Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [noun] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Grief and joy no more shall wake ,
2 The line penetrates into the mountainside and tunnels a wide upward spiral in the heart of the mountain , to emerge again on the same mountain face at a level 35m ( 115ft ) higher .
3 ‘ All right , then we 'll make it a partnership and pool the profits !
4 The simplest way to test for their presence is to evaporate a known volume of water to small bulk and dye a swatch of cotton and synthetic-fibre material .
5 The reason a black hole ‘ remembers ’ the electric charge , angular momentum , and mass of the matter that collapsed and forgets everything else is that these three quantities are coupled to long-range fields : in the case of charge the electromagnetic field , and in the case of angular momentum and mass the gravitational field .
6 The yellow silk square that Steve had given him was in his back pocket ; eight boxes of buckshot in each saddlebag ; binoculars in his combat jacket ; two rolls of inch-wide parcel tape ; fifty feet of light line ; steel hammer and hall a dozen steel spikes ; spare combat jacket and two pairs of jungle trousers ; for night work , black cotton roll-neck , black tracksuit bottoms and black cotton gloves ; slacks and a light jumper for Mariana .
7 The move across open ground involved covering about 1,500 metres , but , with the fireplan to cover the company , and with the speed and protection the Warriors afforded , the company was certain it would across the featureless landscape that surrounded the enemy 's position .
8 According to his owner , who witnessed the spectacle , Jessie rose gracefully toward the ceiling like a space shuttle and , after lingering in mid-air for what seemed an eternity , crashed to the floor and fled the house with a speed and agility the owner found quite amazing .
9 Too often when considering issues of succession and inheritance the capital question tended to dominate thoughts and actions while income was the real key to providing answers to potential dilemmas .
10 To a procrastinating president and Congress the solution was clear : set up a national commission to study the problem .
11 With concentration , conglomeration and internationalization the issues of power and accountability became substantially more difficult , in both principle and practice .
12 I wash it every other day and change my shampoo and conditioner every three months .
13 The Medicines Information Bill is founded on two main principles : that those who keep secrets should not have the last word on where secrecy begins and ends and that openness should be the rule and secrecy the exception .
14 It was almost as if he and his committee dealt with murder and corruption every day of the week .
15 Athelstan groaned and hid his face as a crowd of parishioners led by Black Clem , Ranulf the rat-catcher and Pike the ditcher , passed the tavern door , roaring a filthy song at the top of their voices .
16 It is first an attractive , informative overview of the seventh continent and second a full account of Greenpeace 's strategy for its conservation .
17 The reader can not have failed to notice that J. A. Fodor is fast emerging here as the bête noire , in that he both presents the strongest case for the representational theory of the mind and champions the conclusion which flows from it about the impossibility of concept-learning .
18 And here for example you might have the recreational mind , healthy mind and body the existential , the person who as much as anything may be looking for an experience based on meditation , er religion , this sort of thing .
19 On 3 October , a certain Brigadier McLean wrote to the Director of Military Operations suggesting that the ‘ S.A.S. , L.R.D.G. and 1 L.R.S. be combined and that armour , artillery and infantry the size of a regiment should be added for seaborne operations .
20 We also put = K except where i is a warehouse and j a shop , but we have omitted x i j when = K , so K does not appear explicitly .
21 The initial BFS produced by this method can also be used as an initial BFS for the TRP by identifying i with as warehouses and i with as shops and allowing the initial BFS to contain only x i j , where i is a warehouse and j a shop .
22 And Jay was pacing her attic , bars tightening and cracking around a heart that would not stop hurting ; she could not lay her body down though it screamed for rest and knots of fury made her neck and shoulders a steely hunch like a vulture .
23 He stops in the path of one of the dancing dhāmis and drapes the garland round his neck and plants a yellow ikā between his eyes , greeting the god .
24 When the fear and agony the blancs feel is transferred through the mirror … . ’
25 Shirley , sitting there mildly , the downstairs Shirley , thinking these thoughts , remembering the peremptory demands of the old , the attic Shirley , felt trembling in her , deep deep buried in her sitting-room centrally heated flesh , a wild improper memory , an admissible echo , the faintest thrill of a shudder of remembered desire : Shirley Ablewhite , the bad-good girl , called to her through the knot of her body , painfully , angrily , buried , buried alive , and Shirley Harper half heard her , bent her head , and acknowledged with mixed fear and relief the stirring , the tremor , the sulking , menacing , sweet and half despairing plea .
26 Antiracists have pointed out that in privileging prejudice and attitudes the multiculturalists have neglected racism as embedded in structures and institutions .
27 The aim is to provide the kind of understanding necessary for improved policy analysis in the future and £100,000 a year was set aside for this programme .
28 For this was the season when at every doorway and table the locals were noisily betting on the lilliputian battles of fighting cicadas .
29 Part of this somewhat free accounting was undoubtedly due to much better control : no longer could staff pass off a ‘ do-it-yourself sandwich and pocket the proceeds ; but much of the increase was real and deserved .
30 Despite considerable research and investment a large discrepancy exists between human and computer recognition of speech .
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