Example sentences of "and [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Eleanor looked as if he had actually hit her , and for a few moments Jessamy found herself feeling sorry for her . |
| 3 | He sensed my curiosity about how much the twins were worth , and for a few seconds reticence and candour fought across his face , but then he shrugged . |
| 4 | The treaty provided for the elimination of all chemical weapons stocks over a 10-year period and for a detailed inspections procedure for to ensure compliance . |
| 5 | He produced advertisement drawings , some in watercolour , for Brooke Bond Tea , Westminster Bank , Crittal Windows , Murphy Radio and Television , Isabelita Sherry and for the chemical manufacturers Brotherton & Co . |
| 6 | The Russian nobility were much less formidable than their counterparts elsewhere , they had not yet begun to export grain , and for the great landowners serfdom was not an unmitigated blessing : as long as there was still peasant mobility they were in a position to attract labour away from the estates of their weaker rivals . |
| 7 | In thanking the Prime Minister for his statement , may I first confirm our welcome for President Yeltsin 's visit to London and for the United Nations Heads of Government meeting ? |
| 8 | They turned left down a road and after a few paces Tom opened another gate into the field next to the graveyard . |
| 9 | On Sept. 22 he dismissed the chiefs of the police and of the criminal investigations directorate Cerezo further claimed in early December that members of the ruling Arena party in El Salvador ( in particular Maj. Roberto d'Aubuisson , the founder of Arena ) were supplying arms to violent right-wing elements in Guatemala . |
| 10 | And with a superior points difference , Vipers seem set to clinch promotion from Midlands Two West after three times finishing runners-up . |
| 11 | In the early 1970s considerable disquiet started to be expressed with the implications for economic rationality of mechanical , error learning processes in general and with the adaptive expectations mechanism in particular . |
| 12 | And with the top schools job vacant in New York , Los Angeles , Chicago and Boston , the fearful thought is this : can anyone at all save the schools of America 's cities ? |
| 13 | It has close links with other University departments , with the British Geological Survey , which is on the same site , with Heriot-Watt University , with the Petroleum Science and Technology Institute , and with the Scottish Universities Research and Reactor Centre at East Kilbride . |
| 14 | In the ensuing mêlée , McLaren , Reid and others of the Pistols camp were dragged up the gangplank and into the waiting police vans . |
| 15 | However , fines or obligations under family or domestic court proceedings and under the Financial Services Act are not provable ( r 12.3(2) ) . |
| 16 | C 224 , p. 3 ) , it was lawful for a member state to require operators of fishing vessels , be they individuals or companies , to maintain a real and permanent presence on shore in its territory where the vessel was registered , in so far as such presence was necessary to enable the member state to fulfil its obligations under international law and under the Common Fisheries Policy . |
| 17 | As a result , on May 23 a coalition government took office led by the centre-right Hungarian Democratic Forum ( HDF ) and including the Independent Smallholders Party and the Christian Democratic People 's Party ( CDPP ) , with Jozsef Antall as Premier . |
| 18 | This began operations in May 1950 , taking over responsibilities from the Red Cross and from the American Friends Service Committee . |
| 19 | Many animals and plants are at risk , together with people , and , in Brazil , pressure is mounting from the indigenous tribes such as the Kayapo , and from the rubber tappers union , to bring a halt to the destruction that is ruining their livelihoods . |
| 20 | It is taking submissions from the manufacturers , and from the National Poisons Unit at Guy 's Hospital . |
| 21 | Ladner 's ( 1979 ) account of young black girls growing up in US cities in the 1960s , for example , was written against conventional sociological accounts of pathological socialization in the black family , and within a black studies perspective . |
| 22 | The men followed them and within a few moments lord Hulton and I were standing there just as before watching the tiny figures on the skyline , listening to the distant " Haow , haow ! " |
| 23 | His success was short-lived and within a few years Ivan had to accept Turkish suzerainty . |
| 24 | Contact with the man Wagner now kindled an interest in Wagner the theorist and within a few weeks Nietzsche was writing again to Rohde to impress on his friend his high opinion of Wagner 's Opera and Drama , a treatise written nearly twenty years before , but apparently now providing Nietzsche 's first direct acquaintance with any of Wagner 's theoretical works . |
| 25 | A treaty was signed outside Haddington , and within a few weeks Mary , Queen of Scots , was on her way from Dumbarton to Paris . |
| 26 | Reinhardt at once invited him to join his Viennese theatre company , and within a few seasons Henreid had become one of its leading players . |
| 27 | And in a plain clothes car |
| 28 | And in a third Writers House auction , Blake sold a novel and a volume of short stories by Bruce Sterling to Deborah Beale for Orion 's Millennium imprint ; Ravi Mirchandani at Penguin was the underbidder . |
| 29 | Fixed-price contracts have been normal for production contracts but on occasion this has led to claims that excess profits have been made and in a few cases repayment of the excess has been enforced . |
| 30 | There was a tumult at the gates , and in a few moments Dunan and the Hearthwares joined them . |