Example sentences of "and [noun] [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The dry , cloudy weather will still be with us at the start of the night , but some patchy , light rain will creep into the Borders and Dumfries and Galloway by the end of the night . |
2 | More time should have been given to expert uncertainties and disagreements about the nature of the disease ( reviewed as recently as last October by Solomon Snyder in The Lancet . |
3 | This required physicians to notify parents within 48 hours of an abortion for a minor , and spelled out well-defined exceptions to this rule — notably medical emergencies , court approval of the minor 's right to abortion and coverage of the issue by state laws . |
4 | Also known as Hela , the goddess of the Ninth Earth and guardian of the Underworld in Norse mythology . |
5 | However , in Alcine , Act 5 , scenes 2–3 , with the entry of Melissa , the deus ex machina whose magic power is greater than Alcina 's , and who rescues the lovers Astophus and Melanie in the nick of time , an exceptional progression is used D major to F major . |
6 | Mr Blackburn said he was delighted with the BS5750 part two award ( also known as ISO9002 ) , which was ‘ part of our campaign to raise standards of quality and reliability to the benefit of all our customers . ’ |
7 | Yet there is significant concern for the quality and reliability of the output of this examination system . |
8 | To encourage Lewis in this direction , Eliot gave him to review in the next year Egyptian Mummies and Essays on the Evolution of Man by Elliot Smith , as well as Medicine , Magic and Religion by W. H. R. Rivers . |
9 | Lindsey used Bravo Golf from the time of its purchase in 1967 until 1973 as the family transport , that was until he had a visit from the Airshow Coordinator at RAF Finningley in 1973 who asked him if he would like to be shot down by a Spitfire and Hurricane at the Battle of Britain airshow that year ! |
10 | On the afternoon of September 11 , 1991 a Lancaster , Spitfire and Hurricane of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight ( BBMF ) were in transit from their home base , RAF Coningsby , to Jersey to take part in the Jersey Air Show . |
11 | Then , when the guests are drumming their knives and forks on the table with impatience , I take out my fillet and slice it into the appropriate chunks . |
12 | The magazine calls for a retrial on the grounds of the new evidence of the alleged Mail on Sunday payment , the ‘ excessive ’ amount of damages awarded , and misdirection of the jury by the judge on the amount of ‘ aggravated damages ’ they could award . |
13 | The place had been occupied by the Americans for ten days or more , but 9th Air Force was flying missions down to the south and Czechoslovakia until the end of the month . |
14 | The Department of World Mission and Unity of the Church of Scotland continued its presentation of files relating to colonial , continental , Jewish and foreign missions , 1939–85 ( availability as always is restricted for those records less than 25 years old ) . |
15 | If citizenship embraced the reconciliation of rights and duties within a democracy , in general terms , as Vincent and Plant suggest , the concept also ‘ implied a noble purpose ’ , orientated as it was toward ‘ community life ’ ; it represented ‘ the consciousness of the ends of life and their origin and unity in the community as a whole ’ . |
16 | Plenty of people turned up , including Mark Lennox Boyd , one of the influential and able new generation of Conservatives , and MP for ITE Merlewood , the Father of the House , John Parker , who has been campaigning on the environment and forestry since 1935 , and a Green troika of David Clark , Opposition spokesman on environment , Peter Hardy , author of a book on badgers , and chairman of the Council of Europe Agricultural Committee , and me . |
17 | On the 25th anniversary of the removal on Oct. 15 , 1964 , of Nikita Khrushchev as First Secretary of the CPSU and Chairman of the Council of Ministers [ see pp. 20389-90 ] , Moskovskaya Pravda drew parallels with the current situation — economic shortages , radical reforms and a " crisis of authority " . |
18 | A former EC Commissioner , he is chairman of Allied Irish Banks and Chairman of the Board of Governors of the European Institute of Public Administration . |
19 | Ho Dam , 62 , one of North Korea 's most senior statesmen and , since 1983 a member of the politburo of the ruling Korean Workers ' Party and Chairman of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland , died in Pyongyang on May 11 after a long illness . |
20 | , Sir Percival Victor David Ezekiel , second baronet ( 1892–1964 ) , financier and sinophile , was born in Bombay 21 July 1892 , the fifth and youngest child in the family of three sons ( the elder two of whom died at the age of two ) and two daughters of ( Sir ) Sassoon Jacob David , later first baronet , cotton and yarn merchant , mill owner , and later founder and chairman of the Bank of India , and his wife Hannah , daughter of Elias David Sassoon , of Bombay . |
21 | ‘ I an sorry that a well-respected body such as the Wolfson Foundation should have taken this step ’ says Major General Leslie Busk , director-general of the British Heart Foundation and chairman of the Association of Medical Research Charities . |
22 | William Wilson , chief constable of Central and chairman of the Association of Chief Police Officers ( Scotland ) , described the delay as disappointing and said he would be pressing the Scottish home affairs minister , Lord Fraser , to come up with a solution at a meeting on 1 March . |
23 | He became Clerk to the Governors after Ellis 's death in 1957 , a Governor in 1962 when Gilchrist was appointed Bursar and Clerk , Vice Chairman in 1973 , and Chairman on the retirement of Lt. Col. Christie-Miller in 1975 . |
24 | A full house in the parish hall of the new church of St Peter and St Paul , Wakefield raised £375 to provide further facilities and activities for the youth of the parish . |
25 | It follows that the nature of jewellery is bound to reflect in some measure the structure and activities of the society in which it was current . |
26 | In his books on folk life — A Wiltshire Village ( 1912 ) , Villages of the White Horse ( 1913 ) , Round about the Upper Thames ( 1922 ) , Folk-Songs of the Upper Thames ( 1923 ) , and The Banks of Isis , serialized in the North Berkshire Herald in 1925 — he left , as he had hoped to do , ‘ a permanent record of the language and activities of the district in which I find myself ’ . |
27 | Where the shifting of assets and activities from the public to the private sector has not been possible , the government has attempted to subject public organizations ( such as the National Health Service and the administrative sections of Whitehall departments ) to competitive and financial pressures analogous to market pressures under which private businesses operate . |
28 | The vicar of that time had tithes and rights , one consisting of ‘ pigs , pidgeons and ducks to the value of 16 shillings ’ . |
29 | Where stone foundations are normal , as at Catterick and Hibaldstow , regional variations reflect local sources : flint and chalk in areas dominated by the geological presence of chalk , limestones and sandstones in the area of the Jurassic ridge and granites and slates beyond . |
30 | On retirement he was appointed ADC to Queen Victoria and Lieutenant of the Tower of London . |