Example sentences of "and [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | RIVALS AND CONTEMPORARIES |
| 2 | We have clear descriptions of Charles from his chroniclers and contemporaries ; he is probably the first powerful figure to emerge from the Dark Ages as a completely documented ruler . |
| 3 | All around him his friends and contemporaries were exhibiting and selling their work , some of them under contract . |
| 4 | Yet other varieties happen to find themselves in possession of new tricks : they turn out to be even better self-replicators than their predecessors and contemporaries . |
| 5 | Today I no longer work in the grant-aided sector and a great number of women who were my colleagues and contemporaries have moved on to work in broadcast or cable television . |
| 6 | By the end of the decade it was Gloucester , not the bishop , who dominated the region and contemporaries knew it . |
| 7 | His recipes , some his own and many collected from his friends and contemporaries , were put together in the form of a private notebook rather than for publication . |
| 8 | The development of a specifically Croatian literature in Dalmatia is normally attributed to the high-born , Italian-educated Marko Marulić ( 1450–1524 ) from Split , although many of his predecessors and contemporaries spoke Croatian and were aware of the vernacular tradition . |
| 9 | The reception , supported by the Glenmorangie Distillery Co. , was attended by several of MacDiarmid 's friends and contemporaries , who heard a lively and enlightening talk given by the writer Owen Dudley Edwards . |
| 10 | By the end of the decade it was Gloucester , not the bishop , who dominated the region and contemporaries knew it . |
| 11 | The Diary of Bulstrode Whitelocke , 1605–1675 and Contemporaries of Bulstrode Whitelocke , edited by Ruth Spalding ( Oxford University Press for The British Academy , 1990 ) |
| 12 | Around 450,000 people are estimated to have been exposed to radioactive emissions from the Mayak plant near Chelyabinsk ( which still produces plutonium and reprocesses waste ) in the 1940s and 50s . |
| 13 | At a time when a good public image is essential for universities , English is unable to explain itself in ways immediately intelligible to the outsider , is notoriously riven with doubts and disagreements that prevent it from having a shared sense of purpose , and may at intervals erupt into crises that attract the wrong sort of publicity . |
| 14 | The English , Irish , Scots and Welsh have always been like a family which , despite differences and disagreements , remains loyal . |
| 15 | More time should have been given to expert uncertainties and disagreements about the nature of the disease ( reviewed as recently as last October by Solomon Snyder in The Lancet . |
| 16 | After 3 years , he resigned because of interference from and disagreements amongst Navy Department bureaucrats . |
| 17 | Uncles and aunts were likely to be out of touch with what was happening to their family on the continent , and sometimes there were tensions and disagreements which had caused them to move away in the first place . |
| 18 | Food , of course , remains a topic of passionate concern — the focus of minor complaints and disagreements which rumble on for long periods — and outbursts of contentment which are extremely short-lived . |
| 19 | This , as should by now be clear , is a crucial distinction in this argument , for it underpins ( along with the public/private distinction utilised by Wolfenden ) many of the conflicts and disagreements over morality and the ‘ proper ’ role of the criminal law during this post-war period . |
| 20 | When approached more rigorously , however , difficulties and disagreements soon appear from both political and practical perspectives . |
| 21 | Though there are variations of this view , and disagreements among its adherents , we may validly characterize it as sentence linguistics , because it confines its inquiries to what happens within sentences . |
| 22 | Objectives , for example in the area of educational policy , are often multi-purpose and disagreements constantly arise as to what these objectives are or should be . |
| 23 | This moment in the history of sexual politics is fast becoming a battleground for voicing current debates and disagreements . |
| 24 | In fact , though , a vast amount of ink continued to be spilled in arguments over taxonomy , and disagreements over how to classify particular groups still reflected differing philosophical positions on the significance of natural relationships . |
| 25 | There will also be conflicts and disagreements arising from the organisation itself which will result from a number of factors . |
| 26 | He and his mother had had many arguments and disagreements over the past few years . |
| 27 | Despite the creation in June 1990 of the right-wing Union for France ( Union pour la France — UPF ) a " confederation " of the UDF and the RPR [ see pp. 37683-84 ] , divisions and disagreements continued on the political right wing . |
| 28 | Cultural differences and disagreements in strategy emerged , however , some delegates favouring the linking of indigenous issues with wider political causes and others favouring protests by indigenous people alone . |
| 29 | Franco 's own forces were similarly , if less virulently , shot through with internal rivalries and disagreements ; but if confronted with a choice between the status quo and the risk of " the reds " returning , they would all opt for the former . |
| 30 | The main discussion and disagreements have centred around the appropriate policy for dealing with mergers . |