Example sentences of "and [verb] in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was scarcely called upon to say a word as she talked , pale smoke drifting from her mouth and her nose and hanging in the light . |
| 2 | The thin figure leaned over and whispered in the sleeper 's ear . |
| 3 | Duncan looked at the long green grass and , as he looked , the wind blew strong and the tall , green grasses swayed and whispered in the wind . |
| 4 | She confirmed to McIllvanney that the weather-fax machine and the Loran and the Satnav and the radar and all the other things that hummed and winked and glowed in the night were working properly . |
| 5 | How should society make plans today for the quantities of goods to be produced and consumed in the future ? |
| 6 | a fat woman … frightened and fainted in the street ; |
| 7 | Her mother fastening Melanie 's coat snugly at the neck and tucking in a scarf . |
| 8 | The total student population of 90 000 helps greatly to preserve an element of life and change in a city where one quarter of the population is over 66 . |
| 9 | She 'd dry herself and change in the bathroom . |
| 10 | For beginners , then , there is loss and change in the transfer to print — loss of immediacy of relevance , loss of vividness , loss of support in the search for meaning . |
| 11 | There has been a lot of research and change in the treatment of mental illness or frailty over the last few years . |
| 12 | Your speaking of the balance between tradition and change in the evolution of art raises a crucial question : I mean the question of progress . |
| 13 | It would not be surprising , either , if this flux and change in the self were to generate a more flexible response to morality , and one that is peculiarly sensitive to the aesthetic dimension . |
| 14 | The Committee was not laying down patterns of teacher education to be followed , but was contributing , at a time of considerable difficulty and change in the system , to debate about future directions . |
| 15 | I go and change in the toilet and wear my mac like a dressing gown , and then hop into my sleeping bag and take it off . |
| 16 | Some further evidence of the complexities involved in handling the problems of the relationship between social and economic change and change in the family comes from accounts of the way in which families handle problems of migration in societies undergoing processes of urbanization and industrialization . |
| 17 | In the years 1975–81 , two substantial sociolinguistic research projects were completed in Belfast , Northern Ireland , concerned with language variation and change in the city . |
| 18 | On the other hand , you can have something like the gang of four in China that creates such tensions and anxieties in the society and so many people get to feel that things have gone from bad to worse , that you get a shake up and change in the regime . |
| 19 | Now you may be thinking that these options sound very dramatic and limited in the context of social chit-chat . |
| 20 | ‘ I think it 's time we stopped poisoning half the land and concreting in the rest . ’ |
| 21 | I once saw a cartoon which pictured hundreds of lemmings throwing themselves off a cliff and drowning in the water below . |
| 22 | He meant that the deepest and profoundest truth , the truth that ultimately matters and is in the end really worth grasping , can not be of the sort that can be contemplated and appropriated in an attitude of serene detachment . |
| 23 | Neither of these countries , poor as they are , can hope to recoup these losses and develop in the future without external assistance . |
| 24 | She could be heard hawking and coughing in the upstairs bedroom . |
| 25 | With the commanding posture that was the unmistakable and indelible mark of St. Cyr , and clad in the uniform of ‘ horizon blue ’ , there was no more impressive sight on a French parade ground . |
| 26 | Ice crystallizes out and accumulates in a surface layer which thickens and consolidates ; on calm nights with air temperatures well below freezing point a layer 20 cm deep may form overnight and be firm enough to take the weight of a man by morning . |
| 27 | You have only to think of the situation in which a mother is terrified of thunder and panics whenever she hears it , rushing to close the curtains and to cower in the corner of the room . |
| 28 | None of the studies presents an operative model ( Rosener , in our opinion , comes closest , but her model , as she shows herself , is more heuristic than empirical ) , and so in the next section a model will be set out and explained in the light of the evaluation criteria for participation and effectiveness put forward in the first two sections of this paper . |
| 29 | In section 4.2 , demand-deficient unemployment is defined and explained in the context of a Keynesian model and its possible causes are discussed . |
| 30 | One thousand men could not enter and remain in the vicinity for any time without being discovered . |