Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [pron] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Unemployed women are often defined out of the labour market by structures and ideologies which regulate that market .
2 Later canals , built by engineers such as Telford and Smeaton , had more changes of level and used a greater variety of structures ; locks , tunnels , embankments , cuttings and aqueducts which demanded large amounts of money and considerable engineering skill .
3 So , having assessed the relative importance of the place and the house in which you would like to live , tables such as these should also help to assess the particular locations and houses which seem attractive , and you can then score the extent to which they fulfil your requirements .
4 Traditionally , country cottages and houses which have unusual or unique features or are in need of a lot of renovation may be auctioned , if only because valuation is likely to be difficult .
5 She allows herself to have no possessions , only two sets of clothing and anything else she gets from charities goes straight into making homes and clinics which provide free health care to poor mothers for their children .
6 Or something perhaps … moving through space forwards but back at the same time , as if I consisted of anti-matter for ever cancelled out … as if in all our words and gestures , acts and attitudes we effected some sort of parallel penetration into whatever had originated them , their primeval atom , with built-in unstableness. ( 107–108/303–4 )
7 Numerous disputes arose between the Forest officers and the owners of lands and woods they had re-afforested .
8 Turnouts in Guardian elections were extremely low ( perhaps 10–15% of registered electors ) and Guardians who offended influential ratepayers were easily ousted .
9 Each dance followed particular rules laid down by the dancing masters , and this idea continued to prevail even after Gluck began to compose operas and ballets which had greater continuity .
10 ‘ In the first category we have criminal cases , judicial review and cases which involve matrimonial status and the welfare of children or those under a disability .
11 The home authority , on the other hand , could find its funds being compulsorily diverted to services and cases it considered low priority .
12 The home authority , on the other hand , could find its funds being compulsorily diverted to services and cases it considered low priority .
13 A further advantage of choosing a fish-only system is that you do n't need to extend your mortgage to light the aquarium as is necessary with photosynthetic ( light loving ) invertebrates such as corals and anemones which require high-intensity expensive lighting systems .
14 However , I would not claim that these displays have any culturally mediated symbolic meaning , as do the myths and rituals which bind human groups .
15 This was ideal for those hobbyist and experimenters who derived much fun a pleasure from making their computers ‘ sing and dance ’ in the real world .
16 The military received high expenditure to maintain their new prestigious role in society , and the economic elite were assured of policies and contracts which maintained effective demand and profitability .
17 ‘ Industrial democracy ’ on the other hand is a term which is generally taken to refer to particular practices of management already operating in certain capitalist economies ( e.g. West Germany ) or specific proposals such as those of the Bullock Committee ( Bullock , 1977 ) , practices and proposals which give some role to workers or their representatives in enterprise decision-making , but which are not necessarily linked to the overall social planning of the economy in the interests of working people .
18 We heard of daily torture , public hangings , guards who walked about with whips , gas chambers , castrated children and prisoners who lay dead for hours in the communal beds .
19 International , or transnational , studies deal with those institutions and phenomena which cross national boundaries , such as the industrial relations aspects of multinational companies or the international labour movement .
20 As Wimpol becomes increasingly international in technology and operations I intend that interchange of personnel of all disciplines will increase between the regional bases of USA , UK and Singapore .
21 After 1976 both Jordan and Israel made conscious efforts to detach rural society from the leadership offered by local towns , the former through the landlords and merchants who controlled agricultural marketing , the latter through its Village Leagues , a network aimed at maintaining dependency and destroying the credibility of the nationalist urban leadership .
22 for it would have been possible , they argue , to move towards a system that examined knowledge and skills which crossed old subject boundaries ; a new way of looking both at the sciences and the arts could have been incorporated in the new syllabuses .
23 One of the lessons to be drawn from the study of early-twentieth-century imperialism is the extraordinary durability of policies and programmes which lack all possibility of being realised .
24 The rules and institutions which regulated medieval agriculture and ordered rural society differed in almost every particular from place to place and from generation to generation .
25 As we shall see , many of the controversies and conflicts which permeate contemporary rural life either stem from this fundamental change in the social composition of most villages or are exacerbated by it ; but it is also important to remember that this transformation has been provoked by preceding changes in the economic and social organization of agriculture .
26 Hewlett-Packard Co denies there is any pressure on it to deliver multiprocessing workstations despite the hype surrounding Sun Microsystems Inc 's latest salvo of desktops and servers which use multiple SuperSparc CPUs .
27 Friedman was almost single handedly responsible for the emergence of the intellectual chasm between Keynesians and monetarists which grew increasing wide in the 1960s and 1970s .
28 Rather than presenting a unified theory , the paper explores the tensions and contradictions which surround each theme and the connections between them .
29 One is certainly not enough , when you consider the number of cars and drivers who use this stretch of motorway each day.It 's unwise for people tol have to drive for more than an hour and a half without taking a break .
30 Verbal reports always precede written reports in any case ( on the grapevine ) , thus making written reports redundant along with the managers and secretaries who waste precious time writing them .
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