Example sentences of "and [noun sg] in [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Burn showed both originality and ingenuity in his initial designs for the Edinburgh Academy , giving a two-storey building a single-storey façade and an unfluted portico to save on façading costs , others made the Greek revival their own : Thomas Hamilton who developed the basic arrangement of the final design of Burn 's Academy into the Royal High School , and William Henry Playfair , Burn 's contemporary at Smirke 's , whose work showed awareness of the latest developments in Germany . |
| 2 | the children 's interests , knowledge and expertise in their everyday world , as well as in their school work . |
| 3 | The observations at Greenwich had been made by different observers at different times , using techniques that depended , to some degree , on the observer 's skill and expertise in his chosen technique . |
| 4 | These communities dominated by dwarf and recumbent shrubs represent the best conditions of soil , warmth and moisture in their respective subregions . |
| 5 | On his way to the trophy he met and defeated in the quarter finals an up and coming English youngster , one Michael Bonallack , now secretary of the game 's ruling body , the Royal & Ancient , and present in his official capacity at Royal Portrush this week . |
| 6 | It is simultaneously the products of increasingly affluent individuals and households attempting to establish identity , uniqueness and esteem in their own eyes and those of others . |
| 7 | If you arc prepared to invest a lot of time and money in your new kitchen you might consider making a sort of kitchen/living or family room ; a real ‘ heart of the home ’ area , more casual than a living room , more cosy than a working kitchen . |
| 8 | In the last two years of the war I was in orbit visiting every station and squadron in my endless quest for Pathfinders . |
| 9 | who is able to read and writer in his/her own language |
| 10 | It 's a car that builds on the 25 's strong points and makes huge advances in refinement , build quality and styling in its own right . |
| 11 | ‘ You 've got cowardly and craven in your old age , ’ said Tim , rolling over to stub out his cigarette in a crust . |
| 12 | ( And failure to encourage infants to grow up and experience their own separateness and uniqueness is as much a betrayal of the concept of self as is the abandonment of support and pleasure in their developing maturity . ) |
| 13 | The universe was reduced to a system of chaos and confusion in which all things must struggle to survive . |
| 14 | Foxgloves and campion in their pink frills , stitchwort with its little white stars and golden marsh marigold hiding in damp hollows , a dappled canopy in cool shades of green letting in dabs of blue sky , the fresh smell of damp earth warmed by the sun . |
| 15 | He thanked them all but told them that ‘ his determination was to spend his life and time and talent in his own family , for whose benefit he had now parted with all his worldly estate among them ’ . |
| 16 | The building is lofty and light in its tall nave and choir , with the shafts of the ribbed vaults ascending unbroken between the high clerestory windows . |
| 17 | The objection that Foucault neglects history because he does not attempt to give reasons why the epistemic shifts he describes occurred is perhaps inevitable but also begs the question : for conventional historiography has in general done nothing but account for such shifts — which has meant that it has consistently failed to recognize alterity and incommensurability in its insistent search for continuities with the past . |
| 18 | ( The obvious if partial exception here is again Frederick II ; but he never had the material resources needed for a truly Napoleonic strategy and became steadily more cautious and conservative in his later years . ) |
| 19 | They came into existence along with democracy — with the development of parliaments and elections — after the American and French Revolutions , and were at first ‘ parties of notables ’ , that is to say , relatively small electoral committees composed of individuals who had prestige and wealth in their own constituency or electoral district . |
| 20 | Dave Bull , who many of you will know as a fanatical ‘ Stiff ’ and athlete in his own right , has been banned from carrying on shot-putt practice in the bar . |
| 21 | The economists Nelson and Winter in their Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change ( 1982 ) describe this information as ‘ organisational routine ’ , and have likened it to the information codified in computer programs . |
| 22 | When the Israelite desert tribes entered Canaan , they found a land not only flowing with milk and honey , but full of weeping and laughter in its religious rituals , quite different from anything they had known . |
| 23 | Thus Sir William Trumbull , when he was sent as English ambassador to Paris in 1685 , was told that : You shall constantly correspond with our ministers in other foreign courts , for our better service , and your mutual information and assistance in your respective negotiations ; and you shall also maintain a good correspondence and intercourse with all the other ambassadors , envoys and ministers of princes and states in amity with us , and as far as you can penetrate into the designs of their respective superiors , and of what you can discover of this nature you shall give us a constant account by one of our Principal Secretaries of State . |
| 24 | Pilate standing on , you imagine knowing that he has delivered up an innocent man , knowing that he 's delivered to death someone who is not guilty of death , knowing that he is the son of God , the King of the Jews , listen to what he says and th listen to what he 's watch , he 's seeing rather and the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the praetorium and gathered the whole Roman cohort around him and they stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him , and after weaving a crown of thorns they put it on his head and reed in his right hand , and they kneeled down before him and mocked him saying , hail ! |
| 25 | The questions raised by conceptual material are discussed by the main characters and illustrated in their actions , but in neither case do they affect the plot structure itself which marks a return to formal strategies of the past : Under the Net to the picaresque tradition , and The Languages of Love to the paradigmatic plot of fall and salvation in which rhetorical devices remain subservient to the basic three-tiered design of Christian allegory . |
| 26 | What is really problematic is that psychoanalysis produces a theory of identity [ i.e. sexual difference ] which does not allow for a genuine heterogeneity and contradiction in our diverse identifications . |
| 27 | Faith ‘ To have access to child care and health care and security in their old age , to enjoy a clean environment , to walk the streets in safety and have a voice in the conduct of public affairs . ’ |
| 28 | The Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge ( ISPCK ) will focus on marketing and distribution in its annual publishing course , to be held at the ISPCK 's Publishing Institute in Delhi , 18–30 November . |
| 29 | The oboe tends to lose power and body in its upper register , but with the clarinet the opposite is the case . |
| 30 | But humanity has a basic need for ugliness and brutality in its public buildings . ’ |