Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SCOTVEC sends a letter to all centres in August to let teachers and lecturers know the general areas for review . |
| 2 | Massive multi-coloured electronic charts and maps plotted the vacillating movements in known trouble-spots , computer print-outs updated existing material and VDUs displayed detailed information on known criminals at the touch of a button , feeding off the thousands of names stored in the system 's central memory bank . |
| 3 | On the one hand , it was simply the period required for the sun , moon , and planets to attain the same positions in relation to each other as they had at a given time . |
| 4 | Elephants and lions roamed the uncultivated areas . |
| 5 | His request was refused , and attempts to persuade the English courts to order the alteration failed when he was refused legal aid . |
| 6 | However , the split-brain findings may not apply to normal subjects , and attempts to compare the relative effects of damage to left and right sides of the brain are notoriously fraught with problems . |
| 7 | Accusations of republican and Communist domination of NICRA and attempts to link the civil rights movement to subversion and violence were to some extent understandable responses by Unionists to the events in Derry . |
| 8 | Thus the Social Charter addressed both the conditions necessary for the completion of the SEM , and attempts to create the social guarantees that the Commission regards as essential to maintain broad political support for these developments , i.e. " social cohesion " . |
| 9 | This chapter accordingly deals with the moral philosophy of punishment and attempts to relate the philosophical issues to the reality of penal systems such as that of England and Wales today . |
| 10 | Contemporaries in sport and coaches exert the main influences and the family 's role in the sports process is redundant . |
| 11 | As the narrative proceeds beyond Genesis , and becomes enmeshed in the story of the fortunes not of Israel the patriarch , but of Israel the people of God , it will prove much harder for the writers and compilers to keep the original purposes in view . |
| 12 | The latest TOPS report and accounts list the participating employers as all those who are to be sold off under the Bill . |
| 13 | What rights , duties and debts do the various individuals within the family feel they have towards each other ? |
| 14 | The Union of Independent Kosovo Trade Unions called on all firms and institutions to reinstate the ethnic Albanians dismissed from their jobs after taking part in nationalist protests and the general strike of 1990 . |
| 15 | Soon the behavioural change leads to new values and the new structures and policies to mirror the new values . |
| 16 | Either it permits an obdurate East Berlin leadership to continue , at the risk of deeper disaffection among the population and growing isolation among its allies , or it encourages reform , and risks destroying the fragile foundations of East German statehood entirely . |
| 17 | Some have as many as a hundred photographs and captions describing the various stages of the project . |
| 18 | Queries and disputes provide the greatest excuses ever for not paying accounts . |
| 19 | and tides lashed the concrete calthrops of the breakwater . |
| 20 | Just across the Devonshire border is the old mining landscape of Blanchdown , west of Tavistock , where , in the middle decades of the nineteenth century , the Devon Great Consols was the richest copper mine in the world : now its miles of spoil-heaps have created a silent and desolate beauty of their own , and foxes and snakes haunt the broken buildings and the glades between . |
| 21 | The project will examine the obstacles and opportunities facing the new entrepreneurs in the development of their business activity , and will provide information on the economic performance , innovatory potential , and employment impact of the small sector . |
| 22 | Less than a dozen years later , television , radio , newspapers , posters and placards proclaimed the same slogans extolling life in the ‘ age of Ceauşescu ’ . |
| 23 | Public utilities such as electricity , gas , water and telecommunications provided the best examples of what were considered to be natural monopolies , although when technological advances are made , certain industries formerly classed as natural monopolies may cease to be so ( eg telecommunications ) . |
| 24 | Thus , for pottery dating , quartz and feldspars satisfy the initial criteria , and the zeroing mechanism is the firing of the ceramic . |
| 25 | The legs and hips have the largest muscles in the body : let them set the rhythm , then let the arms follow that rhythm . |
| 26 | The masonry shell of the building forms a trap for more wind-blown leaves , dust and seeds , forming a deeper soil , while the weather , insects and plants attack the remaining walls from both sides . |
| 27 | What kinds of beliefs and expectations underlie the successful parts of our lives ? |
| 28 | Whitehall has also had to find office space and officials to staff the new ministries promised by both parties . |
| 29 | My confidence was n't enhanced by the limited number of blue glass bottles and jars comprising the available pharmaceuticals — chloroform , morphia , prussic acid , cannabis , strychnine , atropine . |
| 30 | The widening of the EEC argued for greater awareness of the European market and the need for both young people and businesses to face the real demands for new skills , greater knowledge of other languages and more mobility in moving throughout other countries . |