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

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1 The match of the day is between reigning champions Silksworth and hopefuls Houghton .
2 The lack of a significant difference in risk between combined categories A–C and category D may reflect the small numbers and thus wide confidence intervals in group D.
3 In this case , building society deposits or National Savings certificates are the most likely option , but for higher-income earners equities and government securities will be considered as well .
4 The findings pointed to a lack of training for social services staff and suggested senior SSD managers had not been providing workers or users with information about the changes .
5 It is not enough compensation to read on your contemporary one that Her Majesty 's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs requests and requires .
6 It was announced on April 3 that in talks between Foreign Ministers Russia and Georgia had begun preparations for a treaty .
7 BUSINESS is so bad for Cornish hoteliers Roy and Anita Simmonds they gave up and went on holiday themselves — in the middle of their peak season .
8 A LIBERAL Democrat councillor named his two fierce guard dogs after top Tories Major and Maggie and wound up in court yesterday when they proved all too aggressive .
9 AT&T Co is chasing after British Telecommunications Plc and its Syncordia Corp initiative at breakneck speed with its WorldSource seamless telecommunications service for multinationals and its WorldPartners Association of supporting phone companies ( CI No 2,176 ) .
10 Alison Wardley , 24 , spent four years looking after little princesses Bea and Eugenie .
11 Colchester And District Visual Arts Trust ( CADVAT ) was set up when the Minories art gallery closed after Eastern Arts Board and Colchester borough and Essex county councils withdrew funding .
12 It was clear , however , that such restraint could not survive a serious clash between civil rights demonstrators and the police or counter-demonstrators .
13 Your article on underpriced US cars ( ‘ Underpriced and over there ’ , 13 February ) fails to mention the considerable difference in prices for Japanese cars UK and US supplied .
14 Symmetric methods of line fitting exist , such as principal components analysis and factor analysis , which summarize the extent to which two variables cluster together ( rule 2 of section 10.5 ) , but they are not covered here .
15 Although during Roman times bronze and marble were the materials most commonly used in sculpture , the tradition of reproducing the human form in ivory was continued in the small scale reliefs carved on the backs of the writing tablets which served as official presents in pagan antiquity and as votive offerings in the early Christian church .
16 Businessmen are now so convinced of the need to have a well-trained workforce — partly because of persistent skills shortages and partly because of the evangelising work of the TECs themselves — that they will cut almost anything before they cut their training budgets .
17 I 'm concerned about the loss of the access of parental rights panel and the handing over of this work to the Courts and the lawyers .
18 The revival of small-scale farmhouses cheeses and the subsequent interest in these individual products has been brought about partly by the farmers ' need to cut the amount of milk that they send to the Milk Marketing Board and partly by the public 's demand for ‘ real ’ cheeses with traditional texture and flavour .
19 Advanced Telecommunications : Protocol design and testing through simulation ; internetworking techniques in communications and networks ; ATM gateway design and multimedia bridges to avail of advanced telecommunications infrastructures and provide enhanced services .
20 In 1989 they formulated it thus : The aim of the association is ‘ to make known the tradition of professional women artists and the importance of their work in history , in the present and the future , in both German and international art circles ’ .
21 Mendy said he would be backed by a consortium — so far un-named — of professional sports people and had been guaranteed £100,000 in his first year , £200,000 in his second and £500,000 in the third .
22 The other exploits the existence of regional earnings data and treats them as being influenced by local labour market conditions .
23 We will decentralise many of the responsibilities of the Arts Council , increasing the roles of Regional Arts Boards and local authorities .
24 THE father of ferry-fume victims Catherine and James Tomlins called for the death boat to be ripped apart last night .
25 Before early June and after mid-September the frequency of strong winds drops and October has ideal weather for novices .
26 My first impression of the JMU was that I hope they do n't visit us , ’ admitted Robert Dicketts , South Eastern Society of Chartered Accountants president and partner of Sevenoaks-based Lee Dicketts & Co .
27 Patrick de Bayser , the twenty-seven year old son of French drawings expert and dealer Bruno de Bayser , opened a new gallery on 3 June in the townhouse in the rue Sainte Anne used by his father .
28 However , these examples of Andean countries Brazil and Indonesia are all ones where there is land still available .
29 Other parts of the digestive system may , however , also be affected and in a number of different studies constipation and diarrhoea as well as impaired gall bladder contraction in diabetic patients have been attributed to autonomic neuropathy .
30 Maintenance will therefore add to the incomes of those in work , but the existence of different earnings disregards and tapers in the various in-work benefits mean that the impact will be difficult to work out , and could create substantial uncertainty in decision-making .
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