Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [conj] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The labelling of graphs and diagrams and the colouring-in of pie charts and bar graphs are often automatic processes , making the programming much simpler . |
| 2 | First , a number of rules were specified about the use of rewards and punishers and it was suggested that a reward ‘ menu ’ be drawn up for each intervention in order that the child does not become satiated by a single type of reward which could then lose its reinforcing properties . |
| 3 | Where can you get training on one particular area of competence , or on the particular combination of competences that staff and managers need ? |
| 4 | While those who had gone back to Braithwaite 's mill had been picked out of the crowd by wild little Oliver Rattrie , the eldest Rattrie boy — nineteen or twenty she supposed he 'd be by now — the twisted , crook-shouldered lad who had done more talking of pikes and pistols and bloody revolution than anybody else at the meetings in her back-yard . |
| 5 | The worry for the anthropologists is that some sociobiologists jump directly from their impressively careful observations of the mating behaviours of lions and deer and ostriches to sweeping assertions about the causal determinants of mating behaviour among men . |
| 6 | Should we form links , merge or acquire business to strengthen our market presence , broaden our range of products and services and spread our financial risk ? |
| 7 | The square outside the train station at Asyut was a maelstrom of crowds and buses and shouting taxi drivers . |
| 8 | It includes the creation of panels of concerned scholars in various fields and disciplines , the commissioning of articles and books , the study of grassroots activities , the assessment of popular resource materials and the evaluation of projects as stimulus and challenge to theory . |
| 9 | This ‘ blanket ’ is a generous fold of skin stretching from the side of the neck to the tips of fingers and toes and extending to the tip of the long tail on each side of the body . |
| 10 | ‘ I should love to do Challenges and help with Pack Ventures and go on Pack Holidays and have lots of Brownies to play with , and I 'm sure I 'd soon win lots of badges and stars and things and be a Sixer and ‘ |
| 11 | Or , rather , not quite at home since Mrs Rose 's kitchen did not smell of herbs and spices and Provence . |
| 12 | Bunches of herbs and pot and saucepan racks can be hung from the ceiling . |
| 13 | With its old calendars , its lurid cardboard ikons , its bunches of herbs and shallots and its blue-painted meat-safe hanging from the ceiling , it was like any other cottage living-kitchen on Phraxos . |
| 14 | When Italian voters go the polls today they will have a bewildering array of 116 parties to choose from , including the Movement in Defence of Motorists , the League of Housewives and Pensioners and , of course , the Party of Love , headed by Italy 's self-styled porno star , Moana Pozzi — who has recently taken over the mantle from her screen colleague and Member of Parliament , Ilona Staller , La Cicciolina , who is taking time off from politics to have a baby . |
| 15 | Behaviour at a higher skilled level is characterised by selectivity in choice of inputs and outputs and by increasing influence of the past and the future rather than the immediate situation . |
| 16 | It does not do any harm to have a look and see what firms say about themselves in the various directories , including The Legal 500 , The Chambers Directory of Solicitors and Barristers and The Law Society Directory . |
| 17 | ‘ When we went , Leeds Poly was full of dropouts and freaks and punks , y'know . |
| 18 | It is not a history of diagnosis or treatment but of policies and institutions and their relationship to theories of the child mind . |
| 19 | The dressmaker called , and the merciless corsetière , and two obsequious men from Bodmin with bolts of wools and flannels and silks which they laid out across the drawing-room sofa for Aunt Emily to see . |
| 20 | Another man snatches bread from the table of hundreds of widows and orphans and similar credulous souls who do not know the ways of company promoters ; and , as likely as not , he is run into Parliament . ’ |
| 21 | Somehow , a stronger system of checks and balances and of public scrutiny in order to ensure greater objectivity must be established . |
| 22 | They told her nothing , paperbacks and hardbacks mixed indiscriminately , a wide variety of titles and subjects and a few back editions of The Writers ' and Artists ' Yearbook . |
| 23 | For females , from puberty to menopause there is a monthly cycle of oestrogens and progesterone and , in these also , daily and ultradian rhythms of release are found . |
| 24 | He found a rusty man-trap in a cupboard — an evil contraption of chains and springs and teeth — and assured her that it had taken the leg off more than one poacher in its day . |
| 25 | A moment later there was a rattling of chains and locks and the door swung open . |
| 26 | He could hear Buddie yelling at the top of his voice as he thrashed the dogs , and the rattle of chains as Rosie and Lady leaped about , barking and snarling in confused excitement . |
| 27 | All this interference with rivers by man , the building of mill-races and mill-ponds and , in some cases , quite major diversions of watercourses , did not destroy the essential character of rivers . |
| 28 | According to its preamble , which incorporates in part the terms of article 220 , the Convention seeks in particular to facilitate the recognition and enforcement of judgments of courts or tribunals and to strengthen in the Community the legal protection of persons therein established . |
| 29 | Take careful note of take-offs and landings and re-walk several times if necessary . |
| 30 | High against the sky the silhouette of sires and towers and ragged gables presents a constantly changing panorama , from the sharp clear light of morning to the lingering glow of the northern sunset which illumines the old grey stone with a strange radiance . |