Example sentences of "and [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the scene of the burning of the books , seen on film by her many times , was as vivid as an actual memory : Hitler 's jack-booted thugs in their brown shirts , swastikas on their arms , heaving the books from the Library and heaping the heritage of the world on to a pyre , dancing and gloating as the flames consumed book after book , volume after volume : Heine , Schiller , Brecht , Thomas Mann , Einstein , Freud , Marx : history , poetry , novels , science , the works of philosophers , psychologists — men and women who had dedicated their lives for the betterment of the brutes who burned their books ; brutes living in utter ignorance , leading lives as dull and limited as the beasts of the fields , inspired only by resentment , vile prejudice , and blind hatred of what they could not understand , and , it was true , victims themselves of poverty and ignorance seeking victims in their turn — and finding them . |
| 2 | He engages with a sense of Being eternally present , not driven and limited by the demands of time . |
| 3 | Commonly , rectal distensibility is determined as rectal compliance and calculated as the changes of volume and intrarectal pressure ( ) . |
| 4 | These are at the far end of the Grotto and filled with the waters from the spring of the Grotto . |
| 5 | Gober 's exhibition comprises four rooms wallpapered with the artist 's own designs and filled with the sculptures for which he has become celebrated : several untitled wax legs with candles , the wax hermaphroditic torso , the wedding dress , the bags of cat litter and the drains sunk into the gallery 's walls . |
| 6 | One which is going to be published and placed in the hands of people at large for their help in understanding the faith . |
| 7 | Consequently , the administration of the scheme has been removed from the Law Society and placed in the hands of the Legal Aid Board by the Legal Aid Act 1988 . |
| 8 | The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right to say that the schemes have been highly successful , but I take issue with him on his assertion that the matter should be taken out of the hands of the district council and placed in the hands of the Scottish Office . |
| 9 | His thick , almost grey hair appeared to be worn without a parting and stopped at the lobes of his ears . |
| 10 | The house was old and situated on the outskirts of London . |
| 11 | If the ring had not captured and ruined Gollum 's mind , he would never have been overcome by desire of it and hence he would not have snatched the Ring and fallen into the Cracks of Doom , the only place the Ring can be destroyed . |
| 12 | Viewed from so high up , their bodies were foreshortened and hidden by the faces in front . |
| 13 | Sharpe angled away from the river , guiding the horse beside a field of rye which had grown as tall as a man.The field path led uphill , then , after picking a delicate path through a tangled copse where tree roots gave treacherous footing for the horse , Sharpe slid down an earthen bank on to a rutted road where he was shadowed and hidden from the Dragoons by the trees that arched overhead . |
| 14 | Even the precious spools of film in the camera slung around her neck and tucked into the pockets of her jacket were forgotten . |
| 15 | By 1917 , there were three trends among the emerging political leadership of the more significant Muslim peoples — a religious right ( with the mullahs and a landowning interest ) , a liberal centre ( westernized , sometimes associated with merchant or business groups , and aligned with the Kadets in Petrograd ) , and a socialist group ( among the Russian-educated young , often aligned with the Social Revolutionaries ) . |
| 16 | Drake , on the other hand , the piratical darling of Good Queen Bess , returned from a transglobal raiding adventure with a holdful of Indonesian spices , and paraded through the streets with his crew bedecked in the captured finery of the most astounding oriental silks and damasks ever to have been seen in England . |
| 17 | Reviled by Romanians almost as much as his parents for his playboy lifestyle and debauchery , he had been captured on Dec. 22 and paraded before the cameras at the television station in Bucharest ( the revolutionary headquarters of the National Salvation Front ) . |
| 18 | Latin was optional , and paid for separately , in the Lower School , but compulsory and included in the fees in the Upper . |
| 19 | However , under U.S. GAAP unrealized gains and losses on contracts yet to expire are measured at each balance sheet date and included in the results of operations for the period then ended . |
| 20 | Other territories were to be added to the Japanese empire but some were insignificant in terms of size , and elsewhere the occupation was short-lived and constrained by the exigencies of war . |
| 21 | In finance , the crude picture in Herodotus ' list of the Tributes ( iii.89ff. ) and depicted on the reliefs at Persepolis — huge quantities of bullion brought by subject peoples — must be modified by the fourth century . |
| 22 | Crow Wood was empty for most of this century , remote and forgotten between the roads to Easby and Ingleby . |
| 23 | It seems a sensible conclusion that the strengths of this technique lie not in the method itself , but in the experience and skill of the person who employs it , and the extent to which these are known and respected by the beneficiaries of the study . |
| 24 | It was strongly protected by walls completed in 1618 and occupied by the descendants of the Scottish Presbyterians ‘ planted ’ there earlier in the century . |
| 25 | He went back into the garden and squeezed through the bushes at the side of the boathouse . |
| 26 | Although this is both extensive and varied by the standards of most of the human sciences , though perhaps not of history , what it illustrates is the difficulty of specifying what is to count as data beyond saying that it is whatever material that researchers need to work with in order to pursue their inquiries . |
| 27 | Andrew Beattie returned to Newtownabbey in south-east Antrim and reported on the decisions of the Constitutional Stoppage Central Co-ordinating Committee to a joint meeting of the local paramilitary organisations . |
| 28 | The attention of members is drawn to the decision of the Divisional Court of Appeal in the case of Rowe & Maw v Commissioners of Customs and Excise decided on 6th March , and reported in The Times of 8th March . |
| 29 | After the psychological hyperrealism of the early chapters of Ulysses , the text is taken over by a bewildering variety of voices and discourses — parodic , travestying , colloquial , literary : newspaper headlines , oratory , women 's magazines , pub talk , operatic songs , encyclopaedia articles , and so on ; while the narrative level of the text is full of gaps , non sequiturs , anticlimaxes , and unsolvable enigmas , and the chronological order of events is broken down and rearranged by the operations of memory and the association of ideas in the consciousness of characters . |
| 30 | Annie had been brought up and educated within the walls of a convent and she had never become familiar with the more colourful words that people used . |