Example sentences of "and [noun sg] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Take a boat in search of the swordfish and marlin which offer great sport in these waters . |
| 2 | There was a failure to invest , an inability to sustain science which led to renewed talk of a ‘ brain drain' of British scientists to American and other campuses , an inherent suspicion and division which prevented effective collaboration in industry . |
| 3 | Thanks to this initiative , the attempted rising was put down in Madrid and Barcelona , though not without excesses and vandalism which did considerable harm to the Republican cause . |
| 4 | Because of their training doctors are often sceptical of anything other than formal clinical trials and research which produces statistical data . |
| 5 | The principle of altruism underpins the code of ethics and practice which provide regulatory guidance . |
| 6 | In the shifting pattern of dominance and submission which characterized tribal life , with warfare being carried out now against one , now against another group , it was natural that on occasion peoples should ally themselves with the Russians . |
| 7 | To start with the lowest common denominator , all sections of the Labour Party could agree that the object was to cement a good working relationship between the government and the trade unions , and thereby also to secure widespread political support , to develop a hegemony which would contrast sharply with both the Heath phase and the bitterness and disillusionment which followed compulsory wage restraint and ‘ In Place of Strife ’ in the late '60s . |
| 8 | They had to take many economic decisions in the course of each annual cycle , and according to their status and wealth they made different decisions from one another in various places and over the year . |
| 9 | This has had its effect on some birds : the fields which used to be sown with oats meant stubble in autumn and winter which held large quantities of seeds . |
| 10 | The Arrangements document states that ‘ the emphasis in the Short Courses will be on exploring aspects of religion and morality which engage significant concepts emerging from the above definitions ’ ( i.e. of religious and moral education ) ( 1.1 ) . |
| 11 | Lawrence was elected British president , and discharged his difficult task with a calmness , courtesy , and firmness which won universal approval , even from the defendants , the soldiers among whom thought that their problems were appreciated by one who had gained the DSO as a gunner officer in World War I. Praise was also given by the British alternate judge , Sir Norman ( later first Baron ) Birkett [ q.v. ] , who was secretly resentful that he had not been chosen for the post . |
| 12 | Another collection , edited by Sandra Harding and Merrill Hintikka , Discovering Reality ( 1983 ) , a wide-ranging and challenging selection of essays in epistemology , metaphysics , methodology and philosophy of science , argues that it is not just content but also methodological assumptions and epistemology which show male bias . |
| 13 | ‘ Pedagogy ’ means the entire process of guided growth and development which prepares young people for playing a meaningful part in society ( Mollenhauer , 1988 ) . |
| 14 | And a new character joins the cast at the last minute — Eric Batson , a forceful campaigner and organiser who put new life into the Shaw Society . |
| 15 | While I fully endorse the punishment handed out to Aqib Javed , I do not agree with the double standards and hypocrisy which surround English cricket . |
| 16 | This brings into play the logical faculties of discrimination and selection which assimilate perceptual stimuli to previously encountered images on the basis of structural analogy . |
| 17 | This is not the place to explain and justify different psychoanalytic accounts of the dynamics of identification , disavowal and ambivalence which characterize racist discourses . |
| 18 | Dr Michael Bentley has suggested , in his book The Liberal Mind 1914–1929 and in at least one article , that the real problem of the Liberal Party was this lack of flexibility and willingness to think beyond the old shibboleths in a day and age which required new initiatives . |
| 19 | Furthermore , it provides the beginnings of a theory which discriminates between responses which offer short-term emotional comfort for people and changes in technology and economy which produce real gains in human happiness and lessen suffering in this life . |
| 20 | A President ( currently Vigdís Finnbogadóttir — re-elected on June 25 , 1988 — see p. 36107 ) is elected every four years by universal adult suffrage and appoints a Prime Minister and Cabinet who exercise effective executive authority . |
| 21 | I suggested that the subtlety and depth which characterize good fiction must inevitably be lost in any version acceptable to the box populi . |
| 22 | In the spring of 1990 particularly , trial runs of the assessment of 7-year-olds led to revelations about strain and frustration which led central government considerably to reduce its demands . |
| 23 | But there are moments when we experience the charm and courtesy which drew English men and women to him as helpers in his continental mission . |
| 24 | Energy is supplied by ATP , formed in the light stage , and NADPH which carries high energy electrons and also supplies hydrogen for reducing the carbon dioxide . |
| 25 | Language is the means of initiation into the conventions of conceptualization and communication which define particular cultures . |
| 26 | That stew of Celt and Teuton , Magyar , Slav , Latin and Scandinavian which comprises contemporary Europe has a good deal of experience in common , not just of wars , but in terms of underlying social and intellectual structures . |
| 27 | The answer is none of the above ; in a time of magic and mystery they wield mighty spells ( well it works for Sooty ) . |
| 28 | As for Williams , who had an English father , it would be easy to explain away his hostility to England ; but the sorrier likelihood is that he saw quite justly the baleful mixture of timidity and arrogance which characterized literary London in his lifetime . |
| 29 | There is a terrace with ornamental pools and café which affords excellent views over Funchal , together with a recently opened exhibition of exotic birds in the adjacent ‘ Jardim dos Louros ’ , it is a good half day excursion . |
| 30 | The island of Nevis has its own legislature ( consisting of five elected and three nominated members ) and executive which has exclusive responsibility for the island 's internal administration and through which its population may exercise its constitutional right to secede from the union with St Christopher . |