Example sentences of "and [adv] [art] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | A well-known publisher , Anthony Blond , writes ‘ The design and appearance of a general book matters but not too much : after all , printing is only a form of communication and rarely an end in itself . |
| 2 | He had become Denmark 's most popular footballer , outstripping the likes of Michael Laudrup , and suddenly every boy in Copenhagen wants to play in goal . |
| 3 | Different methods can influence the difficulty of test items and so the precision in the criterion statement may still prove illusory . |
| 4 | The certainty that this particular music was being played directly at her and for her , that the fair man had seen her violin case and perhaps a look in her eyes of wistfulness , the fair man alone , for the guitarist seemed only there for support and back-up , decided her . |
| 5 | The changing patterns of incidence of gastric carcinoma may , in part , be related to changes in smoking habits and perhaps a change in incidence of H pylori infection . |
| 6 | Higher birth-rates among ethnic-minority groups , urban house-building projects , the running down of the new-towns programme and perhaps an improvement in environmental conditions in the cities may all have contributed to this . |
| 7 | There is much talk of green shoots and perhaps an improvement in the next 12 months . |
| 8 | Expectations of childhood and ways of treating babies changed rapidly in the 1950s , and perhaps the difference in perception between me and my sister is no more than four years ' difference in age , and a reflection of a change in expectation on the part of children themselves , learned from the altered practice of adults around . |
| 9 | It is the first time a British team has ever won a dressage medal and only the second in any major international championship . |
| 10 | The rise of mass education saw a decline in social mobility and merely an inflation in employers ' demands for qualifications . |
| 11 | They sought to show that nothing in modern science required the abandonment of traditional Christianity , and especially the belief in eternal life . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , it is the economic change in rural areas , and especially the decline in agricultural employment , that are often stressed as root causes of depopulation ( Drudy and Wallace 1971 ) . |
| 13 | And obviously an expert in business . |
| 14 | I made it easier for him by saying I was n't tired , I wanted to stay up and star-gaze , and anyway the sofa in the living area was very comfortable . |
| 15 | He was a local lad and already a star in clubland , and I was a second-year apprentice comic visiting the north-east for the first time and decidedly wary of its reputation . |
| 16 | The Primus was roaring away with a powerful blue flame and already the water in the saucepan was beginning to bubble . |
| 17 | Not for the faint-hearted , the fair could reduce even the most hardened Frankfurt Book Fair stalwart to a whimpering wreck with its miles of cut-glass , Capo di Monte and leathergoods and scarcely a book in sight . |
| 18 | An increased demand for financial assets will lead to a rise in their price , and thus a fall in their yields . |
| 19 | Perhaps a future generation will come to recognize that the most misguided , though well intentioned , feature of our present age was that , having discovered by the methods of genuine science that man is a single zoological species and thus a unity in his physical nature , we tried , by political coercion and propaganda , to impose on man , as cultural moral being , a comparable sense of unity which contradicts the very essence of our human nature . |
| 20 | On June 29 , 1989 , the National Assembly approved a budget of 600,000 million francs CFA for 1989/90 , the same as for the previous year [ see p. 36611 ] and thus a decline in real terms . |
| 21 | This has naturally led to a drop in the price receivers are able to get for a failed business , and thus a drop in the surpluses the receiver hands to the liquidator . |
| 22 | However , the more often you open the bottle of any essential oil , the greater the chance of oxidation and thus the reduction in the oil 's therapeutic properties . |
| 23 | Nowadays , he is sad that few teachers have the training , the freedom and thus the confidence in their own creative skills , to set such positive activities in motion . |
| 24 | Narrow the aperture of the microscope and then we shall have as accurate a knowledge of the photon 's direction as we please and thus the uncertainty in the momentum transferred to the electron will be controlled . |
| 25 | The prize money is to be spent at the Art Shop in Bondgate and Just a Fiver in Skinnergate . |
| 26 | And finally a group in the National Health Service who I never thought would be on our team , the pharmacists . |
| 27 | And somehow the regret in Friend 's banner of meanings cancelled out the bitter mould-taste of failure that the garden-master had cultured inside her . |
| 28 | … each American school has a national flag flying outside the school and usually a flag in each classroom . |
| 29 | ( i ) slimy , sleazy , slut , slouch , slovenly , slob , slattern , slither , slink , etc. ( ii ) glow , glimmer , gleam , glisten , glitter , glare , etc. and possibly the vowel in ( iii ) coon , goofy , goon , loony , fool , drool , moon ( around ) , noodle ( fig. ) , etc . |
| 30 | When payment is made the dealer gets his commission , normally splitting it with his mentor and possibly an official in the defence ministry who refuses to rubber stamp the deal without an ‘ incentive ’ . |