Example sentences of "and the [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the heart-rending tragedy of the tiny coffins of a family of victims ? |
| 2 | The declivities seemed to promise more ease than the heights because of the heavier shade and the caressing sound of the small brooks which ran clear and sparkling across their path . |
| 3 | I am angry and disgusted at the feeble-minded lot at Northants and the petty-minded lot at Lord 's . |
| 4 | That is a plausible argument and it points to the importance of economic factors and the prevailing division of labour in shaping sibling relationships . |
| 5 | But since the early 1970s , there has been a great deal of controversy about it and the prevailing mood in the accounting profession appears to be that the system is archaic and needs replacing . |
| 6 | The Palings was an old building ; it had stood full face to the sea and the prevailing wind for the best part of a hundred years . |
| 7 | No sooner had they arrived in Bermuda than there was the stern challenge of the Irish to be met on the field , a barbecue to be arranged , the All Black cabaret act to be sorted out , the necessary mopeds to be booked , and the '91 brew of the ‘ Dark and Stormy ’ to be tested . |
| 8 | Paul asked the Corinthians , and the unanswerable logic of his question was designed to cut decisively at the root of ingratitude . |
| 9 | He wove the details of the awful events of November 22 , 1963 with the subsequent happenings , and the ever-growing mountain of information on the subject , brilliantly . |
| 10 | The main part of the building faced the lake , and the half-glassed partition of the western wall could be rolled back in decent weather to allow a dozen or more tables to be set in the open air , right out over the water . |
| 11 | And despite his smile and the teasing note in his voice , the look in his eyes said it was an order . |
| 12 | Difference in the calculated free energies of dissociation between a mutant and the wild-type receptor for various compounds . |
| 13 | In the presence of CRP and cAMP , the cooperative binding of CRP and the wild-type enzyme at the lac UV5 promoter is accompanied by various changes in the footprint which do not occur , either with RNA polymerase alone , or with CRP alone . |
| 14 | The cooperative binding of CRP and the wild-type enzyme at the lac UV5 promoter is accompanied by significant changes in the footprint with respect to the two binary complexes : 1 ) the DNAaseI footprints of RNA polymerase and CRP overlap ( Fig. 2 ; and [ 18 ] ) , moreover , at least on the upper strand , an extension of the footprint of the CRP site is observed up to position -84.5 ; 2 ) a more intense protection of the -40 , -70 and -80 regions to hydroxyl-radical cleavage is observed ( Fig. 3 ) ; 3 ) CRP and RNA polymerase induce a conformational change of the -50 region , which can be detected by the copper-phenanthroline reagent ( Fig. 5 ) or after UV irradiation ( Fig. 4 ; and [ 32 ] ) . |
| 15 | Of note this time round are cosmic headhunters Mooseheart Faith Stellar Groove Band and Praise Space Electric , the twisted 14th Wray who invite you to a ‘ Yuppie Deadhead Party ’ and the mutilated shriek of Boris And His Bolshie Balalaika which is bad drug craziness at its frothing , wild-eyed best . |
| 16 | The Encomiast accordingly omits it , and begins with the history of Swegen Forkbeard and the Danish conquest of England . |
| 17 | In relation to the instances of prosecutable deviance which come to light , few pollutions even result in the initiation of the formal process by the taking of a statutory sample ; rarely do they end up in court with conviction , sanction , and the attendant publicity in the local newspaper ( see ch. 9 , s.i ) . |
| 18 | The emphasis on culture and the attendant imagery of the nation composed of symmetrical family units contributes to a metaphysics of Britishness which has acquired racial referents . |
| 19 | These assaults on the fundamental objective of antiracism and the attendant practice of multiculturalism in education , social work and other municipal services have passed largely unanswered and vocal political support for antiracism has been hard to find . |
| 20 | The initially strong emphasis on special educational needs ( and the attendant confusion over whether PNP was a special or general needs programme ) gave way to a concentration on curriculum development , mainly in response to the shifting national agenda . |
| 21 | The risk of an even greater concentration of power , and the attendant risk of its mis-use , was recognised after the Second World War and it meant the pre-war attempts of active buying out were never resumed . |
| 22 | Despite the country 's economic difficulties , international business interest in Vietnam increased during 1990 in anticipation of the normalization of relations with the USA and the attendant liberalization of international funding . |
| 23 | Mr. Walker : I share my Hon. Friend 's concern and that is why in the Welsh section of the White Paper I strongly expressed the importance of health promotion and the preventive side of health in Wales , which have an enormous contribution to make . |
| 24 | Even so the repression , thanks mainly to the moderating role of Lerroux and the Radicals , stopped short of the extremes urged by the monarchist right and much of the CEDA : judicial executions were few , while at least the left remained legal and the Catalan Statute in being . |
| 25 | Microprocessors have not been used for this work up to now and the first-ever system for a PWR is currently being installed by the French at their new power station at Paluel . |
| 26 | In not much of a festive mood , Princess Diana 's sons drove off yesterday to Sandringham and the first-ever Christmas without their mother , who has rejected the Queen 's invitation to join the family festivities . |
| 27 | Cotherstone 's Hidden Gastronomic Tradition — and the Salty Secret of Mrs Birkett 's Success |
| 28 | He was conscious of the rush of warm fluid down on to his lips , and the salty taste of his own blood . |
| 29 | The continued belief in the ‘ untainted Führer ’ alongside the castigations of Party corruption blinded people now as earlier to the fateful path of destruction along which the institutionalized undermining of constitutional and legal norms in the ‘ Hitler State ’ and the fanatical pursuit of the Führer 's ‘ selfless ’ goals was taking Germany . |
| 30 | No one said a word about Doctor Alan Morris , and the charged significance of Charlotte 's name . |