Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None the less , the attention they have rightly drawn to parochial religion and to non-predestinarian elements within the church should not be allowed to obscure the fact that during the period from 1560 to 1625 credal predestinarianism claimed the allegiance of the great majority of Elizabethan and Jacobean churchmen , or that during the 1630s this creed came under a concerted and unprecedented attack from the ecclesiastical authorities . |
| 2 | The last Empress , a German , was more Russian than peasant Russians in her devotion to Orthodox religion and to unorthodox holy men . |
| 3 | Myres believed that ‘ it should be possible to extract … some valuable information on the origin and distribution of the settlers , their relationship to the pre-existing population , their social and economic development , and their notions of religion and of decorative art ’ ( 1969 , p. 11 ) , although only the first and last of these aims were satisfied to any degree via the pottery . |
| 4 | They continue to have an impact on women 's involvement in public religion and on social attitude towards ‘ the female ’ . |
| 5 | He then spent eleven years in Leeds , first as curate at St Peter 's ( 1932–8 ) , during which he obtained an MA in the history and philosophy of religion and in Chinese studies at Leeds University , then as vicar of St Matthew 's , Holbeck . |
| 6 | The other , hand-written , was similar : ‘ Lib Dem supporter voting Labour to kick Tory out in Croydon NW and for electoral reform . ’ |
| 7 | Other techniques may also be used , both in isolation and in various combinations . |
| 8 | In short , we still have to deal with a harmonic problem — the satisfactory effect of note-combinations both in isolation and in horizontal movement . |
| 9 | In 1816 , the year Davy 's lamp was introduced , J. H. H. Holmes , a mining inspector , published a book containing ‘ accounts of the explosions from fire damp which have occurred for the last 20 years ; their causes and the means proposed for their remedy and for general improvements of the mining systems by new methods of ventilation . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ We 're being listened to and referred to by the Water Research Centre , by the Environment Council , by the Royal Yachting Association and by other local MPs . |
| 11 | ‘ Humpty Dumpty Haypot ’ , as Hayman was known by his colleagues , on account of his naked domed head , at once resigned his directorships , from the South Oxfordshire Conservative Association and from various charity committees — though he remained a member of the Travellers ' Club in Pall Mall and of MCC . |
| 12 | We have been very grateful to the Scottish Sports Association and in particular to Jim Wylie and Hammy Smith for their support and interest in this area of work . |
| 13 | While much of the thinking during drowsiness maybe humdrum , as experiments involving waking people up during this state have shown , there are undoubtedly some unusual characteristics of style of thinking and of dreamlike imagery during drowsiness . |
| 14 | In early development there are styles of thinking and of social interaction that could constrain the design and management of computer-based resources . |
| 15 | In the face of such unmitigated evil , the reaction of the community and the Government is one of grief and of righteous anger ; but I and my colleagues are absolutely determined that it must also be one of resolute and vigorous action . |
| 16 | The policy relied on the government being able to meet its borrowing requirements through persuading the public to take up successive issues of government loan stock and through internal ( or technically known as departmental ) support . |
| 17 | However , with their emphasis on rehabilitation of stock and on area-wide environmental improvements , GIAs had a relatively limited impact , and only about 5 per cent of grants since 1969 have been issued within these areas . |
| 18 | Also , to use a light-pen system would require production of a database of the total library stock and of individual users . |
| 19 | Contributions were made to related work on fee tendering and on co-ordinated conditions of engagement by the Construction Industry Council . |
| 20 | British Telecom ( BT ) can now produce bills in braille and in large print for the partially sighted , free of charge . |
| 21 | Floors and stiffening by way of the keel and in other areas consist of 3in ( 76mm ) laminated mahogany and , unusually , both water and fuel tanks are integral parts of the wood epoxy structure . |
| 22 | Save The Children fund has been involved already directly in partnership and with other international Save The Children members in providing direct and emergency aid to former Yugoslavia . |
| 23 | Hunter observed that ‘ … the whole viscera when all the Blood is press 'd out goes into a very little bulk , even the Liver will lose vastly of its bulk and in short the whole viscera will come into a small compass when they are well clean 'd and put into dry cloths ; you are then to go to the trunk of the Body and empty it of Blood as well as you can and press the Blood out from the Face , Hands , etc. as well as Arms , and the more Blood is pressed out the better ’ . |
| 24 | Even if my assessment of its implications concerning the relative order of emergence of the intentional ingredient and of syntactic structure were held to be incorrect , the mechanism of that evolution might be of independent interest , and be seen as bearing on other problems besides ( especially in developmental psychology and theoretical linguistics ) . |
| 25 | The interaction of a photon and a molecule , like other physical processes , is subject to the laws of conservation of energy , of linear momentum and of angular momentum . |
| 26 | We saw , for example , signs of it in Popper 's differentiated model of the three worlds of knowledge , with objective knowledge residing in a quite different world from those of human consciousness and of physical objects . |
| 27 | Companion will be distributed in Holland by Koninklijke PTT Telecom Nederland NV , Sweden 's Televerket and by British Telecommunications Plc from this year . |
| 28 | For normal driving conditions the computer chooses a soft suspension setting , but at speed and during sharp handling and emergency manoeuvres , it switches automatically to a firmer setting . |
| 29 | In fact , we would encourage their use at traffic lights to catch red light jumpers , outside schools for excessive speed and for other such criminal acts of stupidity . |
| 30 | Every move he made was duplicated by the rest of the shoal at exactly the same speed and with absolute precision . |