Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In different degrees , both the earlier tsars had devoted their first years on the throne to improving the condition of the empire , but one of them had been distracted by Napoleon and the other by foreign war and a rebellion in Poland . |
| 2 | For example , there is a famous story about a conversation between the Emperor Napoleon and the astronomer Laplace . |
| 3 | Napoleon and the French in Spain entirely failed to grasp the significance of this popular movement . |
| 4 | ‘ Charlie Farnes-Barnes and a feller with two left feet . ’ |
| 5 | The account of his stay in Naples includes a visit to Pompeii and the ascent of Vesuvius ; Florence is included in his return journey from Rome to Genoa . |
| 6 | The ash-fall which buried Pompeii and the mudflow which covered Herculaneum , however , are first-class examples of two major kinds of volcanic phenomena , which have been repeated scores of times on different volcanoes in different parts of the world and we will be following them up more closely when we come to a detailed consideration of the mechanisms of eruptions . |
| 7 | There are two theatres at Pompeii and an amphitheatre . |
| 8 | For ‘ The Phoenix and the Turtle ’ , another poem , a different problem , Shakespeare could celebrate the union of those two birds on an emblematic , almost mystical level : The paradoxes are as bewildering as the mystery of the Holy Trinity : Mysterious and desirable though such a union may be , it is not given to human beings , and in the Sonnets it does not take place . |
| 9 | The Democrat nomination was won by Terry Goddard , former mayor of Phoenix and the son of a former governor . |
| 10 | Brian was an underwriting member of Lloyds and a director of Edward Lumley and Co . |
| 11 | It was fully underwritten by Lloyds and the claim has been unfairly rejected in my personal opinion . |
| 12 | The boundary-line was drawn northwards from Italy , via Geneva , the Jura and the Meuse valley to the North Sea . |
| 13 | The fact that lapis lazuli seems to have appeared first in north Mesopotamia rather than south argues that the Sumerians got their supplies by way of Iran rather than by the Indus and the sea route . |
| 14 | The HSE 's Employment Medical Advisory Service keeps a register of all research workers involved in genetic manipulation experiments , which would provide important data should an epidemiological survey be launched at any appropriate time , and all laboratories are required to inform GMAG and the HSE of their health monitoring arrangements . |
| 15 | His Missouri childhood gave him access to Baptist hymns and church music , but at Harvard he was introduced to the writings of Gertrude Stein and the music of Erik Satie . |
| 16 | For once they managed to evade the searchlights , dodge the guard-dogs , tunnel under the barbed wire and make it back to the sanctuary of their bunks before Stein and the Stalag Squad knew they were gone . |
| 17 | In general , studies of women prose writers have outstripped by some distance studies of poets apart from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the Countess of Winchilsea . |
| 18 | Every surfer who is swallowed up by one of the blue-ribbed behemoths of Pipeline re-enacts the legend of Jonah and the Whale . |
| 19 | At bottom , this is the grip which the story of Jonah and the whale still has on us : fear of being devoured by a large creature , fear of being chomped , slurped , gargled , washed down with a draught of salt water and a school of anchovies as a chaser ; fear of being blinded , darkened , suffocated , drowned , hooded with blubber ; fear of sensory deprivation which we know drives people mad ; fear of being dead . |
| 20 | For example in Jonas ( book 1 ) the story of Jonah and the whale the hero 's disobedience to God is described in A minor , and its consequences are depicted in three consecutive movements in A major . |
| 21 | She heard the sounds behind her of her father 's leather apron being tied in place and , for a moment , she could imagine her father was with her again , big and comforting , a shield between Hari and the world . |
| 22 | The ban will cover cod on the eastern Scotian shelf off Nova Scotia , the southern Gulf of St Lawrence , the Sydney Bight area off Cape Breton and the south coast of Newfoundland . |
| 23 | If I could stay hidden until Kezia and the rest of the foreigners had gone , I would be all right . |
| 24 | As a member of each of the above mentioned groups ( SHACE , SCFE and the group from the Western Division which ‘ fleshed out ’ catering related modules ) , I fully appreciate that they provide an excellent national and local framework for developing meaningful programmes of study but also realise that the membership consists solely of college staff . |
| 25 | These links were crucial , given the numerical strength and revolutionary role of the CNT and the leverage available to the Communists once Soviet aid began to arrive in October . |
| 26 | John Cary and the firm he created dominated British map production for a generation at least , being the most influential private-sector map-maker of the age . |
| 27 | Through the woods and landscaped parklands of one of England 's great country houses , rising to the ridge of the Howardian Hills — a gentle escarpment overlooking the Vale of Pickering and the North York Moors . |
| 28 | Minister of National Defence Michel al-Murr and the Minister of the Interior Maj.-Gen. |
| 29 | The commission found that the losses , totalling £18.1 million , were attributable to the negligence of Mr Lawrie and the council 's finance director Donald G Macleod . |
| 30 | Some weeks later , after the fall of Tunis and the Axis surrender in French North Africa , when he had time to reflect on his past and present condition , he began to write more regularly . |