Example sentences of "and [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | A stool was brought out , and as the last echoes of twelve faded in the warm night air a dark-haired young man with flashing black eyes came and stood alone in the dim light . |
| 2 | Two of the old Bunch ( Burroughs and Sperry ) merged into Unisys ; Digital Equipment ( DEC ) and Hewlett-Packard provided increasingly severe competition in the minicomputer range and as the main beneficiaries of ‘ down-sizing ’ ( in effect producing mainframe-level computer power on a much smaller and cheaper machine ) . |
| 3 | Bill accompanied his wife , and as the red lights of the ambulance faded down the street , Tom emerged from the study at last . |
| 4 | In this chapter , I want to distinguish carefully between marketing ( as a whole ) and advertising , and between the various types of statement of intent . |
| 5 | The pattern of sequence conservation within the marsupials and between the two classes of mammals is the same as that previously noted in eutherians : average levels of conservation in the region encoding the HMG box and little or no conservation outside the box . |
| 6 | The extent of cell death varied between embryos and between the two sides of the neural tube in individual embryos . |
| 7 | If you live in Oxford , in the City area of Oxford , you have a far higher chance of getting a home help , getting a place in an elderly person 's home , getting a meals on wheels , than anywhere else in the county , and between the different areas of the county there are vast differences in that . |
| 8 | Clearly distinguish between primary and secondary sources , and between the different types of history books . |
| 9 | Recently , there has been considerable national publicity and extensive media coverage demonstrating increasing public concern about self-medication , and about the adverse effects of ‘ multi-prescription ’ . |
| 10 | When those at the level of schools read about allegations of incompetence on the part of the earlier separate Universities Funding Council and about the individual difficulties of separate universities , they felt frustration about the apparent misuse of money in other sectors or believed that if other people got their sums wrong , they in schools should also have been excused . |
| 11 | We hear very little about those localities where people are working away quietly with encouraging results , and about the many examples of excellent collaboration that protect so many children . |
| 12 | Since then , much has been learnt about the structure and properties of proteins and about the active sites of enzymes . |
| 13 | Constitutional theory , in explaining how the various institutions of the state work together and in offering a particular theory of representation connecting state to society , seeks to provide us with answers to large and profound questions about who governs and how ; about who should govern and how ; and about the respective rights of people and the privileges of property in British politics . |
| 14 | However , others in the industry are concerned about ‘ cowboy ’ companies dabbling in biotechnology for the first time and about the commercial offshoots of universities which are scaling up laboratory experiments — often on shoestring budgets . |
| 15 | To do this , I must rely on the truth of a number of facts about the world , and about the optical properties of my eyes . |
| 16 | Like its predecessors in Mexico ( 1985 ) , Rio de Janeiro ( 1987 ) and Caracas ( 1989 ) the Festival will provide participants with the opportunity to exhibit and view the most recent cinema and video productions made by and about the indigenous peoples of the Americas . |
| 17 | The machine will no doubt tell you but erm and for every fifty pounds of petrol you get one pound for Argos . |
| 18 | The court ordered the original bills of lading , which were in the hands of B. , the ambassador of the Republic of Somalia appointed to the United Nations Organisation by the former government , to be placed in court to facilitate the sale of the cargo and for the net proceeds of sale to be paid into court . |
| 19 | Remedies were sought for the lack of international liquidity and for the other causes of the decline in international trade — especially during the 1930s . |
| 20 | The guests , who consisted mostly of green types and sensible eaters , were lectured by Jonathon Porritt , director of Friends of the Earth and very important Green Party spokesman , on his concern for the ill effects of Western food on the health of Europeans , and for the devasting results of exporting processed food to developing countries . |
| 21 | There has , however , been some revival of the device , especially with modern private presses affecting a fondness for the past and for the great days of the colophon , beginning with the great Mainz Psalter of Fust and Schoeffer in 1457 . |
| 22 | Elisha was the man that God had equipped for that time in history , in that land , and for the specific needs of individual people around him . |
| 23 | A particular form of abuse which was greatly resented was the levying of extra taxes to pay for imperial ceremonies — for example the assumption of power by a new sultan — and for the increasing costs of the wars which the empire was forced to fight as its power was challenged by its enemies , notably the Habsburgs during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 24 | However , we have made allowance for housing costs and for the personal expenditures of people living in the community at the end of the analysis . |
| 25 | Now that oil is the main fuel for ships and other transport , the export of coal has almost ended but it was the reason for the early growth of Cardiff and for the long ribbons of terraced houses in the valleys of the coalfield . |
| 26 | In effect the king was seeking to make wealth rather than feudal tenure the basis of military obligations , but he met much resistance , and for the final campaigns of his reign he relied upon appeals for voluntary paid service from all except those summoned personally by virtue of their tenure . |
| 27 | As director of the Institute of Child Health from 1946 he was responsible for its rapid development and for the innovative departments of growth and development , and tropical medicine . |
| 28 | There must also be enough samples put on test to allow for duplicate examinations and for the proper investigations of special problems . |
| 29 | And for the 167 victims of the Nepal air disaster there was little dignity even in death yesterday . |
| 30 | However , despite Laud 's personal antipathy towards the papacy , the 1630s did see a growth in the influence of Catholicism over the English government and an improvement in relations between Charles 's court and the papal curia , and for the large numbers of English Protestants who were unable to distinguish between Arminianism and popery and who regarded Laud as little more than an agent of Rome , there could be no doubt that the archbishop was to blame . |