Example sentences of "and [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 Aristotle noted a distinction between income from the public land and that from the citizens ' private estates .
2 The programme is structured in such a way that on-going evaluation is simple and results can be reflected on from time to time by the Family Development Nurse and Community Mother so that the monthly visit to the family which is the main focus of the programme for achieving goals can be adapted to each family 's level and the issues that are discussed are relevant , nonjudgemental , and supportive of the parents ' own ideas and recognises the parents ' desire to do what is best for their children .
3 And each of the places er where we got the supply of tins , er we had a little van that went out to deliver the tins and we delighted as boys , going out , carrying the two tins er into the place .
4 George locked the baggage car door behind us and we stood again in the quiet horse car which looked homely and friendly with the horses ' heads poking forward over the doors .
5 The first of these stages was much the most important , for despite the promulgation of the Nazimov Rescript a betting man would not have laid money , at the end of 1857 , on the proposition that peasants were going to acquire both freedom from manorial jurisdiction and some of the landlords ' property .
6 The shoot was waylaid by litigation , however , after Mr Kluge 's Irish and British gamekeepers were convicted of killing hundreds of protected hawks and owls — and some of the neighbours ' dogs — in an authentic effort to keep the game alive for the pleasure of the guests .
7 Now the problem with that model of proceeding is that you then end up with you can end up with the exploitation of complain procedures for a wide variety of , not all of which you want to countenance , and some of the universities ' and colleges ' experience of trying to run complaint procedures in connection with sexual harassment has been deciding when to try to cool someone down and when a complaint is someone that should be run along with .
8 Steve Martin 's manically over-conscientious dad steals the show , whether the news that his small , diffident young son needs psychiatric help or chewing the pitch as his offspring fumbles at baseball , and entertaining at a kids ' party as an unconvincing cowboy .
9 The Compact Management team should ensure , through prior discussion with employers , that Work Experience placements are of good quality and appropriate to the students ' needs .
10 Certain observations by the Royal Commission , notably concerning an apparent conflict between rules 3 and 7 of the Judges ' Rules as they then stood , led the Home Secretary to seek the advice of the judges .
11 Made for television and to be shown at Easter , it is about Lawrence of Arabia , or rather Lawrence after Arabia , back from the desert and involved in the Allies ' post-war negotiations over the map of the Middle East .
12 It may be fashionable to decry Robbins — and many of the universities ' problems stem from the rapid expansion of the 1960s which followed his report — but his pertinent description of the aims of higher education is no less valid today than when it was written .
13 For one thing , the Club minutes are missing from 1911 to 1920 , along with most of the Artisans ' records and those of the bondholders ' and all the sub-committees !
14 The point could be simply made if psychology modelled on the natural sciences were always ‘ behavioural ’ and concerned with the actors ' brains rather than with their minds .
15 ‘ Are you ready to go now ? ’ he said , his voice sounding deep and harsh after the Women 's frail tones .
16 General Miguel Maza Marquez , chief of the investigative police and one of the traffickers ' most vocal critics , escaped unharmed as he did from a car bomb attack last May in which seven people were killed and 50 wounded .
17 General Miguel Maza Marquez , chief of the investigative police and one of the traffickers ' most vocal critics , escaped unharmed as he did from a car bomb attack last May in which seven people were killed .
18 Welcome back : It 's St Patrick 's Day , and one of the regions ' most talented musical families is celebrating with a fantasy voyage into the past .
19 Then one day I had to go to the Post Office for something — one of them forms I daresay — so I thought I better wrap up , I better take care , you 're very vulnerable after a long illness you know , and I put my old long mack on and one of the kids ' mack hats and Wellingtons and I went out in the rain , feeling , in a depressed sort of way , ‘ Well , if I get ill again , what can I do ?
20 Mr Jim Woolsey , a member of Scowcroft commission and one of the Democrats ' leading missile experts , says it makes much more sense to put them on the vast military bases of Nevada and California , where they could be continually on the move .
21 Can any kind of social critique be inserted into those courses without being superficial , jejune and irrelevant to the students ' interests ?
22 Erm well slightly different in the fact that er we er have two close schemes with far more er beneficiaries than there are er subscribing members , and at the moment that are four nominated by the er employer and four by the unions er we wish to say a pensioner erm that the rights were a pensioner nominee to that board of trustees , because we feel that er the situation is er is going to increase , we 've got so many beneficiaries and that the pensioners have no representative er I know that erm people on the boards of trustees are completely impartial , but on the other hand there is no pensioner there , the members are unsure of the fund , because of what 's been said , not that I 'm implying it 's not a secure fund , it is a secure fund , but they think why are they keeping the pensioners off , they there is some sort of hidden agenda they will not have us on there because neither of the businesses although we have tried for several years er they will not entertain at the moment erm a pensioner trustee , and yet Professor Good in his report acknowledges the merit of pensioner nominated trustees , er particularly in the sort of schemes where we 've got , wh where th the majority of beneficiaries .
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