Example sentences of "and [noun] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It appears , in fact , that the speed and reliability of a bee 's flower memory at least roughly corresponds to the degree of variability it is likely to encounter among flowers of the same species in nature ( including variation from day to day of an individual blossom ) . |
| 2 | We can also talk about identity as a preface to acquisition , diversification and the hiring of high-value recruits ( 1980s themes ) , or as a signal of social responsibility and reliability in a crisis ( 1990s stuff ) . |
| 3 | They were navel-defluffers and snot-rollers to a man . |
| 4 | Such identity and unity as she possessed in these years was essentially the identity and unity of a system of power , though one beginning to decay . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , again , the replies help one to identify some of the aspects of the structure and unity of a discipline : |
| 6 | He might still be a force for peace and unity in a country that calls itself The Union of Burma . |
| 7 | It 's all your life and activities with a woman called Stephanie . |
| 8 | Focusing upon the development and activities of a number of groups in contrasting counties , the study pays close attention to their social composition , ideology and role in attempting to ensure that a consensus can develop around the provisions of the Act . |
| 9 | The authorities had come under growing pressure to act more vigorously against extreme right-wing organizations and activities after a hotel used as a temporary refugee centre was firebombed on Jan. 17 , the first incident of its kind in Austria . |
| 10 | Play and Say uses puppets to present language and activities in a way which will interest young children . |
| 11 | For determining the cost of programmes , functions and activities in a manner which facilitates analysis and valid comparisons with established criteria , among time periods , and with other governmental units . |
| 12 | The teaching community is composed of the body of students and lecturers within a subject field ; the research community is the group of staff , post-doctoral , and post-graduate research workers ; and the smallest communicating unit is the seminar group , which usually consists of the group of post-graduate students who regularly give formal presentations and discussion sessions on the state of their current research to their research supervisors , and other interested individuals . |
| 13 | The police discretion and powers under the legislation already referred to will , as usual , bring industrial protesters and pickets into a relationship with the police and it is on that relationship that the quality of freedom to protest and its scope will be worked out . |
| 14 | He had had 2,500 letters from members of the public expressing their grief , sympathy and admiration for a man who they felt had in some way belonged to ordinary people and understood them . |
| 15 | Among Mr Powell 's successes in his five years in the hot seat were EastEnders and Birds Of A Feather . |
| 16 | My blue period officially ends when we have a big leaving party for Kathleen and Katrina in a couple of days ' time but in fact it probably ends just about now . |
| 17 | ‘ The other is for Rachel , Flo 's wife in South Africa , because I knew he would n't get round to doing it himself and I thought she 'd like to be able to show their little daughter a picture of her father doing something responsible and public-spirited for a change . ’ |
| 18 | To develop roles and narrative within a game and expand them into a drama . |
| 19 | Whatever the subtlety which is brought into arguments about the quality of teaching , those classes and groups within a school which , regardless of individual children 's difficulties and disadvantages , regularly register high attainments will enhance the name of the school . |
| 20 | At 2.30 a.m. a concentration of four hundred guns opened on a front of eight hundred yards , and the barrage began to march across the minefields and defences at a pace of one hundred yards in three minutes . |
| 21 | His parents were probably having coffee and pastries in a place among people ; Stu would be laughing and larking about with his mates at the wallpaper shop . |
| 22 | Growth in laser printers is somewhat slower , and the company sees that market growing 9% on a dollar basis , and 17% on a unit basis . |
| 23 | It is interesting to make the obvious observation that , while the first and last named are fanatical behaviourists , believing that everything is subject to unlimited moulding and rearrangement through a process of reward and punishment , the three in the middle are fanatical instinctivists , insisting that virtually everything and anything is inherited , a gift ( or a grief ) of the genes and not subject to the environment . |
| 24 | Soakaways to the roads and houses of a development will usually be cheaper than surface water sewers . |
| 25 | To ensure that Members of Parliament and Parliament as a whole can carry out their functions effectively , they have certain privileges to safeguard them from outside interference . |
| 26 | In consequence , the convention of collective responsibility ( so central to the liberal constitution ) becomes drained of much of its significance and Parliament as a whole is reduced to a dignified rubber stamp of the " efficient " Cabinet and Prime Minister . |
| 27 | By the 1690s the northern colonies were spreading north and west in a way that was quite likely to lead to an eventual conflict with New France , though the distance between the English and the French colonies was still too great for a full-scale conflict to be possible . |
| 28 | Thompson and West in a study of preferences for sheltered housing which included a sample of people of all ages who suffered from rheumatism and arthritis , found among these respondents ‘ a strong feeling of not wanting to impose on relatives ’ ( Thompson and West , 1984 , p. 318 ) , and the older respondents were even less willing than the younger to consider the option of being cared for by kin . |
| 29 | The absence of the category of consciousness inevitably plays down the role of individual subjects and thus of individual agency and resistance as a result of specific acts of will . |
| 30 | The likelihood of influence by a husband over his wife and reliance of a wife on her husband to make business decisions justified the ‘ tenderness ’ extended by equity toward married women who acted as sureties for their husbands . |