Example sentences of "[adj] and [art] [noun sg] [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 | Active in local affairs , he was mayor of Tunbridge Wells in 1895 and a member of Kent county council for fifteen years . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The equipment in those days was primitive and a visit to any dental practitioner was an ordeal . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | Take a pinch of this and a pinch of that , stir well under a slow heat , and see what happens . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In this and a variety of other tasks , Wannemacher and Ryan were able to distinguish ‘ incorrect ’ from ‘ opposite ’ responses . |
| 15 | ‘ A bit of this and a bit of that . |
| 16 | Bit of this and a bit of that . |
| 17 | There were a lot of arguments for this and a lot against . |
| 18 | It was run then by Henry Thomas , who owned this and a number of other local mills . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | But intellectually , on this and a number of different fronts , town planning was on the frontiers of change . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | 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 " . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Er and so we are looking at ways in which we can actually erm develop this and the firm as a whole is doing that as well and er we are to a certain extent that initiative . |
| 28 | This and the building of shopping centres and roads for larger numbers of cars created jobs in construction and materials . |
| 29 | This and the replication in Murchison House , Edinburgh , of courses given at Keyworth led to a substantial increase in staff attendance . |
| 30 | The division of the movement suggested this and the spectre of a resurgent Germany under Hitler 's leadership made Fascism as alien as Bolshevism had been ten years before . |