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

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1 Of the many castles and stately homes to visit , Chiddingstone , Hever Castle , Penshurst Place , and Hatchlands are all fairly local .
2 Members of the group of hotels , conference centres and stately homes hope to use the bridge as a strong marketing tool .
3 The meeting provided a sparkling overview of the very real advances in getting to grips with the immunoregulatory and immunopathological mechanisms involved , and in vaccine development .
4 Britain 's top Olympic and paralympic athletes gathered today to celebrate the outstanding achievements in their sports .
5 A different group of five- , eight- and ten-year-old children took part in the deductive marking experiment .
6 Morag Donaldson ( 1986 ) carried out two experiments to explore the extent to which five- , eight- , and ten-year-old children possess these cognitive and linguistic abilities .
7 Running east from Sedbergh to link with Wensleydale is the lovely unspoilt valley of Garsdale , native trees and lush pastures softening the harshness of the confining heights of Baugh Fell and Rise Hill .
8 Symbols and echoes of celebrated canvases vie with original designs and lush flourishes to create an aesthete 's garden of earthly delights .
9 It is important to emphasise before concluding this section that although flat-rate and earnings-related pensions imply that social needs are similar among older people — as , indeed , does the exclusion of older people from some benefits for people with disabilities ( Walker , 1990 ) — the fact is that needs , as well as resources , are unevenly distributed in old age .
10 Counts and metabolic parameters reverted to approximately pre-SO 4 levels when sulphate was stopped .
11 In addition , changes in cardiovascular variables , transcutaneous pO 2 and various hormonal and metabolic parameters have been documented in neonates undergoing painful procedures , confirming their ability to feel pain .
12 These differences , together with the serious physical health consequences and metabolic abnormalities associated with vomiting and purging , provide support for the DSM-IV subtyping of anorexia nervosa .
13 The accord was the third EC attempt to end fighting between those loyal to Bosnia and Serbian-led forces trying to partition the recently independent republic .
14 The study focused on welfare assistants working with children with special educational needs in ordinary primary schools and aimed to identify background experience , previous training and qualifications ; conditions of service and appointment procedures ; general duties and specific activities undertaken ; opinions about the usefulness of these activities to both pupils and teachers ; assistants ' role preferences ; and views regarding the kind of support and training required for effective service delivery .
15 The assistants were questioned in detail about their duties and specific activities undertaken .
16 In some European countries , such as Germany and the Netherlands , publication of this thesis is a pre-requisite before the degree is awarded , and specific journals exist for the publication of such theses .
17 It does not supersede the more detailed and specific provisions covering certain equipment contained in existing legislation , but it goes beyond such provisions in requiring a more wide-ranging assessment of risk .
18 It is simple to drop unsuccessful ideas because the computer retains the last 's shape and specific designs made on it .
19 Inevitably , New Historicist case studies of specific texts and specific contexts start to feel like metaphors for the whole culture .
20 Contrast can be optimized and specific features emphasized by experimenting with coloured filters on the light sources .
21 He draws on a rich body of primary material , mostly confraternity documents held in the Florentine Archivio di Stato , from which he extracts both general features of the companies and specific details relating to the structure and practices of 12 active laudesi companies in the city .
22 The anatomical points used are vital and specific combinations correspond to the particular ailments .
23 These experimental measures of intensity can be related to the wavefunctions for the upper and lower states using an integral known as the transition moment , Dif , which is of the form where ψi and ψf are the wavefunctions for the initial and the final states and M is the dipole moment operator , which can be obtained from symmetry tables .
24 The fact that our own personal experience of being alive is different to the experience which all other humans and lower creatures have of us , is a clear and obvious pointer to the mind-nature of this physical domain .
25 They then followed a path in the lee of the mountains to Loch Cluanie ( near which the upper and lower roads converge ) and thence Glen Shiel .
26 The release action describes how the hands , wrists and lower arms combine to return the clubface to the back of the ball at speed .
27 Both upper and lower chains contain a series of methylated guanines being the length of the modified sequence smaller than the footprint obtained with DNaseI , known already to overestimate the length of the binding sequence .
28 But the gradualist argument could be applied just as tellingly : chimp-like skull , body size and body build , feet retaining chimp-like features even though the pelvis and lower limbs indicate bipedalism .
29 Yet the popularity of vegetarianism owes much to the great variety of vegetables and fruits and lower costs achieved by the expanding exploitation of the Third World as a market garden .
30 I mean it may well be that we have in this country we have erm pretty much Mill 's system because MPs get paid relatively little bearing in mind what most of them could be getting elsewhere , so maybe we 've got something like Mill 's system but it strikes us as rather a bizarre suggestion that MPs should n't be paid to prevent adventurous and lower classes becoming MPs .
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