Example sentences of "and [prep] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | And about how the tides are caused , ’ Sarah said . |
2 | You will learn about how they all depend on each other and about how the destruction of any one of them can have far reaching consequences . |
3 | Dr Woodward will be giving talks about the replica and about how the Romans made mosaics . |
4 | Television had brought golf to the working class and for just a moment television gave us an idea of what it meant to them . |
5 | Then he turned to Rachel and for just a moment allowed his gaze to meet hers . |
6 | Within these rural areas there seems to be a definite preference in favour of not only smaller towns ( i.e. those below 50,000 people ) but also villages , for both the periods 1961–71 and 1971–81 , and for both the USA and England and Wales as shown in Table 5.2 . |
7 | The parrot-in-the-chimney affair quite definitely cooled both parents down a lot and for over a week they were comparatively civil to their small daughter . |
8 | There had been heated argument in the Supreme Soviet about the method of electing a President , and for over a week members of the opposition Democratic Party of Tadjikistan had been on hunger strike in support of popular elections . |
9 | They had played in the mound of and for over an hour . |
10 | The dividing wall holding this tank only attracts sunlight from one side and for only a couple of hours a day , and only at the height of summer . |
11 | He wrote articles for the magazine of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society , of which he was a founder , and for long a member of council . |
12 | Tersteeg , his ex-employer and for long a friend of the family , wrote him a disapproving letter . |
13 | Ken appreciated it and for almost a quarter of a century afterwards they would be close friends . |
14 | She did n't reply , and for about a minute they sat in silence , facing each other . |
15 | About twelve midnight the German positions in the village were over-run , and for about an hour the enemy mortaring in the farm area ceased . |
16 | He 's a soldier that gives everything ; throws himself at the enemy and for once every ball , he touched finished in the back of the net . |
17 | ‘ It 's perfect , ’ the woman had said ; and for once a shop assistant had said no more than the truth . |
18 | The BBC 's Ski Sunday made Val d'Isere its TV curtainraiser , and for once the Criterium of the First Snow could boast a carpet of real snow . |
19 | ‘ I d-do n't know , Sir , ’ Lexandro stuttered ; and for once the title of Sir came sincerely to his lips . |
20 | And for once the finale — everyone coming together to sing Dylan 's Chimes of Freedom — seemed not corny but exactly right . |
21 | She felt as if he was paying homage to their love , his every caress a thanksgiving , and for once the wildness left them alone so their loving was a thing of tenderness and healing , of joy and celebration . |
22 | I turned and looked out over the slanted , foreshortened wedge of streets and stocky tenements , and for once the strain in my ears found the appropriate line , the right score . |
23 | The method is cheap , at £1 per wet tonne , and after almost a century of dumping , only slightly elevated levels of chlorines have been detected . |
24 | ‘ from its opening pages , Jean Greenwood 's Class Readers presents alternatives which are a challenge to our perceptions of what can be done with graded readers , and of why the alternatives might be tried … |
25 | Their history told of many wars and truces between the villagers and the " men of the trees " , and of how the monkeys would carry their dead down into those same caves which had served as a human burial-ground or , rather , burial-dump since pre-Islamic times . |
26 | Chilean Communist Elias Laferrte offers the following revealing explanation of the fluidity of the political situation at the time , of how Marxism was introduced into the Chilean Socialist Workers ' party , and of how the evolution of the party was influenced by a blend of Marxist and anarchist ideas and attitudes : |
27 | As the fable continues , it tells of family visits to York and Malham and of how the child grew up in understanding of many things . |
28 | He moves onwards to tell of how Brutus was always Caesar 's favourite , and of how the dictator had always loved him . |
29 | Assessment of the problems associated with the overdose , of the overdose itself , and of how the problems might be overcome . |
30 | She listened carefully to the details of the Palestinian woman 's story , of how Jewish gangs had murdered a truckload of Arab villagers shortly before Um Al-Farajh was surrounded and of how the Jews then destroyed Mrs Zamzam 's home , the village and even the little Muslim cemetery beside it . |