Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [prep] [adj] [art] " in BNC.

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1 As was noted in the context of Les quatre Souhais Saint Martin , supernatural settings and in particular the agency of supernatural forces are quite rare .
2 A " Left Opposition " was already in existence in several European Communist Parties and by 1932 the 12-man " Balham Group " had emerged from the British Communists .
3 The Latins had felt jealous and hostile to their eastern Christian neighbour for centuries and in 1204 the armies of the Fourth Crusade had sacked the Byzantine capital of Constantinople with horrible and immoral savagery ; they may also have fatally weakened the Greek empire .
4 Although general courses of various kinds are found in all kinds of institution , the prime examples are the Scottish general degree , the Open University with its foundation/modular structure , and the broader courses in the arts , social sciences and natural sciences in the polytechnics and above all the English and Welsh colleges .
5 Further disaggregation of the sectors and in particular the private sector into one personal sector , industrial and commercial companies and non-bank financial companies .
6 In 1838 a troop of Nottinghamshire dragoons and the metropolitan police were attacked with stones and bricks and in 1839 the government brought in the 5th Dragoon guards to suppress the bull-running once and for all .
7 In one case it stretched to below a woman 's knees and in another the pubic hair was gathered into a tasteful plait that reached behind her back .
8 In 1845 he was appointed headmaster of the Central Model Schools and in 1848 a district inspector of the National Board .
9 They cover virtually all the major subject areas and with such a wide selection available , relatively few new courses are likely to be added to the established pattern .
10 But when the inns did begin to improve they brought a great influx of visitors and by 1817 an observer remarks : ‘ Thirty years earlier simplicity and hospitality were then the character of the people … .
11 we replied that our only object was to secure a Government on such lines and with such a prospect of stability that it might reasonably be expected to be capable of carrying on the war ; that in our opinion his Government , weakened by the resignations of Lloyd George and Bonar Law and by all that had gone on during the past weeks , offered no such prospect and we answered the question therefore with a perfectly definite negative .
12 To be developed " along appropriate lines and in such a way as to take into account the legal provisions , contractual agreements and practices in force in the member states . "
13 erm and er , you know as you 're exercising your discretion your Lordship there 's the points in the white book , my Lord in the interim it would be the societies submission that there are three reasons why during the time that it may take to get any guidance from the European court , in the interim , the application of the bi-laws and in particular the provisions of the Act nineteen eighty two should be maintained and er given er their force , because clearly my Lord if there is to be a reference to the European court , matters will take some two years or so before the European court will give it 's ruling that I think would be common ground with my learned friend
14 It was records of deep chemical weathering which stimulated the development of new models and in particular the notion of a double surface of levelling ( Büder , 1957 ) .
15 By 1881 two out of every three people were urban dwellers and by 1911 the transformation was complete with only one out of every five people still living in farmsteads , hamlets or villages .
16 By nine-thirty they 'll have collected their boarding passes and by ten the ship will be virtually deserted . ’
17 By Christmas Helen was well again and the baby , Moira , was a delight to her proud parents and to all the family , especially her grandfather .
18 The second strand of the Governor 's argument is that deregulation has helped the overall growth of financial markets and institutions and in particular the growth of NBFIs .
19 Additionally , a slightly higher proportion of blacks were sentenced in adult rather than juvenile magistrates courts and of these a higher proportion of blacks were tried in the crown courts .
20 So we decided to anticipate our enemies and in 1894 the National Amalgamated Sailors and Firemen 's Union went into voluntary liquidation " .
21 At that time Kiev was one of Russia 's greatest cities and within half a century had a great cathedral and hundreds of churches .
22 The average for the 1970s was 9,200 kilograms per hectare , but in 1982 it rose to as much as 14,080 kilograms and in 1983 an even higher figure of 15,012 .
23 Group work forms the basis for all programmes and within this the development of the personality is stressed , plus inter-personal and group relationships .
24 French channels may buy BBC and Independent TV company programmes and in 1986 the Hersant Berlusconi ‘ le Cinq ’ imported programmes made for Berlusconi 's Italian channels , yet otherwise it seems the four major European countries — Britain , France , West Germany , Italy — buy relatively few programmes from one another : for one French-made ‘ Chateauvallon ’ , there are 10 Australian ‘ Neighbours ’ or 100 US ‘ Dallas ’ and ‘ Kojak ’ on UK television channels .
25 The Aasen band provided music , the local choir , including young children , sang for us , Trygve Lian , chairman of the organising committee , presented a slide show of local views and after all the veterans had been introduced with a brief synopsis of their parts in the raids , speeches and presentations were made .
26 We are doubtful that the benefits of the inner distribution onto other roads and into particular the B six one six two which is the only access onto the western relief road as currently proposed between the A fifty nine and sixty one would generate further problems , onto a road which is only a two lane B road compared to an A l A road Sorry and A three lane road , that the environmental damage far outweighs in fact the so called benefits that are being claimed which nobody 's disputed is only a vehicle every four point eight seconds instead of every three point five seconds .
27 Accountants need to understand the business , the people , the products and above all the marketplace and then relate that to the numbers .
28 In 1816 the Leith and Hamburg Shipping Company commenced operations and in 1936 the two companies merged to form the Hull and Leith Steam Packet Company .
29 In 1981 the resources and needs elements of RSG were combined to form a block grant paid direct to all local authorities and in 1990 the system was changed again with the new grant paid to the ‘ charging authorities ’ that is , those responsible for collecting the community charge .
30 Over the next two decades it was rebuilt to include many fine Georgian houses and in 1725 the then humble parsonage was given this handsome new front by an unknown architect .
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