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

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1 None the less , the attention they have rightly drawn to parochial religion and to non-predestinarian elements within the church should not be allowed to obscure the fact that during the period from 1560 to 1625 credal predestinarianism claimed the allegiance of the great majority of Elizabethan and Jacobean churchmen , or that during the 1630s this creed came under a concerted and unprecedented attack from the ecclesiastical authorities .
2 He then spent eleven years in Leeds , first as curate at St Peter 's ( 1932–8 ) , during which he obtained an MA in the history and philosophy of religion and in Chinese studies at Leeds University , then as vicar of St Matthew 's , Holbeck .
3 Other techniques may also be used , both in isolation and in various combinations .
4 In 1816 , the year Davy 's lamp was introduced , J. H. H. Holmes , a mining inspector , published a book containing ‘ accounts of the explosions from fire damp which have occurred for the last 20 years ; their causes and the means proposed for their remedy and for general improvements of the mining systems by new methods of ventilation . ’
5 He took the remedy and within ten minutes was fast asleep again .
6 a local government official , lawyer , accountant , banker , customs broker , labor contractor and in most cases the owner of factory land and buildings .
7 Also , to use a light-pen system would require production of a database of the total library stock and of individual users .
8 This match was not just a game , it was a landmark and to all intents and purposes one ignored by the BBC .
9 Contributions were made to related work on fee tendering and on co-ordinated conditions of engagement by the Construction Industry Council .
10 Floors and stiffening by way of the keel and in other areas consist of 3in ( 76mm ) laminated mahogany and , unusually , both water and fuel tanks are integral parts of the wood epoxy structure .
11 We saw , for example , signs of it in Popper 's differentiated model of the three worlds of knowledge , with objective knowledge residing in a quite different world from those of human consciousness and of physical objects .
12 The child was allowed into the bedroom and for two hours she watched her father die .
13 Companion will be distributed in Holland by Koninklijke PTT Telecom Nederland NV , Sweden 's Televerket and by British Telecommunications Plc from this year .
14 He also admitted driving recklessly , at excessive speed and with 79 micrograms of alcohol on his breath , 39 over the limit .
15 A clinicopathologic study was made of 16 patients with amyloidosis and with clinical signs of intestinal pseudo-obstruction .
16 Generally the curriculum following the three ‘ R ’ s , tonic sol-fa notation for music , Irish and English history , drawing ( both freehand and scale ) , geography and in later years a little elementary science .
17 The applications include work aimed at finding out how vaccines can be prepared against viruses such as those causing hepatitis and AIDS and against protozoan parasites like those causing malaria , and the use of gene targeting in embryonic stem cells to produce models for studying genes associated with human diseases .
18 It was to involve 300 conservation officers of the state environmental agency IBAMA , supported by the Army 's Amazon command and by military helicopters , the government having reportedly won the co-operation of the Army by linking environmental protection with ant-drug operations .
19 Less than a month later , at the beginning of March 1757 , Miller wrote a letter , now held by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania , reporting that promised specimens of Crataegus had not arrived and could not be included in the current edition of the Dictionary ; he repeated his request for Gale asplenii-folio and for all sorts of lilies and Andromeda .
20 In addition , there was obviously competition from non-print media for advertising revenue and from other goods and services for the money in the newspaper reader 's pocket .
21 In general the cosmic gods were represented in human form , but this was not an absolute rule and in some aspects the god might assume an animal or hybrid shape .
22 Accusations of ritual murder and of anti-Greek oaths were levelled against the Jews .
23 He was often generous to the Club and to other causes .
24 Seven defendants were charged with violent disorder at or outside a night club and with various assaults on police officers .
25 My best memory when I was at Primary School was that I was a member of a Gymnastics club and for many weeks we rehearsed our routine to do in front of the school and parents .
26 People join the savings club and after 12 weeks ' contributing can get loans at 1 per cent interest .
27 Here the front seat passenger leaned across the person sitting in the driver 's seat and with both hands on the steering wheel , steered the car .
28 ' ’ We might say that democracy , at this stage , is preferable to any current dictatorship and to many periods of absolutism in the past .
29 The US is surely keener to deal with the EC as a bloc and with those countries , like Germany , which are seen as key players within it .
30 He was a superb horseman and in those days we had many more horses here , bloodstock that was famous as even now these horses are .
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