Example sentences of "and [noun pl] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This struggle revolves around opposing material interests of competing classes and groups in all countries . |
| 4 | The private benefits to conservation have been extremely ill-distributed , which reflects the underlying dominance of certain classes and groups in Indian government ( the industrialists , the capitalist farmers and senior bureaucrats ) . |
| 5 | Why , then , did interest groups come into focus ; what was this new theory ; how adequately does this theory make sense of British politics ; are there alternative perspectives on the part played by interests and groups in British politics ; and how adequate are those perspectives ? |
| 6 | This provided jobs and houses in new communities for people from overcrowded cities and run-down industrial areas . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She caught a glimpse of a camera-tripod , and lamps in huge reflectors , surrounded by yet more boxes and bales . |
| 9 | Teachers should realise , therefore , in presenting their programmes of Religious Education which seek to foster a personal faith and commitment they can quite properly assess pupils ' knowledge , understanding , skills and attitudes in varying degrees for the benefit of the individual pupil . |
| 10 | More and more trainees will present themselves at centres with widely varying degrees of knowledge , skills and attitudes in different areas and will ask for these to be recognised in some way or other . |
| 11 | In literary criticism , statements of praise are conventionally handled in a low-key way , often by slipping in a word which indicates skill , like the italicised adjectives and adverbs in these examples : In Bleak House , Dickens is careful not to represent Chancery as … |
| 12 | It provided for 532 flats and maisonettes in eleven storey and four storey blocks . |
| 13 | Though all are feeding from the same source , and to some degree feed on whatever is most plentiful , competition is minimized by selective feeding ; Croxall and Lishman ( 1987 ) and Prince and Morgan ( 1987 ) summarize methods of feeding respectively among penguins and petrels in southern waters . |
| 14 | Those few were likely to be surgeons , dentists , accountants and solicitors in private practice , certainly not schoolmasters , university lecturers , architects in public service ( most of them ) or vets . |
| 15 | I mean do n't forget do n't forget do n't forget when everybody was wearing their sickles and hammers in this country they had millionaires in Russia . |
| 16 | It was lack of funding rather than lack of freedom that was the main burden for British writers and artists in this period . |
| 17 | Nearly all animal fighting is restrained in some way , and contests in some species resemble highly ritualized tournaments . |
| 18 | Nevertheless it was apparent that there was going to be a greater preponderance of lords and knights in this affair than Will Douglas , for one , desired ; but his uncle was reluctant to refuse any . |
| 19 | In addition to these nouns there are verbs , adverbs and adjectives in similar numbers . |
| 20 | They apply only to major categories of lexical words ( nouns , verbs and adjectives in this chapter ) , not to function words such as articles and prepositions . |
| 21 | This sector of the industry has been characterized by an extraordinarily rapid series of takeovers and mergers in recent years to create the multiples shown . |
| 22 | There was nothing in the studies on the differences between individual catholic schools , either in terms of pupil experiences or the varieties of educational practice and personnel in each school . |
| 23 | Pressure for the conversion or redevelopment of historic houses and estates in financial difficulties has grown in recent years and is causing concern to those wishing to preserve the traditional countryside . |
| 24 | Table 1 shows populations and cases in broad areas of the world . |
| 25 | From such observations and discussions in both schools , it seemed that the relationship between Afro-Caribbean pupils and teachers was often one of conflict and that the issue of race was frequently central to this conflict . |
| 26 | Certainly the teacher of language would do well to keep informed of progress and discussions in these fields , and the efforts of linguists and psychologists to approach the problems of language teaching from a principled point of view are extremely worthwhile , from an intellectual as well as a social point of view . |
| 27 | Earrings , bangles and necklaces in sparkling shapes and shades . |
| 28 | US President George Bush had authorized the removal of US nuclear artillery shells and bombs in late September and mid-October respectively , although the timing of the withdrawal remained unclear . |
| 29 | Efforts to reproduce village patterns of organization and values in urban areas , or the emergence of new ones , could not prevent dislocation in social structure and family life . |
| 30 | A blush , a hangdog posture or a limp handshape can all convey information and experts in so-called body language — horrid phrase — have compiled long lists of postures and gestures from which an observant onlooker can glean some information about the attitudes or intentions of others . |