Example sentences of "and [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | Such a combination of fire and ice was in that one glance that unconsciously she faltered . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And honour 's about all it is . |
| 10 | S is also for SUBSTITUTE , which sugar and saccharine are of each other . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Clark capitulated and stayed with Virgin , on the grounds that idiosyncrasy and fun were worth more than conventional careerism . |
| 13 | Everyone is the same in the eyes of God , and his love , mercy and forgiveness are for all . |
| 14 | In that sense , criminal law against murder , rape , arson , robbery , theft , and assault are in all our interests , since in principle we all benefit equally from and are protected by their existence . |
| 15 | The stencilled letters and numerals in Braque 's Portugais are the prelude to the introduction of collage into Cubist painting , and collage was in many ways the logical outcome of the Cubist aesthetic . |
| 16 | So international agreement and co-operation is in this field not merely an ideal but a practical necessity for effective justice . |
| 17 | An important part of parliament 's business concerned affairs of state : decisions about royal marriages , war and trade were of this kind . |
| 18 | The ‘ Hitler myth ’ and terror were in this sense two indispensable sides of the same coin , ensuring political control and mobilization behind the regime . |
| 19 | Age and gender are among those variables of declining significance . |
| 20 | Never before has the nation 's mood and morale been at such a low ebb , never before such a vote of no confidence in the country , writes Rob Brown |
| 21 | We spend a great deal of time arguing and going against these very simple instructions , but through practice we will find how much care and love is behind these messages . |
| 22 | Samuel Johnson , the lexicographer and wit was among those who , given the mortality rates of seamen and their privations on board , thought it nothing less than cruel for a father to take Campbell 's advice and commit his son to a life at sea . |
| 23 | And , IBM was happy to have the world believe , IBMers were an inherently superior breed , that its recruitment and training were of such excellence that man for man , any IBMer would be effortlessly superior to his counterpart in any competing company . |
| 24 | If the genes affecting survival and fertility are to some extent age-specific in their effects , then those that influence later life will be subject to weaker selection because , by the time they take effect , more of the original carriers will already have died or become infertile for other reasons . |
| 25 | Thus we can normally expect a mature mind in a person at work and although developmental processes of growth and senescence are of some interest , studies of the person working usually assume that we are dealing with a mind which is equipped with the basic skills derived from play and education but one which has not been subject to any serious diminution of capacity . |
| 26 | Criticism and cajolery are of little help in changing the basic trends of an individual 's psyche . |
| 27 | Even though the link between investment and growth is in some ways tenuous , it is interesting that the increased level of fixed investment in the UK in the 1980s has been accompanied by a much stronger growth performance . |
| 28 | Set up a lab like mine and run the same experiments , and anyone should be able to come up with the same results , for they do not depend on excessively mysterious skills or tricks , and science is after all , in the words of its most passionately admiring philosophers , public knowledge . |
| 29 | If what distinguishes software is something non-physical , and software is in some sense irreducibly abstract , then it falls outside the mandate of material culture and a conscientious museum curator might have qualms about mobilising resources to acquire and preserve it . |
| 30 | I remember when my mum and dad were on this committee , actually the this records department is part of the Libraries ' erm , committee 's responsibility , records sub used to be there , and used to regularly meet and that used to deal with it . |