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

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31 Bangor ref Barr booked five players and made a number of decisions during the game that infuriated the home fans and caused puzzled looks in the press box .
32 1991 was a fascinating year for tennis fans and produced many moments that will live in the memory for many years to come .
33 That will disappoint David Gower fans and baffle those critics who believe any lefthander would be worth his weight in gold against leg-spinner Shane Warne .
34 ‘ The task was not easy because along with the rise in numbers of factory committees each one had a tendency to multiply its prerogatives and to treat each factory as an independent unit of production , the collective property of its own workers , determining by itself production , sales and pricing , while the social domination of the working class over the means of production required that the atomised and contradictory powers of the factory committees be subordinated to a common political end ’ ( my translation A.C. ) .
35 The idea of European citizenship may , however , seem a little absurd for those English fans who spend most of their time abroad abusing foreigners and orchestrating international hooligan networks .
36 Dr David Kessler , commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration said that his agency , the Environmental Protection Agency , and the Department of Agriculture will for the first time make a concerted effort to ‘ create incentives for the development of safe pesticides and to remove those pesticides that pose the greatest risk ’ .
37 Bitstream are intending to get round this limitation by getting in league with the various page description language manufacturers and producing real-time fonts through their languages but as none of these are currently delivering we will have to wait in order to judge the result .
38 Apparently erm , they often do this and of course , they sort of went into their home and got this girl with her friend and they sort of put the pegs on their noses and have these sort of rubber hats with those
39 They have dark skin , long noses and wear shabby farmers ' smocks .
40 The advert , turned down by Italian newspapers , raised eyebrows among readers and triggered angry commentaries on French radio .
41 Leave blank lines between paragraphs and make frequent use of headings to hold the reader 's interest .
42 The only drawback is the expense if you fish for long sessions and take enough meat to feed continuously .
43 It should be noted that the 1970s saw a trend on the part of the ‘ nationals ’ to decentralize their operations by forming autonomous regional organizations and promoting regional brands .
44 And so you might find that some offices have to think of two or three D S S offices and refer various people to the , to various ones .
45 It can be intimidating at first walking into smart offices and facing slick-looking executives across a boardroom table .
46 If you 're moving offices and lifting heavy boxes , they apply equally to you .
47 The Wage Councils were set up to establish legally enforceable minimum wages for employees and associated trades and prevented unfair competition .
48 ( This rate will be applied when difficulty is experienced in agreeing measured rates , for example time spent unloading materials , adjusting scaffolding for use by other trades and reinstating any work damaged by others . )
49 Students generally join as Officer Candidates and receive initial training in seamanship and leadership .
50 The National Electoral Commission ( NEC ) on Nov. 25 cancelled the results of gubernatorial primary elections held on Oct. 19 and the subsequent November run-offs in nine states , disqualified 12 candidates and ordered new elections in the affected states to be held on Dec. 3 .
51 Craig had fielded twice as many candidates and won fewer seats ; a result which was probably a combination of public reaction to Vanguard 's lack of clear policy and a lack of enthusiasm for some of the Vanguard candidates .
52 ( An attempt to hold elections in November 1987 was called off when voters were massacred by Duvalierist gangs ; the subsequent poll , held in January 1988 , was dominated by Duvalierist candidates and involved considerable fraud and intimidation and only a fraction of the electorate participated — see p. 35697-98 ; 25698-99 . )
53 In 1762 he was involved in the clash between moderate and evangelical factions over appointments of clergy to Edinburgh charges , and his well-meaning attempts to secure the best qualified candidates and to appease all sides provoked further animosity over civil and judicial promotions .
54 The most obvious of these was that mergers occurred in waves and affected all industries .
55 Contractile changes in the stomach wall can be seen throughout the sequence , depicting mixing waves and fasting phasic contractions .
56 The harassing of those caught out by need where they had no settlement was the dark side of the eighteenth-century Poor Law with its associated evasive strategies such as hiring for less than a year , pulling down cottages on the wastes , apprenticing pauper children beyond the bounds and hustling unwilling couples into marriage to avoid the maintenance of a bastard .
57 Meanwhile , sheep owners like Charlie Huckerby are worried about safety for their animals and fear more attacks could happen .
58 Some Forest wardens had the right to hunt certain animals and to take certain birds of prey used in hawking .
59 Gryglewski et al ( 1978 ) incorporated collagen strips into extracorporeal circuits in animals and showed that prostacyclin brought about disaggregation of platelet aggregates formed on the collagen strips .
60 That is to say we are , we all need renewal and new ideas , but we stick to old quarrels and re-run old battles because we do n't know how to face up to the real problems at the present , nor to find ways of working together for a worthwhile future .
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