Example sentences of "of [noun sg] and [noun pl] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The family setting can not be omitted from considerations of sexuality any more than sexuality can be left out of ideas concerning the complicated web of interaction and relationships which comprise family life . |
| 2 | In classical economics , for example , the structure of capitalist production is described in terms of money and commodities which have systematic relations as things . |
| 3 | In a civil action at Wick Sheriff Court , Surria Amin is suing her brother-in-law , Mohammed Hafeez , for the return of money and jewels she says she gave him for safe-keeping pending settlement of her husband 's estate . |
| 4 | The amount you receive depends on your income and the level of rent and rates you pay . |
| 5 | The IBM Corp board found itself paying out rather more for the services of its new chairman and chief executive : it had to guarantee Louis Gerstner the value of stock and options he holds in RJR Nabisco Holdings Corp ; Gerstner is still an RJR Nabisco director and is not under any deadline to exercise his options , which run another 11 years ; the guarantee covers 300,000 shares of RJR stock and options for an additional 3.2m shares , with a guaranteed price of $8.125 a share . |
| 6 | The IBM Corp board found itself paying out rather more for the services of its new chairman and chief executive : it had to guarantee Louis Gerstner the value of stock and options he holds in RJR Nabisco Holdings Corp . |
| 7 | Lombroso , whose somewhat bizarre theories of crime and criminals we looked at in Chapter Two , claimed that ‘ a delinquent woman is more unnatural than a delinquent man ’ . |
| 8 | Today was no exception and we lost our tea of bacon and beans which had to be scraped off the cabin floor after mooring up . |
| 9 | To ensure that all the pleats lie at one level when the blind is raised , the top pleat section should be slightly deeper than those below it in order to cover the front of the batten and to allow for the depth of lath and rings which accumulate at the top of the blind when it is raised . |
| 10 | In this way , society sustains itself and produces the type of behaviour and responses it needs to survive . |
| 11 | Contemporary with Payne was a famous Yorkshire family of father and sons who achieved fame in three fields . |
| 12 | It is a relationship of commitment and estrangements which haunts many activists , not only in the cosmopolitan community of socialists in London , but within the Northern working class itself . |
| 13 | Kelly and Pat spent hours in the little girl 's bedroom discussing what hymns , readings , type of coffin and flowers she wanted . |
| 14 | You can get similar value from Isabelle Allende 's Of Love and Shadows which gives a vivid picture of what it is like to be on the wrong end of the dictatorial boot in Chile . |
| 15 | So our job is to ensure our journalism is wide-ranging — in terms of where we have correspondents at home and abroad — in terms of the subjects we cover — in terms of the diversity of voice and views we broadcast . |
| 16 | If the choreographer is attempting to draw and communicate a moving picture of the individual character and physical attributes which permanently affect the manner of acting , feeling and thinking of their hero , heroine and entire cast , then they must study not only the general outline and background of their chosen story or theme , but also the beliefs , ways of life and traditions which have given life to the people and tales of different countries . |
| 17 | The Tiebout model is sometimes called the invisible foot : people will cluster together in the area providing the package of spending and taxes they want . |
| 18 | Unlike civil servants , who win their jobs by competitive examination , judges depend upon a process of consultation and soundings which reproduces the judiciary in its own image . |
| 19 | THE 10th anniversary of the restoration of the Ffestiniog Railway back to Blaenau will be celebrated by a barbecue on Saturday , May 30 for those members of stall and volunteers who worked on ‘ Project Blaenau ’ . |
| 20 | An excellent method is to use one of the sponge filters which are operated by an air pump and can easily be regulated — plus the fry can graze upon the minute particles of food and organisms which colonise the sponge . |
| 21 | An extensive catchment area with mineral soils , frozen in winter but waterlogged in summer , supports swards of moss and lichens which contribute minerals to the water ( Table 4.2 ) ; the lake is also visited by seals in summer . |
| 22 | The working visit is part of an on-going exchange of information and personnel which follows the signing , last November , of a Protocol Agreement between Torness and the Smolensk Power Station . |
| 23 | The battle of politics and ideas which focuses on the inner city represents a conflict between sets of interests and values which have a long history , dating at least from the 1830s and the New Poor Law of 1834 . |
| 24 | It said : ‘ The public should be warned against costly methods of diagnosis and treatments which have not been validated . ’ |
| 25 | I describe the proceedings here , however , because they raise questions about the willingness of the GMC to protect patients from forms of diagnosis and treatments which have not been sufficiently validated and about its lenient attitude to a doctor who persistently touted for business by attracting the interest of tabloid journalists . |
| 26 | But other shocks to the system followed in quick succession : a new language and culture ; the insensitivity , not always unintentional , of foster parents , teachers and hostel administrators ; the cruelty of other children ( and some adults ) who equated all things German with Nazism ; the coming-to-terms with the long-term or permanent loss of family and friends who had been left behind , and the awareness that refugees could not expect to be treated other than as second-class citizens — to mention only the common causes of illness and depression . |
| 27 | Many world-famous tennis celebrities added anecdotes to the fond reminiscences of family and friends who appeared , with Kay , on the show . |
| 28 | When thinking about the bereaved , this is the sort of network of family and friends it becomes even more crucial to identify and contact . |