Example sentences of "and [prep] [art] [det] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was also the company 's standard bearer at the town 's annual common riding and as a former Master upholsterer he previously represented the Corporation of Hammermen in a similar capacity . |
| 2 | As an ‘ old China hand ’ , Mr Bush apparently prides himself on his personal understanding in dealing with the Chinese ; and as a former CIA director , he is not averse to secrecy . |
| 3 | There was a lull in the progress of the Revolution , and for a little time Wordsworth associated with those sections of society where ‘ politics ’ were not discussed . |
| 4 | It was the morning of Emilia Frere 's departure from the Hall and for a few minutes Louisa found herself alone with the Rector , who fingered the brim of his hat and beamed like the milky sun outside . |
| 5 | Eleanor looked as if he had actually hit her , and for a few moments Jessamy found herself feeling sorry for her . |
| 6 | He sensed my curiosity about how much the twins were worth , and for a few seconds reticence and candour fought across his face , but then he shrugged . |
| 7 | And for the same reason Camel Lairds could not gain intervention funding . |
| 8 | They turned left down a road and after a few paces Tom opened another gate into the field next to the graveyard . |
| 9 | The story of this episode in the industrial life of the country , of its police and courts , and of the many side issues involved , is far too complicated and lengthy for fuller treatment in an essay of this kind , but it is a story nevertheless of immense importance to the tradition of the freedom to protest and of other freedoms . |
| 10 | The Ministers of Defence of the NATO countries and of the former member States of the Warsaw Pact , including most of the republics of the former Soviet Union , met in Brussels on April 1 and agreed on a wide-ranging programme of co-operation on military and security matters . |
| 11 | Analogies with the Triassic reservoir of the Morecambe gas field in the Irish Sea , and with the many Rotliegend gas reservoirs of the southern North Sea Basin , all believed to be sourced by underlying Westphalian coals , are self evident . |
| 12 | Of course we might assume that in our stationary state every business remained always of the same size , and with the same trade connection . |
| 13 | It was launched on similar lines to L'Auberge , and with the same staffing structure . |
| 14 | And from the same cause Collections for some of the schemes of the Church have not been made . |
| 15 | The men followed them and within a few moments lord Hulton and I were standing there just as before watching the tiny figures on the skyline , listening to the distant " Haow , haow ! " |
| 16 | His success was short-lived and within a few years Ivan had to accept Turkish suzerainty . |
| 17 | Contact with the man Wagner now kindled an interest in Wagner the theorist and within a few weeks Nietzsche was writing again to Rohde to impress on his friend his high opinion of Wagner 's Opera and Drama , a treatise written nearly twenty years before , but apparently now providing Nietzsche 's first direct acquaintance with any of Wagner 's theoretical works . |
| 18 | A treaty was signed outside Haddington , and within a few weeks Mary , Queen of Scots , was on her way from Dumbarton to Paris . |
| 19 | Reinhardt at once invited him to join his Viennese theatre company , and within a few seasons Henreid had become one of its leading players . |
| 20 | ‘ Our young people have no idea of discipline or subordination ’ , said Dr Young , ‘ They would not subordinate themselves to anybody ’ , and before the same committee E. T. Campagnac and C. E. B. Russell recounted a similar state of affairs in Manchester . |
| 21 | Fixed-price contracts have been normal for production contracts but on occasion this has led to claims that excess profits have been made and in a few cases repayment of the excess has been enforced . |
| 22 | There was a tumult at the gates , and in a few moments Dunan and the Hearthwares joined them . |
| 23 | It 's time we had ministers who will listen to Social Services and in a few months time we shall have them , a Labour Government . |
| 24 | In 1983 , the Conservatives lost their last remaining seats in Glasgow and Liverpool , and Labour 's loss of all but three seats in the South ( other than in London ) left it in control of large contiguous areas only at the core of individual conurbations , and in the former coal field areas of Strathclyde , the north east of England , South Yorkshire and South Wales . |
| 25 | In 1653 , after the remaining works had been completed by Dutch prisoners of war under Vermuyden 's direction , a service of thanksgiving was held in Ely Cathedral ; and in the same year Vermuyden was employed by his earlier adversary , the lord protector , on diplomatic missions to the Netherlands . |
| 26 | The first of their eight sons , Robert , was born in 1732 and in the same year Sutton returned to Kenton to start his own practice as surgeon and apothecary . |
| 27 | In 1981 a report to the European Parliament by P. de Keersmaeker of the European Commission expressed wholehearted support for the principle of a fixed link , and in the same year reports based on consultations with the Council of Europe 's Conference of Local and Regional Authorities came to a similar conclusion both about the fixed link and other gaps in the European network of trunk communications . |
| 28 | Bell visited Wordsworth in 1811 and in the same year William , Dorothy and Mary taught ‘ Madras ’ in the village school at Grasmere . |
| 29 | Runcorn ( 1964 ) , another sizeable township of 28,000 population , followed for Merseyside and in the same year Washington largely filled in the gap between South Tyneside and Sunderland . |
| 30 | In 1819 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs acquired a permanent Asiatic desk , and in the same year Alexander I created an inter-ministerial body , the Asiatic Committee , to consider how Russia 's trade with the Orient could best be maintained and improved . |