Example sentences of "and in [art] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 William Golding , the oldest of the new novelists , has told how his first novel emerged from reflecting , as so many in the 1940s reflected , how readily Hitler and his National Socialists had revived barbarism in our times , and in a modern and advanced industrial state .
2 She had recently changed her mind and in a moving and closely argued speech declared her support for the combined system .
3 Rather the events he symbolically depicts are part of a larger design to reveal a historia , an unfolding of a pattern which is to be found both in the self and in a social and political fabric .
4 Throughout the duration of the tenancy you will be required to keep the land free from weeks and in a clean and tidy condition .
5 He looked directly at Stephen , who lowered his voice and in a quiet but firm tone said , ‘ Barbadians are a proud and self-respecting people , and they deserve your respect too .
6 Within this social spiral , and in a hard and competitive world , the mentally handicapped community are viewed as objects of pity ; , people who are not achieving ; the stuff of charities and benevolence .
7 The subsidiary company did better than the Virginia Company , kept going for another sixty years , and in the 1640s provided most of the settlers who moved on to the Bahamas .
8 Yet the tradition of the Germanic tribes was that judgement should be pronounced by the whole body of freemen , by all the ‘ suitors ’ , all those who had the right and duty of regular attendance at the court ; and the jurisdiction of the old royal and popular courts was cut across here , there and everywhere by the numerous feudal courts erected in increasing numbers on the basis of royal grant or mere usurpation from the ninth century onwards , and in the eleventh and twelfth by the appearance of borough courts and town courts of various kinds and courts which merchants set up to handle their own problems , which could hardly be handled by the warrior president or the yokel suitors of a popular court .
9 With thoughts of conservation I can understand this but then one must understand the times when these were being worked and in the 19th and early 20th century this chalk gave a great many people employment and allowed families to be brought up in reasonably comfortable conditions and many of us now owe our very existance to these cement factories , our fathers and grandfathers earning their livings working on them .
10 This is particularly the case in less developed countries and in the rural or other underserved areas of more developed countries .
11 Increased economic activity in these locations can be seen in Charles 's grant to the bishop of Paris of the Grand Pont with its mills and , later , of the right to dispose of some newly-built houses ; in the mint ( with its profits ) conceded to the bishop and cathedral clergy of Châlons ; in the trading interests of the clergy of Rheims ; in the monks of Corbie 's intended purchase ( " if we have enough money " ) of pepper at Cambrai ; and in the scattered but widespread references to episcopal and monastic building works ( not all of them ecclesiastical ) and , more rarely , in archaeological traces or architectural remains of these constructions .
12 In later centuries the rate of clearance may have slowed , and in the 17th and 18th centuries a great deal of replanting was carried out in the formation of the large parklands .
13 In the first instance the picture of God is at fault because it is all wrong , and in the second because it is too small .
14 It can offer something different from both NATO and the European Communities , in the case of the former because it can concentrate on a European rather than a trans-Atlantic perspective , and in the second because since 1973 neutral Ireland has been a member of the Communities .
15 Palmerston tried to ensure that attachés in the missions to the German courts should at least be able to read German script ; and in the 1840s and 1850s there were efforts to send students of oriental languages from Oxford and Cambridge to Constantinople , where they were to form a new class of oriental secretaries and replace the Greek and Levantine dragomans who had for decades acted as translators and interpreters there .
16 The hygienics of Newman and his colleagues was highly differentiated from the early social medicine of Kay and Southwood Smith — in the organization of their discourse , their forms of social regulation and in the political and institutional conditions through which they were produced .
17 The distribution of the place-name ‘ Minoa ’ in the Aegean and in the eastern and central Mediterranean also seems to imply Minoan colonies .
18 Investment banking had been legally separated from commercial banking since the 1930s ; and in the 1960s and 1970s firms ceased to want bankers of either sort on their boards , because of conflicts of interest .
19 Like its predecessors , it attracted attention from many sources , and in the liberal or liberated social climate of the post-war years it probably created more problems than it solved .
20 By the inter-war period the word moggie had been abbreviated to ‘ mog ’ and in the 1920s and 1930s schoolboy slang referred to dogs and cats as ‘ tikes and mogs ’ .
21 The growth was rapid , then gradual , and in the 1970s and 1980s it fluctuated .
22 She felt a sense of power : power utter and complete over another human being , and in the black and bitter night , she used it .
23 And in the two or three years before the Second World War that is precisely what he did .
24 For , as the speed of light rushed down upon her , she heard , in the untimeable pause between the upbeat of Fenna 's wings and their down swoop , she heard the singing of the spheres , the harmony of the universe which turns , turns , turns in the atom and in the infinite and is unmoved in its own movement and is all one single force .
25 There was a tendency for the highly born to be preferred to the prince bishoprics of Germany ; and in the tenth and early eleventh centuries training to knightly pursuits had been almost a necessary qualification for a successful German bishop .
26 Eliot and Pound did establish a poetic revolution , and in the seventies and early eighties the rhetoric of revolution became attractive to anglophone poststructuralists .
27 ‘ With respect , ’ said Earl Robert , standing courteously aloof , and in the mildest and most reasonable of voices , ‘ how should we determine who should be first to try the fates ?
28 At the same time unusual changes were taking place in the late 1970s and in the 1980s because of the drop in pupil numbers and because an increasing number of interested parties were identifying themselves as appropriate new participants in its management ( Bogdanor 1979 ) .
29 Such studies are exemplified by the work of Professor K.W. Butzer on areas in the Middle East and in the Mediterranean where he reconstructed stages of landscape change as related to Quaternary stratigraphy and indicative of changing Quaternary climates .
30 And there , in exactly the manner I have recommended for putting in clues in the traditional whodunit , Hammett gives his readers their clue , full-out and in the open but made to look as if it was there as part of the particularly laconic , cool conversation the two men are having over the newly-slain body .
  Next page