Example sentences of "and [prep] [pers pn] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | On the whole , the new families seem to be quite affectionate units and through them some elements of the moral tradition are being handed on . |
| 2 | Sulien Blount , on a piebald gelding , leading a brown cob on a rein , saddled ready for riding , and after him two grooms in attendance . |
| 3 | In any event , unlike the autumn of 1557 , the time was now certainly ripe for the peculiar inspiration of John Knox , the man who , in the words of the English diplomat Randolph , ‘ is able in one hour to put more life into us than five hundred trumpets continually blustering in our ears ’ , and who would later be described by the same diplomat in 1561 , a week after Mary 's return to Scotland , as the preacher who ‘ thundereth out of the pulpit … he ruleth the roast , and of him all men stand in fear ’ . |
| 4 | Beyond the door was a slight recess blocked by a thick metal iron grille , and behind it four pairs of cruel red eyes gleamed in the darkness . |
| 5 | It was not only the blow of failing to win power , and with it all hopes of a Scottish parliament , but also the fact that Labour lost votes and a seat in Scotland — facts which are conveniently forgotten when home-rulers and guardians of the party 's traditional totems blame failure in the south for Labour 's lack of achievement in the north . |
| 6 | This sort of black consciousness — and with it black textbooks , black English and black studies — has barely raised its head in Britain . |
| 7 | As part of this a rather different kind of social survey emerged and with it new kinds of data . |
| 8 | At this stage we should look briefly at the third and final possibility , and with it some cases we shall not be discussing in this book . |
| 9 | What we are in all our shapes and sizes has been fashioned and contoured through both inheritance and experience — the comprehensive impact upon us of our parents , childhood and upbringing , and with it those joys , dramas and significant experiences which contribute to what is sometimes called our adult self . |
| 10 | Economic growth is slowing — from 5.6% in 1990 probably to less than half that in 1991 — and with it corporate profits . |
| 11 | This danger , and with it speculative pressures , mounts each time doubts arise that the Maastricht treaty will be ratified . |
| 12 | And just as the growing dependence of European art music on written scores in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries led to a differential development of certain elements of musical language , so the replacement of popular song scores by recordings has increased the importance of performance , and with it different elements . |
| 13 | Just as the first Venetians found that the water-logged islands of their lagoon , far from merely affording them protection from their enemies on land , also provided them with ideal access to the sea and with it immense possibilities of wealth and naval power , so it emerged in the course of human social evolution that the psychological mechanisms which had been necessary in socializing man also proved serviceable for many other enterprises and in time produced the great flowering of human culture which we see around us today . |
| 14 | On 10 April 1982 , after Basrah crude had been regularly loading at Tripoli ( Lebanon ) and Banias for some while , the Syrian government — in a gesture of solidarity with Iran — closed the line and with it both ports . |
| 15 | The choreographer can make an overall rhythm fur a long phrase of music and within it shorter phrases . |
| 16 | Yet , it plays little part in standard accounts of the history of English before about 1600 , and in ME stop-deleted forms ( such as bes , lan : ‘ best , land ’ ) are amongst the forms that are typically corrected by textual editors as errors . |
| 17 | His is the priority over everything , and in him all things hold together . ’ |
| 18 | People living in towns and cities can hardly be denied their quite reasonable and legitimate desire either to reside in or to visit the countryside and without them many villages would now lie abandoned and semi — derelict . |
| 19 | It is with precisely such phenomena that the methodology of the interpretive paradigm is concerned , and without them any conclusions drawn about the final product will be partial and uninformative . |
| 20 | And als , erm and on them three services is what we said a few moments ago , they got the choice of three different options . |
| 21 | certainly do n't think where we going is suitable for a puddy tat , hours and hours on end and not being allowed to go outside and even when we 're there , I say , we ca n't be running up and down them bloody staircases letting cats out , I could n't , I could n't bear the thought of it never going out . |
| 22 | Beneath and down-wind of the ash cloud there is a steady rain of fine ash particles , sometimes falling so thickly that a dark curtain appears to be hanging beneath the cloud , while in and around it electrical storms rage , with lightning flickering frequently , so that the whole effect is much more dramatic than even the most ominous of thunderclouds . |