Example sentences of "and their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of the Palaeozoic , echinoids with club-shaped spines and beautifully regular tests had become well-established , and their distant descendants survive today . |
| 2 | These mothers had built a cocoon around themselves and their handicapped child which , while keeping away the hurtful comments , wrapped them in with their pain . |
| 3 | The strategic level concerns policy and the shaping of a " common vision " through clarifying system-wide objectives which will include commitments : — to increase the motivation of young people in schools and colleges so that their educational achievements are improved , and their vocational aspirations are raised . |
| 4 | Compacts are an excellent mechanism through which Partnerships can work with schools so that students ' learning and their vocational opportunities are enhanced . |
| 5 | The Reading punters and their resultant detritus . |
| 6 | Throughout their lives most women play less prestigious social roles than men , and their paid work is generally worse paid , less secure , and of lower status . |
| 7 | Moreover , they have a much weaker foothold in the formal labour market than men , not least because there is a conflict between their family responsibilities and their paid employment , whereas for men there is no conflict . |
| 8 | We did have them , for County Hall had sent us the list of these hospitals and their separate functions . |
| 9 | He has been confused with his younger brother , Jonathan , also born in Dearham and baptized 11 September 1744 , who followed the same profession , and their separate publications have been listed in several prominent works under John 's name . |
| 10 | On the other hand , psychologists frequently have the task of mediating between the needs and interests of the different participants involved with the child and their key role in the decision-making process . |
| 11 | And their deep cries crawled over the floors |
| 12 | Thence to ways of measuring heat , and a neat series of demonstrations of metal expansion , heat conduction and convection , and their practical effects . |
| 13 | These developments and their practical repercussions from the basis of Philippe Frossard 's brisk , well-informed survey . |
| 14 | By examining the two dimensions , it becomes possible to identify a range of leadership styles and their practical implications : |
| 15 | The implication for in-service education of teachers ( INSET ) is that , rather than placing exclusive emphasis on ‘ group work ’ , it would be more appropriate for the issues to be presented at a more general level and discussion encouraged of a range of different strategies and their practical implications . |
| 16 | They still determine most decisions and their practical outcomes . |
| 17 | The need to separate the functions of chairman and chief executive has been a raging debate in City of London parlours for the past couple or years , and companies at which the two roles are combined in one person have been under enormous pressure to accept a separation of powers : now the same debate could take off across the Atlantic as Compaq Computer Corp 's ( non-executive ) chairman Ben Rosen tells the House Telecommunications and Finance Subcommittee that the troubles that have beset some of America 's largest companies can be traced to cozy relationships between their boards and their chief executives — he declares that the boards of most US companies are chaired by the company 's chief executive , who picks the board members and controls the agenda — ‘ With an appropriate form of corporate governance , I fully believe that the current problems of IBM , Digital Equipment , Westinghouse and other major American corporations could have been addressed and probably solved far earlier with much reduced ill effects , ’ Rosen told the legislators , adding that a company 's chairman should be a ‘ truly outside independent director , ’ not the chief executive or a former chief executive , and that all board members , with the exception of the chief executive , should also be outsiders , who should get their directors ' fees in the form of shares or options . |
| 18 | Most of the new agencies are answerable to the appropriate minister and their chief executives are answerable to the Public Accounts Committee of the House of Commons . |
| 19 | Effective power rests , for Mills , in all elite comprised of corporate chieftains ( the corporate rich and their chief executives ) ; war lords . |
| 20 | Compare him with Hawthorne , Henry James , E.A. Robinson and Edith Wharton : all these writers have their Waste Land , which is the aesthetic and emotional waste land of the Puritan character and their chief force lies in the intensity with which they communicate emotions of deprivation and chagrin . |
| 21 | They built homes throughout the Dale up to the borders of what is now Drinan , and their chief town was at Dun Merkadal . |
| 22 | Above them , on the screen , the funeral procession moved slowly through the walled northern garden at Tongjiang : the Li family , the seven T'ang , their generals and their chief retainers . |
| 23 | The one-inch maps of the east Midland counties are splashed all over with these shreds of green , usually distinguishable from true , ancient woodland by their small size and their regular shape . |
| 24 | Based out of their menswear shop , The Depot , in Birmingham 's Piccadilly Street , for the last five years , the Ryans and partner Lee Garrick have organised regular excursions to Nottingham 's Venus , small , friendly boat parties ( including one memorable all-nighter in London 's Docklands and their regular Xmas fancy dress jaunt in Worcestershire ) , and high quality one-off events for bigger crowds . |
| 25 | Their high survival rate and their official inscriptions have combined to make them the most easily and most accurately datable of all archaeological artefacts . |
| 26 | Yeah , but so do they , and their official time is half past seven to half past eight in n it ? |
| 27 | Alyssia 's pulses raced in response to his words and their seductive intimacy . |
| 28 | Within one to two months , the newly grown tumours were removed and their representative sections were stained with haematoxylin and eosin . |
| 29 | Car dealers are bearing the brunt of the recession , and their representative body , the Retail Motor Industry Federation , calls for the abolition of car tax . |
| 30 | Some mares react badly and their reproductive cycles cease or are disrupted . |