Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly foreign-exchange and political risks and their relationship to required returns on investment need a proper evaluation as determinants of market attractiveness . |
| 2 | The department offers a wide variety of degrees : honours in Fine Art in which half the student 's time is devoted to practical art ; honours in the History of Art which studies the subject as an academic discipline like English Literature or History , involving no practical work but stressing the relationship between the study of the arts and their practice ; and a variety of joint degrees such as those with French or Italian . |
| 3 | It 's traditional at the Cambridge Arts and our review is given extra impetus by an equally blue send-up of the pantomime , performed for our benefit by the crew . |
| 4 | Recently , the Moral Majority campaigners in the US have targeted rock groups who are conveying occult messages in their songs and whose music , it is alleged , is the work of the devil . |
| 5 | I would write parodies of popular songs and my selection would go all around the circuit . |
| 6 | We sang all the most common songs and our Christmas carol of our own , which we wrote the words to and illustrated our own booklet to give out to people . |
| 7 | After the questions , the woman lodger went away and they took off Dot 's clothes and touched and prodded at her neck , her ears and her throat . |
| 8 | Of course everyone knows to which general she belongs , but it is her eyes , her ears and her discernment that have to be relied upon . |
| 9 | he rolls around on me you know my cheeks my ears and my hair does n't he ? |
| 10 | Now , ’ she leaned forward urgently , ‘ promise me that you will use your eyes , your ears and your brain to the maximum . |
| 11 | The young , broad-shouldered man had the collar of his tattered grey overcoat pulled up around his ears and his cap was drawn down over his forehead . |
| 12 | Processes which govern the ability of the terminal to respond during sustained activity , such as the synthesis of transmitter , the transport and filling of vesicles and their release from the cytoskeletal cage , will contribute to LTP only to the extent that they influence either the probability of fusion , or the amount of transmitter packed into vesicles . |
| 13 | The therapeutic objective of holding the mirror up to nature and confronting people with themselves is further explored in the final section of the book , which looks at the wider implications of drama in secure settings and its role in therapy . |
| 14 | She wore a pale pink dress that swirled around slender legs and her hair was caught back with a matching headband . |
| 15 | Pains like hot iron poured molten through her legs and her throat was raw with the icy emptiness of the air she was gulping . |
| 16 | I went in one of them cage things and I got it over — well , you have to push with your legs and you sort of pull with your arms and nobody else could do it . |
| 17 | Now raise your arms above your head , straightening the legs and your spine . |
| 18 | ‘ I just do n't know how much I have left in this head , these legs and my heart . ’ |
| 19 | He talks about his money , his gadgets and his mother . |
| 20 | To some extent the very brilliance of the court life led by the sovereigns and its impact on public opinion was their undoing for the fête impériale is indelibly associated with them . |
| 21 | As football has become a big-business enterprise in this country , and since the players , who once were seen as members of the same working-class community as the fans themselves , have become rich superstars , the close identity between fans and their team has been eroded . |
| 22 | The close identity between fans and their club has weakened as football has become big business and as the players , who were once from the same working-class community as the fans , have become rich superstars . |
| 23 | Public attention in the case grew , and many believed that the two men were unfairly tried ; the judge had shown a contempt for foreigners and their anarchist background had clearly counted against them . |
| 24 | Some popular attitudes did not change , and in London at any rate one sees recurrent attacks on foreigners and their property at times of civil or political commotion , as in 1456 , 1457 , 1463 , 1470 and 1517 . |
| 25 | The central authorities in Moscow know that , if they keep tight control over the information they possess , they will also keep their contacts with foreigners and their access to foreign money ; Soviet scientists have been known to try to sell Chernobyl statistics to the West . |
| 26 | Its recommendations focus on dangers posed by the public 's exposure to pesticides and their use by untrained people . |
| 27 | How conservative or parsimonious has nature been with its signals and its building materials ? |
| 28 | He is , of course , exceptional , but his sharp perception of the way in which teachers orient their expectations of black kids and his response to that perception was by no means out of the ordinary . |
| 29 | I knacker myself at my job to keep her nice and warm in my HOUSE , WITH MY KIDS AND MY DOG AND MY HI-FI AND MY CAR AND MY DAVID HOCKNEY PRINT … |
| 30 | Three days later , in an extraordinary further development , the Justice Department announced that it was investigating Sessions and his wife in relation to the possible violation of ethics rules . |