Example sentences of "and [prep] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He fed mints to dray horses , said hello to a caged European eagle owl called Gonzo and let two barn owls fly on and off his arm as a smiling crowd clapped and asked for autographs . |
| 2 | Some 47% were in the category of Mystified Manunsure about their role in feeding and about their role as a father . |
| 3 | Sun has the backing of ICL Plc and Fujitsu Ltd as well as Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp for Wabi and for its proposal for a Public Windows Interface specification that would bring the Windows applications program interface into the public domain and make it harder for Microsoft to alter it to trip up the competition . |
| 4 | This involved , at the very least , the nullification of any middle-class " hatred " for learning , and for its replacement by a taste for the finer stuff of literature , and even , more ambitiously , a " quickening " of the whole spiritual nature . |
| 5 | The decision was taken after other member countries refused to accept US demands for a reduction of its contribution to the ISO 's budget and for its redefinition as a " study group " rather than a body with price-stabilizing powers . |
| 6 | He added that prospects for economic co-operation were good , and thanked the Australian government for supporting China 's efforts to rejoin the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) and for its adherence to a " one-China " position . |
| 7 | The poems appealed to members of the Church of England by their reverence for holy places , holy offices and seasons ; but they were also admired by Puritans and Nonconformists for their praise of the Scriptures and for their portrayal of a soul reasoning with , and even wrestling with , its Maker . |
| 8 | Monika Helbing , a former member of the Red Army Faction , received a seven-year prison sentence on Feb. 24 for her complicity in the kidnap and murder in 1977 of Hans-Martin Schleyer , the West German industrialist [ see p. 28918 ; 28920 ] , and for her part in a bank robbery in Nürnberg in 1979 . |
| 9 | He had been visiting the island since 1935 and during his internment as a prisoner of war he worked up plans to establish an observatory on the island after the war . |
| 10 | A ‘ tump ’ is n't punctual , whereas women poets are ‘ businesslike , able , /good dri vers , and right on the ball ’ and despite her pose as a loser in love and dieting , Cope is as good as her word . |
| 11 | Elizabeth Woodville , informed of the arrest of her brother and of her son by a former marriage , as well as of the young king 's faithful chamberlain , was beside herself with anger and anxiety . |
| 12 | These ideas on culture and society are , as one would expect , a product both of Malinowski 's own flamboyant personality and of his experience as a field-worker . |
| 13 | With hindsight , this can be attributed to the inadequacies of his principle of inertia and of his lack of a clear conception of gravity as a force . |
| 14 | Among other things you might get his view of the bookshop and of his father-in-law as a business man . ’ |
| 15 | To find this , Eliot goes from the city to the savage beginnings of religion , from literature and drama to their ritual origins , and from his present as a London clerk to his earlier life . |
| 16 | Forms To cater for the user who copies the same files to and from his laptop on a daily basis — and there must be quite a few who do — the second mode of operation is Forms mode . |
| 17 | She was hardworking and industrious , and in her work as a contracts officer enjoyed the challenge of getting value for money when it came to servicing the needs of the company 's departments . |
| 18 | ‘ It will never end until we feel our powers , until we see how few and weak they are ’ ( this was the merest wishfulness ) , ‘ and how strong they are , for consider what they have now , and in what sort of a country we are living . |
| 19 | Set an example by requiring all engineers entering and already in government service to follow best practice in risk management , and in it role as a customer , to require suppliers to follow best practice . |
| 20 | The dealer was in possession of the car with consent and in his capacity as a mercantile agent , since the possession was with a view to an eventual sale , but he was not in possession of the registration document with the consent of the owner . |
| 21 | The picture that emerges is of a man both maddening and engaging in his inner spiritual drive , and in his search for a way of living appropriate to its demands . |
| 22 | As Kipling complained , they hardly noticed it when it was there ; and since its conversion into a Commonwealth of Nations in 1947 , with Indian independence , they have hardly noticed that a Commonwealth is not the same thing . |
| 23 | The Jacobites were protected on their right by the River Shiel and on their left by a cliff . |
| 24 | He cuts an elegant figure as he : The ambiguous tone and register of thynges here , either " prayers/intercessions " or just " things " , is an effective piece of wry irony — and he swears fidelity and discretion to the wife , whom he claims to love , on his breviary ( 131 ) , and on his profession as a monk ( 155 ) . |
| 25 | Faced with this threat from building societies to their share in the savings market , banks have come to attach greater significance to the personal sector and to its importance as a source of profits . |
| 26 | His first book , If this is a man , about his months in Auschwitz , and its sequel , The Truce , were hard to fault , and the successive publications of his middle age have been greeted by an admiration responsive both to his skills as a writer and to his character as a man.i In October 1985 , however , the chauvinistic American Jewish magazine Commentary did succeed in performing the outlandish act of disparaging Levi and his books . |
| 27 | Unsurprisingly , judges are not neutral in their interpretation of the public interest ( Griffith , 1985 , p. 235 ) , but are biased in the performance of their roles , both by their origins and by their location in a state structured in the interests of external business elites ; and where the law is implemented , in each case ‘ it will be found that an organized group had an informed interest in effective administration ’ ( Edelman , 1964 , p. 41 ) . |
| 28 | The prevailing protestant — loyalist beliefs stress the existence of the people of Northern Ireland , who are distinguished by their Ulster protestantism and democratic values , and by their claim to a flexible territory of Ulster . |
| 29 | The final verdict has to be that the underlying intelligence of the man , for all his shrewdness , combativity and skill in a car , was insufficient to match an ambition that was almost forced upon him by his milieu , by his family and by his status as a Brazilian national hero . |