Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are some glimpses of the same behaviour in MacMillan 's Mayerling , although the manners and behaviour have deteriorated . |
| 2 | ‘ Evil communications corrupt good manners , ’ says a Greek proverb , and in the polarised world we live in , where name calling and counter-check is the order of the day , it is not surprising that good manners and etiquette have gone by the board . |
| 3 | It was his job , and risks and death come with that job . ’ |
| 4 | But below the mirror images of arts and architecture lurks the threat of extinction — Venice is in Peril . |
| 5 | It can hardly be pure coincidence that within three years of Kinsey 's appearance the limits of permissible sexual explicitness in the arts and entertainment had radically changed and with them the public image of the ideal woman as projected in , above all , films . |
| 6 | ‘ Green ’ show : Touring theatre company Jack Drum Arts and Entertainment visits North Yorkshire villages this summer , staging a ‘ green ’ pantomime , The Wild Man of the Woods . |
| 7 | ‘ Green ’ show : Touring theatre company Jack Drum Arts and Entertainment visits North Yorkshire villages this summer , staging a ‘ green ’ pantomime , The Wild Man of the Woods . |
| 8 | THE DECISION to levy a 12 per cent tax on tickets for the national lottery for charities , the arts and sport drew an angry response from a national charities group . |
| 9 | Offstage Leveaux has mixed feelings about the financial crisis currently affecting the British stage : ‘ The foundations of antagonism towards the arts and education have been laid very firmly . |
| 10 | A music lecturer at the College of Arts and Technology cleared up the mystery . |
| 11 | Students studying art criticism as Gloucestershire College of Arts and Technology say the paintings have no merit , show no talent and are worthless . |
| 12 | It was like a drain where the dregs and filth exuded from all the other prisons in the land had been gathered together ; the human refuse brushed aside and locked up in an institution that was a dustbin for the unwanted and unmanageable . |
| 13 | The sites were reexamined ( Figure 9.3 ) 3 years after the initial disturbance , and recovery measured in terms of vegetation composition , biomass , nutrient accumulation , soil characteristics and nutrient leaching . |
| 14 | These will highlight the special characteristics and training required by the horse , together with the physical resources needed . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | These songs and poetry have helped the group maintain their spirit of unity , provides some light relief to let off some steam , and helped to convey the message of what they have done and are continuing to do to other community groups in a way which can not be simply related in written words and figures . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Ears and nose produce a horrible , stinking , green discharge ; ear infection with rupture and suppuration . |
| 21 | Parental prompts and encouragement to eat are highly correlated to the relative weight of the child and increasing probability that the child will eat . |
| 22 | The sea was calm , and Oban , caught in the clear light of a summer morning , looked charming and toylike , as we sailed sedately out between the islets and castle crowned rocks , with sea-birds drifting in our wake , and everywhere , even over the smell of salt and wind , the scents of summer . |
| 23 | Nick Upton was filming frogs and vampire bats in Costa Rica for Trials of Life in 1989 when , on the side of his head , he found an itching lump which did n't heal , and on his return met a problem familiar to parasitised travellers : doctors do n't believe in such things … |
| 24 | They 're leaving this place in the afternoon and we have another lot coming in , so Stella has arranged for Jean to attend to the chalets and bed changing while she does the barbecue at the end of the rafting . ’ |
| 25 | His legs and back ached , he needed the quiet , clean , pure atmosphere of the monastery to settle his mind and probe all he had learnt . |
| 26 | Next time you 're outdoors and you spot a caterpillar , watch how it uses its legs and mouth to eat whole leaves systematically , strip by strip . |
| 27 | Together with the intricate and expressive ports de bras he allows his dancers ' feet , legs and body to take on different shapes and lines as the design unfolds to interpret the words . |
| 28 | A good concept is to turn and then feel that you attack the ball along the line of the hips before allowing the legs and body to release through into a full turn . |
| 29 | Flight strong , with broad wings , legs and neck extended , like cranes ( p. 111 ) and storks ( p. 43 ) . |
| 30 | An exquisite bored mobile of gyrating flesh , her arms , legs and stomach caress the music and the customers , eyes . |