Example sentences of "and [prep] [art] [noun pl] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 If it had been anyone else who had probed into her private feelings , Alice might have been angry , but this man had become a kind of father-figure to her these past years , and despite the motives Jules might attribute to him , she truly believed her employer had her well-being at heart .
2 Damage to the Aral Sea was out of control [ see also below ] , while the basins around Lake Baikal and of the rivers Ob and Amur were under threat .
3 Such a de-differentiation of signifier and referent has also been present in the claims of the followers of Althusser in the 1970s that ideological practices were material practices and of the followers Derrida in the 1980s about the ‘ materiality ’ of language .
4 On the last day the instructor held a test , and like the others Tim passed , but he felt that they all would have passed anyway , that the man was there to sell the machine and that no one would be allowed to fail in case they did n't recommend it .
5 And against the archbishops Bevir had this on his side .
6 Serious work on learning originated with I. P. Pavlov in Russia , and with the behaviourists J. B. Watson and B. F. Skinner in the United States .
7 Ten plutonium production reactors were built and operated and the irradiated fuel reprocessed ; various types of thermal reactor were investigated , as well as fast reactors and fusion reactors ; and from the mid-1950s AEA was selling electricity to the grid .
8 The suggestion was made , some fifteen years ago , by the Japanese geneticist Motoo Kimura and by the Americans Jack King and Tom Jukes , primarily for changes at the molecular level .
9 This curious conclusion set at nought the work on distribution done by Brown , Humboldt , Darwin and Wallace , and by the botanists Joseph Hooker of Kew and Asa Gray of Harvard ; they had found all sorts of curious patterns , of which it seemed possible to make sense in terms of migrations , barriers and ice ages .
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