Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sheriff also suggested the prison authorities look again at cell design to try to eradicate any potential risks and prevent prisoners blocking observation holes . |
| 2 | By reducing the probability that a firm will fail and by reducing creditors ' potential losses in the event of difficulty , this helps to reduce the costs a firm takes on as it takes bigger risks and nears bankruptcy . |
| 3 | A willingness to take risks and make mistakes in the process is , however , necessary . |
| 4 | the confidence to take risks and make mistakes , |
| 5 | Overcrowding , insanitary conditions and inadequate services ( particularly medical , educational and cultural ) , together with the accompanying problems of health risks and rising crime rates , began to make their appearance in Spanish cities in the 1950s , just as they had already appeared in large connurbations elsewhere in the world . |
| 6 | Few medical procedures carry no risk of any kind , and it seems to me that it would be impossible for one body to assume responsibility for measuring risks and assessing treatments throughout the whole of medical practice . |
| 7 | International banks engage in active asset-liability management to reduce risks and enhance returns . |
| 8 | Employers are also obliged to assess the risks to pregnant women and protect them from those risks and adjust working conditions and hours of work to protect their health and safety . |
| 9 | It looks not so much as if women are passively being forced into the arts and rejecting science , but that they are making very clear choices . |
| 10 | You see , a tour of this magnitude throws up a forest of red tape for the intrepid journo to fight through and you can spend practically a whole day being shuffled from one ‘ no ’ man to the next , understandably concerned to protect their baby from unofficial liggers and prowling hacks . |
| 11 | The number of cuckoo females laying in each host nest was determined on the basis of egg characteristics and laying dates . |
| 12 | A switch to Pirelli tyres allied to a new hydrolock system which controls the four-wheel-drive transmission system have changed the handling characteristics and boosted McHale 's confidence . |
| 13 | On the one hand it will be argued that organisations possess characteristics and pose problems that go beyond those of their individual members ; on the other hand , some people will take the view that only people , not systems , are capable of change . |
| 14 | I worked for a , for a like a , it 's a money brokers in , in London but exactly the same stockbroking , and it was exactly like the film , you know , they had this , they had this room , like they had one of those long rooms as well you know with all the desks and computers and stuff but they had this one enclosed off room where all the dealers sat round this massive like circular console type table , and like they were all under thirty but like overweight , all c driving Porsches and taking coke and shit like this and right they just , they got into the office at something like six in the morning like I 'd get in at nine and I 'd be , be wandering around they 'd just have their trousers open , shoes off , |
| 15 | Then I had to go back and bury my two pets and comfort Annie and Jack . |
| 16 | She bustled round , putting on kettles and opening tins of biscuits and cake . |
| 17 | There were copper kettles and warming pans and horse brasses . |
| 18 | Manure seepage from storage areas is polluting waterways and evaporating ammonia is contributing to acid rain . |
| 19 | Their book was published by Routledge , and a fine and stimulating rag-bag it is , with the best poems and songs and dance instructions and recipes and a whole round-up of the traditional wisdom of Scotland , if there be any . |
| 20 | A flash of sunlight , burning logs , an old psalm tune , fallen leaves , are part of his remembered world ; as are ballads , songs and dance rhythms , the sound of water sliding down window panes , or slapping against holes in the river bank . |
| 21 | Marjorie Bilbow , in Cinema TV Today , described the production as ‘ very plodding and unimaginative ’ , and Clyde Jeavons wrote in the British Film Institute 's Monthly Film Bulletin , ‘ Apart from accommodating a number of half-hearted and totally unmemorable songs and dance routines , William Sterling has taken few liberties with the original narrative , but at the same time he has divested it of both its charm and its potential for cinematic comic invention . |
| 22 | Sometimes I drop out for the first verse of songs and let Keith do rhythm and then I come back in for the second verse ; it brings the level of intensity right up . |
| 23 | I 'd only really think about taking action if someone completely ripped off one of our songs and made heaps of money from it |
| 24 | Then Paul Weller formed a group with the extraordinarily hopeless name of The Paul Weller Movement ( for someone so fascinated by Englishness , you 'd think he 'd have noticed the national Jokes About Bowels obsession ) , started performing Jam songs and left Polydor . |
| 25 | ‘ More sort of the peace force sitting outside the perimeter wire singing folk songs and eating yoghurt . |
| 26 | Many of the rather frowsy old biddies who made their living by singing Gay Nineties songs and cadging drinks from the customers , recognized Ella , and several came to sit at our table to have their pictures taken by the resident camera man . |
| 27 | Accompanied by Bert Weald on his concertina , they sang a mixture of country songs and harvest hymns . |
| 28 | She says : ‘ We emigrated to Australia when I was eight but I returned to England seven years ago to write songs and met Keith . ’ |
| 29 | We sang protest songs and shouted slogans against the government and to demand the release of the BPR leaders and all political Prisoners . |
| 30 | We like our audience to be involved — to sing some of the songs and play air guitar . |