Example sentences of "and [noun] [pron] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This gave the baronage a strong sense of cohesion ; but the large families which many of them had , and the opportunities for enrichment and impoverishment which growing population and growing wealth provided , meant that any great man had a large number of poor relations , and that the rungs on the ladder between the poor knights and the great princes were thronged with men moving up and down , sometimes at breakneck speed . |
| 2 | Davidoff et al have shown that the Beau Ideal was underpinned by a morality of mutual duty and service , although the benefits and freedom which each participant drew from such an arrangement varied directly according to their position in the hierarchy . |
| 3 | ‘ The breadth of knowledge and expertise which each person brings to the team is enormous and by working together we have been able in a short space of time to see the company woods from the departmental trees . ’ |
| 4 | Whatever defence is mounted , it is clear that these films , for Levin , exist as auratic objects , and Debord their auraticised progenitor . |
| 5 | Whether the primary motive for the association was the wish to appear to be in partnership or to avoid being identified as sole practitioners was not clear , but the Tribunal drew attention to the fact that " such a sham partnership would serve to mislead the public who are entitled to believe that the persons being held out as being partners would enjoy the full relationship of support and responsibility which that state engendered " . |
| 6 | work out the qualifications and experience which that person should have ; |
| 7 | In the course of my own childhood and adolescence my immediate family went through several changes , mostly involving separation and loss , but at the same time certain factors remained constant . |
| 8 | A more common relationship is that between adult education and MSC whose declared commitment to training of various kinds and social education in preparation for responsible citizenship is well known . |
| 9 | As schools shifted generally from a dependence on informal contacts to role specialization , delegation , and a greater investment in formal procedures , so they were forced to acquire the vocabulary and skills which formal decision-making dictates . |
| 10 | The local party leader in Shanghai , Jiang Zemin , attempted to deter the first demonstration by personally addressing thousands of students at the Jiaotong campus on 19 December , Jiang was a technocrat and moderniser whose future success in the party seemed certain . |
| 11 | ‘ I found them outside his door when I took master and mistress their early morning tea . ’ |
| 12 | Margaret Forster is a novelist , biographer and critic whose new biography of Daphne du Maurier , an investigation into the mysterious and passionate personality of one of the century 's best-loved authors , is already generating lavish praise and attention . |
| 13 | Lancashire gave him one of his most memorable finds ( an Old Trafford cupboard crammed with old minute books ) and Surrey his next subject ( George Lohmann ) : ‘ He was a rebel , but also a tragic figure . |
| 14 | The thrust of the above arguments is the suggestion that there is , or is widely believed to be , a trade-off between efficiency and equity whose precise form is unknown . |
| 15 | In the early days of World Championship Grand Prix racing Brazil had to sit back and watcher her next-door neighbour Argentina take all the honours through Juan Manuel Fangio . |
| 16 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what new incentive to manufacturers he intends to introduce to stimulate the home machine tool industry . |
| 17 | ( Alternative ending : Finally , I must pay tribute to the bridesmaids Sharon , Natalie , Margaret and Sue whose invaluable support has helped to make this day so successful . ) |
| 18 | But having talked his reluctant owner and trainer into running , Davies proceeded to kid and cajole their unpredictable 11-year-old into running the race of his life . |
| 19 | Her parents were not Parisians , they came from the provinces and Jeanne herself combined innocence with imaginative courage . |
| 20 | POPE John Paul this weekend starts a trip that was once only the stuff of his dreams and prayers his first visit to the former Soviet Union . |
| 21 | In June 1561 , just before the personal rule began , Elizabeth 's ambassador Nicholas Throckmorton warned her that ‘ your realm is in no other case at this day , than all other realms of Christendom are ’ , by which he meant torn by religious controversy and conflict ; in the twentieth century , J. H. Elliott was to characterize this period as the decade of revolution , when Scotland was only one of eight countries including France , Spain , the Netherlands and England which experienced upheaval and revolt . |
| 22 | To illustrate the difference between the historic-cost and the current-cost balance sheets , we will reconsider the two firms A and B which used FIFO and LIFO to value their inventories in the production process . |
| 23 | The impulse proved at first a happy one , for in the graveyard Miss Fergusson discovered tombstones and crosses whose Celtic air recalled those of her native Ireland ; a smile of approval crossed her dutiful features . |
| 24 | That , after all , is what gives Nissan and Toyota their competitive advantage . |
| 25 | ‘ Apart from membership and donations our main source of income comes from boarding dogs for people , ’ she explained . |
| 26 | Hilton says that the possibility of reformation thus open to man 's free choice has two aspects : first , reformation in faith which is based on the process of recognition and destruction of the image of sin which has occupied the greater part of Scale 1 ; and second , reformation in feeling which involves a development possible for some who can progress further to an inner freedom and joy which such discipline enables . |
| 27 | Here the Harper clan gather , a small tribe , frail , ageing , on the threshold of 1980 , in the presence of the sky : here thirteen-year-old Celia , young , aspiring , judgemental , reflects upon the past , as , long after her usual bedtime , she looks up at the stars and plots her own future . |
| 28 | Oh I love you bits and pieces you good boy ! |
| 29 | Lewis had his two slender volumes of verse , and Tolkien his learned edition of Sir Gawain and the Green knight and his article on Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meith-had ( which combines deep linguistic learning with a justly famous account of the world of this West Midland prose writer which we can recognize as a foretaste of the Hobbit 's native Shire ) . |
| 30 | But whatever the future might hold , the friendly relationship between Henry and Louis which that act of homage had helped to establish was an important contributory factor in the happy and optimistic atmosphere in which Richard was conceived — the fourth child born to Eleanor and Henry in five years of marriage . |