Example sentences of "and [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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1 | Paintings , drawings , and portraits are other useful pictorial sources , and for the Middle Ages the decorations and embellishments in medieval manuscripts , books of hours and church panels form another excellent pictorial source . |
2 | Ah , but you 're going to be getting some extra police officers by taking them off er , paperwork , er you 're gon na get two thousand three hundred I see in the press , well that as shown , that of course will be twenty three , but if anybody here thinks the Chief Constable 's gon na produce twenty three new police officers through reductions in paperwork and through the other initiatives the Home Secretary has announced , well I do n't believe them , and we shall have to wait and see . |
3 | Later , in the autumn of 1912 , Picasso moved to Montparnasse , and during the following years the differences in their work began to become apparent , but the same friendly relations were maintained . |
4 | ‘ The officials at Preston have been nothing but encouraging and in the early days the coaching staff put in a lot of time to make up for my lack of experience . |
5 | None of us really knew what we were going to see , and in the early days the tapes were rather artificial because the lessons were all so well prepared , the kids knew they were going to have a video in the classes , it did n't mean that they were always well behaved ! |
6 | Most of our population stock arrived later , from northern Germany and Denmark , as shown in the place names of most of England and southern Scotland , and in the Middle Ages the Kingdom of Scotland was one of the poorest areas of Europe . |
7 | Gradually weight loss occurs despite a good diet , and in the final stages the person ceases to recognise the family or even the self in the mirror , loses bladder and bowel control , any capacity for self-care or ability to communicate in words . |
8 | In the last years of the Soviet Union and in the new republics the militia found itself dealing with a level of public demonstration — and sometimes disorder — of which it had no previous experience , and it did not always deal efficiently with them . |
9 | Many of the most committed Calvinists , who had wrestled for lengthy periods with the doctrine of predestination before finally convincing themselves of the assuredness of their salvation , reacted with fury and outrage to Arminius 's teachings , and in the United Provinces the resulting theological controversy provoked a major political crisis , culminating in the defeat of the Arminians at the Synod of Dort in 1618 . |
10 | Although for a mile around no tree grew , some vegetation had found a root-hold in the crevices of its walls , and on the worn battlements the lightning revealed a dwarfed tree drooping like a flag under the incessant downpour . |
11 | Beneath and beyond the flocking starlings the evening air was alight with the flight of swifts which wheeled and dived with a speed which dazzled Creggan . |