Example sentences of "and [prep] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doubts have already been raised about the cost of the proposals , about possible legal difficulties and about shareholders ' willingness to play the role assigned to them by the APB . |
| 2 | The number of ministries was increased from 19 to 24 , with portfolios for Public Works , for Construction and Town Planning and for Women 's affairs created ; Fisheries , International Co-operation and Trade and Tourism were upgraded to full or separate ministries . |
| 3 | As reported by Draeger , the area-wide traffic restraint project there involved 17 towns and was aimed at improving road safety in residential areas , raising the quality of living , reducing noise and providing more space for pedestrians and for children 's play . |
| 4 | A good source here , and for children 's and teenage holidays , is the Ponies Association handbook . |
| 5 | In the end she suggested that I should just come and listen , and for politeness ' sake I agreed . |
| 6 | The result was 1989 's shimmering ‘ Tears ’ , issued on ffrr in London and through Knuckles ' Def Mix in America . |
| 7 | Differences in motivation between individuals , and during individuals ' life-spans , and for different kinds of crime , are acknowledged . |
| 8 | Men 's opposition to women-only education , as with other women-only activities , is the fear of separatism and of men 's exclusion from influence and control in our lives . |
| 9 | It was nothing but the stench of dead , rotting rats and of bats ' dung . |
| 10 | Issues that the committee considered inconclusively included the impact of medical advances on the demand for medical time ; possible changes in skill mix ; the consequences on staffing of the interaction between purchasers and providers and of patients ' charters ; the need to reduce hours of work ( only junior doctors are mentioned ) ; possible changes to the career structure ; and the increasing managerial and educational demands on consultants . |
| 11 | The organizers had invited representatives of the rival Yedinstvo Internationalist Movement [ described on p. 36855 as the " Inter-Front " group ] and the Gagauz Khalky movement [ see p. 37047 ] , and of workers ' committees in Tiraspol . |
| 12 | Though there is no picture-making task here for the artist , every young reader will make his or her own mental pictures of scenes and of characters ' appearances and behaviour . |
| 13 | These duties are listed as : the preparation of desiderata lists ; the selection and purchase of books within broad terms of reference ; allocation of books between libraries ; classification and cataloguing of all books and materials ; revision of stock ; screening of withdrawn books ; screening of books for rebinding ; maintenance of central reserve stocks ; bibliographical work , including compilation of special lists and indexes ; the bibliographical aspects of inter-library loans and regional loans and of readers ' requests and reservations ; readers ' advisory and information service . |
| 14 | A video camera is almost an essential tool in recording evidence of work undertaken in various subject areas and of children 's development . |
| 15 | Interest charges remained virtually unchanged at £0.58m , and with shareholders ' funds at £18.48m ( 1990 — £18.25m ) and borrowings of £0.59m ( 1990 — £0.39m ) gearing was held at 3% . |
| 16 | In a very lighthearted manner , Leapor connects her poetry with women 's friendship , and with women 's physical experience . |
| 17 | Employers could contract ‘ occupational groups ’ of employees out of SERPS and into employers ' provision ( see Groves , 1983 ) . |
| 18 | Although SAG has taken the technical issues of SQL interoperability a stage further , the organisation has n't had much success in getting the specifications out of the copy book and into vendors ' products . |
| 19 | Although the SQL Access Group has taken the technical issues of SQL interoperability a stage further , the organisation has n't had much success in getting the specifications out of the copy book and into vendors ' products . |
| 20 | In both directions — south towards the Grand Parade and Patrick Street , and north to the quays — other horse-drawn vehicles threaded their way , wheels screaming , drivers cursing and cracking whips , the while throngs of Friday shoppers darted from one side of the unpaved road to the other , dodging between carts and traps and under horses ' necks as if they were n't there at all . |
| 21 | This underlines our sense that it is a grave mistake to pursue the notion of teaching strategies as somehow disconnected from children 's learning on the one hand , and from teachers ' intentions and attributes on the other . |
| 22 | Animal insulins continue to be needed both from patients ' and from doctors ' points of view . |
| 23 | He discovered from Nicholson senior that Nails rarely slept at home and from Nails 's classmates that he went off with a woman on a motor-bike at four o'clock everyday . |
| 24 | These should include examples from different cultures and authors and from pupils ' own work ; |
| 25 | She read with avidity the endlessly cosy adventures of wealthy children on farms and in smugglers ' caves and country houses , but she found built into them a warning against too much belief . |
| 26 | Their guitar production facility is back-ordered seven months — which is one reason you do n't see as many Peavey guitars in British shops , and in players ' hands , as their combined quality and value deserve . |
| 27 | Their guitar production facility is back-ordered seven months — which is one reason you do n't see as many Peavey guitars in British shops , and in players ' hands , as their combined quality and value deserve . |
| 28 | Her books included The House of Life ( 1878 ) ; An Atlas of Anatomy ( 1879 ) ; Lynton Abbott 's Children ( 1879 ) , a novel which was published anonymously ; Animal Physiology for Elementary Schools ( 1882 ) ; Readings in Social Economy ( 1883 ) ; Harriet Martineau ( 1884 ) ; Hughes 's Natural History Readers ( 1884 ) ; and In Ladies ' Company ( 1892 ) . |
| 29 | Further , they feared that ‘ doing ’ what a woman does ( on the stage and in women 's clothes ) leads to ‘ being ’ what a woman is ; the most unmanageable anxiety is that there is no essentially masculine self ( p. 1 36 ) , and cross-dressing in women 's clothes can lead to a man ‘ turning into ’ a woman . |
| 30 | If celibacy and the life of professed religious women are about anything at all , they are about this hidden strand both within the Christian tradition in particular and in women 's lives in general . |