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

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1 ( 7 ) In this section , in relation to planning and building control , the appropriate authority in the case of the Highland , Borders and Dumfries and Galloway Regions is the regional council and , in any other case , is the district or islands council , and in relation to food hygiene , the appropriate authority is the district or islands council .
2 And postage stamps are not the only things that have gone up in price .
3 In the absence of a three-dimensional structure for the free operator , it is impossible to tell how much of the twist variation and backbone movement is due to sequence-dependent conformation , as opposed to distortion induced by protein binding or crystal packing forces .
4 The Messenger Group and Guardian system is much larger with 86 workstations across 14 sites and a price tag of around £250,000 .
5 For instance , although Daily Telegraph and Guardian readers are not dissimilar in social class , the Telegraph scores very much higher in the established high-status suburbs and high-status retirement areas ; while the Guardian leads in high-status , non-family areas in inner cities and especially in inner London .
6 The two sides are also split over whether all share certificates and refund cheques are now safely delivered to the Abbey 's 5.5 million shareholders .
7 There is also a re-issue of The Encyclopaedia of Golf Collectibles , revealing that a matched set of irons , ‘ Harmonised Irons ’ , could be obtained from MacGregor way back in 1926 , and that golf balls coloured oriole orange and canary yellow were available from Wilson in 1928 .
8 The Junior boys and Cadet girls are defending champions but much is expected of the Junior girls side , with the U-12 girls having an outside chance of upsetting Leinster .
9 Part-time jobs and contract work are increasing everywhere as firms demand flexibility and seek to dodge hefty non-wage costs and employment protection laws .
10 Financial management and the complexities of human resource and contract management are the bread and butter skills of many modern businesses .
11 Glaziers and contract cleaners were also working over the weekend to limit the disruption to tens of thousands of workers returning to their offices today .
12 I will suggest in this section of the essay that the reason why the antithesis between liberal principles and contract theory is so frequently overlooked lies in a second level of debate which the discussion of liberalism masks .
13 Even so , most of the practices said that the data collection and processes of budget and contract setting were extremely demanding .
14 At the lighthouse , the keepers and contract workmen were taking the opportunity of the weather to carry out painting and maintenance work .
15 Associated road and rail work was also completed .
16 Advancing at more than 50 metres a week , the elevated road and rail highway is cutting a swathe through the city under the noses of astonished motorists .
17 There are a number of cases of this kind , and I would point out that air and rail journeys are only two of a number of service benefits which have a number of problems attached to them .
18 Many telephones were out of order , and rail services were disrupted by damage to the line at Deganwy .
19 That effort frustrated the Russian attempt to isolate the three Allies from Berlin and normal road and rail links were re-established in May 1949 .
20 The state of the Welsh road and rail infrastructure is of considerable interest to Northern Ireland given to Principality 's role as its landbridge to the Channel Tunnel .
21 He said rehabilitation , resettlement , retraining and grant aid were all integral parts of the service offered by the Legion , often after service personnel had been injured or disabled .
22 Although much of the nuclear industry is centred in Russia , uranium is mined in the Ukraine and the central Asian republics , and uranium pellets are manufactured in Kazakhstan .
23 The dark red and damson robes were heavy and stifling and they could not possibly be what she was looking for .
24 Anticoagulated blood or platelet-rich plasma was passed through the column at a fixed flow rate and platelet counts were performed before and after exposure to these foreign surfaces — the difference being the number of platelets adhering .
25 The principal problem for both speech and handwriting recognition is the variability of the input .
26 The group concluded that ‘ arresting doctors , medical personnel , cemetery and morgue workers was a tactic designed to block accurate reporting of the number of dead and wounded ’ .
27 Therefore , a work may be easy in one respect and hard in others ; for example , Silkin 's short poem ‘ The Worm ’ is straightforward as far as the vocabulary and sentence structure are concerned but , even so , the meaning of the poem is by no means transparent .
28 Their conclusion was that despite the large number of variables considered by the studies , the traditional variables of word difficulty and sentence difficulty were by far the most important .
29 Back channel behaviour , which can also include nods and sentence completions is used when a participant wants to indicate to the person speaking that he should continue .
30 Dropping shoulders in a sideways widening direction makes hyperventilation more difficult since the chest and diaphragm muscles are stretched outwards .
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