Example sentences of "and [noun] [pron] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Swainson does not seem to have taken advantage of the ease and freedom which the new technique could afford . |
| 2 | Would it not continue to need the hard currency and expertise which a westernised Hong Kong attracted ? |
| 3 | Where schools , aided by PNP resourcing , had lifted their professional climate and decision-making processes out of the slough of low morale , crisis management and paternalism , they were able to confront the next wave of change constructively and with confidence , having the will , expertise and procedures to tackle the very difficult questions about curriculum and assessment which the 1988 Act provoked . |
| 4 | It must be acknowledged that very few very old people any longer feel that they have a significant contribution to make to the knowledge and skills which the young need to manage daily life . |
| 5 | Most growth in fact derives from the creation of new bureaus to perform new functions and programmes which the political process brings into being : ‘ the budget maximizing bureaucrat is not the source of this impetus ’ ( Wade 1979 , p. 359 ) . |
| 6 | THREE Belgian fans were arrested after a 38-year-old German supporter was gravely injured by a signal rocket in the European Cup Winners ' Cup semi-final second leg match between Bremen and Bruges which the German side won 2–0 . |
| 7 | Atiyah 's doubts about this trend in late-twentieth-century family law relate to his own model of law as serving conflict-adjustment and hortatory functions , and to his concern for ‘ the generality and universality which the very nature of law seems to require ’ . |
| 8 | The ideas behind it are partly derived from Hartley 's chapter on The Pleasures and Pains of the Imagination , which explained that — ‘ the grandeur of some [ natural ] scenes , and the novelty of others , by exciting surprise and wonder [ makes ] a great difference in the preceding and subsequent states of mind ’ ; he also contrasted ‘ the offensiveness , dangers , and corruption of populous cities , and the health , tranquillity and innocence which the actual view , or mental contemplation , of rural scenes introduces ’ . |
| 9 | six days a week … from dawn till dusk … from gallop to grandstand … fortunes may be won or lost at the betting shops or with the bookies … but for the stables … for the lads and lasses and trainers its a hard grind … |
| 10 | The test of obscenity still required proof that the matter was ‘ utterly without redeeming social value ’ , but it was not long before social value was claimed for sex , a Californian judge declaring himself unable to find such lack of social value in a film which ‘ appeals to the normal interest in sex and nudity which the average person has in such matters ’ . |
| 11 | This contained some very relevant names and addresses which the Pakistani owner had obviously tried to dispose of during the night , but in the confusion and darkness he had failed to realise it had not gone overboard . " |
| 12 | In a similar kind of way , one Essex farm labourer 's daughter was called back from service to live with her ageing parents again , the household supported partly from the wages of younger brothers , and partly from pigs and hens which the old couple kept themselves . |
| 13 | One reason why some of the most energetic of antislavery activists in the 1830s resorted to the mass public meeting , the public lecture , the organisation of vast petitions and the delegate convention was that they lacked the easy personal access to ministers and administrators which an earlier generation of antislavery leaders possessed . |
| 14 | In Crime and Punishment itself the Petrine reforms get the merest glancing reference , and only one , when Raskolnikov 's friend Razumikhin speaks of ‘ us ’ ( compare the ‘ we ’ of the Drunks fragment ) as ‘ divorced from practical affairs of every sort for nearly two hundred years ’ . |
| 15 | It is evidenced in the lives of believers who serve Christ in ‘ Righteousness , peace , and joy which the Holy Spirit gives ’ ( Rom. 14:17 ) . |
| 16 | God 's Kingdom is not a matter of eating and drinking , but of the righteousness , peace and joy which the Holy Spirit gives . |
| 17 | When these are taken into account I have to confess that I find it difficult to understand the additional insights and explanations which the Marxist method offers . |
| 18 | While I like the idea of allowing a different pianist to combine with strings for each work , I miss that element of personality and insight which a great soloist such as Rubinstein brought to this music . |
| 19 | The family may choose to minimise differences and emphasise the need to attach and integrate the child within the family network , perhaps from the moment the child enters the family , as part of the love , warmth and attention which a young child needs and which is the hallmark of good parenting . |
| 20 | They both refused and Manningham poured-himself a large Scotch as Paula sank carefully into a vast armchair which enclosed her . |
| 21 | In return for his good offices , the king inserted into the charter , after a clause designed to deter his own servants from causing depredations , a reservation of the ancient Carolingian rights of hospitality , procuration , ost , and chevauchée which no Capetian king had hithertofore enjoyed there . |
| 22 | Slee expresses it very clearly : They need help in wrestling with the questions of identity , truth and commitment which the contemporary pluralism of beliefs and values poses more sharply than ever before and which are therefore very real and pressing questions for children of the secular century . |
| 23 | But what has become internalized can always become externalized again ; and so we have seen that , increasingly in modern societies , anti-social instinctual drives of the id — specifically , the instinctual drives of the gelada-like sons of the primal fathers — break out in social conflicts and acts of delinquency and provocation which the modern incarnation of the primal father — the police , the Establishment , law , order and standards of all kinds — have to meet . |
| 24 | Many Palestinians also feared that the PLO leadership would not welcome the kind of lively debate and democracy which the popular movement had fostered , but would wish to be authoritarian in its government . |
| 25 | Now I 'd often pushed my nose against the window and thought what a classy joint it looked but as someone who would rather spend £50 on a coat than a meal , the prices had come between us . |
| 26 | I noticed Pemberton at least a year ago and thought what a good player he was . |
| 27 | Sergeant laughed , too , and thought what a pleasant thing it was to have a flock of fun-loving ducks for friends . |
| 28 | A study of life , death and marriage certificates show Apricot as the daughter of a certain Wendy Ellis and Wendy herself the legitimate daughter of Bruno and Rhoda Ellis . |
| 29 | The conditions bred the revolutionary spirit and provided the concentration of numbers and strength which a revolutionary movement needed in order to challenge established authority . " |
| 30 | It is the effort and pressure which the bowel-wall muscle has to exert in propelling onward the firm faeces produced by a Western diet ( rather than the soft and voluminous matter produced by fibre-rich diets ) which has been found to be the cause of this illness . |