Example sentences of "and [noun] [be] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since Gladstone 's day , governments have accepted that literacy , learning and literature are worth more than the revenue from a tax on the product . |
| 2 | His personality and judgement were of most significance in the fields of foreign and military affairs . |
| 3 | Cobra effigies and icons are in most part multicephalous , that is possessing three , five , seven or sometimes nine heads , always an odd number . |
| 4 | The parallel between this and the equivalent position today between Britain and Germany is of more than academic interest . |
| 5 | Accusations of republican and Communist domination of NICRA and attempts to link the civil rights movement to subversion and violence were to some extent understandable responses by Unionists to the events in Derry . |
| 6 | He and Jeff were out most of the time , trying to track down the speedboat , for which a popular local search had been mounted , and he was hardly ever at the villa . |
| 7 | If we can suspend the rigidity of the traditional comparisons , we can realise that Matisse and Picasso are in many respects part of the same enterprise . |
| 8 | Alexei , Jotan , Jehana and Arkhina were among those of the nobility who had elected to eschew the fervour of the crowd , and watched from a wooden platform which had been constructed across the entry to a side street . |
| 9 | Leapor 's poem has its origin in conversation so that literary creativity and friendship are in this case , as in many of her poems , inseparable . |
| 10 | You see i my appointment 's at half past two and lollipop 's at half past three , well I wo n't be back will I ? |
| 11 | Such a combination of fire and ice was in that one glance that unconsciously she faltered . |
| 12 | The judicial institutions of Europe were governed by a series of contradictions , Jurisdiction and administration were regarded as essentially one process , and the court in which they were carried out was the central institution of any monarchy or principality : the maintenance of justice and law was in many people 's eyes the king 's supreme function . |
| 13 | It was somewhat outside his province and yet , he thought , anyone who was willing to leave a Western nuclear establishment to help Dr Tariq build his atom bomb was either an idiot or a traitor , and traitors were after all his special subject . |
| 14 | Even in the nineteenth century , many hundreds of vessels passed through the Straits each year , most of them small coasting ships but also a good many larger vessels trading between Europe and the East Indies ( Java and Sumatra were at that time prosperous Dutch colonies ) . |
| 15 | Many hundreds of cousins , the majority of the proliferation that linked the Fairleys to the other great families of England , the Pagets , the Cavendishes , the Churchills , the Devonshires , and the Spencers , did not choose lives predicated totally on loyalty to the ruling house ; those who did entered a circle in which birth and wealth were of some consequence but far less important than the taste for maintaining the moral code of the élite in all its ramifications . |
| 16 | And honour 's about all it is . |
| 17 | The hall takes up the central bay through the two storeys ; the dining- and drawing-rooms are on either side . |
| 18 | I 'm quite sure that the way forward for teachers and parents is within some kind of co-operative framework , and the only way that can work effectively is for each to be aware of other 's needs and difficulties , and the kind of barriers that have existed in the past for parents to get into schools I think are being lowered by the schools , but it takes almost a generation , I think , for parents to stop being frightened about what school is doing and the kind of parents who 've had bad experiences themselves in schools , I think , have enormous difficulties in approaching teachers and I 'm sure the answer is in terms of co-operative activity — children and schools , schools and parents , and all of them together with myriad of outside agencies that are available for children with severe problems . |
| 19 | Lords Selborne and Blackburn were in both cases . |
| 20 | ‘ Waverly 's chairman of Housing and Benson 's chairman of Policy and Resources ; and Benson 's like this — ’ he made an expressive gesture ’ — with Fielding . |
| 21 | S is also for SUBSTITUTE , which sugar and saccharine are of each other . |
| 22 | Some teachers and psychologists are against all study which makes language , in Cazden 's term , ‘ opaque ’ ( Cazden , 1974 ) . |
| 23 | The poets Klopstock , Wieland and Schiller were among those who listened but dissented , as was the versatile Voss , himself a good example of the interplay : his oeuvre included verse in classical metres ( Luise , 1795 ) which influenced Goethe 's Hermann and Dorothea , scholarly work on Latin as well as Greek , and a celebrated translation of the Odyssey ( 1781 ) . |
| 24 | The evidence of the available texts and manuscripts is against such an emendation , however , since none of them has such a reading ; and it seems more likely that Ibn Hajar means no more than that Molla Fenari was in his twenties when he made the journey to Egypt . |
| 25 | Information sharing , access , and security are in many ways the same issue viewed from different angles , with the emphasis varying according to how open an organisation is . |
| 26 | The Audit Commission , the King 's Fund Institute , Hadley , Hatch and Willmott are among those supporting this view . |
| 27 | Unigate and Allied Lyons have now joined Tarmac and Cadbury 's in this respect . |
| 28 | Clark capitulated and stayed with Virgin , on the grounds that idiosyncrasy and fun were worth more than conventional careerism . |
| 29 | Televisions and telephones were in each room . |
| 30 | BARNET and Liverpool are among several clubs under investigation over the appearance of black-market tickets for last season 's FA Cup final . |