Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was why he was feared and tabooed as the totem , but this was also why he was periodically sacrificed and consumed by the clan brothers in rituals which re-enacted the primal trauma and the occasion of his first emergence as a psychological force of self-restraint . |
| 2 | A cold damp hung about the beechwood furniture and clung to the velour drapes . |
| 3 | The Ryazan-Uralsk railway succeeded in linking the grain producing regions along the Volga with the major consuming area around Moscow , and the Trans-Caucasus Railway linked the southern port cities of Odessa , Rostov , and Novorossiysk with the grain areas of the Middle Volga . |
| 4 | The Requalification team began to work closely with the co-ordinator and the authors , identifying the criteria to be achieved and monitoring and assisting with the progress documents . |
| 5 | A low drone of talk hummed in the hut , and Holly lay on his back on his bunk and gazed at the roof rafters and counted the time between each fall of a water drop to his feet . |
| 6 | Molecules of galactoside ( β in the figure ) enter the cell , and bind to the repressor molecules . |
| 7 | Indeed , " the main theme " of the book is the argument that the triangular pattern of cooperation between government and the two sides of industry built up a new form of harmony which lasted until the mid-sixties and led to the trade unions and employers ' associations being elevated to a new sort of status so that they became " governing institutions " sharing some of the political power and attributes of the state itself . |
| 8 | It 's been going on for about seventeen months now and the in chief man at Hill House was rather interested to hear that we 'd not actually had it resolved yet , and asked for the reference numbers and . |
| 9 | Mr McAteer said : ‘ I was in the Sheriff Clerk 's Office and asked for the defence documents . |
| 10 | A Japanese man came in and asked about the china ducks . |
| 11 | And yet , she thought , as they picked their way gingerly along under the stooping eaves of the alley that led to the rear of St Chad 's church , to avoid the running kennel thawed and filled by the morning showers , the finger of God had intervened in her life only yesterday , and might again lean down to point out for her an acceptable and fruitful way . |
| 12 | The perforated slips are then torn off and placed in the pay envelopes of the employees . |
| 13 | He turned and tottered towards the office doors . |
| 14 | And of course heating your house in the middle of the night is not what everybody wants , so there has to be an attractive price to persuade people to do that and to invest in the storage heaters , hence the half price electricity . |
| 15 | Tony finished his evening meal and scanned through the television programmes in the local newspaper . |
| 16 | Emecheta followed its success with Second-Class Citizen and The Bride Price but when her publishers , Allison and Busby , went broke , she decided to publish the hardbacks herself and sell on the paperback rights . |
| 17 | In such circumstances ( known as ‘ the last resort ’ ) the Bank of England will always step in and lend to the discount houses , or purchase bills of exchange from them before the bills have reached maturity . |
| 18 | Scramble over these temples ( ahus ) and peer into the burial cists . |
| 19 | At the No Entry sign , turn right into U kasáren and peer through the basement windows into the old stables of the adjoining palace . |
| 20 | The shop bell had tinkled frequently for the past hour , most of the customers having been the ha'penny and penny ones , some of whom were now standing outside at the shop window oohing and aahing at the Christmas goodies displayed there , all entwined with coloured streamers and illuminated by the two gas lamps attached to the side wall of the shop and plopping inside their pretty pink glass globes , while casting a rosy light overall , even over the small faces pressed against the window . |
| 21 | There are many many people who live in houses on their own ca n't get out and again it 's an indictment on our society when you hear and read about the telephone profits that er that B T are making . |
| 22 | One of the crewmen of the small boat stood looking out at the city all around him , smoking a cigarette and gazing at the myriad lights . |
| 23 | Others say that the chairman , Mr Hussey , 69 , should resign because he appointed Mr Birt and agreed to the tax arrangements . |
| 24 | A subfamily of the Ophiacanthidae with well developed disk plates or enlarged disk scales ; the disk sometimes indented interradially and often high ; the radial shields forming part of the disk , often quite long but not bar-like and hidden by the disk plates ; jaws as broad as long ; one apical papilla flanked on each side by up to six oral papillae found in most genera except Ophiocamax and Ophiomitra which have multiple apical and oral papillae ; oral tentacle pore not superficial and without conspicuously modified tentacle scales ; oral shield small to medium in size ; the tentacle pores of the arm not conspicuously large and always armed with at least one tentacle scale ; arm spines usually long , the longest equal in length to at least 2 arm segments . |
| 25 | New legislation covering the area is agreed among and ratified by the Treaty powers . |
| 26 | Her voice rang in his brain like a memory : she closed the glass door behind her , and passed by the verandah steps into the garden out of sight . |
| 27 | I let myself into our corridor , soundlessly , and crept down the back stairs and out of the back door without hearing or seeing any member of the Home staff . |
| 28 | My Lord I 'm more than happy to for your Lordship not to not look at the details of the accountant 's evidence at this stage a and concentrate on the witness statements and the documentation which which deals with liability matters . |
| 29 | The strategies and tactics of the public relations service are always sharply focused and aligned to the marketing objectives when brand public relations work is done . |
| 30 | He came back without warning , overriding his own harbingers and flashing through the opening gates and straight to the hall , heralded only by the flag streaming above him . |