Example sentences of "and [noun] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the creation in June 1990 of the right-wing Union for France ( Union pour la France — UPF ) a " confederation " of the UDF and the RPR [ see pp. 37683-84 ] , divisions and disagreements continued on the political right wing . |
| 2 | She leapt down , carefully shook the sand off it and handed it back to Simon as he and Ben ran across the last few yards towards her . |
| 3 | Three particular classes of activities have been identified as the most common source of signals : intention movements , displacement activities , and activities controlled by the autonomic nervous system . |
| 4 | Precious robes were distributed to guests , and paan and sweetmeats offered to the attendant nobility . |
| 5 | Much the most prominent in the archaeological record were ivory and shells , and it was mainly from these that the bracelets , necklaces and pendants buried with the dead were made . |
| 6 | It deals with all chromatographic terms and definitions used in the major chromatographic techniques such as gas , liquid and supercritical fluid chromatography , column and planar chromatography , partition , adsorption , ion exchange and exclusion chromatography . |
| 7 | ‘ He 's nervous , ’ said Bodie , as he and Doyle trotted across the cracked patio and into the house through the back door . |
| 8 | Her love and zest for life comes out in her unique correspondence and notes made during the momentous first east-west crossing of the Atlantic of the Graf Zeppelin LZ.127 . |
| 9 | She found him sitting up in bed , a score of his medical texts and notes scattered across the heavy coverlet . |
| 10 | By the late 1960s various ways had been developed within English studies of dealing with the " inadequacies " which resulted from the dissonances between student attitudes to literary study and teaching based on the elevated canon of great literary texts or " classics " . |
| 11 | Since the Revolution of 1974 and the opening of the Regional Government and Parliament granted by the new constitution in 1976 , vast improvements have been made to the infrastructure of the islands and to the living standards of the people . |
| 12 | More immediately , while realism dictated that Mary would go to England when she married , Henry was told very bluntly that she must not go sooner : such a demand would be ‘ a right high and right great inconvenience to the realm of Scotland ’ , and parliament trusted to the English king 's ‘ high wisdom ’ , and assumed that he would not insist . |
| 13 | The ideas and attitudes expressed by the social problem film … do not derive simply from the focus of their subject matter but also from their deployment of certain types of conventions ( in accordance with what an audience ‘ accustomed to the cinema ’ expects ) which , then , inevitably structure and constrain the way in which that subject matter is presented in the first place . |
| 14 | We may tend to assume that other companies and cultures operate with the same sorts of motivations and criteria of success as we do , despite the fact that Japanese companies , for instance , turn in a very low rate of profit compared to those in the United Kingdom , and indeed do not need to do so because of the low interest charges and ready availability of capital in their country . |
| 15 | The project report and maps dealing with the regional geology and gold potential of part of the western flank of the Cordillera Occidental of south-west Colombia were handed over to the counterpart organisation . |
| 16 | Many of the tales and sketches included in the First and Second Series were extensively revised , and sometimes retitled , from their first periodical appearance . |
| 17 | He had driven straight into a brick lorry , and car and driver coalesced in the final spasm . |
| 18 | However the realities of the clinical area impose constraints on both methods and resources , so that in achieving a satisfactory compromise between the ideal and what is possible the teacher may find her imagination and ingenuity tested to the full . |
| 19 | But Cleveland and Northumberland switched from the recommended second Saturday in June and held their county championships last weekend . |
| 20 | Quiet and modest in manner , speaking with an occasional stutter , his initiative , absolute reliability and willingness to help in the humblest duties endeared him to his many friends , not only in the literary world . |
| 21 | Dr Michael Bentley has suggested , in his book The Liberal Mind 1914–1929 and in at least one article , that the real problem of the Liberal Party was this lack of flexibility and willingness to think beyond the old shibboleths in a day and age which required new initiatives . |
| 22 | Min and Neith survived into the Dynastic Period but the fate of the other Predynastic local animal and inanimate gods is much less easily traced . |
| 23 | Services should have as a primary goal the alleviation of distress , by providing a programme of treatment , care and support based on the unique needs of an individual . |
| 24 | Maintaining confidence and support depends on the thousand little things that are done around the school . |
| 25 | In France the post-mortem period is , typically , fifty years but those authors and artists affected by the two World Wars were granted a prolongation of the copyright term , giving an effective expiry of just over sixty-four years after their death . |
| 26 | Amid tight security the Presidents of the United States , Colombia , Peru and Bolivia met in the Colombian Caribbean resort of Cartagena and signed on Feb. 15 the Cartagena Declaration , pledging their governments to intensify and co-ordinate efforts to curb the consumption , production and trafficking of cocaine . |
| 27 | Dunedin was to be overshadowed , but not surpassed in elegance , by the vast new stations at Auckland and Wellington completed in the 1930s . |
| 28 | If it be necessary or desirable to protect the holder of a patent against fraud or dishonesty it must equally be necessary and desirable to protect the plaintiffs against the fraud and dishonesty alleged in the present case . |
| 29 | Attempting to copy a decorative technique can confirm or disprove that it produces the same appearance and microstructure observed on the original item . |
| 30 | Arafat went on to urge the world to take action to halt " the massacre Israel is currently committing against the Palestinian people in Rafah " ( a town and camp lying at the southern tip of the Gaza Strip ) . |