Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [noun] [vb base] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the curriculum is academic , but within a rounded context , wherein the whole child is educated to his or her whole potential and the arts and sports take their place ; |
| 2 | Songs and sketches find her playing anything from a charity ball organiser to a TV agony aunt ( Irish , like Dillie herself ) . |
| 3 | Frogs and birds pamper themselves with plumes of pampas grass |
| 4 | Nonetheless , even today , many frogs and toads find it advantageous to follow this strategy . |
| 5 | Weedkillers and pesticides work their way up the food chain from plants , through insects and birds , into your family — which is a good reason to keep your garden organic . |
| 6 | Every immigrant family carries this sense of pain somewhere in its psyche , but often it is left to the women to hold the sense of pain and loss while the husbands and children find their way in the new world . |
| 7 | Some husbands and wives know their mates are unfaithful to them , but they do n't confront the issue . |
| 8 | The Koreans and Japanese get their books via the USA . |
| 9 | on radio , television , sponsorship , sessions and producer work I take 20 per cent because those things are often rather fiddly , involving quite a lot of work and not producing very much of a financial return . |
| 10 | 3 " Brothers and sisters have I none , Yet this man 's father is my father 's son . |
| 11 | Not only trees but almost all groups of animals and plants exhibit their greatest variety in the tropics in terms of the number of species recorded there . |
| 12 | ‘ You know we are Jews and Jews remember what happened 50 years ago and during this time nobody in the world was doing anything to save the Jews , ’ Kahn told reporters at Zagreb 's Pleso airport . |
| 13 | Journalists and editors know what will please the proprietor and what will displease . |
| 14 | Outside the Algarve — where the majority of accommodation is self-catering — by staying at pousadas , like Spanish paradores , set up as a method of making otherwise disused monasteries , castles and fortresses pay their way . |
| 15 | Often local craftsmen and women exhibit their talents , such as spinning , corn-dolly making and weaving . |
| 16 | 'Twill be well because he is not the real thing , never could be , and is not even now presuming to be ; but conversely , 'twill be well because the imitation , the travesty , of the real thing can also usurp it and to all intents and purposes become it . |
| 17 | It can and will work , but only if heads and governors involve themselves in a true partnership based on mutual trust , respect and understanding . |
| 18 | Tens of thousands of Jordanians and Algerians say they are eager to join the fight on Iraq 's side . |
| 19 | Disputes and enmity endanger it . |
| 20 | A client is entitled to have his affairs treated with complete confidentiality ( save with his consent , or where the solicitor 's duty is overridden by his public duty to disclose matters tending to the commission of a crime or to disclose information in response to a sub poena or witness summons ) and the retained solicitor is under a duty to ensure that his co-partners and staff do nothing which might result in a breach of that rule . |
| 21 | The Commission has been saddened to hear of cases where clergy and organists make it difficult or impossible for serious pupils to practise . |
| 22 | Erm well we had a a big raffle erm we wrote away to all the local shops and restaurants ask them to donate prizes and we raised a lot of money through that and also my mum erm cooked Indian snacks which we sold during the interval erm which everyone loved and so it worked quite well . |
| 23 | Present-day snakes and lizards have them . |
| 24 | But too often the system 's outdated working methods and attitudes prevent them from giving their best . |
| 25 | He is particularly interested in the way that words and sentences change their meaning according to the context in which they are said and heard , and in the ways in which we all fill in the unspoken background of what is said to us . |
| 26 | The postures and exercises compel one to break in certain ways — the flow of breath being influenced sometimes through exertion , or through stretching , or through carrying a movement to its ultimate limit . |
| 27 | On retirement their savings and pension enable them to buy their own flat or cottage ; but because they may never have cooked more than a snack for themselves or lived alone , the adjustment to this different way of life can be hard to make . |
| 28 | Both Georgians and Armenians have their own independent churches and have been Christian since the fourth century , six centuries before the Russians ; their distinctive languages and alphabets also date from the fourth century . |
| 29 | In my garden the yellow Welsh poppy , Meconopsis cambrica , Corydalia lutea , alkanet , the evening primrose , Oenothera perennis , Alchemilla mollis and forget-me-nots seed themselves freely around . |
| 30 | Since the will is usually the only evidence the testator has left of his intentions , where doubts and ambivalences occur they must be resolved without recourse to the person who would have been best qualified to explain them . |