Example sentences of "and woman from " in BNC.

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1 The man and woman from Liverpool were arrested on Monday afternoon after a public appeal for witnesses to the killing of 80-year-old Mr Goult last Friday night .
2 Couple Freed : Firefighters had to release a man and woman from handcuffs .
3 Our choice was one which policemen and women from areas of high tension could not appreciate .
4 It is stories like these which help to protect Easton 's policemen and women from the loss of morale which Manning claims is an inevitable result of the contradiction between the image the police have of themselves and their work and the low-key nature of practical policing ( Manning 1977 : 349 ; also see Holdaway 1983 , 1988 , who makes a similar point ) .
5 However the weight of immigration to the United Kingdom of men and women from other Commonwealth territories , whether dependent or independent , necessitated a further change in 1981 .
6 This God allows people to be different from each other — slaves from the free , Jews from Greeks and women from men .
7 But poverty is also the direct result of a new historical disadvantage : the exclusion of older men and women from work .
8 A rich combination of women 's cultural activities , featuring performance poetry , dance from Lucia Walker and company , some of the life-size figures from the photographic exhibition ‘ Just the Job ’ and Bea Freeman , who will present her film about ‘ Just the Job ’ in which she also appears and which presents positive role models of Black women and women from other racially minorities , and the work they do .
9 Winston sent out a party of men and women from public life to see for themselves the horrors of Belsen .
10 Although the list of 78 place-names may be far from complete , it shows that men and women from the county made a great contribution to the colonisation of many and varied parts of our planet .
11 Outside Westminster Abbey , men and women from all over the country whooped and wept with joy at the decision , which for the first time lets women rise higher than the limited role of deacon .
12 as if to underline the importance of this and previous Embassy events in the sporting calendar , many established sportsmen and women from other disciplines took time out to sit courtside at Chewton Glen in support of the concept .
13 The history of the development of state systems of income maintenance for men is bound up with the development of wage-labour and the separation of men and women from direct and independent access to the means of subsistence .
14 We opposed the machista attitudes that the beauty contests promoted and argued that women were being used to divert the attention of men and women from the social and economic contradictions of our country .
15 And then , most startling , a book called War , Wine and Women from which I learned of the existence of prostitutes and lice .
16 What you do need is the desire and determination to learn , and if you have that , you are well on the way to joining more than 100,000 men and women from every walk of life who will be studying with the Open University next year .
17 The essence of the assembly was that 1,000 Rhodesians ( including a number of opinion-leaders ) of all shade of skin and opinion , met on the basis of finding God 's plan and destiny for their country — and conferred with men and women from other countries whose experience could help them .
18 The Caux Assemblies provide a unique opportunity , for Rhodesians to meet leaders from other countries , whom often you can meet nowhere else , in a constructive spirit — for instance , men and women from black Africa .
19 Photographs of the Congress show Indian girls in their saris and young men and women from all round the world , Jamaica , Ceylon , Japan , South America .
20 Maria paused in the doorway , surveying her new colleagues and their partners , a handful of them local people but mainly men and women from all over the English-speaking world , because radio people had a gypsy tendency to move on every few years .
21 The offspring of Beat poetry and folk music , Paul Simon and Bob Dylan , passed through London , picking up tunes and women from the CND folk scene .
22 Consequently we will argue that for the very least we need current levels of basic state pension and SERPS , and see that they are available to both men and women from the age of sixty .
23 Has the Minister considered whether it would make more sense if young men and women from working-class families who leave school at 16 or 17 and are thrown into slave labour schemes where they earn a little over £20 a week , but who want to stay on at school , could stay on and be paid a sum equivalent to what they would get on training schemes ?
24 A disturbingly high number , particularly of elderly women and women from ethnic minorities , are scared to go out during the day as well .
25 My hon. Friend the Member for Westminster , North characteristically set the record straight about manpower allocations in the police force and about the critical role of Her Majesty 's chief inspector of constabulary in objectively advising the Home Secretary on correct force levels and on the identification of posts suitable for civilianisation — for that releases policemen and women from desk jobs and puts them back on the beat , which is what the right hon. and learned Member for Warley , West wants .
26 They joined other men and women from British industry to tackle Exercise Executive Stretch , which has been designed by the TA to encourage problem-solving and leadership skills .
27 Men and women from the ambulances risked their lives to rescue tormented souls .
28 Almost half of patients with hypertension in Europe are being treated inadequately , according to a report from the WHO. 39,000 men and women from eight countries — Hungary , Slovenia , Italy , Romania , Israel , Germany , Switzerland , and Spain — were randomly examined .
29 The Governing body of Somerville College has decided to admit both men and women from next year .
30 And there 'll be playing for civic pride in Hereford over the coming week … more than a thousand sports men and women from Cheltenham , Worcester and Hereford are competing in 21 different sports in the annual ’ Sport for All ’ festival .
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