Example sentences of "and [prep] [art] [noun] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( He has come closest to an antipathetic character as the ex-con in Straight Time , and as a crook in Family Business , two of his biggest commercial failures . ) |
| 2 | In the pharmaceutical industry it is used as a suspending agent for liquids and as a binder in tablets . |
| 3 | Notice that then the symbol a is being asked to play two roles simultaneously , namely as an element of J and as a polynomial in J[x] — unless ( see Fig. 1.1 ) one is prepared to regard J and unc not just as isomorphic but as being one and the same ( that is , identical ) so that J is being regarded as a subset of J[x] . |
| 4 | In Zambia it is widely used to control termites and as a pesticide in maize fields . |
| 5 | Also I have always felt very strongly against the cutting down of trees , and as a teenager in Holland , I started a campaign against the destruction of woodlands for a motorway . ’ |
| 6 | Accuracy is cited both in percent error and as the shortfall in ohms . |
| 7 | And as the salon in Susan 's home town of Bristol was part of a reputable chain , she did n't for a moment expect any problems . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , it does provide a simple demonstration of a problem that dogs all our stratigraphical thinking , and as the palaeontologist in question was my student ( and I visited the area with him ) my inclinations are wholly for the second interpretation in this case . |
| 9 | Quoting diplomatic sources at the UN , the newspaper said that Gulf Arab governments which backed the UAE 's case increasingly perceived Iran as a threat to their security and as an argument in favour of a continued US military presence . |
| 10 | Reading has essentially personal value as a source of enjoyment , as a stimulus to the imagination , as a means of gaining vicarious experience , and as an agent in language development ; but it also allows warnings , instructions , information and so on to be absorbed . |
| 11 | Since these are relatively common finds of a mundane form , the highly parochial local museum can often contribute its own sequence which is a version of the overall national pattern , thereby helping to embody in material form , and as an aid in teaching , that sense of history which underlies the collective identity presupposed by the state . |
| 12 | For 20 years ‘ DRD was a familiar sight operating on and off the water in Howey Bay , Red Lake . |
| 13 | ‘ Everything 's more forward here , ’ she noticed , as they went by a line of horse-chestnut trees that were leafy and about a month in advance of those in Mariánské Láznë . |
| 14 | The information about the difficulties of conveying the intended meaning of language , and about the problems in memory and attention experienced by many people with schizophrenia , has been combined with neuropsychological knowledge to suggest the possibility of a dysfunction of one of the two hemispheres of the brain , probably the right side ( Cutting , 1985 ) . |
| 15 | He wanted to hear all about Georg and about the boyfriends in Vienna . |
| 16 | The chairman of the committee was Representative Jim Jones of Oklahoma , a conservative Democrat who agreed with the main thrust of Reagan 's economic policy — the need for budget cuts and for a reduction in taxation . |
| 17 | For the sake of prudence in an age afflicted by mass unemployment , his parents urged him to study practically , and for a year in Vienna Karajan studied engineering , before decamping to his real vocation , music . |
| 18 | In August he went again to Switzerland , and for a week in September he looked after his grandniece who had travelled to London to see him ; but then he contracted athlete 's foot and had once again to enter a nursing home . |
| 19 | In pretending here to be someone other than himself who keeps murdering people , he does a tremendous job : this is a more than serviceable argot for the age in question and for the wizard in question . |
| 20 | and for the outstation in Hamburg |
| 21 | He believed that the nationalization of coal was a blessing both for Durham and for the Church in Durham . |
| 22 | Will he accept responsibility for the reduction in job opportunities in Wales and for the increase in unemployment ? |
| 23 | Please leave the amount in figures on your cheque blank and for the amount in words write ‘ A sum not exceeding … pounds ’ ( your maximum upper limit ) . |
| 24 | Then came the crowning blow for France and for the Catholics in Scotland . |
| 25 | A day of prayer for the spread of the Gospel and for an increase in vocations to the Priesthood . |
| 26 | But ships are too valuable to lie idle for very long , and Robert barely had a month in which to re-acquaint himself with his new wife and pat his young infants on the head before he was leaving John Street and Stepney again — through Limehouse into Poplar and aboard the Orynthia in West India Dock . |
| 27 | But a stroke left him paralysed , and after a spell in hospital he moved in with his daughter and son-in-law . |
| 28 | It was Macaulay who said that there was no more absurd ( and after the scenes in Liverpool I would say horrifying ) spectacle than ‘ the English having one of their periodic fits of morality ’ . |
| 29 | The Bolsheviks had let it be known that they wished to end their war with Germany , and after The Revolution in October 1917 , in Russia , the Bolsheviks were able to seize power and , in December 1917 , they signed an alliance with Germany . |
| 30 | The judge effectively looked at the overall plan and examined the position before and after the plan in order to see where the element of bounty lay . |