially the organ which was responsible for their incestuous desires ) out of remorse and guilt at what they had done and in mourning for the primal father . |
| 28 | The difficulty lay both in defining the ‘ upper ’ and ‘ lower ’ limits of the stratum within the hierarchy of social status , and in allowing for the marked heterogeneity of its membership within those limits : there was always , at least , an accepted internal stratification into grande moyenne and petite bourgeoisie , the latter shading off into strata which would be de facto outside the class . |
| 29 | It is hoped that the professor will play a leading part in creating and maintaining contacts with other departments of Classical Art and Archaeology both in the UK and abroad ; in organising visits to Oxford by overseas scholars ; in forwarding attempts to maintain and revive classical teaching in schools and universities ; and in communicating to a wider public the results and importance of Classical Archaeology . |
| 30 | It is one of the remarkable features of the Bible that it contains enough to occupy the greatest intellects for a lifetime , and yet the simplest soul can read and understand , and in reading with an obedient heart find God himself . |