Example sentences of "and [det] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Indeed on the nineteenth of January the Noble Earl Lord told me that of the three hundred and sixty letters which had been received from a wide variety of organisations representing people of totally different political opinions and that following the publication of the White Paper .
2 Even when they bent to sip tea , their sharp eyes , like those of wary creatures at a water hole , flickered this way and that above the teacup rims .
3 ( ii ) In the context of their own writing and that of a range of published writers , pupils should learn that , in evaluating the success of a piece of writing , different criteria need to be applied to different types ; for example , a personal letter may be valued for its warmth and humour , a report for the clarity of its organisation , and so on .
4 But recent reality had also taken its toll : his father 's lamented death , his guitar teacher 's suicide , and that of a cousin ; the presence of his grandfather Klinitsky-Klein , now reduced unhappily to senility in his mother 's house ( at which he would surprise Leonard by encountering him suddenly , in odd moments of clarity , saying , ‘ Oh , yes , you 're the writer , are n't you ? ’ ) created other pressures .
5 It is illuminating to note the difference between the average response to an icon and that of a member of one of the orthodox churches .
6 Comparative size of human brain ( right ) and that of a bottle dolphin Tursiops truncatus ) .
7 In contrast to the similar criterion 1a for whole numbers , there was no difference in success rates between identifying the place value of a column and that of a digit .
8 The pension of a single retired person mainly dependent on state benefits is £58.88 and that of a couple is £101.50 .
9 WHAT a difference between my experience and that of a Swindon woman who receives a letter 90 minutes after it was posted .
10 ‘ I know no difference between this case and that of a mandamus .
11 She had deliberately recorded on film the link her mind had established between her sister 's death and that of a fellow-student of Morpurgo 's twenty years before .
12 The potential of a point charge is given by eqn ( 2.22 ) , and that of a charge distribution by eqn ( 2.24 ) .
13 The analogy was drawn between the efficacy of geomorphic processes and that of a giant , a man and a dwarf attempting to cut down a forest .
14 All Barbara could tell me when she rang this morning was that the police had found Paul 's body and that of a tramp , ’ he paused , ‘ with injuries to their throats . ’
15 There is nothing illegal nor immoral in a club chairman 's demonstration of ball skills but the contrast , in a day , between the image of a shy , reclusive , multi-millionaire property tycoon and that of a terrace tearaway was too sudden to digest .
16 Were this my last hour ( and that of an octogenarian can not be far off ) I would thank God for permitting me to behold so much of the excellence conferred on individuals .
17 Clearly differentiating between your own expertise and that of an expert is a critical executive skill
18 The MD will normally be an executive director , with a contract setting out his or her powers and duties , and terms of employment ; thus the MD has a dual role — that of director and that of an employee .
19 The distinction between the effect of a deed under seal , and that of an agreement by parol , or by writing not under seal , may seem arbitrary , but it is established in our law ; nor is it really unreasonable or practically inconvenient that the law should require particular solemnities to give a gratuitous contract the force of a binding obligation .
20 The parallel between this way of thinking , and that of an engineer designing an air-conditioning system , is obvious .
21 Of course in both our own case and that of the Nuristanis horns express aggressive male sexuality .
22 i am certainly in favour of questioning , both on my part and that of the patient , but it is better to do this towards the end of the consultation when the regression itself is over .
23 As far as the sharing and common ownership of property is concerned what is important is to notice the contrast between the communism of the Acts which was spontaneous and voluntary and that of the Essenes which was strictly organised and fixed by law .
24 Secondly Shinwell claimed that his local policy of organising shore workers as well as seamen was vetoed by Wilson and that this was a subject of an investigation from head office by Wilson 's lieutenants Captain Tupper and Father Charles Hopkins which resulted in his dismissal and that of the branch committee .
25 This is of course to beg the question of where the dividing line between the interest of the nation state and that of the EEC is to be drawn .
26 The last pre-war years saw counter-productive oscillations over such questions as the legal rights to be granted to trade unions , repeated clashes between the Ministry of Finance and that of the Interior , sharp conflict between civilian and military leaders , massive ill-judged increases in naval expenditure at the expense of the army , and the disruption of an ever more complex administrative structure .
27 Where the accounts are prepared using merger accounting , show : an analysis of the current year 's attributable profit before extraordinary items between pre- and post-merger an analysis of the attributable profit before extraordinary items of the current year up to the date of the merger and of the previous year between that of the issuing company and that of the subsidiary .
28 Finally , in this summary and highly compressed review of our methodological origins , let us note how the French structuralism of Claude Lévi-Strauss , which enjoys such a vogue at present , stems directly from that of Radcliffe-Brown and Malinowski , and , in a sense , achieves a new synthesis between their styles of analysis and that of the diffusionists .
29 George Forwell , Glasgow 's director of public health , said that the official gap between the city 's health and that of the rest of Scotland is growing worse .
30 To stress the difference between his position and that of the transmutationists , Agassiz insisted that the development revealed by the fossil record was discontinuous .
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