Example sentences of "and [adv] [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | PATRICIA COCKBURN was the widow of the journalist Claud Cockburn and a remarkable and resourceful woman , an intrepid traveller , an inspired gardener and latterly a creator of shell paintings . |
2 | But , once it exists , it can become a shackle rather than an inspiration , and when it does do so , one has to seek to destroy it , and thence the animus of Russell 's attacks on organized religion . |
3 | So far we have considered man-made materials where the composition reflects the processing , but the composition of materials such as stones and gems , which were used without chemical modification , can also sometimes indicate their source , and thereby the authenticity of artefacts made from them . |
4 | In this section we want to look firstly at why banks have an interest in expanding the volume of deposits and thereby the stock of money . |
5 | The result would have been world wars and migrations and eventually a weakening of life-instincts in favour of a self-destructive ethic of murder and suicide like that of the Fijians . |
6 | From the primitive ‘ animism ’ ( a word invented by him ) the road led to the higher monotheistic religions , and eventually the triumph of science which , capable of explaining increasingly large areas of experience without reference to spirit , would ‘ in one department after another substitute for independent voluntary action the working out of systematic law ’ . |
7 | It is believed that the last trip was run on April 16th , and eventually the Ministry of Defence advertised the track and other materials for sale by tender , the closing date being 4th October 1966 . |
8 | Both rows converge upon St Machar 's Cathedral , and then wander their separate ways through Seaton Park to the River Don , and eventually the Brig o' Balgownie — ; although Johnson does not seem to have walked that far . |
9 | A void grows around the sewer or in the vicinity of it and eventually the ground above collapses into the void . |
10 | Demographically and economically the centre of Spain loses its dominating position . |
11 | She sat , still staring at the newspaper and slowly a look of understanding came across her face as if the final piece of the jigsaw had just been put into place . |
12 | But Tyrion could not be everywhere at once and slowly the weight of numbers turned the battle against the High Elves . |
13 | Moreover , popular culture was the subject , and arguably the condition of existence , of high modernist culture . |
14 | He had become Denmark 's most popular footballer , outstripping the likes of Michael Laudrup , and suddenly every boy in Copenhagen wants to play in goal . |
15 | All that it takes is a little push , some minor inconvenience , a trifling price to pay for faith , some obligation or embarrassment involved in being a Christian , and suddenly a trail of doubts bubbles to the surface : ‘ Maybe after all … |
16 | And suddenly the oblong of light was inhabited . |
17 | He stopped short as the two women stared up at him , and suddenly an expression of relief washed the tension from his strongly chiselled features . |
18 | Disabled people meet substantial resistance to many choices , and so a range of communication , assertiveness and negotiation skills is needed . |
19 | And so a couple of hours later , it was Burkett who drove the coach and four to the top of Dunmail Raise while Hope and Sylvia walked behind to spare the horses the effort , even though , as Burkett had pointed out , two passengers were light work for four horses . |
20 | Stubbs makes some effort to link the conventions for the use of writing to general linguistic characteristics of writing , but finds it difficult to establish any hard and fast rules since different cultures see different characteristics as significant and so a variety of literacies has been developed . |
21 | Concepts , criteria , definitions , and their implications seem at first just verbal and so a matter of convention or even arbitrary . |
22 | Experience showed , he said , that the proportion which debts recovered bore to the cost of the court proceedings was less than one in twenty , and so a burden on trade and business . |
23 | She did not want to be responsible for the reckless consumption of any of the earth 's resources in the shape of fuel , and so a round on foot suited her perfectly . |
24 | ‘ After the war the Russians encouraged the Poles in Britain to return home and so a number of army people — including Nowak — went back . |
25 | And so a lot of women continued to wear these erm rubber garments . |
26 | The other , more plausible , avenue is to accept that the phenomena discussed would normally be established by linguistic means but that is in no way a necessary feature of them , and so no problem of principle need arise . |
27 | Because there exists no distinction between causing the experience by acting and the maintenance of the experience requiring action , and so no conception of acting in order to experience a something in the external world . |
28 | And so every year between Christmas Day and New Year 's Day , he takes over the kitchens at Hampton Court with his forty assistants and runs them . |
29 | Thus unc both primitive polynomials [ by assumption and by 1.9.10 respectively ] and so the content of bdF is bd [ why ? ] whilst the content of acGH is ac . |
30 | This will reduce the amount of drug required and so the cost of treatment . |