Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] and [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Workouts take the battle between creditors and shareholders a step further . |
| 2 | The purpose of this is to increase through rewards and punishments the number of times the child chooses to perform acceptable behaviour and not to perform unacceptable behaviour . |
| 3 | In dealing with the relationship between words and music the author unfailingly reveals both great experience and great imagination . |
| 4 | In a later meeting between parents and psychologist the former , in response to the psychologist 's efforts to identify/impose a consensus , again attempted to articulate their own understanding of George 's needs . |
| 5 | The choice is varied and students may take advantage of tuition in many sports or alternatively may organize their own programme of activities and book the various sports facilities at times which suit their academic timetables . |
| 6 | In this network of institutions and ideas the eighteenth century saw no fundamental change . |
| 7 | Prost could be said to represent the next generation of drivers and Niki the past . |
| 8 | Soon business began to look up , and the biggest barrow in the world even returned enough of a profit to allow Sal to buy a second-hand dress , Kitty a pair of shoes and Charlie a third-hand suit . |
| 9 | Long hair , in contrast , shows rejection of authority and is the preferred hair-style of rebels and revolutionaries the world over , of woolly-haired intellectuals , hippies , and others seeking freedom from traditional constraints and a world of exciting new potentialities . |
| 10 | As the yard cleared of workers and demonstrators a meeting got underway between their representatives and management . |
| 11 | It was human decision , or human perversity , which led to Boromir claiming the journey , with what chain of ill-effects and casualties no one can tell . |
| 12 | The Man Of Ross Farm in Herefordshire is unashamedly commercial … its orchards produce 2,500 tons of apples and pears a year . |
| 13 | JE : Was there , in a sense , a policy decision on the part of the management , to give the younger generation of producers and conductors the responsibility for the premiere of Grimes ? |
| 14 | Working from a basis not impossibly different from a very great many comprehensive schools in the UK , it achieved by this single-minded disposition of resources and energy an organization of support for teacher and pupil alike . |
| 15 | This technique develops a conceptual model of a process , subjects it to a number of experiments and studies the results with the aim of eventually predicting how the model will behave under certain conditions . |
| 16 | ( d ) Transfers of goods and services The law has traditionally distinguished between contracts for the supply of goods and contracts for the supply of services . |
| 17 | Following on from the exhibition of Italian drawings 1780–1890 seen in Washington , Minneapolis and San Francisco in 1980 and 1981 , the same team of organisers and curator The American Federation of Arts and Roberta Olsen respectively have mounted an ambitious sequel , ‘ Ottocento : Romanticism and Revolution in nineteenth-century Italian paintings ’ . |
| 18 | DESPITE the advent of cassettes and CDs the analogue record is likely to be with us for some time yet , and in every amplifier used for playing them is an equaliser to modify the signal derived from the pick-up cartridge . |
| 19 | In the context of regions and regionalism. the political aspects of the problem lie in the types of representation of group interest , the ideological bases of relevant decisions . |
| 20 | In a guestroom or in a group of friends and kinsmen the characteristic devices of discussion were the pithy interjection and the rhetorical question . |
| 21 | The wide variety of devices and techniques the authors discuss include a substantial introductory account of lasers and a presentation of fibre optics and their application to optical communication systems . |
| 22 | Part of the beauty of this revolution was the recognition that at the level of genes and proteins the mechanisms used by all animals are almost universal . |
| 23 | A confident graduation ceremony at which the Chairman of Governors spoke optimistically took place in February 1979 , and at its meeting in May 1979 the Council received a report of a preliminary visit by a small group of members and officers the previous month to the Polytechnic . |
| 24 | 1963 , 18 mins ; ‘ The New Improved Institutional Quality : In the Environment of Liquids and Nasals a parasitic vowel sometimes develops ’ , by G. Landow , 1976 , 10 mins ; ‘ Yyaa ’ by Wojciech Bruszewski was shot in Poland and is an individual ‘ primal scream ’ of protest , 1973 , 5 mins ; ‘ The Cartoon Theatre of Dr Gaz ’ by Jeff Keen is an experimental animation and live-action film with Dr Gaz , Babyjelly , Madame Hex . |
| 25 | Cleared out all the chest of drawers and wardrobe the other day did n't we ? |
| 26 | To the French it seemed as if there were no limit to the amount of men and shells the enemy was prepared to expend in order to gain possession of this one desolate hill . |
| 27 | In the case of franchises and licences the business is not transferred by the vendor and the vendor will normally have to arrange for a new licence or franchise to be granted to the purchaser by the licensor or franchisor on the surrender of the vendor 's licence or franchise . |
| 28 | A person buys a new washing machine , and is unfortunate enough to discover that ( a ) the cabinet is badly scratched , and thus not of merchantable quality ; ( b ) the machine ripped up the first batch of clothes and half-flooded the kitchen ( ie it was not fit for the purpose ) ; and ( c ) the model delivered by the suppliers was not the model agreed upon in the shop ( ie the goods were not as described by the retailer ) . |
| 29 | They are shunted from one set of rails to another ; turn-tables spin them round until they can be run upon any particular line ; by means of capstans and ropes the loaded trucks are warped this way or that ; and tank engines push them hither and thither . |
| 30 | And yet in their own city , hundreds of women and children every year crawl out of the front line into this trench . |