Example sentences of "[noun] and [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is central alike to a study of the arts and of such institutions as the monarchy and Parliament . |
| 4 | The general degrees are named the MA(General) , the BSc ( SocSc ) and the BSc respectively , and the honours degrees are named the MA in Arts and in Social Sciences , and the BSc(Hons) in Science . |
| 5 | Other techniques may also be used , both in isolation and in various combinations . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | He took the remedy and within ten minutes was fast asleep again . |
| 8 | Through traffic is usually reduced by road closures and speeds are cut by carriageway narrowings , small roundabouts and by various types of humps , which additionally increase conspicuity of intersections and other traffic . |
| 9 | a local government official , lawyer , accountant , banker , customs broker , labor contractor and in most cases the owner of factory land and buildings . |
| 10 | Also , to use a light-pen system would require production of a database of the total library stock and of individual users . |
| 11 | This match was not just a game , it was a landmark and to all intents and purposes one ignored by the BBC . |
| 12 | Contributions were made to related work on fee tendering and on co-ordinated conditions of engagement by the Construction Industry Council . |
| 13 | Or you may prefer one of our country-house hotels nearby , in beautiful settings and with recreational facilities . |
| 14 | ( iii ) In the context of their own writing and reading pupils should be introduced to the complex regularity that underlies the spelling of words with inflectional endings , eg bead-ing , bead-ed , bed-d-ing , bed-d-ed. ( iv ) Teaching should encourage discussion of the range of vocabulary , eg from informal to formal , everyday to specialist , its use in different settings and for different purposes and the effect of particular choices of words , eg the kinds of topics slang is used for ; the situations in which slang is used ; the need for specialist terms and the effects of their use outside the specialist group . |
| 15 | The thorax is composed of three segments , the pro- , meso- and metathorax. in almost all insects each segment bears a pair of legs and in most adults both the meso- and metathorax carry a pair of wings . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It is designed to be used by curriculum planners , course and test writers , teachers and teacher trainers and by self-access learners of foreign languages . |
| 18 | The past two years of economic reform have won Mr Rao and his finance minister , Manmohan Singh , much praise from foreigners and from Indian businessmen . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The child was allowed into the bedroom and for two hours she watched her father die . |
| 21 | Companion will be distributed in Holland by Koninklijke PTT Telecom Nederland NV , Sweden 's Televerket and by British Telecommunications Plc from this year . |
| 22 | He came to Bedale and after 12 years was transferred to Ripon . |
| 23 | He also admitted driving recklessly , at excessive speed and with 79 micrograms of alcohol on his breath , 39 over the limit . |
| 24 | We thank you for those who have ministered your word to the church of St Leonard 's during the weeks when we have been meeting in the School for the Deaf ; so we thank you for John , Alan and Emily , for the readers and for those chaplains and ministers who worship with us . |
| 25 | These studies are underpinned by continuing improvements in the operation of the geophysical databases and by further developments in computer software for interactive display and interpretation of data . |
| 26 | A clinicopathologic study was made of 16 patients with amyloidosis and with clinical signs of intestinal pseudo-obstruction . |
| 27 | It was developed and used primarily during the First World War as a means of preventing dogs , used in the trenches as messengers and for other activities , from betraying their positions by a casual bark . |
| 28 | Generally the curriculum following the three ‘ R ’ s , tonic sol-fa notation for music , Irish and English history , drawing ( both freehand and scale ) , geography and in later years a little elementary science . |
| 29 | Certainly they conceded that these activities were popular in the sense that millions of people availed themselves of them but their argument had been that only in a very limited way can we talk of these activities as belonging to the masses : rather they represented the expropriation and packaging of what had previously been popular forms by middle-class organizations and in most cases by businessmen and entrepreneurs . |
| 30 | The effective implementation of a common foreign and security policy should take place within an institutional framework based on " one decision-making centre , namely the Council ; harmonization and , where appropriate , unification of the preparatory work ; a unified secretariat ; a reinforced role for the Commission through a non-exclusive right of initiative ; adequate procedures for consulting and informing the European Parliament ; detailed procedures ensuring that the union can speak effectively with one voice on the international stage in particular in international organizations and vis-à-vis third countries " . |