Example sentences of "and [noun sg] of a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With 250 million volumes sold annually , Mills and Boon is the source of a construction and perpetuation of a particular concept of female desire and sexuality that can always be assuaged through the consummation of a heterosexual romance . |
| 2 | From his own statements , it is clear that he is word-perfect in his familiarity with the prophetic books of the Old Testament , can quote them at will , can move among them with the facility and expertise of a professional scholar . |
| 3 | As the municipal elections had shown , the political parties ( especially the parties of the left ) enjoyed the confidence and support of a large section of the population , something which had not been the case with Giraud in 1943 . |
| 4 | There had always been tension between fear of the process of dying and hope of a happy hereafter . |
| 5 | If you are well practised in a careful approach , having learned the art of blending yourself into the background and moving with the silence and stealth of a hungry alley-cat , then you will soon be close enough to identify them as chub . |
| 6 | From the front of the house comes the chug and clatter of a heavy petrol mower . |
| 7 | Minute amounts of slower moving material are also visible independent of SAM addition and presence of a 5-fluorocytosine residue at the correct position within the Dcm recognition sequence ( lanes 1 , 3–6 ) . |
| 8 | In Fig. 12–3 the demand for labour in the absence and presence of a proportional income tax is depicted as D and D T respectively . |
| 9 | Metastases in the greater omentum , which otherwise would represent an unusual pathway of gallbladder carcinoma spread , lack of other regional or distant metastases , and presence of a biliary calculus in the abdominal cavity make intra-abdominal tumour inoculation during the laparoscopic procedure in this patient likely . |
| 10 | This production is , however , episodic as is illustrated by the volcanic record of Iceland , which is both a hot spot and part of a mid-oceanic ridge . |
| 11 | A strip of bare earth to the left of the drive contains three black lumps of metal that might be car engines , and part of a rusting harrow . |
| 12 | In terms of pupils development , a database should be seen as an integral part of an assignment and part of a long term , cross-curricular development of information skills . |
| 13 | Once the fallopian tubes have been reached they can be artificially blocked by trying and removal of a small piece ( tubal ligation ) or sealing ( diathermy ) or by the use of clips or rings . |
| 14 | José Lezama Lima 's Paradiso , a kind of portrait of the artist , recounting the childhood and adolescence of a young poet , elaborates a poetics in which words are the tools to understand the world , to make sense of history and even to achieve transcendence . |
| 15 | The purpose of this research project is to obtain presently lacking information on the way of life , social structure and ideology of a Bantu-speaking people called Lungu who live around the southern end of Lake Tanganyika in East-Central Africa . |
| 16 | On the one hand , interests in line with the prevailing policy and ideology of a local authority tend to secure effective access and substantive policies that advance their interest without any need for activity and organisation . |
| 17 | Who but Gibbons has been able to reproduce in wood the precise bloom of a ripening peach , the very texture and mass of a bursting apricot , or the exact weight and trajectory of an ear of corn on its stem ? |
| 18 | Though it is possible that the facts of such a case might show merely the legitimate compromise of a claim to damages , on the other hand , the facts might be such as to constitute extortion and blackmail of a serious type . |
| 19 | Sex , as seen in the Bible , is part and parcel of a wider relationship . |
| 20 | It would seem to me that if you 've got to prove a case that there that it is the place of last resort , and that place of last resort has got to be at least five thousand dwellings , you are in a place where there is absolute massive growth of demand , and improbably no one has been able to meet a five year supply of housing land , if you are to meet it in the term , if y if those are the criteria to meeting the terms of th of this sort of plan , and in fact what I would submit is that a new settlement solution is very much a part and parcel of a long term solution , and that 's where essentially the County strategy is quite right in proposing a new settlement in the context of the greenbelt , because also greenbelt is a long term solution . |
| 21 | Though there was never-ceasing change , each movement was not a chance occurrence in a hotch-potch of bewildered uncertainty , but part and parcel of a pre-conceived plan , trimmed down or adorned to suit the particular circumstances of the moment … |
| 22 | The truth of the matter is that the policy of placing the interests of a managed exchange rate above the real needs of the economy can only be conceived sensibly as part and parcel of a geopolitical strategy to move Britain towards participation in a Single Currency , as required by the Treaty of Maastricht . |
| 23 | What is remarkable — and , I think , indefensible -about English libel trials is that the judge gives directions and guidance on the measure of damages as part and parcel of a single summing-up on the substantive issue . |
| 24 | But in fact the notion of class is not well defined , a stratificational analysis is not objective , and a sociolinguistic analysis which is heavily dependent upon the notion of prestige is part and parcel of a stratificational model . |
| 25 | Whichever way round it is , the task , complicated by the anthropologist 's limited mastery of the vernacular , is apt to be taxing and to require tact and patience of a high order . |
| 26 | There is no substitute for the guidance and direction of a good coach , but such people are not always available or affordable . |
| 27 | Britain does not have a national police force under the control and direction of a central government department , any such notion having been rejected by the Royal Commission on the Police in 1962 . |
| 28 | This comes about , he suggests , for three reasons : there is frequent movement of personnel between different posts ; the supervision and direction of a complex set of machinery encourages the multi-functional use of individuals ; and there is an increase in the use of shift work . |
| 29 | Cover the sides and base of a 1.4 ltr ( 2½ pt ) pudding basin with 14 of the slices . |
| 30 | Prisoner is a puzzle game and computerisation of a little plastic puzzle the author bought in an airport lounge . |