Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In it Mead pointed out that every society designates some qualities and activities ‘ masculine ’ and others ‘ feminine ’ ; but the qualities and activities themselves may be different , and even opposite , from one culture to the next . |
| 2 | Rents will go up by almost ten percent instead of forty five , and houses themselves wo n't be sold to a housing association . |
| 3 | The Royal Society of Portrait Painters reports a threefold increase in commissions in the past three years alone and artists themselves testify that it is indeed a seller 's market . |
| 4 | The mine captains came up from the ranks , having been tributers and tutworkers themselves . |
| 5 | EMS has a full-time director , Ronnie Rae , an office in Aberdeen , and a board of directors which includes music club officialdom , business people and musicians themselves . |
| 6 | In this situation , bonds will appear less attractive and potential buyers will postpone intended purchases and bond-holders themselves will attempt to sell bonds before the fall in bond prices . |
| 7 | By ‘ effects ’ or ‘ appearances ’ , Hobbes means the ordinary observable qualities and properties of things or phenomena , or those things and phenomena themselves . |
| 8 | I have always enjoyed going to Highfield Holiday park and to Clacton because I know that when you get there , there always seem to be a lot of people who make the effort to welcome people to the Holiday park and they have always seemed friendly and if anything was wrong i.e. you lose something or somebody accidentally falls and hurts themselves or indeed somebody else the staff are always quick to help and so are a lot of other people who are on holiday there . |
| 9 | Apart from the risks to car drivers , passengers , and cyclists themselves however , pedestrian casualty figures are also alarming . |
| 10 | So we go up and pick her up in Kensington , bring her back , she unpacks her bag and plonks herself down , she eats everything that 's put in front of her , and second helpings , |
| 11 | Governors , parents , teachers and heads themselves can not now take their eye — for too long — off their pupils ' achievements in the basic curriculum . |
| 12 | I hope that employers , government and trainers themselves will treat it as a serious attempt by the trade unions to contribute to the debate on training for the industry . |
| 13 | The emergence of semi-literacy in England of all places , in ways which would make other civilised nations shrink in disgrace , is central to the catastrophe , and will be described alongside the accounts of the libraries and books themselves . |
| 14 | Of course farmers and pastoralists themselves have developed their own and usually effective methods of soil and water conservation which they had evolved themselves and suited their own social relations of production and ecological conditions , but which had been disrupted by the colonial experience ( see Ch. 4 for examples ) . |
| 15 | The next part of the discussion moves away from research institutions to farmers and pastoralists themselves , and concerns the accessibility of new agricultural technology to these people . |
| 16 | Many of these techniques of conservation have already been developed by cultivators and pastoralists themselves . |
| 17 | Having set the scene , we can now look at some of the trades and convergences themselves . |
| 18 | It is important at this point to have in view the position reached at the beginning of the 1970s by the validation procedures of the CNAA , the procedures of the colleges and polytechnics themselves , and the issue of institutional ‘ autonomy ’ or ‘ independence ’ . |
| 19 | But transferred votes can not be counted in assessing proportionality , and quotas themselves can contribute to anomalies : a quota of 25% , for example , will suffice to win 33.3% of the seats in a three-member constituency . |
| 20 | ‘ Positive planning ’ would open up a dream future : The nation was to be planned , as the McAllisters ' distinguished contributions proceeded to demonstrate : towns , agriculture , land use , industry , transport , fuel , homes , the arts and planners themselves . |
| 21 | Not only were women to a large extent excluded , but the very concepts and models themselves embodied a masculine view of the world . |
| 22 | 2 or 3 days at home in Oxfordshire is a luxury , even when he does get the chance to relax , he watches re-runs and readies himself for the next race . |
| 23 | Science and technology thus ceases to be seen as autonomous but rather as part of an interesting system in which the internalised ideological assumptions help to determine the actual experimental designs and theories of the scientists and technologists themselves . |
| 24 | This provides support for the suggestion that in certain cases part-time and temporary workers are equivalents , and are viewed as such by employers and workers themselves . |
| 25 | Apart from the significance of the labour shortage , the researchers at CREES think that a study of labour policy-making will contribute to our knowledge of how policy is formed in the USSR , how priorities are determined , by whom , and how the various interest groups ( the Communist Party , the government bureaucracy , the economic ministries , factory managers and workers themselves ) view labour problems and the solutions proposed to alleviate them . |
| 26 | The four SROs have evolved largely through the choice of the financial institutions and intermediaries themselves , and there is no suggestion that these were arbitrarily placed on the financial system . |
| 27 | At the local level Peter left tax collection to the army , dealing through intermediaries chosen by the peasantry and townsmen themselves . |
| 28 | and governments themselves have a relatively short lifespan compared with the time scale for the generation and implementation of policy . |
| 29 | And the levels of activity within their molecules and atoms themselves is even greater . |
| 30 | UK corporates , building societies , local authorities and banks themselves are the main investors . |