Example sentences of "and [noun sg] [pron] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Yeah , basically it 's always been but it has n't been enforced for quite some time , that the clean up rate is four pounds and hour which equates to six pound an hour on a Saturday .
2 Driven on by wind and tide they raced through this passage and into a wide lake .
3 He went to the dressing-table and threw cold water over his face and chest which streamed with cold sweat .
4 With equal ease and sympathy he penetrated into that maze of Roman rules , conventions and unexpected reactions in which many other Hellenistic politicians lost their way .
5 Apart from the use of referenda , which are a regular feature of politics in the United States , Switzerland and some other countries , jury service , as an obligation which may in principle fall upon any citizen , is almost the sole vestige of direct citizen participation in law-making and administration which survives in modern democracies .
6 A display in the entrance hall headed ‘ These are our absolutely wonderful entries to the Cadbury 's children 's art competition ’ will boost children 's morale and self-esteem whatever judges in distant places may think .
7 His visit to Egypt occasions notices in al-Makrizi , Ibn Hajar and al-Sayrafi which agree in most respects and of which that of Ibn Hajar is the most detailed .
8 But there is nothing like a carefully chosen book to stimulate the examination and reflection which deals with this doubt .
9 For example , the tin-glazed pottery made in Europe from the Renaissance onwards was produced in many styles : that made in the Low Countries ( known as Delftware ) is of a specific range and type which varies from one production centre to another and is different again from the maiolica of Italy and the lustreware of Spain .
10 Throughout the autumn and winter he suffered from feverish colds and attacks of bronchitis , and was often forced to take to his bed for a week or fortnight at a time .
11 In the aftermath of the coup attempt mobs engaged in widespread violence and looting which resulted in some 100 deaths and damage estimated at several million dollars .
12 That will and skill she showed in large measure .
13 Besides the formal courses organized by local education authorities ( LEAs ) , initial training institutions and HMI , one must include public reports upon educational developments ( Warnock , Bullock , Plowden ) , and , published privately , the Gulbenkian Report ( Gulbenkian Foundation , 1982 ) in the arts education domain ; the reports of curriculum development programmes , for example , the Schools Curriculum Development Committee ( SCDC ) Arts in Schools Project bulletins ; digests of research , descriptions of practice and opinion which appear in professional journals ; formal and informal contact with LEA advisory services , including the growing number of teachers seconded for professional development purposes ; inspections ; long and short award bearing courses ; changes in examination syllabuses ( of which the recent introduction of GCSE is an example ) ; even teacher contact with the representatives of educational suppliers .
14 In this context of trust and security they engage in sexual relations .
15 This is one of the many books which address the snobbery of the English , which flash at their readers the lawns of country houses , the baize of gambling-tables , which tell tales of those virtuosos of ostentation and disregard who have in common a contempt for commonness , for the middle class ; and it could be said of such books that their chief resource is the eccentricity which has long amounted to a convention of upper-class life .
16 The man who issued every order and arranged every detail of the lying and brutality which resulted in these massacres was Brigadier Toby Low … subsequently ennobled ( in 1962 ) as the first Baron Aldington . ’
17 The epistemological model of truth and falsity which applies to formal statements of propositions turns out to be difficult to apply in the context of social and political life .
18 This is inappropriate for a number of reasons : first , because you are primarily assessed on relative quality ( " good for a second-year dissertation " ) rather than absolute quality ; second , because there is no point in simply rewriting someone else 's ideas ( you might as well submit their original book or article instead ) ; and third , because it underestimates the possibilities of disagreement , adaptation and development which exist in all areas of the field .
19 Such personal comments can however not be taken up in a professional staff support group , being outside its brief and scope which differ from those of a personal therapy group .
20 And back we come to poor old Katie Mallett , who seems to be getting a lot of airtime for not even entering .
21 The mixture of Hebrew and Aramaic we find in two books of the Bible implies that , at least among the Jews , Aramaic was written for no more international a public than that capable of reading Hebrew .
22 By their very quality and integrity they continued for several years after I had been graduated from the post of Talks Producer to higher echelons of musical and dramatic productions .
23 Early studies took the form of a competition between Boeing and NAA which resulted in two grossly overweight designs .
24 Generations of lobby journalists at Westminster have had to tussle with the challenge of reconciling the remarks Tory politicians are prepared to make off the record with the ringing declarations of total loyalty and conformity they deliver in public .
25 But it is equally true that there are general principles for successful teaching and learning which apply to all children .
26 It is not so much the face as the figure and deportment I consider of paramount concern . ’
27 However , to return to the physical , biological life of animals and man which ends in physical death pertinent to the practice of euthanasia .
28 IF you think of Vermont and music you think of White Christmas .
29 Theories which aim to explain social phenomena do so through methods of investigation and interpretation which strive for internal consistency , comprehensiveness , and conceptual clarity .
30 But Hooper has earned a reprieve with Liverpool looking for the solidity and assurance he showed in last year 's UEFA Cup battle with Italian club Genoa .
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