Example sentences of "[adj] and [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 We are also fortunate in that good community care practice is already well in evidence in Lothian ; the plan is to build on this and on existing skills and expertise .
2 ‘ good community care practice is already well in evidence in Lothian ; the plan is to build on this and on existing skills and expertise .
3 Management has recognised this and over recent decades has tried various ways to improve this front line contact .
4 In practice , in this and in other countries , rich people pay higher rates of tax on their marginal earnings above a given level .
5 Thus practice and theory were often far apart , in this and in other ways , even in the classical feudalism , feudalism as it was known in the north of France between the ninth and the twelfth century .
6 I have already argued in this chapter ( p. 79 ) that the rat 's level of arousal can help determine the vigour of the OR ; and , theoretically more important , in this and in previous chapters I have argued that the decline of this investigatory response represents the operation of a process of habituation .
7 But that means nothing to the army of unemployed and to threatened companies which would rather have any work than none , or to politicians caught up in righteous anger at ‘ unfair ’ competition .
8 Significant increases in those claiming supplementary benefit were recorded from both the unemployed and from single-parent families , whereas the number of pensioners claiming had decreased ( see Figure 5.1 , page 80 ) .
9 Finally , apart from the obvious Joe Satriani Ibanez guitars which , incidentally , are strung quite light and with low actions ( on tour his tech measures the action prior to every gig ! ) , he also uses quite a lot of ‘ Nashville ’ tuned acoustics .
10 in a stable environment ( ie. the container finn ) the most efficient structure was one in which the influence and authority of senior managers were relatively high and of middle managers low ;
11 Out of Decimus Street , and round the corner into Paradise Street , and immediately he was back in his childhood , eight years old and with itchy feet .
12 The products , internally tested over the last six months and now going into formal beta test , will be available direct and through value-added resellers in the current quarter .
13 With the building deteriorating and with other plans for the site , the owner kindly offered it to the W & l , a move backed by the local authority 's conservation officer .
14 when you are talking about er public division , does standards er British and with other companies from er Western , Western economies ?
15 There are 7–8 smooth arm spines , the first 3–4 dorsal spines are the longest and on proximal segments are smoother and thinner than the ventral ones .
16 Even before what appears to have been an acute phase of illness in 1756 , Smart showed many characteristic signs : impulsiveness , reckless spending , drunkenness and — leading eventually to his confinement — his disinhibited behaviour of praying in public and on inappropriate occasions whenever the spirit moved him .
17 Examples would be the abandonment in the later eighteenth century of figured bass and of optional parts in favour of completely written-out orchestral scores ; and the writing out of vocal ornamentation by Rossini , followed by other nineteenth-century Italian opera composers , instead of leaving it to be improvised — though this did not necessarily mean that singers followed their instructions !
18 The multilateralism they sought to construct was a reduction and eventual abolition of all countries ' restrictions on trade and investment , such as those on the convertibility of one currency into another and on foreign investments , as well as import duties and import quotas .
19 Mathematics is the study of relationships , and as children explore , they begin to appreciate the relationship between one surface and another , one colour and another and between various tools and surfaces .
20 Many are changing jobs and moving from one town to another and from large cities to smaller towns .
21 Elves live long lives but their children are few and in recent centuries the birthrate has declined steeply .
22 Watch out for the much appreciated support in the omnibus Brookside on August 22 and in subsequent episodes
23 Bureaucracy , long absent from the country , was making a rapid return , both at central and at local levels .
24 Windowless , roofless and with blackened walls , the manor house was still smoking and nobody dared go inside just yet .
25 The election of an MdB in a constituency is obviously straightforward and in numerical terms unambiguous .
26 This proved too ambitious ; the Twenty-Second Session favoured separate texts for civil and for criminal matters , and a subsequent Expert Group , meeting in New Delhi in 1982 , decided that a model bilateral agreement in each of these areas was more appropriate than a draft convention .
27 So , submits Mr. Browne , inviting analogy first between discovery in civil and in criminal proceedings , and then between the implied undertaking on the one hand and public interest immunity on the other , this court should now conclude that the immunity too has lapsed : in other words that there no longer remains any public interest in withholding these documents from further dissemination .
28 The slalom kayak is fragile , uncomfortable and with unforgiving edges .
29 They can be simple and like wild roses , suitable for woodland gardens ; or formal for town gardens .
30 The vertical emphasis was strong , shown in a higher vault supported on taller nave and choir piers which , like the French ones , were slender and with clustered shafts encircling the central pier .
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