Example sentences of "and [noun prp] [be] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The parallel between this and the equivalent position today between Britain and Germany is of more than academic interest . |
| 2 | He and Jeff were out most of the time , trying to track down the speedboat , for which a popular local search had been mounted , and he was hardly ever at the villa . |
| 3 | If we can suspend the rigidity of the traditional comparisons , we can realise that Matisse and Picasso are in many respects part of the same enterprise . |
| 4 | Alexei , Jotan , Jehana and Arkhina were among those of the nobility who had elected to eschew the fervour of the crowd , and watched from a wooden platform which had been constructed across the entry to a side street . |
| 5 | Even in the nineteenth century , many hundreds of vessels passed through the Straits each year , most of them small coasting ships but also a good many larger vessels trading between Europe and the East Indies ( Java and Sumatra were at that time prosperous Dutch colonies ) . |
| 6 | Lords Selborne and Blackburn were in both cases . |
| 7 | ‘ Waverly 's chairman of Housing and Benson 's chairman of Policy and Resources ; and Benson 's like this — ’ he made an expressive gesture ’ — with Fielding . |
| 8 | The poets Klopstock , Wieland and Schiller were among those who listened but dissented , as was the versatile Voss , himself a good example of the interplay : his oeuvre included verse in classical metres ( Luise , 1795 ) which influenced Goethe 's Hermann and Dorothea , scholarly work on Latin as well as Greek , and a celebrated translation of the Odyssey ( 1781 ) . |
| 9 | The Audit Commission , the King 's Fund Institute , Hadley , Hatch and Willmott are among those supporting this view . |
| 10 | Unigate and Allied Lyons have now joined Tarmac and Cadbury 's in this respect . |
| 11 | BARNET and Liverpool are among several clubs under investigation over the appearance of black-market tickets for last season 's FA Cup final . |
| 12 | Only officers and NCOs were among those listed as killed , whereas dozens of lower ranking soldiers were involved in the fighting . |
| 13 | Considering the sensitivity of lakes and soils in other parts of the world and expected rapid industrialization in the coming decades , areas such as Brazil , Nigeria , southern Africa , India , Malaysia and China are among those likely to be exposed to an increased risk of acid deposition effects in the future ( figure 4.13 ; Swedish Ministry of Agriculture , 1982 ) . |
| 14 | Perhaps the most striking case of this is J. A. Thugut , Austrian representative at Constantinople in 1769–75 , who was throughout these years an agent in French pay regularly transmitting confidential information to his French colleague , the Comte de Saint-Priest ( though it is true that French and Austria were at that time allies , at least in name ) . |
| 15 | The animosity between Stratford and Kilsby was to some extent personal , yet even where it was related to principles , they were set within revealing limits of assumptions , experience and motives . |
| 16 | Nissan and Sony are among those Japanese firms now considering building factories in China . |
| 17 | This is a natural consequence of the Copernican system once it is established that the orbits of Mercury and Venus are inside that of the earth . |
| 18 | Lord Byron and Wagner are among those who found it irresistible and Hans Christian Anderson named its bay the ‘ Bay of Fairy Tales ’ . |
| 19 | So even in the first exploratory or formative phase , when human values were largely suppressed , the Cubism of Picasso and Braque was in some ways an expression of the private life and experience of the painter . |
| 20 | Eastern Pomerania , however , the area that was eventually to become the Polish Corridor was 60–100 per cent Polish , while the Pomeranian districts of Lębork and Słupsk were by this time only 0.5–10 per cent Polish . |
| 21 | Macho and Ulysse were by this time standing upright , concentrating on the movements of the colobus high up in the trees . |
| 22 | LIVERPOOL and Barnet are among several clubs under investigation over the appearance of black market tickets for last season 's FA Cup final . |