Example sentences of "[noun] and [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This challenge of scientific method to ways of knowing is probably more significant today than the well-publicized clashes between religion and science associated with Galileo and with Darwin . |
| 2 | THROUGH THE DEVIL 'S GATEWAY Women , Religion and Taboo Edited by Alison Joseph |
| 3 | Our third gear figures in 1965 included 30–50 , 40–60 and 50–70 each in 3.4secs ; even in top the same increments were despatched in between 4.1 and 4.3secs ; 80–100mph and 90–110mph occupied 4.5 secs and 6.8secs in third , or 5.4 and 6.1 in top , underlining the Cobra 's staggering flexibility . |
| 4 | First , as a background for the reader , it is necessary to consider the additional risks and problems associated with international trade and finance . |
| 5 | In fact , by focusing upon the specific factors within the value chain , managers will gain a much better appreciation of the specific risks and uncertainties associated with their strategies than some less well-defined , hit-or-miss sensitivity analysis . |
| 6 | Only read this section if you are ready to accept the risks and rewards offered by the more sophisticated loans . |
| 7 | It was his job , and risks and death come with that job . ’ |
| 8 | The downtown convention centre plays host to 175 paintings , sculptures , decorative arts and costumes borrowed from collections in Europe and the United States . |
| 9 | Create a new Ministry of Arts and Communications headed by a minister in the Cabinet . |
| 10 | Anyone except persons of British nationality eligible for corporate membership of the Institute may be elected as an Honorary Fellow because of his or her ‘ eminence and interest in architecture and the arts and sciences connected therewith ’ . |
| 11 | Ageist assumptions connecting old age with ill-health can often arise from the extreme social isolation and withdrawal experienced by many older people , the self-neglect that this can cause , and the illness that then arises from this neglect . |
| 12 | The poor little rich boy was looked after by a second mother in the person of strict Ilse , from Germany : this did a great deal , but not enough , to relieve the isolation he felt — which , as his researches disclosed , was to be a factor in the isolation and rejection suffered in turn by his younger brother , who also left for the Mediterranean . |
| 13 | The images on our television screens , emerging from fly-on-the-wall documentaries and dramatised accounts have conveyed a picture of gloom and despair ; of sad lives filled with harrowing moments of violence ; these are places of isolation and fear staffed with a few uncaring , and usually male , nurses . |
| 14 | Then by looking prospectively from census to movement in the period 1971-74 , the project tests whether the characteristics and circumstances associated with movement in 1966-71 were also associated with movement after the census . |
| 15 | However , this issue of the way the definition of abuse is operationalized for research is not simply of significance for debates about incidence and prevalence , it also crucially impinges on the characteristics and factors associated with abuse . |
| 16 | What is disconcerting is that Peters , well-known for his fondness for overstatement but highly valued as the co-author of In Search Of Excellence , is describing a future where the characteristics and skills displayed by men are not only worthless but may even be harmful . |
| 17 | These will highlight the special characteristics and training required by the horse , together with the physical resources needed . |
| 18 | And further : We can , in summary , at the very least draw this conclusion : that it is , by reference to modern biological thought , a tenable view of society which — so long as its component classes are not exclusive — sees advantage to it in the variety of aptitudes and attitudes implied by class structure in a mixture of co-operation and competition between them . |
| 19 | Melanie did not know how Finn washed , when he washed , if he ever washed ; but Francie would sometimes fill an oval tin bath from kettles and saucepans boiled on the stove and sit impassively in it in the kitchen behind a locked door . |
| 20 | The third series of P. G. Wodehouse 's immortal stories begins on ITV on Sunday March 29 , coinciding with the release of an album of incidental songs and music entitled The World of Jeeves and Wooster , performed by the stars themselves . |
| 21 | MY SON has a very good memory for songs and snatches gathered in passing from radio and television , and can reconstitute these with sometimes startling accuracy . |
| 22 | However , the dedication of Michael Cavendish 's sole publication , a book of songs and madrigals published in 1598 , states ‘ From Cavendish this 24 of July ’ , so the family may have retained connections with the area . |
| 23 | In addition to the two leitmotifs , Stravinsky used traditional songs and dances backed by a mysterious rhythmic sound which helps to heighten the tension . |
| 24 | Gp Capt Gilbert , Commanding Officer of the Base Support Wing of the local Edinburgh RAAF Station was present , and wreaths were laid by the various association and units represented in front of plaques of squadrons and units of the RAAF which served in WWII . |
| 25 | They find their thinking and decision-making dominated by market and resource considerations which in their scale and complexity are a long way indeed from the traditional concept of primary headship ( Audit Commission 1991 ) . |
| 26 | Paul Oldfield topped the lot in Melody Maker when he wrote of the track ‘ Living And Learning ’ that it ‘ made me think of a man who favoured The Jasmine Minks and My Bloody Valentine , but whose bedroom was so damp that miraculous spores and mildew afflicted his brown suede and paisley . ’ |
| 27 | The Scottish Division look forward to your company at Peebles and the National President , Steve and his lady , Doreen , hope to reciprocate the kindness and hospitality shown to them during their year . |
| 28 | It has been shown time and time again that , if we follow the path of kindness and understanding begun by Xenophon , there is a more successful and gratifying way of training horses — as illustrated so long ago by Alexander the Great with his charger Bucephalus . |
| 29 | In the Tutbury custom the bull had his horns , ears and tail cut off , his body smeared with soap and his nose blown full of pepper . |
| 30 | I have learned to please , to gauge and sniff the air before I move off , to swing my head from side to side as I put one foot carefully in front of the other , ears and hair raised to twang on the slightest change in the atmosphere . |