Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [vb base] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the past year Roadcare and Inroads have competed against each other for various trophies in different sporting events . |
| 2 | Over the 12 months to 31 October this year , 209 lawyers have joined the Crown prosecution service and vacancies have fallen from 17.4 to 10.8 per cent . |
| 3 | The third was connected with a new awareness of history , of the fact that human societies and institutions have developed through long centuries and have taken on many different shapes at different times and in different places — an awareness which was especially sharply focused by the work of Gotthold Lessing . |
| 4 | Houshold rubbish and builders waste strewn around some of the most picturesque parts of the forest . |
| 5 | Women are paid less than men , and employers do benefit from this . |
| 6 | Clutch , gears and brakes continue to operate with car-like ease , a factor appreciated by ladies and leisure drivers . |
| 7 | It made her think of bath night at Lyra Street ; of the ritual carrying-in of the tub and filling it from pans and kettles set to boil on bright red coals . |
| 8 | Hares make up some 20 to 30 per cent of a rural fox 's diet , and foxes have increased by three-fold over the last 20 years . |
| 9 | It is noteworthy that while complaints and cautions have increased since 1984 convictions have not . |
| 10 | We suggest you find out where your newly-acquired friends and acquaintances tend to gather at different times of the day . |
| 11 | In 1919 a single warrant was signed alleging such an emergency ( the excuse being the threat of Bolshevism ) and interceptions have continued on this basis , with the exception of wartime censorship from 1939–45 , to this day without debate or approval by Parliament . |
| 12 | The following empirical evidence suggests that despite the existence of some differences in the experience of unemployment , women 's unemployment is a significant issue , although the nature of women 's problems and concerns do differ from those of men . |
| 13 | In April 1982 , a Task Force of warships and marines set sail from British ports to dispute with a tin-pot dictatorship the ownership of a territory on the other side of the world , of which many Britons had never before heard . |
| 14 | Players from around the world , both famous professionals like Omar Sharif and amateurs like compete for major cash prizes around scattered tables . |
| 15 | ‘ The fact that these tapes and stories keep reappearing at regular intervals suggests that someone is behind this attempt to hurt him . |
| 16 | Soviet cultural initiatives have traditionally been focused on Mexico , but in recent years Soviet musicians and dancers have toured in other parts of Latin America , often with spectacular success . |
| 17 | It is therefore understandable that very many taboos and prohibitions have developed around physical exposure , whether it is bodily nakedness or attending to personal grooming . |
| 18 | Useful guidance of a general nature can be found in the ACAS handbook Discipline at Work , and the law reports provide numerous examples of the way in which the courts and tribunals have dealt with specific cases . |
| 19 | In the UK , there have been three initiatives of note , and variants have concentrated on three levels — specialty , consultant and disease category — in our clinical analysis . |
| 20 | Because there are differences in objectives between state-owned and state-regulated concerns , and also because the actual objectives and constraints have evolved in different ways , the two cases will be discussed in separate chapters . |
| 21 | So she gazed and her finger traced the outlines of nymphs — thinner , higher cheek-boned than she could ever hope to be , garlanded with flowers , stepping barefoot through the forest ; and sometimes she saw an exhausted Venus , a hand below her belly , lying in a countryside where oxen were driven and ships set sail on uncharted seas . |
| 22 | Japanese invasions and wars put paid to hundreds of Chinese stations in the 1930s and 1940s . |
| 23 | However , the national financial and economic climate prevailing at any given time has influenced the supply and demand for such housing , and prices have altered at different rates ( almost always increasing ) during this period . |
| 24 | Adviser and advisor are often alternatives ; -ize endings are gradually being replaced by -ise , but newspapers and publishers seem to disagree on this . |
| 25 | Generally , records sell better than books , and publishers want to tap into that larger market . |
| 26 | The driver of the lorry has been questioned and police have appealed for further witnesses . |
| 27 | All surveying practices should employ a sophisticated time-recording system which relates to daily time-sheets and measures time-cost incurred against anticipated fees . |
| 28 | Interdisciplinary relationships are being defined in an area where team work is essential to work together quickly and safely — interpreters , ambulancemen , policemen , doctors and nurses have to know about each other 's roles and responsibilities before the accident . |
| 29 | Melzack and I and others have written about this extensively . |
| 30 | Despite all that those and others have contributed to Scottish rugby , the exiles have had a tempered love-hate relationship with us back home . |