Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun pl] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contrary to expectations Mr Lamont did not change the rates for NIC , although the upper and lower earnings limits and thresholds of the bands for the employers ' contribution will again be indexed for 1993/94 . |
| 2 | In Japan , by contrast , no single car-producer dominates , and the impetus for ever greater innovation and lower prices springs less from international competition than from the intense rivalry within Japan itself . |
| 3 | The only significant opportunities for low-income people to decentralize locally ( as opposed to the longer-distance moves facilitated by the New and Expanded Towns programmes ) have derived from the re-cycling of older and poorer quality housing in the inner suburbs and from the development of spare peripheral sites by city councils-the ‘ outer council estates ’ which now suffer from major social and physical problems because of inaccessibility , limited facilities , faulty design and inadequate maintenance . |
| 4 | I shared command of the big " V " with two other skippers , Doug Thompson and Denis Mawe , as H.Q. frowned on any policy that kept an officer away from his home port and normal customs duties for too long a period . |
| 5 | For this reason the concentration on TV advertising is on compilation albums and greatest hits collections . |
| 6 | A hundred and fifty Bulmers workers from the distribution depot near the fire were evacuated to safety.And a roll call was taken to make sure no one else had been hurt.Meanwhile as fifty firefighters fought the flames , there was another explosion which hurled a sixty ton oil tank high into the air.It crashed down onto a fire engine : |
| 7 | Michel Rocard ( PS ) Prime Minister Ministers of State Lionel Jospin ( PS ) National Education , Youth and Sport Pierre Bérégovoy ( PS ) Economy , Finance and Budget Roland Dumas ( PS ) Foreign Affairs Michel Durafour ( UDF ) Civil Service and Administrative Reforms Ministers Pierre Arpaillange Keeper of the Seals ; Justice Jean-Pierre Chevènement ( PS ) Defence Pierre Joxe ( PS ) Interior Roger Fauroux European Affairs Michel Delebarre ( PS ) Equipment and Housing ; Transport ; the Sea Jean-Pierre Soisson ( UDF ) Labour , Employment and Vocational Training Jacques Pelletier ( UDF ) Co-operation and Development Jack Lang ( PS ) Culture , Communication , Major Works and the Bicentenary Louis Le Pensec ( PS ) Overseas Departments and Territories Henri Nallet ( PS ) Agriculture and Forestry Paul Quilès ( PS ) Postal Services , Telecommunications and Space Jean Poperen ( PS ) Relations with Parliament Claude Evin ( PS ) Solidarity , Health , Social Protection and Government Spokesperson Hubert Curien ( PS ) Research and Technology Jean-Marie Rausch ( UDF ) Foreign Trade * Excluding Ministers-Delegate , Secretaries of State attached to the Prime Minister and Secretaries of State attached to Ministries . |
| 8 | It already recycles plastic shrink-wrap into shopping bags , and 550 own-brands products are packed in recycled cardboard . |
| 9 | Maintains good working relationships with the national and regional Sports Councils , CCPR , and regional Movement and Dance Liaison Groups |
| 10 | This includes leading British and European politicians representatives of foreign embassies in the United Kingdom international trade union leaders senior industrialists and employers . |
| 11 | Hopefully , in the future English rugby followers and respectable sports writers will rediscover the much talked about ‘ English sense of fair play ’ . |
| 12 | Digital Equipment Corp is setting up an AXP Design and Integration Services programme , armed with a portfolio of design services from gate array and board design to software and complete systems designs , to get OEMs and end users moving the Alpha architecture cost efficiently into their products and environments . |
| 13 | AS CHEAP and ersatz tapas bars continue to pop up on London street corners , it is easy to overlook serious Spanish food . |
| 14 | Despite the difference in the volume of enquiries between an urban bureau and a rural one , both urban and rural bureaux workers experience a high level of stress . |
| 15 | These are articulated , in particular , through finance and economic affairs departments — in the United Kingdom , the Treasury . |
| 16 | Topics discussed included the fresh set of trade and economic relations agreements signed by the two sides in January [ see p. 38005 ] . |
| 17 | Increasingly in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries landlords sought to raise rents with prices and to avoid secure customary tenures , a practice by no means confined to absentee landlords ; most landowners were local nobles and bourgeois , though the great aristocratic houses had large ‘ states ’ scattered over both Castiles . |
| 18 | The former personal systems and advanced systems divisions have been replaced by seven others , including a volume products division headed up by Tom Furlong , who hails from MIPS , a visual computing division , being run by Mike Ramsey of SGI , a client/server group and an OEM and business systems division . |
| 19 | The Voluntary and Private Sectors Services Unit will shortly produce a standard service agreement which sets out the contract conditions . |
| 20 | The eight queens and eight tiles tasks are not typical of real life search situations . |
| 21 | It was then that the church treasury was showered with gifts of the finest reliquaries and liturgical items goldsmiths could make . |
| 22 | Such a definition , or a public-order-threat assessment , provides the justification for wide-ranging and controversial police practices . |
| 23 | The UK subsidiary has been eating into the parent company 's profits due to start up costs for its paging and mobile communications operations . |
| 24 | These trading houses have invested heavily in global networks of information-gathering affiliates and extensive communications systems . |
| 25 | The " continuum " which is said to link the high and low varieties results from the fact that individuals in the community have differential access to these varieties depending on their social status and social relationships at home and at work . |
| 26 | The largest of all Blackwells Art & Poster Shop 's calendar suppliers is Pomegranate , which offers a magnificent range of subject matter — not just Monet , Hopper , Escher , Klimt and Impressionists , but calendars of the work of Piranesi , Charles Rennie Mackintosh , William Blake , Childe Hassam , Maxfield Parrish and Redoute , and perhaps of more interest to the general bookshop , a range of other subjects that includes astronomy with a calendar of The Maps of the Heavens , feminist history in Women Who Dared , Classic Jazz and Classic Blues Musicians , Shakespeare 's World , archaeology with Sacred Stone Sites , The History of Medicine and an array of natural history subjects , including The Mountain Gorilla , Harp Seal Pups , Penguins , Cats , Birds , Endangered Species , Cows and the bestseller of the last two years Pigs . |
| 27 | In 1954 Carroll Shelby and Donald Healey went record breaking together at Bonneville and set a string of records with various versions of Healey 's 100 and 100S sports cars . |
| 28 | Undercover and uniformed customs officers are involved in a constant process of intelligence gathering around Scotland 's west coast , tracing suspicious vehicles , tracking vessels and simply listening . |
| 29 | Administrative offices and on-campus police posts were damaged by stones and petrol bombs in three Tunis University faculties . |
| 30 | Robbins ( 1963 ) — comprehensive and thorough in many respects — had relatively little to say about the undergraduate curriculum , beyond some general statements about the aims of higher education , and recommendations about the balance of arts and science and single and combined honours courses . |