Example sentences of "[adj] and [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its shares fell 2p to 55p But it was Scottish and the rest of the takeover in-crowd , with new time buyers active , which dominated the day 's trading . |
| 2 | ‘ When you have the killing of a Marine and the beating of the navy man , some response was certainly called for , ’ said Mr Edwin Smith , a University of Southern California law professor . |
| 3 | The shooting dead of a US marine and the wounding of another at a Panamanian roadblock on Saturday forced the US to take the situation more seriously . |
| 4 | Caledor gave this great honour to the Reaver Knights for their loyalty and to this day , over five thousand years later , the Reaver Knights still rigorously patrol Ulthuan and a place in their ranks is much sought after . |
| 5 | It is affected by wind , the barometer , freshwater and the position of the changing channels in the estuary . |
| 6 | Labour is second in 92 of these , the Liberal Democrats in 30 and the SNP in three . |
| 7 | Active in local affairs , he was mayor of Tunbridge Wells in 1895 and a member of Kent county council for fifteen years . |
| 8 | Apart from the stray references to external events in the letters between Helen and Edward , the incomplete Fiction is a fuller guide to the decisions Thomas was making between Easter 1895 and the summer of 1896 than reinterpretation of the Morgans novel . |
| 9 | The equipment in those days was primitive and a visit to any dental practitioner was an ordeal . |
| 10 | Ventilation in 19th century mines was very primitive and the air in the confined space in which a passage was being cleared , soon became foul and lacking in oxygen . |
| 11 | Sanitation was primitive and the poorhouses in regular use . |
| 12 | She thought the domestic arrangements were too primitive and the facilities for education , particularly language training , at best inadequate . |
| 13 | Out of 12,000 mostly unskilled workers taken on to staff the park , of which two thirds have been French and the rest from abroad , as many as 4,000 are thought to have quit in the last few months , prompting worries about mounting costs on the operators ' training and employment budgets . |
| 14 | After-care was considered necessary in order to ease the employer-employee relationship and because it added ‘ the personal touch which is the breadth of life to this and every form of charitable effort ’ . |
| 15 | Take a pinch of this and a pinch of that , stir well under a slow heat , and see what happens . |
| 16 | I used to go and fetch the , the butter from do n't bring margarine my father used to say we put better stuff on our machines so er I used to go to for my father kept foul , I used to fetch a peck of , bushel of this and a bushel of , you know all the various things that , bran and stuff for the foul yes , yes and I believe a lady , she has , she 's only recently died and but she kept it for a long long while Elsie her name was . |
| 17 | In this and a variety of other tasks , Wannemacher and Ryan were able to distinguish ‘ incorrect ’ from ‘ opposite ’ responses . |
| 18 | ‘ A bit of this and a bit of that . |
| 19 | Bit of this and a bit of that . |
| 20 | There were a lot of arguments for this and a lot against . |
| 21 | It was run then by Henry Thomas , who owned this and a number of other local mills . |
| 22 | However , not all plants do this and a number of trees which normally produce straight , stress-carrying boughs can be grafted so as to behave like weeping willows . |
| 23 | These differences are related to the wider patterns of drug use in society at large in which females are proportionately less likely to engage in recreational drug use then males , as this and a number of earlier studies show ( for example , Belle and Goldman 1980 ) . |
| 24 | But intellectually , on this and a number of different fronts , town planning was on the frontiers of change . |
| 25 | However , the Sports Council for Wales is taking what can only be described as a very aggressive approach to this and a number of other sensitive recreation/environment issues at present . |
| 26 | As I say I was sitting there adding it up , a pound for this and a pound for that and your meal , a fiver for Maggie , I 'm twenty pound short off you |
| 27 | To avoid both this and the possibility of being forced into national level negotiation with Wilson , the Federation Council at a meeting held on 29 November 1912 , resolved " that the state of the shipping trade warrants a substantial increase in the wages of seamen all round the coast from January 1st. next , and that meetings of the district committees to give effect to this resolution be held forthwith " . |
| 28 | If the widening of the 20 per cent lower income tax band to £3,000 in 1993/94 is taken into account ( which will be worth a further £25 a year to all basic and higher rate taxpayers ) , then the net effect of this and the change in the MCA on a married man aged under 65 who pays tax at the basic rate of 25 per cent will be an increase in tax of £1.17 a week or about £61 a year . |
| 29 | But I I do n't erm from the nature of Mr Justice in the Midland Bank that there 's a a well known but w what I say is that in this case er what your Lordship will be dealing with are essentially what are matters of practice for conveyancing solicitors when faced particularly with clients er making financial arrangements to enter into this and the duties of in that particular situation . |
| 30 | It is precisely the subsequent attack on this and the development of an exclusionary and residual welfare state for the poor , coupled with generous fiscal welfare for the non-poor , which seems characteristic of disorganized capitalism . |