Example sentences of "and [noun] ' [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 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 ) .
14 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 .
15 The same goes for medical reports and engineers ' reports and so on .
16 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
17 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 ] .
18 In ‘ Sweeney Agonistes ’ the action should be stylized as in the Noh drama — see Ezra Pound 's book and Yeats ' preface and notes to ‘ The Hawk 's Well . ’
19 The meeting will discuss both researchers ' and industrialists ' views and will also consider the specific sectors of agricultural and bio-medical research .
20 We 've taken a much more active role in the European Federation that we belong to , the Building and Woodworkers ' Federation and as our conference will know , or some colleagues in congress will know we 've actually had
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 Aside from the pooling of costs , analysts see this project as combining Toshiba 's manufacturing abilities , IBM 's design edge in DRAMs , and Siemens ' money and access to the European market .
27 The toisechs ' and mormaers ' wives and daughters and sisters who always moved with the court would be waiting , and eager for news .
28 There will be the customary banquet and Ladies ' programme and companies wishing to exhibit or to provide sponsorship may still do so .
29 She feasted on larks ’ tongues and sturgeons ' eggs and fruits brought all the way by sea from St Thomas .
30 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 .
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