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

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1 By the end of the decade it was Gloucester , not the bishop , who dominated the region and contemporaries knew it .
2 By the end of the decade it was Gloucester , not the bishop , who dominated the region and contemporaries knew it .
3 The development of a specifically Croatian literature in Dalmatia is normally attributed to the high-born , Italian-educated Marko Marulić ( 1450–1524 ) from Split , although many of his predecessors and contemporaries spoke Croatian and were aware of the vernacular tradition .
4 Today I no longer work in the grant-aided sector and a great number of women who were my colleagues and contemporaries have moved on to work in broadcast or cable television .
5 Around 450,000 people are estimated to have been exposed to radioactive emissions from the Mayak plant near Chelyabinsk ( which still produces plutonium and reprocesses waste ) in the 1940s and 50s .
6 Despite the creation in June 1990 of the right-wing Union for France ( Union pour la France — UPF ) a " confederation " of the UDF and the RPR [ see pp. 37683-84 ] , divisions and disagreements continued on the political right wing .
7 There will also be conflicts and disagreements arising from the organisation itself which will result from a number of factors .
8 The main discussion and disagreements have centred around the appropriate policy for dealing with mergers .
9 There is a complex interrelation of both systems and we can again distinguish different countries in which this dual function of law plays a greater or lesser role : the UK for example , without a written constitution , without a constitutional court , without a long tradition of legal science but with a multitude of extra-legal institutions and ideologies does not rely on legal ideology to the same extent as other countries , for example , West Germany and the USA .
10 Candidates choosing Religions and Ideologies follow two specialised courses .
11 Some have seen the RPF as a twentieth century expression of Bonapartism — the tradition of a providential leader appealing to men and women of all classes and ideologies to unite in the interests of an orderly state and national greatness .
12 So religions , symbolic systems , and ideologies develop a metaphysical life of their own and acquire qualities which stubbornly resist being reduced to mere reflections of the social order .
13 1985:21 ) led to the view that belief systems and ideologies associated with religions deserved study .
14 Qian Qichen , in an interview with Liaowang on Dec. 25 , said : " Conflicts between different social systems and ideologies have become more complicated and intense [ but ] " socialism has not failed , nor has capitalism attained victory . "
15 It would not have been surprising if Eva 's many gifts and accomplishments had brought the temptation to pride .
16 The Norman Towers — Entering through these it is easy to imagine the Knights of the Middle Ages setting off for battle , banners flying and a host of bowmen and falconers bringing up the rear .
17 This would produce helium-3 and tritium ; the tritium is unstable and decays producing helium-3 which would add to that directly produced .
18 The Community Land Scheme was complex , and became increasingly so as regulations , directions and circulars followed the passing of the two Acts .
19 Everything , then , will depend upon the guidance and circulars produced by the Department of Education and Science , i.e. upon the way in which the Act is interpreted by the department and implemented at local level .
20 The Ministry of Agriculture collaborated on the dog study and circulars have gone out urging villages to fence in their garbage dumps to deprive the animals of at least that source of food , but there is no wave of popular enthusiasm for slaughtering dogs wholesale .
21 In West Mercia , there have been regular reissues of Force Orders to remind members to be circumspect in their dissertations and essays prepared for part-time diplomas in Management Services or the NEBS qualification which is now an integral part of inspector training .
22 Anyway , Alan needed his sleep , he had books to read , plans to draw , and essays to write .
23 They were all wearing the special white clothes and hats to protect their faces and bodies , and they were all holding scanners .
24 Curtains would be closed , arm bands worn , and hats removed as the hearse passed by .
25 The important features of this image were the eyes , which were large and gleaming , and the beard , a riverful of silvers and creams , whites and blue-greys , channels and forks resembling da Vinci 's turbulences , the apparent source of light .
26 Susan : For example in Cookery , there were some knives and forks gone missing , right , and Mrs B goes ‘ Where 's the knives and forks ? ’ looking at us lot ( the Afro-Caribbean pupils in the class ) .
27 That 's what causes knives and forks to bend , not the metal itself . ’
28 Knives and forks clattered down and forms were kicked over in the uproar which followed .
29 Those who pursue comparisons of the kind I am referring to are likely to be impressed by the staying-power of a literary preoccupation to which a variety of temperaments and compulsions has been attracted , and could well be inclined to believe that Pechorin 's duel and indifference may have been among the precedents that weighed , a century later , with a woman bent on contriving her appointment with destiny .
30 Although Anglo-Spanish relations deteriorated after 1568 and Philip 's protective mantle gradually began to slip away , the Spanish king still declined to involve himself in plots and conspiracies to overthrow Elizabeth .
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