Example sentences of "and [noun] [coord] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sort of shade I mean is the dappled shade cast by mature apple trees and maples or by the high branches of an oak . |
| 2 | Although the provinces round Petrograd and Moscow and on the Upper Volga recovered fast economically and were probably better treated , since they had stayed faithful to the Bolsheviks from 1917 , they were relatively unimportant as agricultural producers . |
| 3 | When Prague lay near to the great trade routes between East and West and from the Mediterranean to the Baltic , then it was a valuable staging post for all of Europe , including the far West . |
| 4 | I am lonely yes , but my loneliness is the price I pay in order that the people of the World may look ahead to peace and freedom and to a decent standard of living for their children . ’ |
| 5 | Detailed information on these courses is given in the section on Application and Admission and under the appropriate individual course entries . |
| 6 | France had no need of prudence , only of audacity and victor and of the small dark-haired man who knew how to make glory bright as the sun and as sweet as the violet . |
| 7 | Their biomass totals 22.9 kg per ha , 73% of arboreal mammal biomass on Barro Colorado Island and they crop 38 kg leaves per ha per annum ( 40–60% of their diet ) , whereas the howlers take 52.8 kg , reflecting their higher metabolic rates and less ruminant-like digestion : they are therefore less efficient , even though at a lower density and biomass and with a smaller percentage of leaves in their diet . |
| 8 | ‘ Eight acres is all the council needs — we 'd build the club and manage it both as pay and play and as a private club . |
| 9 | He was tough and strong , disciplined and unselfish — he was the epitome of the goal-maker , whose efforts were recognised by his colleagues and opponents and by the discerning fan , but were perhaps not so well appreciated by less perceptive onlookers or pressmen . |
| 10 | The Tynedale Fenwicks and the Liddesdale Elliots were involved for a long time in a savage , unyielding feud ; and the Armstrongs , among their many clashes , quarrelled simultaneously with the Scottish Turnbulls and Johnstones and with the English Bells , while the Bells were also feuding with the English Grahams . |
| 11 | Dumas discussed the peace process with Levi and Shamir and with a Palestinian delegation . |
| 12 | The great majority of their courses , whether in business and management studies , the sciences and technologies or in the social sciences , prepare students for specific career outlets ; thus modern language courses for the most part give attention to the practical application of the language with a view to the student 's ultimate employment , for example as an interpreter , while courses in social science often include options in such areas as community work , social planning , industrial relations , and public administration . |
| 13 | Cooke noted how many of the examples were rather parochial in being drawn largely from drainage basin , slope and channel studies in geomorphology and hydrology and to a lesser extent from atmospheric research , so that the reader was left to determine how systems related to the biosphere and to the pedosphere . |
| 14 | A study by Jones ( Jones , 1983 ) provides detailed evidence on the almost complete lack of communication between examination boards and employers and on the uninformed and arbitrary way in which employers use qualifications . |
| 15 | An important role in providing such information is played by COSIRA and SICRAS and by the industrial development bureaus operated by many local authorities . |
| 16 | The Scottish Council is also pleased to acknowledge the financial support of the Department of Trade and Industry and of the Colonial Mutual Group with this project . |
| 17 | As a result history is driven not by ideas and religion but by the economic basis of our culture . |
| 18 | Overall , there is an abiding impression of emptiness , of a natural pace and rhythm and of a traditional way of life that has all but disappeared from superficially similar island communities elsewhere in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland . |
| 19 | The incident with the residents from Conway House seemed to have struck a note of rapport between Rachel and David and during the following week their working relationship seemed much less strained . |
| 20 | Although China is a member of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) , rhino is being smuggled into the country from Yemen , Hong Kong , Macao and Taiwan and to a lesser degree from Singapore and Thailand . |
| 21 | This is necessary in order to assist in achieving the equivalence of information available in respect of companies not only in the UK and Ireland but throughout the European Community . |
| 22 | The film , set on the beaches , in the bars and discos and in the shabby tourist rooms of downtown Acapulco , is distinguished by a central performance from Jackie Burroughs ( also one of the directors ) that is an astonishing tour de force of which it is impossible to speak too highly . |
| 23 | The result of acquiring literacy , they conjecture , ‘ is not an ordinary language … it is the language of analytic thinking and explicit argument and it is the tool that has been adopted by science and philosophy and to a large extent by the formal school system ’ ( ibid. p. 10 ) . |
| 24 | There can be a really heavy feeling sometimes between local surfers and visitors and between the real surfers and the boogie boarders . |
| 25 | Another major factor offsets the impoverished state of museums and archaeology and in the long term this will have a far more profound effect . |
| 26 | She was born in the Rhondda Valley in 1939 and trained at the Birmingham College of Art and Crafts and at the Royal Academy Schools in 1965 , when she was living in Smethwick in the West Midlands , she won a Cinzano Art Foundation Award with her painting The Whale , which enables her to spend six months at the Academy of Fine Art in Rome . |
| 27 | It need not be exactly the same work but must be of the same nature and capacity and at the same place . |
| 28 | If true , these matters are of concern to the Bank as supervisor of the [ defendants ] and raise questions as to the continued fulfilment of the minimum criteria for authorisation set out in Schedule 3 to the Banking Act 1987 , which includes inter alia the requirement that directors , controllers and managers of authorised institutions shall be fit and proper to hold their positions and that the business of the institution will be carried on with integrity and skill and in a prudent manner . |
| 29 | He has made a major contribution to public understanding of science through his books , lectures and broadcasts and through the Exploratory . |
| 30 | It refers to the reduction in the number of teachers , to cuts in the provision for children with special educational needs , to larger classes , to cuts in the expenditure on books and equipment and to the national curriculum . |