Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The case for subsidy , to override or protect from the market , is characteristically made in terms of the received arts and their received forms . |
| 2 | Labour 's Ministry for the Arts and Media will encourage Britain 's arts and their associated industries , including broadcasting and the press , to develop new ideas and attract more people . |
| 3 | Her father , Paul Phipps , was an architect , also of American parentage , who influenced his daughter 's love of music and the arts and her abiding faith in the Church of Christian Science . |
| 4 | But it is also possible and not less agreeable to regard it as the gradual assumption by all the nations concerned of that larger sovereignty which can alone protect their diverse and distinctive customs and characteristics and their national traditions . ’ |
| 5 | She knew from experience how , when anyone heard you were a vet , they immediately began discussing their own pets and their various problems . |
| 6 | By using clear and succinct language , the review aims to remove the mystique which surrounds many of these terms and thus to aid discussion between exporters and their professional advisers and to show that a working familiarity is open to all . |
| 7 | Down Route 6 , south of the river , over the tracks , beyond the stockyards and their rusty corsetry , their arthritic suspenders , their spinal supports . |
| 8 | Such intrusions , which rarely attain the dimensions of batholiths , are known as lopoliths and their layered structure tends to lead to the formation of series of outward-facing scarps as they are exposed by erosion . |
| 9 | Another soldier pulled her away by her legs and her long hair left blood along the floor . |
| 10 | I expected him to answer her back — there was such a passion in his music , he did n't sound like himself at all , any more than he had looked like himself yesterday — but he just struck the wires of his guitar into a discord and after that there was a beaten silence , and Doris stamped off downstairs again , talking all the way about her poor legs and her poor head . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , ’ he kissed her goodbye , ‘ I will take my beautiful legs and my useless member away and let you sleep . ’ |
| 12 | He was just there , with his long legs and his smooth shoulders and his golden hair and his pride . |
| 13 | Errant husbands and their unfaithful wives , bored concubines and their casual lovers , lecherous old men and randy widows , singsong girls and libertine young sons he could see it now , spreading like the leaves and branches of a great tree , until the tree itself rotted and fell . |
| 14 | Although prejudice lessened as time went on , there would always be those who resented these foreigners and their strange ways , and who would be ready to point a finger . |
| 15 | Especially the Royal Academy , he wrote , with its Presidents and its private views and its Signed Goblets and its Concerts of Spanish music to go with the Murillo exhibition and its Concerts of Russian music to go with its Tatlin exhibition and its Concerts of Dutch music to go with its de Hooch exhibition , and its Silk-screened Scarves and its Special Offers and its Jigsaws of the Raft of Medusa and La Grande Jatte and its Good Taste and its Tondo and its Education Department and its Restaurant with its Tasty Snacks and its Cold Buffet and its Glass of Wine and its Napkins Designed by a Living Artist , and its Proximity to Cork Street , with its Galleries and their Private Views and their Favoured Clients and their Phone Calls to New York and their Summer Shows and their Autumn Shows and their Winter Shows and their Embossed Invitations and their Highly Polished Floors . |
| 16 | What is the significance of changes in these boundaries for the training of members of these two professions , their relative attractiveness to potential recruits and their long-term standing in society ? |
| 17 | They could be at Buck House or , even worse , at Balmoral but she wanted to take the kids and her bald boyfriend to St Tropez . |
| 18 | This couple have four or five kids and their eldest daughter is about seventeen . |
| 19 | I piled the kids and what few possessions we had into the pram and , balancing the baby bath on the hood , walked the few miles back to my Pop 's house . |
| 20 | After the revolt of A.D. 66 and the fall of Masada eight years later , the politically oriented Messianic movement embodied by Jesus , his brothers and his immediate followers was seriously disrupted . |
| 21 | A boy who during the vicious war in Liberia , has seen first his mother and then his father , his two elder brothers and his two elder sisters , savagely assassinated in front of his eyes by the guerrilla troops . |
| 22 | He already knew most of the city 's different districts and its short cuts , its sudden changes of place and people ; it was just that now he would see the shop windows shining at night instead of by day , see them gliding past from a car or taxi window as he was driven home for the night . |
| 23 | Contemporary popular music , in fact , with its fine tuning of genre mutations and blurrings and its rapid responsiveness to demographics , might be a more productive place than popular cinema from which to start thinking about the processes of television genre . |
| 24 | Thus the Community Relations and Neighbourhood Units in Easton each have their own offices and their own sergeants ( but not inspector ) , are free from the obligation of responding to logged calls from central control , and can decide for themselves their priorities and programmes . |
| 25 | Racial prejudice , laid bare in 1987 in attacks on the integrity of Labour 's black candidates and their alleged attachment to ‘ loony left ’ policies , dogged the 1992 campaign through subtle manipulation of the immigration issue . |
| 26 | The seneschal or his lieutenant would often act as an arbitrator or third party in conflicts between nobles , or between communes and their neighbouring lords . |
| 27 | No doubt personality problems played some part in the views of many of the individuals concerned , but perceived characteristics of Jews and their alleged behaviour provided a rationalization of such extremist views for most members of these organizations . |
| 28 | With her long , tangled hair , her wild eyes and her protective stance , Emmie looked like a heroine in a Victorian engraving . |
| 29 | His lips began to gather her tears , moving over her eyes and her soft cheeks . |
| 30 | She longed to give in to the desire in his eyes and her own body 's urging . |