Example sentences of "a [noun pl] and [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 There is a pool and children 's pool , with bar ; a hairdressers and TV room .
2 Unless you have recently became a Contract Volunteer you will find with this newsletter a Mailings and Materials sheet which I would like you to fill in .
3 It 's a swings and roundabouts situation which perhaps only a locking nut cures completely , but again cost enters the picture , as indeed does personal preference .
4 that talk about the company of which I 'm chairman is that there is a personnel and compensation committee which in the absence of a chief executive sets the chief executive 's remuneration and with the presence of the chief executive , although he 's not , I 'm not a member of that committee we work on the other senior executives of the company , it 's quite similar to the process used here in your company .
5 This follows a Monopolies and Mergers Commission decision that to forbid advertising by GPs was against the public interest .
6 This follows a Monopolies and Mergers Commission decision that to forbid advertising by GPs was against the public interest .
7 They are also planning to renew calls for a Monopolies and Mergers Commission investigation into the electricity generators , National Power , PowerGen and Nuclear Electric .
8 By 1990 there were twenty-eight million cardholders , mostly ‘ Barclaycards ’ and ‘ Access ’ cards , owned by the Midland , Lloyds , National Westminster and the Royal Bank of Scotland ( recently renamed ‘ Signet ’ and up for sale ) , but since a Monopolies and Mergers Commission investigation in 1989 , there are a whole lot more .
9 The second cut comes four weeks after Board of Trade president Michael Heseltine announced a Monopolies and Mergers Commission review of the privatised gas industry .
10 Act 4 of 1984 contained detailed provisions of unfair competition and was re-enacted by statute 86 of 1990 prohibiting ‘ unfair conduct on the market ’ and setting up a virtual equivalent of a monopolies and mergers commission .
11 Grand Met maintains it had to issue the leases after a Monopolies and Mergers Commission report which said the six big brewers could not own more than 2,000 pubs .
12 THE President of the Board of Trade , Michael Heseltine , yesterday refused to order a Monopolies and Mergers Commission inquiry into the £225 million takeover bid by Airtours for its rival holiday group , Owners Abroad .
13 There is another concept of membership — market membership of a futures and options market .
14 E&Y paid $400m to the Resolution Trust Corporation and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation at the end of last year , as full and final settlement of any outstanding claims relating to its work as a savings and loan auditor ( see ACCOUNTANCY , January , p 15 ) .
15 Their case helped to trigger off a savings and loan crisis in Maryland in 1985 .
16 Campaigning against a savings and loans bill , a Ralph Nader consumer group sent an Elvis impersonator to Capitol Hill .
17 In 1991 , it appeared in a books and manuscripts sale at Phillips where it was bought jointly by the Fine Arts Society and the dealer Michael Whiteway for £13,000 .
18 The garden was planned by professional designer Naila Green who came up with a snakes and ladders theme .
19 What a relief it would have been to be able to dismiss it all as a Homes and Gardens photo-call , carefully stage-managed to make visitors drop dead .
20 It placed the funding of higher education in the hands of two statutory bodies , a Universities Funding Council ( UFC ) ( replacing the University Grants Committee ) , and a Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council ( PCFC ) to administer funds for higher education provided directly by the Secretary of State .
21 The funding of non-university higher education ( i.e. polytechnics and colleges of higher education ) now gives them similar autonomy , having been transferred by the 1988 Education Reform Act from local authority to central government responsibility , with a Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council ( PCFC ) parallel to the UFC .
22 Mike , an ex-philosophy student , was going off to Germany in the New Year ; Naomi from Bristol was about to embark on a Museum Studies course at university ; Liane , a weights and measures official , was one of the many volunteers who had helped at Uppark after the fire ; and Hugh , a quantity surveyor currently between jobs , set out to astound us over the next few days with his minimalist clothing ( some ancient jeans which were fashionably ripped at the crotch and a pair of lurid , exceedingly short shorts ) .
23 Interestingly , this work drew to a large extent upon the highly-theorised use of psychoanalysis and deconstruction ; it emerged around the same time that the feminist anti-pornography movement , on a grassroots and activist basis , was also seriously problematising our culture 's sight of women 's bodies .
24 A young Salvation Army lassie with black curly hair , brown eyes and a peaches and cream complexion had caught his eye .
25 Miss Stott , a textiles and design graduate of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology , had worked as development and design manager for a Bolton textiles firm for six years .
26 But remember that dreams and ambitions change as you get older , by his forties your high-flier may have turned into a slippers and spaniel man , and who knows , by then you may want to be PM .
27 He did n't begin playing , though , until he began pursuing a bachelors and masters degree in civil engineering at the Universities of Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick in Canada .
28 This event also marked the formal opening of a sports and culture week for primary school pupils , as well as an annual town trade exhibition in which LASMO took part .
29 Czechoslovakian ecologists are launching a campaign to prevent large areas of national park land in Slovakia 's Tatra mountains from being developed by an American company as a sports and tourism complex .
30 Next to the gardens , there will be a sports and recreation arena seating up to 12,000 people , while brand new tennis facilities at the Oberhausen Tennis Club reflect Germany 's growing enthusiasm for the sport .
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