Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the initiation of Clelia , she was to Clara less Surprising than she might otherwise have been , for the resemblance between mother and daughter was marked : the features were the same , though worn and lined by grooves deeper than mere wrinkles : the set of the conscious , curious head was the same , and the hair was the same , though streaked with white , and hanging with the benefits of expense , as well as of style . |
| 2 | There are African masks and Polynesian sculptures bought at Sotheby 's ; goats ' skulls slung over doors ; and hanging from the walls are his own canvases — massive primitive paintings that he says are fertility symbols of women . |
| 3 | Driving through the market place I thought again that Darrowby on Christmas Day was like Dickens come to life ; the empty square with the snow thick on the cobbles and hanging from the eaves of the fretted lines of roofs ; the shops closed and the coloured lights of the Christmas trees winking at the windows of the clustering houses , warmly inviting against the cold white bulk of the fells behind . |
| 4 | He failed to do all he could for the Jews and socialised with the Nazis too easily for the Poles ' liking . |
| 5 | Use to cover the whales , smoothing into the curves gently and tucking around the bodies . |
| 6 | The edict of Guntram issued at Péronne , and appended to the canons of the Council of Mâcon of 585 , continues royal involvement in ecclesiastical legislation , with an attack on Sunday work , and by backing the force of the canons with secular sanctions . |
| 7 | Consider the implications of successiveness and change in the titles or subtitles of some recent books : After the new Criticism by Frank Lentricchia ; On Deconstruction. : Theory and Criticism After Structuralism by Jonathan Culler ; Displacement. : Derrida and After , edited by Mark Krupnick ; Beyond Deconstruction by Howard Felperin ; The Contest of Faculties. : Philosophy and Theory After Deconstruction by Christopher Norris . |
| 8 | These features of family life — which it should be re-emphasized are indicators of , rather than the reasons for , problems — include the age and maturity of the parents , burdens carried by a family , consistency and change in the lives of children , dynamics and support within the family , and the experiences and characteristics of individual family members . |
| 9 | The relationship between the ESSE/L Project and change in the schools |
| 10 | And the scene of the burning of the books , seen on film by her many times , was as vivid as an actual memory : Hitler 's jack-booted thugs in their brown shirts , swastikas on their arms , heaving the books from the Library and heaping the heritage of the world on to a pyre , dancing and gloating as the flames consumed book after book , volume after volume : Heine , Schiller , Brecht , Thomas Mann , Einstein , Freud , Marx : history , poetry , novels , science , the works of philosophers , psychologists — men and women who had dedicated their lives for the betterment of the brutes who burned their books ; brutes living in utter ignorance , leading lives as dull and limited as the beasts of the fields , inspired only by resentment , vile prejudice , and blind hatred of what they could not understand , and , it was true , victims themselves of poverty and ignorance seeking victims in their turn — and finding them . |
| 11 | He engages with a sense of Being eternally present , not driven and limited by the demands of time . |
| 12 | Bradley finds it hard to imagine ‘ a stockbroker and a labourer screaming and bellowing in the wilds of Dorset ’ , but at the same time , he suspects that perhaps British men might get some benefit out of it . |
| 13 | We all had a whale of a time , drifting on the surface and drowning in the depths with the four fishermen . |
| 14 | This , together with the political dimension , means that it is hardly surprising that problems such as the inner cities tend to be defined and redefined over the years . |
| 15 | Their owners were also beginning to notice what was going on and commented on the changes that were making their business more difficult , for the books often had no dispersal markings on them . |
| 16 | Design Standards for this section will be similar to those for the Colinton Section consisting of dual two-lane carriageways with a central reservation and verges at the shoulders . |
| 17 | By following the ‘ golden rule ’ of black and white photography — to expose for the shadows and develop for the highlights — negative contrast can be lowered or raised according to the subject 's original tonal contrast . |
| 18 | Even liberals believed that the colonies would remain loyal if they received economic benefits and shared in the ideals of liberty , equality and fraternity , which France provided through her ‘ civilising mission ’ . |
| 19 | In some companies this role has to a degree been formalised through the creation of audit committees made up of non-executives , their function being to review the effectiveness of the company 's auditing procedures and to liaise with the auditors . |
| 20 | The mist slowly condensed into a whiter substance , which continued to swirl and roil beneath the nets . |
| 21 | So it may be said that the legislation was promoted by a pressure group whose perception of Co-operation was decried by the Consumers ' Movement ; and passed under a Tory rather that a Liberal Government because a trade union tried to make a tactical use of just that form of co-operative preferred by the promoters and decried by the Consumers ' Movement . |
| 22 | There was a woman who wanted me to call her mother , and then called me awkward , exasperated and frightened with the dreams and the screams . |
| 23 | The ground dipped and swayed beneath her ; she felt dizzy and clung to the rails , forcing herself to go down , to keep looking up , away from the void below . |
| 24 | Owen Glendower , lord of Glyndyfrdwy and Cynllaith , and master of most of North Wales , came south that June into central Wales , his raiding parties materialising like shapes of flashing , thundery sunlight out of the rains and mists of the hills , and eating at the borders of the Mortimer lordships in Radnorshire . |
| 25 | I was bitten by a neighbour 's dog and heard from the police that the same dog had bitten two other ladies — a Mrs Gentles and a Mrs Savage ! |
| 26 | I gave a short address with one foot on each side of the peace-line [ a sleeping policeman — concrete ] basing my theme on the marvellous passage in the second chapter of the Gospel according to St. Luke — the song of the angels , seen and heard by the shepherds , ‘ Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace and goodwill to all people ’ . |
| 27 | Their work is supervised by the Manager and checked by the Contracts Manager on his routine visits . |
| 28 | Here in the open grass he broke into a headlong run , lurching and recovering as the tussocks turned under him . |
| 29 | The economists did n't get to this position by hanging back and wingeing from the sidelines . |
| 30 | Due to the overcrowding of thoughts , emotions and subconscious patternings , our attention is drawn down from its princely abode between and above the eyes and plays among the tattwas , gross and subtle , of the physical realm . |