Example sentences of "and [noun] [verb] [prep] [art] [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 Sporadically , Katherine Mansfield conveys the volatile atmosphere in the comfortable apartment and Beatrice emerges as a deluded and rather pathetic exhibitionist .
5 Precious robes were distributed to guests , and paan and sweetmeats offered to the attendant nobility .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 ‘ He 's nervous , ’ said Bodie , as he and Doyle trotted across the cracked patio and into the house through the back door .
9 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 .
10 She found him sitting up in bed , a score of his medical texts and notes scattered across the heavy coverlet .
11 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 " .
12 As the last extracts indicate , schools and teaching exist in a social framework .
13 Then groups co-operated in a trial of certain approaches to study skills teaching , and groups collaborated in a closer examination of the problems students find and possible solutions which might be offered .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 All Byzantine decorative form is a mixture of east and west treated in a symbolic rather than realistic manner ( 187 ) .
17 On the 14th of February 1826 Knott and Taylor partnered in a 21 year lease ( from the Rt .
18 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 .
19 This concerns the challenge and rewards encountered by a Glaswegian probationary youth tackling the Aonach Eagach ridge as his first trip into the hills .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 Many of the tales and sketches included in the First and Second Series were extensively revised , and sometimes retitled , from their first periodical appearance .
23 Another distinction is that some of the approaches concern essentially the children 's developing use of language , whereas others concern the knowledge about language and literature required of an informed and educated citizen in a democratic society .
24 He had driven straight into a brick lorry , and car and driver coalesced in the final spasm .
25 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 .
26 This month , Tom Gadd and Suzanne Ardley look at striking furnishings and accessories designed for a brighter life
27 But Cleveland and Northumberland switched from the recommended second Saturday in June and held their county championships last weekend .
28 The attempt by the power behind his throne , Warwick — now duke of Northumberland — to secure the succession for his strongly Protestant daughter-in-law Lady Jane Grey was a dismal failure ; and England was now ruled by the Catholic Mary Tudor , then in her late thirties , married to Philip of Spain , and therefore potentially capable of establishing a Catholic dynasty which would make Henry VIII , Somerset and Northumberland look like a temporary aberration .
29 Her best hope of surviving it successfully lies in your maturity and willingness to act as a temporary crutch for her and as a quiet stabilising influence until she learns how to walk alone and unaided .
30 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 .
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