Example sentences of "[noun] and [noun] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Now I was in a perfect world of ocean , mountains and great waters , of mighty men mightily acting or speaking , Napoleon and Byron himself .
2 In these two points of preservation of established religion and laws I may ( without vanity ) turn the reproach of my sufferings … into the honour of a kind of martyrdom .
3 The Arrangements document states that ‘ the emphasis in the Short Courses will be on exploring aspects of religion and morality which engage significant concepts emerging from the above definitions ’ ( i.e. of religious and moral education ) ( 1.1 ) .
4 He could not get on with the believing Jews from Eastern Europe whose religion and traditions he neither shared nor understood .
5 This is a minor thing , but in view of what erm Colin was saying about religion and nationality I think it 's something that will matter .
6 They had gunpowder and very sophisticated engineering devices well before the west , but one can document the fact that the Chinese gave up science , rather dramatically , erm in subsequent centuries , simply because they lost faith that there was any underlying order in nature to be discovered , that it was their background religion and philosophy which led them to give up the idea of unravelling the structure of the universe .
7 curriculum of a Catholic School includes the knowledge , skills , attitudes and values related to religion and faith which are formally taught by teachers in the curriculum .
8 Czechoslovakia — for many years the most reformist of the CMEA countries — was treated as a pariah by Western governments after the collapse of the Prague Spring and , under the watchful ‘ normalisation ’ of Gustav Husak 's leadership , has preferred economic stagnation to the sort of risks and reforms which could start Western trade flowing again .
9 Finally , probably the most decisive factor of all is whether both parties were properly advised legally , and equally skilled technically and commercially , so that they should have been capable of adequately assessing the risks and rewards they were undertaking in the transactions and of producing a contract document which properly reflected this .
10 ( ‘ Might it not be safer and better in future to do business for her openly , for 10% or 15% rather than take such risks and worries which are very trying ? ’ . )
11 Maurice Fermoy became the Conservative Member of Parliament for King 's Lynn while his Scottish wife , who gave up a promising career as a concert pianist to marry , founded the King 's Lynn Festival for Arts and Music which , since its inception in 1951 , has attracted world renowned musicians such as Sir John Barbirolli and Yehudi Menuhin .
12 I shall reject all arts and entertainments which depend on participation in the feelings of other people , whether these people are real or imaginary , whether I am watching a game or watching a theatre .
13 ‘ 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 .
14 Others with not dissimilar roots to have attracted the attention of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences which doles out the little gold men , include Charles Laughton ( Scarborough ) , Anthony Havelock Allen ( Darlington ) and Flora Robson ( South Shields ) .
15 In the view of Holman and others who take a similar approach , bad parenting is firmly linked with social deprivation and its concomitant pressures on families .
16 At Pompeii and Herculaneum there are examples of the domus and the villa while at Ostia can be seen considerable remains of insulae .
17 He could also play a variety of instruments ( and passed on this ability to his children ) and knew songs and melodies which had never been written down — just passed on from ear to ear via generations of Dalesmen .
18 It 's a very personal way of thinking and writing which we have encountered several times already , and which now , twenty-seven years after that letter to his brother , appears most insistently with Raskolnikov as he Paused for a moment to take breath , to collect himself , and to enter as a man ’ and tell the police who it was killed the old money-lender and her sister .
19 At an already existing school with much less lavish provision , Ron Mitson of Codsall Comprehensive established a thorough change of the total organizational pattern of the school in order to provoke , stimulate and support the kind of thinking and innovation he sought from his staff .
20 Finally , the problem-orientated approach encourages clarity of thinking and planning which are essential ingredients in good patient care .
21 That is to say , if creativity and psychosis are found to be connected then this is more likely to be revealed , not as a function of the psychotic state itself , but in more subtle ways — for example , through certain modes or forms of thinking and perception which the tendencies to psychosis and creativity might prove to have in common .
22 Since the start of my Presidential year , Doreen and I have been ‘ out and about ’ at various divisional meetings and dinner dances , and would like to take this opportunity of saying a big ‘ thank you ’ for the kindness and hospitality we have enjoyed during our travels .
23 On a personal note , in my very early days on the staff of Ipswich Art School , Squirrell was teaching and I have very fond memories of the kindness and helpfulness which this most likeable man extended to me as a new boy .
24 Each of these systems involves quite different risks and responsibilities for the employer , contractor and surveyor who may be involved in the design and/or management of the project .
25 By that time he had not only set in motion all the police retinue that attends on sudden and unexplained death , but also attended their ministrations throughout , seen the body examined , photographed , cased in its plastic shell and removed by ambulance to the forensic laboratory , delegated certain necessary duties , placated the police doctor and the pathologist , come to terms with the inevitable grief and rage which do not reach the headlines , and made dispositions within his own mind for the retribution which is so often aborted .
26 Mr Browning should be sent for and with Ferdinando still convulsed with grief and rage there was no one to send but herself or Annunciata .
27 The grief and horror she would have expected to experience were somehow blunted and held at bay , though whether permanently or not she had no way of knowing .
28 This self needs to be encouraged in its self evaluation , in its capacity to enjoy aloneness , as one of the ways through , in the often overwhelming sense of grief and loss which can occur in old age .
29 We combined a method for finding probes and clones which may cause map forking with the ordering algorithm of Fig. 5 .
30 The IBM Corp board found itself paying out rather more for the services of its new chairman and chief executive : it had to guarantee Louis Gerstner the value of stock and options he holds in RJR Nabisco Holdings Corp ; Gerstner is still an RJR Nabisco director and is not under any deadline to exercise his options , which run another 11 years ; the guarantee covers 300,000 shares of RJR stock and options for an additional 3.2m shares , with a guaranteed price of $8.125 a share .
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