Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some poems she praises the beauty and accomplishments of other women , though in a manner which foregrounds heterosexual courtship . |
| 2 | This is a formidable range , containing no less than 143 titled works ; the poems , stories , prefaces and essays of 29 authors ; and 41 works of criticism or related literature . |
| 3 | In the gun room , where coats hung and hats of all kinds and all ages lay about on tables , Nicandra squeezed her Henry Heath , its brim bound with corded ribbon , over her bun of hair , while Lally , peering into a mildewed looking-glass , felt her way towards a becoming line . |
| 4 | This will mean harnessing the experience and aspirations of primary health care workers , the epidemiological skills of public health medicine , the expertise and disciplines of academic departments of general practice , the knowledge of social scientists and health economists , the evaluative and facilitative skills of medical advisers , the managerial expertise of family health services authority officers , and the needs and wants of the consumer . |
| 5 | I have been paying National Insurance and taxes for many years . |
| 6 | Even in western Europe it was normal for boundaries between states to be overlain by a mass of traditional rights , claims to exercise jurisdiction or to collect dues and taxes of various kinds , which made the modern idea of a frontier scarcely applicable . |
| 7 | The general public , other organisations and institutions , supporters etc currently find out about our 4 gardens , work and activities through various channels : |
| 8 | ( c ) Day care and after-school activities Local authorities may provide day care for under-fives and activities for school-age children even though they are not in need . |
| 9 | Of equal importance ( not least for the benefit of future researchers ) is the recording of the existence and activities of present-day organisations such as those already listed . |
| 10 | Similarly , mothers of babies and children tend to look towards the experience and activities of those women whom they perceive as " successful " , " caring " and " attractive " in the maternal role . |
| 11 | Also , news bulletins concentrated heavily on the speeches and activities of leading politicians , particularly the president . |
| 12 | Now systems are being refocused and designed to support decision-making and activities at all levels of the district health system , including the community level . |
| 13 | Read meters and dials of various types . |
| 14 | Rocks that should prove suitable for taking the highly-active waste are mudstones and sandstones in coastal areas , where the sand is saturated with salt-water , says the study . |
| 15 | It raises questions about the adequacy of our " adversarial " industrial relations system — particularly in the light of the current economic situation in which enforced redundancies and rationalisations in many enterprises have weakened moves towards consensual models of problem solving . |
| 16 | Some pests are large enough to be gathered and destroyed by hand : caterpillars can be picked off at any time , while slugs and snails around vulnerable plants are easily collected by torchlight on moist evenings . |
| 17 | When attention moves from behaviour at the individual to the organisational level , it is argued that since organisations are not unitary actors , but are made up of individuals and groups with competing interests and objectives , companies can not be understood as pursuing a single goal , but rather a range of conflicting goals . |
| 18 | We engage in dialogue and common discussion with peoples and groups of other religions and cultures in order to realise the vision of a whole and just communication order in Asia . |
| 19 | Through everything runs the bubbling runnel of the canal , the Nahr-i-Bihisht or River of Paradise , punctuated by pools , carefully carved water-chutes and groups of free-flowing fountains . |
| 20 | The principal structural options open to marketing departments are ( a ) a functional structure , based on individual specialisms eg sales etc , and ( b ) a matrix structure , based on functional roles eg sales managers , market research managers etc and groups of operational roles eg product managers , market managers etc . |
| 21 | DAWN breaks on Boxing Day in Burnley and groups of bleary-eyed individuals sporting garish claret and blue garb gather on street corners . |
| 22 | Canford Manor in Dorset , built by Sir Charles Barry in 1848–52 , is not unlike St Genevieve , ‘ a gathering as it seemed of galleries , halls , and chapels , mullioned windows , portals of clustered columns , and groups of airy pinnacles and fretwork spires ’ . |
| 23 | The most controversial elements of the new law were its provisions defining recognizable and legitimate political parties and groups for electoral purposes . |
| 24 | There are activities for individuals , pairs , and groups at all levels , and ideas for all stages before , during , and after reading . |
| 25 | This struggle revolves around opposing material interests of competing classes and groups in all countries . |
| 26 | While many collectors are turning over every hedge and collective barn they can find within the Russian Republic and its former constituents and satellites for hidden treasures , a small and dedicated band have been scouring the Asia-Pacific region for many decades looking for Japanese material . |
| 27 | He despises form , reduces everything , sites and figures and houses to geometric complexes , to cubes . ’ |
| 28 | This provided jobs and houses in new communities for people from overcrowded cities and run-down industrial areas . |
| 29 | Coleman and her team studied over 4,000 blocks of flats and a slightly larger number of houses in two areas of London ( Southwark and Tower Hamlets ) and , for comparison , a council estate on the south-east side of Oxford , all in the context of a regard for flats and houses in many settings elsewhere . |
| 30 | And they were so contemptuous of the Nazis and their cohorts they could not imagine that they themselves featured in the minds and machinations of such louts . |