Example sentences of "and [vb base] [prep] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It means instead the end of childhood and freedom , the beginning of a new life as a slave and chattel at the bottom of a hierarchy in someone else 's family . |
| 2 | Kids too sick to raise their heads , lying soft and limp beneath the burden of heart disease , kidney failure and cancers that eat everything but innocence . |
| 3 | There has been a lot of research and change in the treatment of mental illness or frailty over the last few years . |
| 4 | Your speaking of the balance between tradition and change in the evolution of art raises a crucial question : I mean the question of progress . |
| 5 | These features of family life — which it should be re-emphasized are indicators of , rather than the reasons for , problems — include the age and maturity of the parents , burdens carried by a family , consistency and change in the lives of children , dynamics and support within the family , and the experiences and characteristics of individual family members . |
| 6 | I take a camera and sit on the edge of the water . |
| 7 | ‘ You can go to distant planets and sit on the rings of Saturn , ’ says Lanier . |
| 8 | College staff often contribute to the management of local enterprise agencies , to small business clubs and sit on the committees of Chambers of Commerce . |
| 9 | I was so tired I had to get off my bike twice on the way up to Creeting and sit on the side of the road in the snow for a spell before I could go on . |
| 10 | ‘ Go and sit in the lounges of the luxury hotels and on the doorsteps of the flophouses ; sit on the Gold Coast settees and on the slum shakedowns ; sit in Orchestra Hall and in the Star and Garter Burlesk . |
| 11 | It 's a contemplative thing and what I would recommend you is go to The Tate and sit in the middle of the Rothgo Room there , which is actually a series of canvasses , as you probably know , of a sort of reddish hue , entirely abstract , and you are surrounded by these in a small , fairly dimly lit room , and spend half an hour there and see perhaps whether they work on you . |
| 12 | Protestantism 's strength and influence at the end of the nineteenth century is even harder to assess than that of Roman Catholicism , because of its diversity . |
| 13 | The history of the house of Armagnac at this time is poorly documented , but a greater dependence upon sources of income , power and influence in the gift of the French crown seems evident . |
| 14 | The centre , if there is one , is in effect granted its limited powers and influence by the members of the group , the states . |
| 15 | The collapse first of the Roman Empire in the fifth century and consequent withdrawal of protection and influence from the states of the Empire — England , France , Germany , Spain — and , later , the phased withdrawals of the Eastern half of the Roman Empire eastwards to Byzantium , left behind chaos , disruption and the total collapse of Roman civilised life in the countries of western Europe . |
| 16 | They were also an important link between agitation out of doors and influence within the walls of parliament . |
| 17 | They had a certain prestige within the neighbourhood and influence within the world of football was part of this process of ‘ making good ’ . |
| 18 | The commission , which will meet two to three times a year , will work out general proposals and arbitrate in the matter of claims lodged by both sides . |
| 19 | When she got home , she felt for the first time in months the need to write a letter , to commit her thoughts and feelings to paper and communicate through the medium of paper and pen with someone . |
| 20 | The outer door to the estate office slammed and the inner one opened with its uneasy stick and snuffle past the strips of draught-excluders worn down and added to over the years . |
| 21 | The database company 's subsidiaries in Spain , Portugal , Greece and Central Europe join Scandinavia and Benelux under the charge of Loek van den Boog , previously vice president of Northern Europe . |
| 22 | He watched him move quickly across the alley , and make for the patch of deep shadow under the iron stairs . |
| 23 | I know that for two years now Welsh labourers and students and journeymen have been stealing away out of England , to make their way back to Wales and enlist under the banner of their self-styled prince . |
| 24 | because I breed racehorses , I also am a farmer so I wear two hats , but I 've actually seen foxes sit down we move the hounds move in , si sit down and scratch in the middle of a field , and then they think ah ! |
| 25 | ‘ did fail to stop ’ , means did fail to stop immediately the accident happened and remain at the scene of the accident long enough , taking the prevailing conditions into account , to give his name and address and also the name and address of the owner and the identification marks of the vehicle ( Lee v Knapp [ 1966 ] 3 All ER 961 and Ward v Rawson [ 1979 ] Crim LR 58 ) . |
| 26 | Place a nest of bamboo shoots and mangetout in the centre of each plate . |
| 27 | How far present-day societies are likely to proceed along this road is a matter of debate ( and I shall return to the question in Chapter 6 ) , but at the least it has to be recognized that in recent years the idea of political action has been very substantially broadened , so that there is already a quite widespread awareness of the variety of ways in which individuals and groups of individuals can assert their dissent from the policies of government at all levels ( for example , the revolt against the poll tax in Britain ) and bring into the arena of public debate alternative policies . |
| 28 | Some conceal it and hide behind the fence of balance and objectivity but Hampden Babylon wears its attitude as a badge . |
| 29 | They would sit out in their deckchairs in brilliant sunshine , surveying snow-covered range after magnificent snow-covered range , and while they took refreshment , take snapshots of one another , and chatter about the delights of a winter sports holiday in the Savoy Alps , the more energetic would be trudging up from below on seal skins or swooping by from above demonstrating their skill . |
| 30 | Thus these major schemes are essentially enumerative and suffer from the limitations of enumerative classification outlined in the last chapter . |