Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already in my own LEA there are plans for visual arts teachers to explore and establish assessment guidelines , and to capitalize on the considerable amount of curriculum development work that has occurred over recent years . |
| 2 | He slapped his hands together and beamed around the overcrowded cockpit . |
| 3 | It was the morning of Emilia Frere 's departure from the Hall and for a few minutes Louisa found herself alone with the Rector , who fingered the brim of his hat and beamed like the milky sun outside . |
| 4 | Colour the remaining fondant a pale cream colour ( use a tiny amount of diluted yellow food colouring ) and knead in a tiny amount of brown until almost mixed in but still a bit ‘ muddy ’ . |
| 5 | As the mixture becomes too stiff to stir , turn it out onto a surface dusted with cornflour or icing sugar and knead in the remaining icing sugar . |
| 6 | More surprising , and to Paviour more confounding and conciliating at the same time , was the presence of Gus Hambro , busy with a large clip-board , charting on squared paper the patch of ground to be taken up , and sketching a hurried but accurately proportioned elevation of the exposed vault of the flue . |
| 7 | There was a turquoise stone set in a pendant and hanging from a fine gold chain at Debbie 's throat . |
| 8 | They were automatically members of a minority which was loathed and persecuted by a substantial section of society . |
| 9 | Soon one could ignore it , except now and then when the fire seemed to take a huge breath and glowed with a sudden fierceness which sent sparks flying crazily up the chimney . |
| 10 | The night sky was brilliant and the stars seemed to wink like precious stones against the velvet darkness ; the streets , carpeted by ice and hard snow , shimmered and glowed under the pale moonlight . |
| 11 | Tim considered them , glanced back at his shelves , noticed a gap and pounced upon a rectangular block of tikka masala sauce . |
| 12 | Person 2 would certainly not pay the higher price necessary to induce a competitive supplier to expand production beyond the output Q. Person 2 is thus a free-rider enjoying person 1 's purchase Q. And the total quantity privately produced and consumed in a competitive market lies below the socially efficient quantity Q * ; |
| 13 | Complex derivatives of phenols , chlorinated and compounded with an anionic base , have been used widely as glassware agents in the licensed trades until the advent of bisguanides . |
| 14 | Suffocating and smothering in the gelatinous mucous … |
| 15 | Rowed by a team of friends she was soon alongside , aboard and tucking into a substantial breakfast . |
| 16 | ‘ We 've had to chop and change on a regular basis this season , but it could hold us in good stead because when everyone is fit again , we 'll know we have people who can operate well in different positions . ’ |
| 17 | What had happened was that O had been at home , not sleeping , thinking about Boy at six in the morning , and he had called up and said , ‘ Are you watching TV , ’ to which Boy had replied , as the man had heard , ‘ Yes , ’ and then O had told Boy to turn over to the boxing ; he 'd just said , ‘ Get up and change to the third channel . |
| 18 | It was no answer , and it was a complete answer ; Edouard , recognising something of Jean-Paul in the implacability of the reply , hearing in it , too , –hat note of bland stubbornness with which some of his workmen in the Loire would resist argument and change with an age-old peasant resilience , sighed and decided it might be wiser to leave the subject there . |
| 19 | Community , Continuity and Change after the 1984–5 Coal Dispute . |
| 20 | ( 1 ) These and other figures are taken from a report published by the Cardiff Business School entitled ‘ Continuity and Change in the British Port Transport Industry ( 1991 ) ’ by P Turnbull and S. Weston ( price £25 ) . |
| 21 | To conduct an in-depth cast study of the National Marriage Guidance Council ( NMGC ) in order to examine the dynamics of survival and change within a voluntary organisation . |
| 22 | In order to understand continuity and change within the British policy , I propose to stress the significance of the political culture . |
| 23 | Limited liability means that the financial liability of each person responsible as a member of the business is fixed from the outset and limited to a fixed amount . |
| 24 | It is not surprising , therefore , that recent Marxist explanations of power in capitalist society have tried to explain the more pluralistic modern forms of representation and policy-making in terms , not of some devious desire by the ruling class and their friends but as a limited freedom for actors and forces opposed to capitalism , which is constrained and limited in the last instance by the economic structure of the capitalist mode of production and its ideological hegemony . |
| 25 | Such further offer shall be made in the same manner and limited by a like period as the original offer . |
| 26 | Such further offer shall be made in the same manner and limited by a like period as the original offer . |
| 27 | The Public Order Act of 1936 was passed by Parliament to control political rallies and marches by the British Union of Fascists and the counter-demonstrations which such rallies provoked . |
| 28 | This argument was having a little success around the table , when the President of the Society , W. M. Smart , squirmed in the Chair , and exclaimed in an anguished voice : ‘ Then will somebody propose that this paper be rejected irrespective of its contents ? ’ |
| 29 | Bartram expressed gratitude for Miller 's offer to assist him in understanding Linnaeus 's system and commented on the Swedish naturalist 's publication of all the North American plants observed by Kalm on his visit ( i.e. Species Plantarum , 2 vols. 1753 ) adding , ‘ I long to see these books — to see if they have done me justice , as Kalm promised me . ’ |
| 30 | In discussion which followed ‘ many members remained sceptical as to the feasibility of the Dip.H.E. and commented on the ephemeral interest in existing Dip.H.E.s … enrolment for future courses would depend on the flexibility exercised in allowing entrants with qualifications other than two ‘ A ’ levels to enrol , and members regretted the intransigence of the DES in this matter' . |