Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun] ' [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Resource allocations fail to emphasise adequately key elements of the innovation process , and cultural perceptions affect the way in which business and the sources of research see their own and each others ' roles and contributions to the innovation partnership . |
| 2 | A process so hedged about with medical mystery and old wives ' tales that no man was allowed to share in it now became an experience he must not miss for the world . |
| 3 | It could give a whole new meaning to DROP-in centres and old folks ' CLUBS and mean that for once the social workers wo n't be criticised for making a balls-up … or down . |
| 4 | Above left : ‘ Cecil ’ Leitch , the British , French , Canadian and English Ladies ' Champion and President of Henley Ladies 1920–25 . |
| 5 | While most of his contemporaries in the conservation world sit behind desks or on committees , Watson and friends race ‘ kamikaze ’ inflatable dinghies in front of Soviet and Japanese whalers ' harpoons or handcuff themselves to the seal hunters ' vessels . |
| 6 | The Passport Office , the Slave Trade and Chief Clerks ' departments and the library should be on the ground floor . |
| 7 | They are nothing worth looking at , for they have green hair and green teeth and little pigs ' eyes and long red noses and shod arms more like a flipper than any respectable arm that could do a day 's work . |
| 8 | 1–3–1859 The Convener read the following letter from Claud McFie Esquire with reference to a donation of £400 which he had given to the Aged and Infirm Ministers ' Fund and a like sum to the Supplementary Sustentation Fund and in reference to which he reserved power to demand the interest during his life ; that he was anxious to promote the prosperity of the new Church of Bowmore in Islay , and now desired to appropriate the interest of the latter sum for five years , for that charge , and on this being complied with he gave up for that period his claim for the interest of the former sum , viz £400 , to the Aged and Infirm Ministers ' Fund . |
| 9 | However , the ‘ everyday ’ , according to these texts , is a world of football , cricket , men driving cars and traditional boys ' hobbies whether the topic is statistics , measurement or velocity . |
| 10 | This feels wholesome and gives me the confidence to take up issues of racism and sexism in the Lesbian and Gay Workers ' Group and issues of sexism and heterosexism in the Black Workers ' Group , within the organization we work for . |
| 11 | Two other men , W. Franklyn Chinn , Meese 's former investment adviser , and Rusty Kent London , a financial consultant , who had also been convicted , were sentenced to three and five years ' imprisonment and fined $100,000 and $250,000 respectively [ for earlier developments in Wedtech case see pp. 35502-03 ; 36679 ] . |
| 12 | Sentence : two years and nine months ' imprisonment and recommended for deportation . |
| 13 | Committee chairman Alex Kitson is a former deputy general secretary of the transport and general workers ' union and now chairs Lothian Regional Transport . |
| 14 | This paper reports broad cultural contrasts between Bangladeshi and Welsh mothers ' beliefs and infant care practices . |
| 15 | Investors in People , a TEC initiative , requires employers to comply with 24 performance indicators relating to existing and new employees ' development and training . |
| 16 | It was littered with ladders , pails and other decorators ' paraphernalia and the air was permeated with the odour of the chemical the workmen were using to strip the woodwork . |
| 17 | The lights were on over the airfield when we landed and ‘ Deemy ’ showed me to the Russian equivalent of the American B.O.Q. adjoining a very handsome and well-furnished Officers ' Lounge and Recreation Room . |
| 18 | His memoir of those days on page 138 , sheds light on the star of Good Morning Vietnam and Dead Poets ' Society before he was claimed by fame and fortune . |