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 By dealing through brokers who have access to market-wide information and who are continually matching buying and selling offers , GEMMs can adjust their positions in the knowledge that prices will only move in response to generalised market shortages or surpluses of stock and not in anticipation of any particular deals of their own .
4 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 ’ .
5 It is a passport to altered states of consciousness and ultimately to self-realisation .
6 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 :
7 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 .
8 This , of course , gives rise to the often-remarked feature of discussions that , while their coherence will be clear to the participants , they are far from clear to the detached viewer/reader looking at a transcript and not in tune with the immediate situation .
9 Glue and screw the seat and back in place .
10 In Egypt and the Near East relief-sculpture ( mostly in very flat low relief ) goes in this respect with drawing and not with sculpture in the round .
11 The electoral law decree also established that the President would be elected by universal suffrage and not by vote of Parliament .
12 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 .
13 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 :
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 She was a gaudy advert for her own talents ; her shaved skull crawling with tattoos that curled down her neck and back like hair .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 You can start at bronze for a period as short as three months through silver and up to gold which can take 18 months to complete .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 Generally speaking a shareholding director can vote in his own interests without regard to those of the company ; he is acting in the capacity of shareholder and not as director .
23 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 .
24 Go through farmyard and on to road .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 Mungo grinned as the rogue closet sailed past the car and out of sight , its cargo no longer private .
28 Too often students go straight from school to college and on to university without seeing any action resulting from their studies .
29 One of the initiatives is to encourage more teacher placements in industry , so that those in education who have gone from school to college and back to school as teachers and who have not experienced life in industry or commerce can be exposed to it , the better to assist their pupils in preparing for a working career .
30 They 're also looking at some of the data integrity erm issues one of which is potentially quite a major problem and the new system will for any qualifying plans , once the new system is in , if a policy 's in arrears it will try and collect the arrears and it will collect up to a maximum of two premiums each month until the policy 's in force and up to date .
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