Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 When approached more rigorously , however , difficulties and disagreements soon appear from both political and practical perspectives .
2 Objectives , for example in the area of educational policy , are often multi-purpose and disagreements constantly arise as to what these objectives are or should be .
3 ‘ Q-shed ’ was once the warehouse and booking office for the much-loved P. & A. Campbell pleasure steamers , Today , a wide range of exciting and dynamic events and activities frequently changed are held here .
4 But it is important to bear in mind that as one advances in life one 's pleasures and activities particularly do become more limited , and any substantial impairment in the limited amount of activity and movement which a person can undertake , in my view , becomes all the more serious on that account .
5 This proposal encompasses a series of three inter-locking exploratory studies each designed to examine different but related aspects of the perceptions and constraints which determine women 's definitions , choices and experiences of the time-spaces and activities usually defined as ‘ leisure ’ .
6 From his botanic garden in Pennsylvania he supplied Fothergill with a number of plants , including the ferns and polypodiums particularly requested .
7 Metabolic similarities and correspondences therefore exist throughout all life .
8 At Taupo Airport , in the volcanic centre of North Island , vacationers and hunters again form part of the clientele of Christine Duncan 's Taupo Air Services .
9 Mammals and birds both have large brains relative to reptiles , and exhibit ‘ intelligent ’ behaviour .
10 Although recorded annually there is no regular winter population , and birds rarely remain for more than a few days except in severe winters , when considerable influxes occur .
11 All along its sides the railway is flanked by grass verges and small scrubby bushes which make it an ideal habitat for wild flowers and birds so keep looking for these as you walk along .
12 Only six were noted away from the coast , and birds sometimes made prolonged stays in favoured coastal marshes , for example 35 days in 1965 .
13 The early morning was cool and birds still chattered in the long grasses along the line .
14 However , in addition to increasing reports of transient parties inland , a wintering herd is now established in the Amberley/Pulborough marshes and groups regularly make prolonged stays elsewhere .
15 In Somerset ‘ the tops of trees and houses only appeared … as if , at the beginning of the world , townes had been built in the bottom of the sea ’ .
16 Teams were evenly matched with experienced players and beginners carefully balanced .
17 The ‘ rule-based ’ spelling currently being tested is about 20 per cent slower to read for the first 1200 words , although some backward readers and beginners immediately improve speed or accuracy .
18 GPs and clinics usually refer women to the centre if there is a problem .
19 ( At the same time the number of nurses working in private hospitals , homes and clinics virtually doubled from 1982 to 1986 , when 69 per cent worked in the South . )
20 Reinforce those opinions and attitudes already held where they still reflect what the company wants them to be , and thus protect the status quo .
21 However , the counsellor will have to work with older people whose lives have already been deeply affected by the problems of ageing , and this will require all the skills and insight of looking into individual feelings and attitudes already outlined in Part 1 .
22 A study of these perceptions and attitudes thus provides the clue to the understanding of significant tendencies in the countries of the Third World .
23 Long-term cultures of unicellular organisms in small , asexual populations have shown a steady decline in the rate of division , and cultures sometimes went extinct , no matter how carefully they were kept .
24 In order to give a framework within which decisions on individual applications can be judged , there exists a series of policy documents and maps collectively called development plans .
25 In Wiltshire , after the declaration of the Forest bounds at the Salisbury Forest Eyre in 1330 , scattered areas of demesne lands and woods alone remained in the forest : Savernake was reduced from an estimated ninety-eight square miles to a mere thirteen , and by 1331 the forest of Chute in that county had been ‘ almost disafforested ’ .
26 Besides being a beautiful illustration of straightforward stratigraphical palaeontology , the bottles and cans also demonstrate very clearly many of the other associated problems .
27 Interestingly , these second visits were never successful , and interviewers then had recourse to the back-up lists .
28 Lynn Stewart , the teacher and software ‘ expert ’ , and Toni Michael , the computer writer , have got their heads and talents together to write this small ( yes are n't computer books getting bigger and bigger these days ) booklet for parents .
29 Serota was pleased that the public sector at least had the benefit of a system that ensured reasonable levels of pay ; no such system protected employees in the independent sector , while the pay and status of employees working for local authorities had increasingly been eroded , with the Director of Museums and Galleries often downgraded and answerable to a Director of Leisure Services .
30 However uncongenial for the old professors , the obsession with appointing businessmen to the boards of such things as the great museums and galleries undoubtedly had positive benefits in terms of efficiency and fund-raising for example .
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