Example sentences of "[art] [adj] and [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the years he had become as used to the rocking and swaying of a train as an experienced sailor is to the pitching and rolling of a ship . |
| 2 | Mid-sole : the layer between the sole and insole of the boot , which is anatomically shaped and designed to give the correct amount of flex and support for the activity for which the boot is designed . |
| 3 | The Netherlandish and Dutch paintings are hung on a dull green background , the Spanish and French on light grey . |
| 4 | Because of the upset and confusion of the Monday morning , I had to postpone the continuation of my consultation with Geoff Tulloch until the Wednesday afternoon . |
| 5 | In this case , as in others , television docudrama set itself up as the tidier and balancer of history . |
| 6 | Steven mentioned the constraints that the E M U may impose on the economy , but the biggest single issue is the scandalous position in which this government has placed British workers by opting out of a Social Chapter and thus denying the right and protection at work which are granted , taken for granted as minimum basic conditions in all other member states . |
| 7 | that it came as no surprise that after six busy years with the Association she was appointed Deputy Head Teacher of the Doncaster School for the Deaf and Director of its Further Education Department . |
| 8 | To elderly people with long memories Korea connoted a localised crisis at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries resulting from the decline of the Ch'ing dynasty in China , the landward expansion of the Russian empire , and the beginning of the Japanese colonial empire in the Far East . |
| 9 | At the height of Britain 's imperial role , at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of this century , there was a considerable outflow of investment , in the form of both direct investment and financial investment by the City in foreign bonds and securities . |
| 10 | The emergence of the stream-of-consciousness novel at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries was obviously related to a huge epistemological shift in culture at large , from locating reality in the objective world of actions and things as perceived by common sense , to locating it in the minds of individual thinking subjects , each of whom constructs their own reality , and has difficulty in matching it with the reality constructed by others . |
| 11 | They therefore accepted views of early kinship which represented it as a system where women were superior to men , where sex was unrestricted , and where the private and isolation of the group formed by parents and children was replaced by the commonality of a much larger undivided group . |
| 12 | Although it is obviously hoped that these accounts will be interesting as economic history , whatever they reveal about the working and role of government may also be relevant and applicable today . |
| 13 | O Lord Jesus Christ , the help of the helpless and companion of the lonely ; we ask You to bless all those from our family who are unable to leave their homes or to join in public worship . |
| 14 | " This organ is situated on each side of that of Veneration , and extends under part of the frontal and part of the parietal bones . |
| 15 | The funding formula is to include provision for special needs within the mainstream and funding for statemented pupils lies outside the formula . |
| 16 | Not not quite a law for the rich and law for the poor , |
| 17 | He is rarely out at night and is largely free to organize his activities so that in bad weather , for example , he can catch up on paperwork in the dry and warmth of the office . |
| 18 | Adapted in their different ways to the dry and cold of the tundra , musk-ox and opposite-leaved saxifrage . |
| 19 | The apostle Paul , while encouraging the Corinthians earnestly to desire spiritual gifts , especially that they might prophesy , has another conviction about what will build up the church , namely , the preaching and teaching of scripture . |
| 20 | Zuwaya preferred not to employ one another but to enter into partnerships of a kind which created income for the wealthier and capital for the poorer man . |
| 21 | if I can er start first of all with the pleadings bundle and with the statement of claim which erm er sets out all the er upon which the plaintiffs and your Lordship will see from paragraph one that this claims relate to the purchase by the plaintiff of a lease of a restaurant and wine bar business at and er it is alleged that the defendants were retained by the plaintiffs to advise them in relation to that transaction in early September of nineteen eighty five and that the contract between them er contained the usual implied required for the defendant to exercise or deal with the proper and care in relation to their conduct of the transaction and er to the advice given to the plaintiffs throughout . |
| 22 | In the antique mirror with its frame of carved shells she saw both their faces distorted by a defect in the glass ; the brown and green of Stella 's huge luminous eyes smeared like wet paint into the deep clefts between nostrils and mouth ; her own wide brow bulging like that of a hydrocephalic child . |
| 23 | Again , in the case of Vietnam , this was accompanied by bitter political acrimony , at least on the operational level , between the Americans on the one side , the British and French on the other , about whether or not the French fighting in Vietnam were to be regarded as allies and whether or not the French had any entitlement to resume their pre-war position in Indochina . |
| 24 | Jock 's voice was raised as he continued to describe the events over the past five days : — The attack on the Casino at Ouistreham and the eventual capture of the town by the British and French of No. 4 Commando . |
| 25 | For this the British and French between them lost in the region of 600,000 men ; the Germans more than 440,000 . |
| 26 | If the railways and their stations in Latin America were the classic instance of informal imperialism , economic imperialism without political control , the continental visions of Russia , Australia , and the British and French in Africa were emblematic of the formal control of the world by the European empires . |
| 27 | In an important sense , therefore , teaching is best thought of as the guiding and facilitating of learning , and the style of interaction called for is one in which there is reciprocity and collaboration in the making of meaning . |
| 28 | There was none of the agonizing and guilt over money we all went through . |
| 29 | Most Boehme works that come up are later than this circa 1804 pot ( though , oddly enough , with one sold in Delaware , and one at Christie 's , this was the third sold in a month ) , are generally sort of ‘ provincial Philadelphia ’ in style , and lack the soaring and presence of this one , which went to an Eastern private collector for $20,000 ( £14,285 ) . |
| 30 | At the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth century , in the years of Spanish rule , the fort was completed . |