Example sentences of "and the [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Cadfael , who could sleep or wake virtually at will , always felt the particular solemnity of the night offices , and the charged vastness of the darkened vault above , where the candlelight ebbed out and died into lofty distances that might or might not stretch into infinity . |
| 32 | In what follows I shall analyse how one such theory — the narrative semantics of A. J. Greimas and the Lacanian theory of subjectivity with which it is associated — is ‘ played with ’ in this way . |
| 33 | The two whippets that accompanied him even at the front and the outsize shako of the Death 's Head Hussars he usually wore rounded out the picture . |
| 34 | US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Herman Cohen discussed the possibilities of a ceasefire and Rwandan national reconciliation , with the RPF and the Ugandan government in Kampala , the Ugandan capital , on May 10 and with the transitional government in Kigali , the capital of Rwanda , on May 11-12 . |
| 35 | The recent surge in stockmarket volume and the hasty dusting-down of the houses ' new-issue departments threaten to bring quick profit back to the industry and delude its bosses that the good times are returning . |
| 36 | Design is both the practical business of fitting the type and illustrations to editorial imperatives ‘ making it work on the page ’ and the subtler business of giving the report the right feel and character . |
| 37 | The combination of pre-coordinate indexing of subject headings and the post-coordinate indexing of keywords can cause much confusion for the searcher . |
| 38 | New ways of thought , concentrated but largely ineffectual attempts to persuade the British that they are ‘ European ’ , a fear of talking about the English ‘ race ’ and its diaspora round the world and the virtual disappearance of the word ‘ Protestant ’ as an adjective to describe anyone other than Ulster fanatics , has meant that a once powerful cultural and historic bond is little understood in the late twentieth century . |
| 39 | They are nevertheless pleased not to see a greater erosion of their support after the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe and the virtual disappearance of Communist parties in the West . |
| 40 | But following the changes in Eastern Europe and the virtual ending of the cold war this particular danger has receded for the time being , and as a result a new process of gradual disarmament by the major nuclear powers has begun . |
| 41 | The effects of this have been massive job losses , the casualization of the labour force , a profound erosion of trade union power , and the virtual cessation of training to replace human capital in the form of skilled labour . |
| 42 | Kiev 's flourishing trade had been undermined by inter-princely warfare , nomadic incursions , and the virtual severance of her commerce with Byzantium . |
| 43 | Its major field of operations , the Labour Party , was restricted by the wartime electoral truce and by the rapid decline in Labour Party individual membership caused by conscription , evacuation , bombing and the virtual suspension of normal electioneering . |
| 44 | Eating the wrong sorts of food , drinking insufficient milk and the virtual absence of fresh fruit and vegetables from the diet are common problems . |
| 45 | Major debt defaults in Mexico and Brazil had prompted a worldwide retreat from international bank lending and the virtual collapse of the syndicated loan market ; since then , unofficial observers estimated that some $45,000 million of net development capital aid had flowed back from the borrowing countries and towards the lenders . |
| 46 | A small exhibition on the abbey is situated near the shop and self-guided audio-cassette tours help reveal the abbey 's history and the Cistercian way of life . |
| 47 | Although the burden of proof is still on the victim to show the damage , the defect and the causal link between them , it is no longer necessary to establish negligence . |
| 48 | The changes in population in the decade 1901–10 , revealed in the 1911 census , demonstrated the rapid increase of population in Unionist areas and the static position in Liberal and Nationalist areas . |
| 49 | ( 3.2 ) : T1 , e first step command changes the excitation to phases B and C and the static torque at the position 8 , then exceeds the load torque , so the motor accelerates in the positive direction . |
| 50 | The discrepancy between this approach and the implicit assumption of much sociological writing on women derives from the basically sexist orientation of the discipline to date . |
| 51 | The music , instead of becoming overly contorted , has moved into more malleable areas too — confirming their own identity with tracks like ‘ Neck Freak ’ , the rifling beat of current single ‘ Teethgrinder ’ and the retching grunge of ‘ Nausea ’ . |
| 52 | For the last month he has relished driving through the cold and the foggy damp from his Nottingham home to the Headingley indoor nets a few days a week for practice with the rest of the England team . |
| 53 | However , plasmid sequencing is largely dependent upon the quality of plasmid DNA to be sequenced and the alkaline denaturation of plasmid DNA to produce single-strand templates of high quality . |
| 54 | Given the divisions between Labour and Conservative and the unresolved question of which Whitehall department should have responsibility for the policy , this was a predictable response . |
| 55 | If an annual composite invoice is issued , the tax point is the earlier of receipt of payment and the due date of payment ( SI 1985/886 , Reg 19 ) . |
| 56 | Their main resource and support has been the voluntary work of bodies like the National Council for Mother Tongue Teaching , the National Association for Multiracial Education ( now the National Anti-Racist Movement in Education ) and the various grouping of teachers and activists promoting the cause of one particular language . |
| 57 | Chairman for the day was Assistant Director of Engineering Peter Boocock , while Development Manager Ian Cathro gave a full exposition of the design for Dry Stores at both stations and the present position of the plans . |
| 58 | Policies pursued by the government of President Zia ( 1977 to 1988 ) and the present government of Nawaz Sharif , in office since November 1990 , have violated the right to freedom of religion , particularly for the Ahmadis of Pakistan . |
| 59 | Well no , I 'm actually writing about Bury Bolton Street station , headquarters of both the original East Lancashire Railway founded early in Queen Victoria 's reign and the present reincarnation of that historic railway company which emerged during the 1980s . |
| 60 | As I have told the hon. Gentleman on previous occasions , I believe that union in the United Kingdom and the present system of government serve us extremely well . |