Example sentences of "[noun] and [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1934 he published another successful satirical novel , How Like an Angel , and a totally different book , Napoleon and his Marshals . |
| 2 | Editors are one thing with their charming manners and their bunches of flowers , but their minions , the hard men , the pack , the exposers , are quite another . |
| 3 | Perhaps it was his manners and his words . |
| 4 | The Captain , Commander Bayldon , went to Portsmouth to interview some Marine Pensioners for the Steward 's replacement and was presumably successful as Sergeant Hembury and his wife were employed shortly after at £1 10s. 0d. per week , plus board and lodging . |
| 5 | Mr Afshar was not an intellectual and his position did not afford him great administrative power . |
| 6 | The potential conflict between his financial responsibilities as a royal office-holder and his obligations as a servant or client of the Villiers interest emerged openly in the Parliaments of 1624–6 . |
| 7 | All they carried was the car 's normal spare wheel and its tool kit . |
| 8 | Breeze and Gay were turning their steps towards Sunset Cottage when a terrific hoot made them look round ; and there was the Blessington-Dalrymples ' car , with Basil at the wheel and his parents and sister behind . |
| 9 | Ceauşescu and his intelligence advisers recognized the corruptibility of many Western businessmen , but even more , they knew how to play upon on Western wishful thinking and self-deception . |
| 10 | The aim of RE according to the phenomenologists is promoting respect for , and understanding of , religion and its significance for behaviour in such a way as to leave intact pupils ' integrity — it is not educating into religion in any way , but educating about religion understood as more than information because involving a positive and creative approach to pluralism . |
| 11 | When one of the most energetic spokesmen for applied science in nineteenth-century Britain , Lyon Playfair , addressed the members of a mechanics institute in 1853 , he unashamedly declared that ‘ science is a religion and its philosophers are the priests of nature . ’ |
| 12 | There was little point in my merely presenting a Moonie world-view — the Moonies themselves can do that — but I did want to try to make their religion and its effects comprehensible to others who wanted to understand how well-educated and intelligent people from ‘ good homes ’ could lead the kind of life they did because they had come to believe that a strange Korean was the Messiah and must be obeyed . |
| 13 | ( By the beginning of the fifth century ) the Olympian religion and its mythology were in a state of crisis . |
| 14 | The Pastor smiled a little wryly , ‘ It is called a unitary family , now , and unitary families are under attack in certain quarters , but the family is at the heart of our religion and our civilisation . |
| 15 | His self-image and his idealism were being threatened at the anvil of reality . |
| 16 | Surprisingly Cudmore and his crew finished seventh and kept their lead in the individual standings . |
| 17 | She found the trug in the outhouse , not the kitchen , and cleaned it before trotting off towards the rectory , which was quite a long walk from Vetch Street , through a rowdy street market where an organ-grinder and his monkey were performing , and a Punch and Judy man stood on the corner , and Sally-Anne — no longer McAllister now that she was out of the house — for all of her advanced years stood and watched Mr Punch for some time before she guiltily remembered what she was supposed to be doing . |
| 18 | Similarly foreign-exchange and political risks and their relationship to required returns on investment need a proper evaluation as determinants of market attractiveness . |
| 19 | The principle of " guilt by association " was introduced ; people who had once been members of the Communist Party or a group sympathetic to that party , however long before , were smeared as security risks and their careers ruined . |
| 20 | The concept of structure also has its risks and its dangers , even though it appears to be based on the idea of relations as opposed to entities or determining origins ( as we saw above in the discussion of the Prague School ) . |
| 21 | The department offers a wide variety of degrees : honours in Fine Art in which half the student 's time is devoted to practical art ; honours in the History of Art which studies the subject as an academic discipline like English Literature or History , involving no practical work but stressing the relationship between the study of the arts and their practice ; and a variety of joint degrees such as those with French or Italian . |
| 22 | It 's traditional at the Cambridge Arts and our review is given extra impetus by an equally blue send-up of the pantomime , performed for our benefit by the crew . |
| 23 | On 1 August 1834 , after attending the wedding of his daughter Priscilla who had been such a tireless assistant to her father , Thomas Fowell Buxton and his gentlemen associates attended a ‘ grand public dinner ’ to celebrate the end of slavery with toasts and speeches . |
| 24 | Men like the radical literary critic of the 1840s , V. G. Belinsky , or Chernyshevsky and his colleague N. A. Dobroliubov , were cold and embittered men . |
| 25 | Myeloski , although dealing with kidnappers in other cases , had never known how the hostages survived their isolation and their fear . |
| 26 | This conspiracy , despite some initial setbacks , finally overthrew Mussadeq and his allies . |
| 27 | And will he be encouraged in future to do pets and their owners ? ) |
| 28 | It was a victory for her each time that she wrested him away from his desk and his teleprinter and his uniform . |
| 29 | As described in Cinefantastique 12/2–3 ( 1982 ) , Rambaldi and his team designed and made the models . |
| 30 | Raynor and his people had made Grainne and the others very welcome . |