Example sentences of "and [art] [adj] and [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The determinants of the time value component are primarily the volatility of the underlying shares and the prevailing and expected interest rates in the money markets . |
| 2 | In the passage quoted from Whatever Happened to Sex ? when Richard Neville was discussed above , Mrs Whitehouse described his book Playpower as ‘ the handbook of the international drop-outs ’ , the purpose of the underground as ‘ not so much to dissent as to disrupt ’ and the implicit and explicit goal contained in OZ editorial policies as the overthrow of society . |
| 3 | The idea of a friend dying in battle is featured here as in all the narratives and the hopeless and despairing feeling also can be felt throughout Owen 's poetry . |
| 4 | Its appraisal must be made by reference to the market position and the economic and financial power of the parties ; to alternatives available to suppliers and users ; to access to suppliers or markets ; to the structure of the markets affected , to take account of international competition ; to consider legal and factual barriers to entry ; and the interests of consumers and the development of technical and economic progress ( provided that the latter is to the consumers ' advantage and does not form an obstacle to competition ) . |
| 5 | For the last ten years or so , feminist commentators on social policy have remarked upon two particular features of the British social security system : first , that it is based on clear and consistent views about the nature of marriage and the economic and social relationship between husbands and wives ( Land and Parker , 1978 ; O'Donovan , 1979 ) ; and secondly , despite considerable changes in the position of women in society since the principles of the modern social security system were laid out in the Beveridge Report ( Beveridge , 1942 ) and consolidated in post-war legislation , the system itself and its principles have remained obstinately impervious to change ( Land , 1975 ) . |
| 6 | on balance credit is beneficial , since it makes a useful contribution to the living standards and the economic and social well-being of the majority of British people . |
| 7 | However , this Proposal was originally issued in 1972 , and was re-issued in 1983 following discussions with the European Parliament and the Economic and Social Committee ; its lack of progress reflects its controversial nature , and its future advance is unlikely to be rapid . |
| 8 | The Parliamentary Assembly and the Economic and Social Committee were primarily or wholly advisory in nature , with very little checking power , while the Court of Justice could interpret the provisions of the treaty and the decisions of the EEC . |
| 9 | At a lower rank come the Acts adopted , not by the Member States , but by the institutions established by the founding treaties , that is , the Council and the Commission in collaboration , as appropriate , with the European Parliament and the Economic and Social Committee . |
| 10 | This Directive had already been substantially revised in response to the comments of the European Parliament and the Economic and Social Committee , and had begun its fruitless journey six years before . |
| 11 | A pilot scheme involving 2,000 people had been successful and £500,000 for a further survey of 20,000 people had been promised by the Health Education Authority and the Economic and Social Research Council ( ESRC ) . |
| 12 | The £750,000 survey — in which 20,000 adults will be asked detailed questions about the frequency and nature of their sexual activities — was to have been funded by the Department of Health , the Health Education Authority and the Economic and Social Research Council . |
| 13 | The government also finances research bodies and institutions , such as the Medical Research Council and the Economic and Social Research Council , which themselves initiate , approve and finance research topics into particular problems . |
| 14 | The Unit is sponsored by the Scottish Home and Health Department , the Scottish Health Education Group and the Economic and Social Research Council and commenced operation when the Director took up post in September 1983 . |
| 15 | In recent years , the reality of the University 's achievements in multidisciplinary research has been acknowledged in a variety of ways , for example through the establishment in the University of two new international standard Interdisciplinary Research Centres ( IRCs ) : the Agriculture and Food Research Council 's Genome Research IRC and the Economic and Social Research Council 's Human Communications IRC . |
| 16 | The Faculty is recognised by all the major United Kingdom funding bodies , including the Scottish Office Education Department , the British Academy and the Economic and Social Research Council , for both taught course and research awards . |
| 17 | A high social price was paid in a lower standard of living for the industrial worker and the economic and social power of the Junker class . |
| 18 | They were the UN Development Programme and the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific — both of which were billed to appear but did not show up . |
| 19 | Members have the use of Association mooring bays , jetties and fishing huts ; and the sure and certain knowledge that they are supporting the very best of causes : their own future pleasure and enjoyment . |
| 20 | We are told that Nirvana is permanent , stable , imperishable , unmovable , ageless , deathless , unborn and unbecome ; that it is power , bliss and happiness , the secure refuge , the shelter and the place of unassailable safety , that it is the real truth and the Supreme Reality ; that it is the Good , the Supreme goal , and the one and only consummation of our life , the eternal , hidden and incomprehensible Peace . |
| 21 | The lands and castles belonging to the Lusignans and their vassals at Couhe , Vouvant , Château-Larcher and Frontenay , as well as Lusignan itself , lay across the roads which linked Poitiers with Saintes and the new and thriving port of La Rochelle . |
| 22 | There was increased urban demand , with a fast-growing population and with a rise in real wages , competition from cheap imported foodstuffs encouraged farmers to switch to milk production , and the wholesale and retail end of the business became more efficient and organized . |
| 23 | Among these tracts were two written by a Scotsman , James Harryson or Henderson , merchant of Edinburgh , who had joined Somerset in 1544 and been an English pensioner since 1546 : An Exhortion to the Scottes ( 1547 ) and The Godly and Golden Booke for Concorde of England and Scotland ( 1548 ) , which remained unprinted because , ironically enough , the Scot was continuing the propaganda battle on behalf of England after the English had withdrawn from it . |
| 24 | He strives to live with his wife 's addiction , the illness of his hypersensitive son Edmund who is ‘ heartsick as well as physically ill ’ and the cynical and biting Jamie . |
| 25 | The research which underpins current understanding of black underachievement , and the political and professional reinterpretation of it , rests upon ethnic categorizations . |
| 26 | Nasser 's lower-middle-class background contributed to the widening of his political interests beyond those imaginable to the fellahin , the peasantry ; while at the same time making him aware of the latter 's situation , and the political and economic oppression suffered . |
| 27 | The public was impressed and the political and other pressure on the Northern Ireland administration eased . |
| 28 | This brochure remembers the Thun-Hohensteins , who for three centuries made the castle an artistic centre in North Bohemia , and the close links between this family — Bohemian patriots for the last 200 years — and the political and cultural life of the country . |
| 29 | The contrast between the political and social reality of his father 's existence and the political and social reality of his own existence was dramatically brought into focus from the moment that he entered the Ecole Normale Superieure . |
| 30 | Public transport timetables should be examined to estimate their adequacy for staff travel in the light of the knowledge gained on where staff are domiciled and the early and late evening shift changes . |