Example sentences of "and [prep] the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carlotta de Leyva belongs to one of the liberal families opposed to the dictator Lopez and as the betrothed of the leader of that opposition , Don Manuel of Encinitas , she is to some extent a figurehead , a political symbol : moreover , to the youth of eighteen , Highworth Ridden , who is introduced to her soon after his arrival in Santa Barbara , she is an ideal because she is in effect the first woman who has ever touched his love , as someone to be served , not someone to aspire to . |
| 2 | Well , Rocktron 's system might not be everyone 's idea of perfection , but it 's beautifully put together with state-of-the-art components , and as the first of a potential wave of ‘ off the peg ’ rack systems it 's the one the rest will have to beat . |
| 3 | Dave Robson La Ronde Gulbenkian Studio Theatre , Newcastle ARTHUR Schnitzler 's Reigen is perhaps best known under its French title and as the first of two film versions , made by Max Ophuls in 1950 , is remembered as the quintessence of Viennese elegance . |
| 4 | The liberal-democratic constitution is seen as the only context and as the be-all-and-end-all of things so that the economic and societal context of power and the constraints which this imposes on Cabinet and Prime Minister alike are outside of the framework of serious consideration . |
| 5 | And as the romantic in him began to despair that his dream would never materialise , his promiscuity increased . |
| 6 | Erm I 've in fact , become a bit of a artist on , on accident book , and between the nineteen of June ninety two and sixteen and September , er December rather there were twenty two complaints logged about sickness , diarrhoea , sore throat , sore , and headaches , from the first floor erm , of which twenty of these complaints were from females , and two were from males . |
| 7 | But she always won , and between the two of them he was quite helpless . |
| 8 | Everything is higher and about the worse in prediction , do you remember last time you got |
| 9 | Some Hope will be Deutsch 's first ever original paperback novel , because , says Rosenthal , ‘ this is a book for , by and about the young in a wonderfully iconoclastic and contemporary style ’ . |
| 10 | Situated only five minutes from the nearest beach and about the same from the nightlife of the harbour , the Maria proves to be a good value choice for your Cretan holiday . |
| 11 | I ca n't say I was enamoured of the prospect of paying £150 entrance fee and about the same in annual subscription , but keen to do the right thing , I asked Robert Balfour , then Chairman of the Scottish Arts Council and Dawyck Haig to propose and second me . |
| 12 | She says her neighbour 's garden , always is a mystery here , her neighbour 's garden has been attacked by some kind of animal , she thinks nocturnal , there are small areas dug up from the garden , they are about three to four inches in diameter and about the same in depth , so it 's , it 's , it 's a little hole rather than the end of a tunnel it seems . |
| 13 | The gallery 's catalogues of its French collections are currently undergoing thorough revision : that for the seventeenth to eighteenth centuries currently dates from 1957 and for the nineteenth from 1970 . |
| 14 | There is greater awareness amongst those who work with and for the elderly of the ways in which we manufacture social and economic dependency . |
| 15 | And for the ninety-nine without a vocation ? |
| 16 | If there is commitment to doing theological reflection with and for the poor in the North , then the experience of overseas people is only sometimes relevant . |
| 17 | And for the ultimate in room service , why not try a Japanese hotel where : ‘ You are invited to take advantage of the chambermaid . ’ |
| 18 | It took him two weeks to die and for the second of those we spoke together every night by telephone , often for more than an hour . |
| 19 | Fama and MacBeth also found that the intercept ( ) was significantly different from the risk free rate for the entire period and for the first of the sub-periods , which tends to lend support to the zero-beta version of the CAPM rather than the risk-free rate variant . |
| 20 | And for the latest from Cheltenham , let's go live to the ground , and our reporter Mark Kiff. ( live ob ) |
| 21 | And for the thousands of chatline users who will be left high and dry when their service shuts down in April , Dr Derek Milne predicts a further search for support . |
| 22 | All the sound and fury of the past few days has been a desperate diversion designed first to draw attention away from the unemployment figures , the inflation figures , and the figures for businesses closed and homes repossessed ; and , secondly , to draw attention away from what the Labour party is actually saying , and for the simplest of all reasons — they know it makes sense . |
| 23 | The means of mass transportation and communication , the commodities of lodging , food and clothing , the irresistible output of the entertainment and information industry carry with them prescribed attitudes and habits , certain intellectual and emotional reactions which bind the consumers more or less pleasantly to the producers and through the latter to the whole . |
| 24 | In that year the first Aberdeen Angus steer won the Silver Cup at Smithfield and the breed 's fame spread rapidly , first into France and during the 1870s to North America , and also Australia and New Zealand . |
| 25 | An example of the latter is provided by developments in training and of the former by the Urban Development Corporations . |
| 26 | This contrasts with the often-repeated one-to-one association of certain orchids and their insects and of the hundreds of species of figs and theirs . |
| 27 | And of the three of us who knew there was to be a young man on his way down to us by that path during the evening , how many have already made the leap forward to give this nameless victim a name , and begin to see certain reasons why it might be expedient for some if he never reached us ? |
| 28 | There can be little doubt , however , that a sense of God 's presence and of the supernatural in general were long-standing characteristics of Irish popular religion , along with magical and semi-magical local religious practices . |
| 29 | The better opinion is that the pre-1926 priorities of the legal over the equitable estate , and of the earlier in time over the later , still apply , except in so far as they are abrogated by the provisions of the 1925 legislation . |
| 30 | Nearly all the species come from the Cape , South Africa , and amongst the first to be discovered and brought to England was P. triste , one of the very few whose flowers rather than leaves are scented . |