Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [noun] [vb base] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Students studying art criticism as Gloucestershire College of Arts and Technology say the paintings have no merit , show no talent and are worthless . |
| 2 | It 's one of a series of pieces ‘ featuring compositional surveying , whereby physical characteristics and statistics form the basis of a piece 's musical realisation … |
| 3 | Due to the presence of foreign exchange risk , or simply exchange or currency risk as it is often described , many exporters and importers use the forward market to hedge such risks and a link exists between Eurocurrency interest rates and the forward exchange rate . |
| 4 | Just across the Devonshire border is the old mining landscape of Blanchdown , west of Tavistock , where , in the middle decades of the nineteenth century , the Devon Great Consols was the richest copper mine in the world : now its miles of spoil-heaps have created a silent and desolate beauty of their own , and foxes and snakes haunt the broken buildings and the glades between . |
| 5 | The legs and hips have the largest muscles in the body : let them set the rhythm , then let the arms follow that rhythm . |
| 6 | An exquisite bored mobile of gyrating flesh , her arms , legs and stomach caress the music and the customers , eyes . |
| 7 | Replace old foam-filled furniture at the earliest opportunity with furniture labelled to indicate that its covers and filling meet the requirements of the 1988 Furniture and Furnishings ( Fire ) ( Safety ) Regulations . |
| 8 | Carnivores feed on other carnivores ( which make up 10 percent of the diet of the leopard , for example ) , scavengers feed on the dead carcases of all kinds of animal , and most important , the decomposing fungi and bacteria return the nutrients from dead bodies to the soil , from whence they can be re-used by plants . |
| 9 | One of the difficulties in separating ‘ power people ’ from ‘ recognition people ’ is that organizations and societies make the separation more difficult simply by mixing power and status together . |
| 10 | Quarrels between brothers and sisters provide the ideal training-ground to carry out this kind of teaching . |
| 11 | While the rabbit bears the brunt of the predatory offensive other animals and birds receive the benefit . |
| 12 | As the American Protestant layman Thomas Howard has said ‘ Jews and Christians worship the God who has gone to vast and prolonged pains to disclose himself to U8 as he not she , as King and not Queen , and for Christians as Father not Mother , and who sent his Son not his daughter in his final unveiling of himself for our eyes . |
| 13 | Crabs and lobsters have the thickest exoskeleton of all the group — one like that of the trilobites reinforced with calcium carbonate — and the fossil record of this important group ( only a small part of the whole class however ) is much better . |
| 14 | The very way that news stories and programmes about mental handicap are reported falls into the same trap of assuming that the whole subject is sad and despairing , mainly because the journalists and broadcasters possess the same lack of understanding as their viewers . |
| 15 | Opening an area such as this to the public means just that , and together with genuine walkers and climbers arrive the wild flower pickers , the egg stealers and the litter louts . |
| 16 | These relationships between politicians , parties and people form the basis of the chapter . |
| 17 | Blacks ( perish the thought ) now inhabit his old house and pitched battles between gangs and police make the streets untenable . |
| 18 | While ordinary motive power generally became more standardised , and again as told later in these pages the difference between locomotive-hauled and multiple-unit stock less marked , the variety still remains impressive and just as many notebooks and cameras record the passage of trains at the end as at the beginning of the eighties . |
| 19 | Although all the logical combinations of levels of organisation , channels and processes create the possibility of 16 subtests , only eleven subtests are actually included . |
| 20 | Derelict buildings , old workings , dams and hushes scar the land and everywhere there are the cones of spoil heaps that stretch acre upon acre in some places , so that you feel at times that you could be standing on the surface of the moon . |
| 21 | Further away two more monsters threaten each other , while in front some tortoises and ammonites show the inhuman scale of the dinosaurs . |
| 22 | That clergy and musicians ensure the continuing place of psalmody in Anglican worship , whether it be sung or said ( 535–537 ) . |
| 23 | That clergy and musicians recognise the value of music as an ingredient in evangelism , both in worship and outside it , and take opportunities afforded by the media ( 505–510 ) . |
| 24 | The thinking behind the MMC report is that cash buyers are subsidising credit card users because prices in shops and restaurants reflect the charge levied by the credit card companies on the retailers . |
| 25 | Another ¾ from my tum and whilst my thighs and knees remain the same I 've lost ¼ inch off each arm . |
| 26 | The trees are bleached , or grey , or silver and translucent , or semi-ethereal , and within their branches and trunks appear the contorted faces of people in awful torment . |
| 27 | Again , it highlighted something that , as a teacher , I knew but failed to utilize in other aspects of my work — that simple pictures and diagrams highlight the obvious more easily than paragraphs of words . |
| 28 | Different colours and patterns are mixed — without matching — and floral plates , rugs and prints prevent the overall effect from being too harshly geometric . |
| 29 | Some people are natural bargainers and others find the whole process rather tedious . |
| 30 | The warranties and indemnities give the purchaser the right to claim against the vendor after completion . |