Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [vb base] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For too long judges , barristers and solicitors have proclaimed the immutable wonders of our legal system . |
| 2 | An example of the macro-to-micro arguments is that politically inspired monetary relaxations and contractions serve to alter the nominal rate of interest , giving the wrong investment signals . |
| 3 | Here , ants and fungi race to make the most of good , organic matter and the rotting trunks themselves play host to an assortment of bright green epiphytes . |
| 4 | So there is a sense in which both companies and banks have found the financial system mutually beneficial . |
| 5 | Food particles , sticking to the wall of the bag , are swept down to its bottom by cilia and into a little gut which leads out of the bottom of the bag and curves round to join the exhalant tube . |
| 6 | Crews and sponsors tend to frequent the same restaurants , pubs and hotels . |
| 7 | This week 's country-wide clashes between Moslems and Hindus have put the three-Test tour to the sub-continent — due to start on December 28 — in jeopardy . |
| 8 | Prolonged NHS under-funding causes daily problems , and GPs have had the worst year most of us can remember , trying diligently to make some sense of their government-imposed contracts . |
| 9 | In this type , only the cap of the mill and sails rotate to work the grinding stones , so the wooden walls are either sloped or battered to allow free movement of these elements . |
| 10 | There has to be a selection of content and teachers have to identify the key elements which they will focus upon and those which will receive the " broad brush " treatment . |
| 11 | Schools and colleges continue to provide the vast majority of candidates ; there were nearly twice as many candidates from local authorities ' community education centres than from the private centres . |
| 12 | Other operational problems and constraints have affected the MDC . |
| 13 | It would be a breach of the tacit convention on which politicians and lawyers have worked the British Constitution together for the last 200 years . |
| 14 | Several pamphlets issued recently by the Publications Department of the Cooperative Union are eminently suitable for this purpose ( 1 ) ‘ United action : Trades unionists and cooperators combine to meet the capitalist menace ’ , ( 2 ) ‘ Cooperation and Labour unrest ’ , ( 3 ) ‘ Cooperators and reconstruction ’ . |
| 15 | Shipping is advised to keep well clear , and masters begin to make the complicated storm-avoidance manoeuvres well known to those familiar with these waters in this summer season . |
| 16 | The cottages have recently been modernised and windows have replaced the old front doors . |
| 17 | Will my hon. Friend do his best to ensure that constituents and police combine to spend the extra resources wisely ? |
| 18 | Lawyers in Norway , he suggests , are doing this with regard to legal concepts and linguists have to do the same with regard to linguistic concepts and theories ( ibid . ) . |
| 19 | Although no-one has explored the human visual cortex in the fine detail that the anatomists and electrophysiologists have studied the visual cortex of monkeys , there are a number of indirect sources of evidence to support this position . |
| 20 | Gravelle ( 1977 and elsewhere ) and others have formulated the general problem of a public firm subject to a rate of return constraint , as follows : where Y is the firm 's output vector , X is the firm 's input vector ( |
| 21 | If class is the English obsession , then in fact surprisingly little systematic attention has been paid to the terms in which workers and others have perceived the social order in which they lived . |
| 22 | Samuel Butler and others have pilloried the Victorian paterfamilias , and there were indeed families that suffered the tyranny of fathers using religion as one of their instruments of subjection . |
| 23 | Whilst public protest and scientific concern have concentrated on the dangers of the industry 's radioactive threat , and others have challenged the strategic arguments , the economics have remained the preserve of a few academic critics who have been prepared to tussle with the limited information available . |
| 24 | We and others have described the histological characteristics of full thickness intestinal biopsies in patients with visceral myopathy and neuropathy . |
| 25 | Many physical geography texts and papers have used the hydrological cycle as an exemplar of the way in which systems components may be identified and the structure expressed . |
| 26 | Professionals and services have to manage the dual , and often conflicting , roles of support and empowerment . |
| 27 | Young men and women tend to dislike the other more mechanical methods , such as using a sheath , diaphragm or cap , which although quite effective , are seen as too planned as well as being comparatively messy . |
| 28 | As in Provence in southern France , links with the Roman tradition were never wholly severed so that arches , arcades , entablatures , columns and capitals tend to approach the classical form more than the Medieval . |
| 29 | Photographic evidence , film and documents have shown the appalling suffering routinely inflicted on over three million animals every year in Britain alone . |
| 30 | In fact , several of the early Palaeozoic facies and faunas seem to ignore the western Mediterranean and pass unhindered on into west Africa . |