Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun sg] of [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er and Jane looks after all the publicity er er preparations and that sort of thing so |
| 2 | that 's why we 've got to start cutting back there 's no money for wage rises and that sort of thing so |
| 3 | This research intends to help plug this gap , using the example of women 's initiatives in local government ( women 's committees etc ) which seek to improve the social and economic position of women both inside councils and in their local areas . |
| 4 | An adequate explanation of the greater incidence of poverty among women in old age must reflect on the social and economic status of women before as well as after retirement and , therefore , the systems of distribution which determine status and access to resources . |
| 5 | Foucault is therefore making the subtle and perceptive point that contemporary societies are largely characterised by self-policing and introspective control of feelings rather than the explicit display and use of force and authority . |
| 6 | The splendid restaurant offers and extensive choice of menu both traditional and speciality . |
| 7 | And London-based vice-chairwoman of Democrats Abroad , Sally McNulty , said Britain had nothing to fear from a Clinton presidency . |
| 8 | The problem seems to be that it is fundamentally about attitudes to work and such attitudes are subject to an inextricable and non-monotonic range of influences not only from work itself , with all the pressures of technological change , but also from prevailing economic , social and cultural changes in the community generally . |
| 9 | You know we we 've heard a lot about this leaf bud structure and what to replace it with but since this is Nottingham and this centre of lace why could n't they put something there like a loom or something sculptured to look like a loom ? |
| 10 | ‘ Each month approximately 300 new requests are made for an occupational therapist assessment and this level of demand far outstrips the borough 's available resources . ’ |
| 11 | However , senior managers have to consider where the business as a whole is going , and this kind of problem also has to be faced by anyone trying to run their own business , no matter how small . |
| 12 | Those who subscribe to the Institute 's Proceedings say that one of the most valuable contributions it makes has been the books that are reviewed by our members and this listing of books recently published or announced . |
| 13 | In order to understand them better we therefore need to examine their influence ; and this process of investigation also leads to elaboration . |
| 14 | Particular subjects of interest include changing levels and patterns of employment , the size and residential distribution of incomers both from overseas and other parts of the United Kingdom ; the changing demographic , occupational and social characteristics of the various city and suburban neighbourhoods ; and changes in social class and occupational patterns in the area . |
| 15 | In the course of her book , she gives us by far the most detailed and interesting portrait of Mary ever written , free from the excesses of adulation or attack which characterize so much of the writing about her . |
| 16 | This lack of insight and concomitant lack of empathy often leads us to replace feelings with action — sometimes abusive action . |
| 17 | Beyond him she could see the afternoon DJ in his studio , a couple more strides and another set of double-glazing further on , hunched over his microphone like a harassed co-pilot . |
| 18 | A versatile and hardy traveller , his earliest journey was to Italy and Sicily , the prelude to an extended and detailed tour of Greece as far as Thessaly . |
| 19 | On the other hand , this close and detailed regulation of credit also fits closely into the general pattern of consumer protection of its time . |
| 20 | Exercise can help pregnant women cope with their increased body weight and altered centre of gravity more easily |
| 21 | Weight training strengthens the muscles , and stronger muscles can enable the pregnant woman to cope with her increased body weight and altered centre of gravity more easily . |
| 22 | Kicking off in tandem with the start of the summer series on Saturday , April 4th is the club 's Royal Yachting Association based training programme which offers a wide and comprehensive selection of courses up until the end of October . |
| 23 | And , ( b ) following s 247(3) , the company satisfies two or more of the following criteria : turnover not more than £2m ; balance sheet total not more than £975,000 ; and average number of employees not more than 50 . |
| 24 | Herbert von Karajan would probably have been a phenomenon in any age — musical talent of this order , high intelligence , and such singleness of purpose rarely go unregistered — but the twentieth-century context has made the career an unusually fascinating one , even if it has not always been very well understood by the apprentice biographers or the journalists who find Karajan such an irresistible source of copy . |
| 25 | As the build-up to the pending general election got under way , the position of the leader of the Liberal Democrats , Paddy Ashdown , came under scrutiny when on Feb. 5 he made a statement acknowledging that some years earlier he had had a " brief relationship " with a woman ( identified as Patricia Sullivan , now known under the name Howard ) ; he stressed , however , that this " should have remained a private and personal matter of concern only to those involved " . |
| 26 | I got bowled over twice and lost sight of Greg completely , but when I finally got back alongside him at the green he was really excited . |
| 27 | I just gave her a bit of a hand and these sort of questions where they 've got so many alternatives answers to fill the spaces |
| 28 | I served my time in both India , Palestine , Gibraltar , Egypt and these sort of places abroad and when I , I nine months of my colour service to finish , which were a twelve year service , when war broke out in nineteen thirty nine . |
| 29 | Such conclusions were arrived at by studying the fossilized limb proportions and limb-joint morphology of dinosaurs rather than footprint tracks , although some of these tracks , as we shall see , show speeds a lot faster than those Beverly Halstead was talking about . |
| 30 | She had been arrested on April 14 , accused of " anti-socialist propaganda and illegal transfer of documents abroad " . |