Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later canals , built by engineers such as Telford and Smeaton , had more changes of level and used a greater variety of structures ; locks , tunnels , embankments , cuttings and aqueducts which demanded large amounts of money and considerable engineering skill . |
| 2 | She allows herself to have no possessions , only two sets of clothing and anything else she gets from charities goes straight into making homes and clinics which provide free health care to poor mothers for their children . |
| 3 | Turnouts in Guardian elections were extremely low ( perhaps 10–15% of registered electors ) and Guardians who offended influential ratepayers were easily ousted . |
| 4 | ‘ In the first category we have criminal cases , judicial review and cases which involve matrimonial status and the welfare of children or those under a disability . |
| 5 | The home authority , on the other hand , could find its funds being compulsorily diverted to services and cases it considered low priority . |
| 6 | The home authority , on the other hand , could find its funds being compulsorily diverted to services and cases it considered low priority . |
| 7 | However , I would not claim that these displays have any culturally mediated symbolic meaning , as do the myths and rituals which bind human groups . |
| 8 | The military received high expenditure to maintain their new prestigious role in society , and the economic elite were assured of policies and contracts which maintained effective demand and profitability . |
| 9 | International , or transnational , studies deal with those institutions and phenomena which cross national boundaries , such as the industrial relations aspects of multinational companies or the international labour movement . |
| 10 | After 1976 both Jordan and Israel made conscious efforts to detach rural society from the leadership offered by local towns , the former through the landlords and merchants who controlled agricultural marketing , the latter through its Village Leagues , a network aimed at maintaining dependency and destroying the credibility of the nationalist urban leadership . |
| 11 | for it would have been possible , they argue , to move towards a system that examined knowledge and skills which crossed old subject boundaries ; a new way of looking both at the sciences and the arts could have been incorporated in the new syllabuses . |
| 12 | The rules and institutions which regulated medieval agriculture and ordered rural society differed in almost every particular from place to place and from generation to generation . |
| 13 | Hewlett-Packard Co denies there is any pressure on it to deliver multiprocessing workstations despite the hype surrounding Sun Microsystems Inc 's latest salvo of desktops and servers which use multiple SuperSparc CPUs . |
| 14 | Verbal reports always precede written reports in any case ( on the grapevine ) , thus making written reports redundant along with the managers and secretaries who waste precious time writing them . |
| 15 | Today it is not so much fluoridation as nitrates and pesticides which generate international conflict over water quality . |
| 16 | To add force to their indebtedness , each satellite finds itself enmeshed in a web of controls and relationships which institutionalise Soviet involvement in their internal affairs . |
| 17 | Happily there are caners and rushers who restore old furniture or make new chairs , in England as well as in France . |
| 18 | Week by week Joan Sallis and others gave advice and placed the description of what were regarded as new problems against the background of why powers were changing and why the best use should be made of the variety of forces , pressures and influences which supported governing bodies . |
| 19 | But black kids do both and it is both their perceptions and experiences which have crucial effects on their overall career developments . |
| 20 | In claiming responsibility for planting the bomb , the outlawed Red Hand Commando ( RHC ) group issued a threat to all hotels and pubs which host Irish folk music . |
| 21 | By the last decade of the century Emil Fischer was performing elaborate syntheses of carbohydrates and of peptides ; and it was possible to suggest reactions and equilibria which characterized living things . |
| 22 | It guarantees a training place to all 16- and 17-year-olds who leave full-time education and can not find a job . |
| 23 | Will he be having any talks with the Cairns group of countries , which involves major food producers such as Australia and New Zealand and is dedicated to getting rid of all subsidies , tariffs and quotas which put extra costs on food , and getting good-quality , cheap food back on the shelves — policies from which our farmers have absolutely nothing to fear ? |
| 24 | Like the ‘ language ’ of narrative , the ‘ language ’ of literature serves as a source of stereotypes and models which provide ready-made explanations and prevent people from analysing the specificity of the world around them . |
| 25 | In classical economics , for example , the structure of capitalist production is described in terms of money and commodities which have systematic relations as things . |
| 26 | Under the government 's new Rent-a-Room scheme , tenants and owner-occupiers who let furnished rooms in their only of main home may now be excused tax on rent up to £3,250 . |
| 27 | For much of Charles ' reign Constantinople was under the control of relatively ineffectual rulers , and had many internal disputes and factions which made imperial interest in Italy difficult to enforce . |
| 28 | On the positive side , LARSP does make it possible to summarise an enormous amount of information in a highly principled way , and to generate useful hypotheses about strengths and weaknesses which have direct implications for remedial intervention strategies . |
| 29 | Over a period of time she was seen by a number of psychotherapists and psychologists who adopted differing approaches to her varied problems . |
| 30 | For example , it is not just private organisations and individuals who take legal action against auditors . |