Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [unc] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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1 | Dawyck Haig 's son Alexander was much the same age as Alastair and when the two were old enough we used to have fathers ' and sons ' tennis and golf matches . |
2 | However , HM Customs and Excise has ruled that VAT may , for example , be reclaimed on : removal expenses including storage charges , estate agents ' fees , legal and surveyors ' fees and hotel and restaurant bills . |
3 | Certain fossils have , for some inexplicable reason , taken root in the literature and palaeontologists ' subconscious and so been recorded everywhere . |
4 | The principal documents relevant to the equity transaction are the subscription and shareholders ' agreement and the Articles of Association of Newco . |
5 | the relationship between debt and shareholders ' funds and between current assets and liabilities |
6 | " My aim was to secure collective bargaining between employees ' and employers ' representatives and for this both strong union and strong employer organisations were necessary . |
7 | The hotel features special family rooms with fabulous views of Freshwater Bay , high chairs and kids ' menus and there 's full access to a wonderful garden . |
8 | As well as providing a dry and secure home for your car , garages may also act as a store for ladders , lawnmowers and kids ' bikes and maybe even a workshop utility room |
9 | Some of them had a memory of metal , of bronze heads , and shields and tools : when they came upon the hulk of a wrecked ship on one of the cays of Oualie , they found rusted nails and coopers ' bands and knew that they had remembered right something the islands had never known . |
10 | It does not include such items of expenditure as income tax payments , life insurance premiums , doctors ' and dentists ' fees or trade union subscriptions : it can not , therefore , be regarded as a ‘ cost of living ’ index . |
11 | The implications of the Black and Tans ' behaviour and of the complicity of the Government in their reign of terror had been clear for some time , but Tubby 's experience had brought it all into sharp focus . |
12 | Unlike other publishers ' products , BBC magazines serve two masters : they must provide a public service enhancing viewers ' and listeners ' enjoyment and appreciation of programmes ; and , in line with the government 's exhortation , they must generate profit which feeds back into programme making , reducing pressure on licence fees . |
13 | Here ( at track level ) will be ladies ' and gentlemen 's toilets and showers , a changing room , a messroom for those in working clothes and a kitchen and lounge . |
14 | Many other contemporary examples of both national as well as international institutional policy in which the market is seen as the only means to improve peasants ' and pastoralists ' incomes and to increase their contribution to the national exchequer can be found in Heyer , Roberts and Williams ( 1981 ) . |
15 | To one side of the street — a multi-level space which embraces many different activities — are more open patients ' and visitors ' rooms and opposite there are the cellular service rooms . |
16 | The same goes for medical reports and engineers ' reports and so on . |
17 | The governor 's thing is coming about quite useful tonight because we 've been talking about the law as regards governors and parents ' rights and what you 're supposed to ask parents |
18 | Children whose parents smoke are more likely to smoke themselves and parents ' approval or disapproval of the habit is an even more significant factor [ 1 ] . |
19 | The meeting will discuss both researchers ' and industrialists ' views and will also consider the specific sectors of agricultural and bio-medical research . |
20 | Will he reassure representatives of women 's institutes and townswomen 's guilds and other voluntary workers that the implementation of the Act is not designed to target their fund-raising activities in the preparation of food in village halls and elsewhere ? |
21 | He and James should have broached it early on , devised sanctions ( the withholding of rents ; the blocking of highways and sieging of the big houses ) , called for practical suggestions from among the crowds — all that tradesmen 's and farmers ' skill and nous and energy , coalesced for a moment into a great ball of force , then left to collapse under its own weight , to crumble again into its thousands of separated grains … |
22 | Such enormous cost in terms of taxpayers ' money , defendants ' and jurors ' time and livelihoods , and , in some cases , plaintiffs ' sanity , prompted Mr Justice Turner , the presiding judge in the Ward case , to criticise the current system of fraud trials and to suggest ways in which it could be improved . |
23 | Identified by Hobsbawm as The Age of Capital , in the history of Co-operation in the United Kingdom the period 1848 to 1875 is marked by the emergence of the Consumers ' Movement as a major feature of retail trade , the exposure of the antithesis between it and Producers ' Co-operation and , as a result , the virtual abandonment of the latter as an expression of democracy . |
24 | His plan for social insurance envisaged a single weekly flat-rate contribution which would provide a comprehensive system of social insurance ‘ from the cradle to the grave ’ , including unemployment benefit , sickness benefit , disability benefit , workmen 's compensation , old age , widows ' and orphans ' pensions and benefits , funeral grants and maternity benefit . |
25 | While all the studies used for this paper do not attain this ideal , the effort to articulate material that is not readily available through more conventional studies of workers ' images of society , for instance , may serve to make some point in the social landscape between the ‘ centres ’ of workers ' and managers ' worlds and that of social scientists . |
26 | The toisechs ' and mormaers ' wives and daughters and sisters who always moved with the court would be waiting , and eager for news . |
27 | There will be the customary banquet and Ladies ' programme and companies wishing to exhibit or to provide sponsorship may still do so . |
28 | She feasted on larks ’ tongues and sturgeons ' eggs and fruits brought all the way by sea from St Thomas . |
29 | We walked through this rubble , the Syrian patrol around us , picking our way over concrete and broken typewriters and tailors ' dummies and , occasionally , small , grey , live grenades . |
30 | Governors need to make sure that information about the school is available in the local library , welfare clinics and doctors ' surgeries and that all local community groups are invited to school functions . |