Example sentences of "and [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The raid on Culquha Farm , Ringford , near Castle Douglas , brings to more than £30,000 the value of sheep , cattle and horses stolen in Dumfries and Galloway over the last 12 months . |
2 | They are the ribs and backbone of the Black Land , and the army is its muscle . |
3 | He also served as an overseer and guardian of the poor ( 1830–41 ) . |
4 | Details should also be supplied on the cost of running a car overseas , licences/documentation required , and the costs and reliability of the various forms of public transport . |
5 | The typical end-user of GIS output will probably care or know little about the cartographic and uncertainty characteristics of the map data being used , while the GIS itself has no procedures for handling the varying accuracy and reliability of the digital map data being processed . |
6 | Given the increased emphasis in Soviet military planning upon unreinforced attack by forward deployed units , the quality and reliability of the non-Soviet military establishments is clearly of some significance . |
7 | It will also allow the validity and reliability of the national survey to be assessed and so produce a more accurate figure for the incidence and prevalence of known cases . |
8 | Preservation may have its place , but technical advancements must take precedence to maintain high standards of service and reliability in the harsh environment experienced on the mountain . |
9 | Jeremy Taylor 's The Rule and Exercise of Holy Dying ( 1651 ) continued to be a well-loved book of solace and meditation throughout the nineteenth century ; seven editions were published by Pickerings , and Rivingtons brought out a new edition as late as 1889 . |
10 | This , he says , is judged on the basis of the size , distinctness , and vigorousness of the visible object . |
11 | At the moment of writing , there is a bitter struggle with the ‘ Tamil Tigers ’ , who demand a separate state and self-government in the northern half of the island . |
12 | Geochemical analyses of acid-igneous clasts from the Permian breccias have provided new information about the emplacement and unroofing of the postkinematic Cornubian granite batholith . |
13 | GUITAR School and Guitar For The Practising Musician magazines , 1984–1992 . |
14 | At the heart of things , in the Minister 's room , were the sign-writers , working together throughout with the aim of achieving better communication with the public , and style and unity for the various parts of our effort . |
15 | That , too , reinforces the lesson and message of the significance of the Maastricht summit — that greater cohesion and unity of the European Community is even more indispensable for solving its own internal economic , social and political problems and those of the rest of Europe as well . |
16 | The Imperial Palace symbolized the freedom and unity of the Nicaean Federation . |
17 | It involves at one and the same time our understanding of the nature of God , of the nature of humanity , and of the real depths of the life and unity of the universal Church . |
18 | In particular — and on this see the work of Mary Douglas — when the body politic is threatened , it is common to see increased attention paid to the purity , integrity and unity of the physical body . |
19 | The strength and unity of the transnational capitalist class are , therefore , always open to empirical questions . |
20 | Egalitarian and woman-centred feminist psychologies usually assume the rationality and unity of the psychological subject . |
21 | The tendons to the corners of the mouth may stand out clearly like lengths of string , and the facial muscles will become more and more obvious as they tauten and contract in the normal flat plains of the horse 's head . |
22 | *Kozo Watanabe ( Takeshita ) International Trade and Industry Keiwa Okuda ( Takeshita ) Transport Hideo Watanabe ( Watanabe ) Posts and Telecommunications Tetsuo Kondo ( Komoto ) Labour Taku Yamasaki ( Watanabe ) Construction Masajuro Shiokawa ( Mitsuzuka ) Home Affairs , and Chairman of the National Public Safety Commission Koichi Kato ( Miyazawa ) Chief Cabinet Secretary Junzo Iwasaki ( Komoto ) Director General of the Management and Co-ordination Agency Tomoo Ie ( Takeshita ) Director-General of the Hokkaido and Okinawa Development Agencies Sohei Miyashita ( Mitsuzuka ) Director-General of the Defence Agency Takeshi Noda ( Watanabe ) Director-General of the Economic Planning Agency Kanzo Tanigawa ( Mitsuzuka ) Director-General of the Science and Technology Agency , and Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission Shozaburo Nakamura ( Mitsuzuka ) Director-General of the Environment Agency Yoshiyuki Toya ( Miyazawa ) Director-General of the National Land Agency Atsuo Kudo ( Unaffiliated ) Director of the Cabinet Legislation Bureau |
23 | Lord Prior , former Tory minister and chairman of the General Electric Company , said : ‘ The Government should have a proper look at its policy towards industry . |
24 | Dr John Ball , a member of the Greenfield working party and chairman of the General Medical Services Committee of the British Medical Association , told New Scientist this week that he no longer backed the plan to substitute expensive branded products with cheaper ‘ generic ’ versions . |
25 | According to Hugh Jenkins , chief executive officer of Prudential Portfolio Managers and chairman of the judging panel , ‘ in particular , the panel was impressed by the extent of the review of operations , the depth of portfolio information , the detailed analysis of borrowings and the clarity with which the accounting policies are stated ’ . |
26 | Professor Ian Percy , senior partner of Grant Thornton and chairman of the judging panel , said Cairngorm Climbing Rope Company displayed all the criteria the judges were looking for — technological innovation , enterprise and initiative in trying to develop a European market . |
27 | But Dr Hesham El-Essawy , a prominent moderate and chairman of the Islamic Society for the Promotion of Religious Tolerance , preaches caution . |
28 | Qian told Prince Norodom Sihanouk , head of state and Chairman of the Supreme National Council , that China would " at all times " back the implementation of the peace accord . |
29 | Sakharov greatly admired the work and sent a personal letter of endorsement to Mikhail Gorbachev , then the omnipowerful Secretary General of the Communist Party and Chairman of the Supreme Soviet . |
30 | Oldknow joined the county élite as lieutenant-colonel in the Volunteers , high sheriff of Derbyshire ( 1824 ) , and chairman of the Agricultural Society ( 1828 ) , and he rebuilt the parish church in Mellor , renting 325 pews for his workers . |