Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [noun pl] and [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The problem is that the majority of vets are men and cats often take a very long time to forget the helpful attentions they receive at their local animal clinics .
2 Correct feeding means loose feeding with a so-called multiple particle bait , and in this category are maggots and casters .
3 Examples of its projects are paintings and works of applied art from the museums of the Moscow Kremlin ; the iconostasis from the Kirill-Belozerskiy Monastery ; a sculpted Gothic altarpiece by Bernt Notke and Hermann Rode in Tallin , Estonia ; murals and clay figures from a Buddhist shrine in Uzbekistan and frescoes of Dionysus in the Ferapontovyy .
4 It will now be their responsibility to explain to the public why some cases are priorities and others not .
5 Although the human operator is for many purposes within ergonomics appropriately considered as a mere information processing device , any design issue must be considered in the context that these human operators are individuals and citizens within communities .
6 Solicitors are men and women who have spent up to seven years qualifying in law .
7 Strictly speaking , a herb is any perennial plant whose soft or succulent stems die down to ground level every year , but many herbs are shrubs and trees , such as hyssop , the sweet bay and rosemary .
8 So far as Trading Standards is concerned Chairman , the major income are weights and measures testing fees and they are set down by LACOTS , that 's Local Authority Courts on Trad on Trading Standards on er , an agreed scale , so we charge exactly the same as other authorities , for the same , for the same work , and we increase the fees every year , er , in line with erm , the recommendation .
9 Amongst their ranks are housewives and mothers with teenage children , civil servants , factory workers , teachers , secretaries , a roofer and a self-employed graphic design artist .
10 Apart from the armed forces and civil and military users such as air traffic control , the biggest inhabitants of the spectrum are telecommunications and television .
11 It is estimated that some 9m now work the equivalent of a full year in agriculture — of which 65% are men and 35% women — although nearly 18m still have an attachment to the land .
12 Among the products of the research are guides and gazetteers of detailed information which makes a wide range of source material accessible to scholars and other enquirers .
13 Lecturers in college are guides and advisers on the subjects of study .
14 Tides are destroyers and creators of coastlines — nibbling here , building there ; it is odd to think that our coasts are shaped largely by the gravitational energy of the moon .
15 The specific skills which a person acquires whilst earning a living are combinations and developments of the standard skills of the normal healthy adult .
16 Many of the leading Sandinistas in revolutionary Nicaragua are poets and writers .
17 On one side were rows and rows of furrowed earth with tufts of green leaves sticking out of them and on the other , far side , stood a large cluster of trees dripping with apples and pears .
18 On the legs were cord-breeches and knee-buskins .
19 What make of car were Imps and Huskies ?
20 Those were the days when shops were shops and supermarkets had n't been invented , days of dark wood counters and lots of assistants , when carrier bags were always made of brown paper with string handles that ripped off in the rain .
21 The fact that many of the Free Presbyterian marchers were women and children suggests that they were equally sanguine .
22 Among Mr Powell 's successes in his five years in the hot seat were EastEnders and Birds Of A Feather .
23 The two most notorious characters of the Majestic front row gangs were Keynas and Chiv .
24 The winners were boys and girls ranging in age from 12 to 16 .
25 The result is surpluses and shortages and inefficiency .
26 Source of funds Its main source of funds is bonds and loans raised on a commercial basis on the capital markets in the EC and on other international markets also .
27 We had a simple code about the immediate drill before take-off — TMPF we called it , T was throttle , M was mixture , P was pitch and F was flaps and undercarriage .
28 But Liza ( with a ‘ Z ’ ) kicked the bad habits today her only addictions are cigarettes and caffeine and gets back into the old song-and-dance routine for Stepping Out , released on CIC Video on March 20 .
29 Eventual casualties were principles and scripts .
30 The band was two accordions and the tunes were chaloupés and javas valsées , penetrating , jerky , fast , and they were danced with extreme devotion and virtuosity .
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