Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The exploration of what each part of the body can express in isolation and then in co-ordination with the rest is possibly the most important aspect of a choreographer 's work if it seeks to be modern in spirit and technique . |
| 2 | Only when they have examined what hands , arms , legs and feet , body and above all the head can do in isolation and then in harmony with the story , theme or music , can they set out and create a style which will be general in structure and particular in texture , with the right quality , mood , emotion , action and character . |
| 3 | The differences in male and female secondary characteristics listed by Darwin shaded into intellect ; women were referred to as more intuitive and more ‘ capable of rapid perception and perhaps of imitation ’ . |
| 4 | It is a passport to altered states of consciousness and ultimately to self-realisation . |
| 5 | Although I have chosen to begin reading Marx 's theory of ideology by reference to his concept of consciousness , the material form of consciousness and also of ideology is clearly language : |
| 6 | In this small inward-looking world , the intrusion of death could be dreadfully destructive ; the damage could be limited partly by sharing the loss and partly by belief that it would be made good in the afterlife . |
| 7 | So , somewhat in the footsteps of the pursuers of Colonel Fawcett , who disappeared many years ago into the jungles of South America , I set out after my man , who had slipped away , sadly and silently , back into the dark continent and seemingly into history . |
| 8 | His trauma after witnessing the effects of the massacre had led progressively to the loss of his job , a slide into alcoholism and then to crime : |
| 9 | What we 're gon na do now , it 's just coming up to twenty past three , so we 'll take a tea break and then after tea we 'll come back and we 'll spend about an hour or so looking at identifying trainees . |
| 10 | And then , all I 've done is worked out some time management and say well if these guys turn up at half past eight every morning and I give them a break at ten o'clock , and they get a lunch break and then in afternoon , another break , and they finish at half past four , if everything goes to plan , by four o'clock Friday , my van should be backing up at the end of the production line to load itself up with a thousand widgets . |
| 11 | The report deal deals with a fair detail and concentration and then on page four this the erm main results of the different elements of the result and though grouping them into those had high levels of sport er to those that were where now the officers and a I think that if you could see that er er there was a considerable census for those from the officer part of the . |
| 12 | This ant spits painful substances at the eyes of any potential trespasser on to its territory , but through slow acclimatization to her presence , the community she studied learnt to accept her presence without fear and therefore without attack . |
| 13 | Well up in Scotland of course we do n't need to save our rain water we get plenty of it coming from the unclear , but er one thing I would say would be that erm if we have a warm spell and the sun is beating on a bitumen roof and then of course suddenly a shower and that er goes into the water bucket or water barrel then it does give you maybe you know a few problems . |
| 14 | I can still see her as I first met her , a skinny , energetic schoolgirl with a flower in her shining black hair , who quickly grew into a beautiful woman and whose life became entwined with mine as together we triumphed over disease , over prejudice and even over war . |
| 15 | We found that adjusting for maternal smoking in pregnancy did not change the strength of the association between birth weight and lung function so that the effect of environment in utero on birth weight and subsequently on lung function may be independent of smoking in pregnancy . |
| 16 | Accordingly , from the mid-1970s , research began to examine the perception and behaviour of individuals , and then to develop general conceptual and theoretical research , in a shift from the ‘ inductive ’ to the ‘ scientific ’ route shown in Figure I. I. Smith ( 1983 ) in another recent summary broadly agrees with Owens , and divides his textbook Recreation Geography into a four-stage continuum from description , to explanation , to prediction and finally to policy formulation . |
| 17 | Lachlan Watt had been about to leave Hamish and Antonia 's party when Fergus had fallen over and Fiona had decided it was time to take her husband home ; she had offered Lachy a lift back to his brother 's house , but when they 'd got there Fergus had seemed fast asleep , snoring loudly and taking no apparent notice of Fiona shaking him and shouting at him ; Lachy had volunteered to come back to the castle to help get Fergus out of the car and upstairs to bed ; Fiona would run Lachy back afterwards . |
| 18 | During the exchange itself he 'd moved from suspicion to disbelief to disgust and finally to acceptance of Estabrook 's proposal . |
| 19 | Like the other playwrights whose response to Thatcherism and brutality has been some hand-wringing of their own , Barker is too infatuated by his heroine 's strength to humanise her withe vulnerability and too in awe of her for a passionate or coolly detached opposition . |
| 20 | She travelled partly by carriage and partly on foot , carrying her basket . |
| 21 | Moreover , the spread of scores was greatest on issue-information and least on vote-guidance . |
| 22 | No special methods were adopted to enhance the activity of bacteria oxidizing excreted ammonia ( produced from metabolism of proteins ) first to nitrite and then to nitrate . |
| 23 | It is in photo series like this one that photography 's real powers of intrusion and finally of revelation are uncovered . |
| 24 | A model of Christian living and hence of holiness which relied on images of separation and apartness became highly suspect . |
| 25 | He moves into a long attempt , which takes up the rest of the book , to revise the earlier ontology of Being and Nothingness into a new ontology of action and even of History , as if , after all , he is investigating the prospect of accrediting the latter with ontological status — a possibility which has always haunted his text in its insistent negation . |
| 26 | It took the mantri a long time to work right round the bull , from shoulder to rump down one side and then from rump to shoulder back up the other . |
| 27 | Five boards were sawn off either side and once from end to end , and when these ten , destined for side panelling , were cut , the log was turned , and thirty boards of narrower width sawn for end panels , thus utilising all the wood possible . ’ |
| 28 | Moving on into the sort of sensors and the electronics side , erm for survivability erm the defensive aid sub- system will be er very complex , very sophisticated but also integrated so that it has a complete system of protection for the aircraft , erm an and finally moving on on the sort of electronics side then clearly with different sensors such as the radar , the forward looking infra-red , infra-red search and track the er multiple information distribution system and also certain aspects of the er electronic warfare suite then by having sensor fusion which enables the best information at any one time to be correlated into the system as a whole then that will provide a very good capability and far in excess of anything that we have at the moment . |
| 29 | The A n T m tracts are known to strongly contribute to gel mobility anomaly and so to DNA curvature ( 1,3,4,9,26 ) . |
| 30 | Thanks to all this , finance has moved out of the spreadsheet and into the political arena , the courtroom and even into trade negotiations . |