Example sentences of "and [noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He sifted through junk shops for cardigans , jackets and hats for the sketches by day and pinned me into paper versions of the dresses by night .
2 Brennan adapted the capital asset pricing model to try to gauge the effects of dividends and taxes on the returns to shareholders : where .
3 Nine Heads represent finality , fulfilment and unity with the forces of nature ; the number applied to the fully initiated ; the Seer .
4 I 've been joined today by Professor Mike Springford , Professor of Experimental Physics at the University , and Chairman of the Services for Industry Coordinating Group , and John Golds , the University 's Industrial Liaison Officer .
5 Bridgeman was a Shropshire JP and deputy lieutenant , a privy councillor ( 1920 ) , an elder brother of Trinity House ( 1928 ) , honorary LLD of Cambridge University ( 1930 ) , and chairman of the governors of Shrewsbury School .
6 He is pro-chancellor of the University of Surrey and chairman of the trustees of the Science Museum in South Kensington .
7 This is an attempt to bring together the annual budgetary process with the policy planning process by linking the analysis of objectives and activities with the outputs of the authority .
8 This involves either going through the transcript with the child 's caretakers and inviting comments and interpretations on specific utterances , or playing the recording back and making detailed notes about movements and activities of the participants during the recording period .
9 Other new targets are indicated by anomalous levels of molybdenum , lead , arsenic and uranium near the margins of the Monadhliath and Ardclach granites .
10 Many spoke with respect and admiration for the soldiers of the 6th Army , but took the view that the losses suffered had been in vain .
11 But these considerations , which are no fault of the present author 's , should not be allowed to diminish pleasure in and admiration for the parts of her book under review that have to do with the history of ideas .
12 One way of coping with the dilemma of too much or too little bottom-up acoustic information is to use broad , and hopefully robust representation primitives initially to access a number of word hypotheses bottom-up and subsequently use a word verifier for more accurate matching and rating of the hypotheses against the input .
13 Preoccupied with thoughts of her school and its organisation — she must get brochures printed and order equipment-there would be much redecoration and rearrangement of the rooms at Moorlake she would have a million and one things to do before she got this project airborne — Sara looked at him blankly .
14 This is so to the extent that the claim for a structurally distinct postmodernist mode of signification breaks down in the face of a variety of historical avant-garde practices ranging across Europe from London to Vienna and Moscow in the hands of such as Eliot , Joyce , the Cubists , Surrealists and others ( including , somewhat surprisingly , Kokoschka ) .
15 But the contrast would seem at least as much to reflect the differing circumstances and attitudes of the times about which each was writing and in which each lived .
16 The biographer of Edward the Confessor shows us ( in what is meant to be a panegyric ) the picture of a thoroughly idle king , who spent much of his time ‘ in the glades and woods in the pleasures of hunting ’ .
17 Among them are sketches of objects and copies of inscriptions made by Howard Carter of items from Lord Carnarvon 's collection ; facsimiles of reliefs ; drawings of animals and birds copied from hieroglyphics and set alongside living counterparts ; Carter 's map of the Valley of the Kings used in the search for Tutankhamun 's tomb ; and record cards and sketches of the objects from the tomb itself .
18 Since she is illiterate , reading of the Bible is ruled out , but , in whatever activity she finds herself , she can pursue prayer and meditation in meekness , and faith in the teachings of the Church , and the same " continuel desire to God " that he advocated in Mixed Life ( 41.472 ) here stressed as an inner dynamic , where she is never idle " bot alwey liftand up hert by desire to God and to blisse of heuen " ( 22.296a. – 96 ) .
19 Professor David Skilton , Head of English at the New University of Wales College of Cardiff , took over responsibility for our chapter on the teaching of English language and literature in the schools of Wales , and proved usefully at home with structuralist and post-structuralist approaches to literature .
20 It was made the victim of frustration … but is to be freed from the shackles of mortality and enter upon the liberty and splendour of the children of God . ’
21 For the inaugural Raid Gauloises in New Zealand in November 1989 , Fusil chose running , rafting , canoeing , climbing and horse-riding as the modes of transport for a 250-mile race for teams of five ( including at least one woman ) .
22 Then there was the mass impression : the city 's rituals and festivals — the visit of a monarch , the launch of a warship from the Mersey shipyards , or the personage of Her Majesty 's Inspector annually reviewing the assembled ranks over tea and buns for the dignitaries of the Watch Committee .
23 In October 1986 three journalists launched a daily newspaper in Britain , the Independent , whose very title was meant to signal scorn for allegiance to any political party and freedom from the machinations of a meddling proprietor .
24 In addition to their knowledge and expertise in the activities for which they are currently employed , many have additional relevant experience ( botanical , geological , horticultural ) gained from previous employ or personal endeavour .
25 For in 1536 the insurgents involved in the Lincolnshire rising , who were gathering at Horncastle , enlisted the help and support of the monks of Kirkstead .
26 This organization pays money to record companies and artists for the performances of their music on radio and television , unlike PRS which pays the writers .
27 The fortunes of this richest group in the parish of Myddle varied according to the individual qualities , decisions and luck of the heads of each family .
28 The balance and distribution of power and responsibility between the branches of government is subject to constant dispute and evolution .
29 The balance and distribution of power and responsibility between the branches of government is subject to constant dispute and evolution .
30 It constitutes an economic order which encourages trust and responsibility for the interests of others — a form of solidarity .
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