Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Afshar was not an intellectual and his position did not afford him great administrative power . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | All they carried was the car 's normal spare wheel and its tool kit . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ( By the beginning of the fifth century ) the Olympian religion and its mythology were in a state of crisis . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | His self-image and his idealism were being threatened at the anvil of reality . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Myeloski , although dealing with kidnappers in other cases , had never known how the hostages survived their isolation and their fear . |
| 13 | It was a victory for her each time that she wrested him away from his desk and his teleprinter and his uniform . |
| 14 | Raynor and his people had made Grainne and the others very welcome . |
| 15 | This policeman was having to give evidence and he 'd come to talk , oh I see you 've had the baby , cos he was talking to me it had happened I said , oh what did you have blah blah blah , blah blah blah , but the little devil went in the witness box , he denied about not being there on duty about putting his mac on , ooh and he 'd never clapped eyes on barrister or a solicitor and they said he 'll meet you before the case , so we had to go extra early meet this barrister and he never came and so they took us in this little room in all his wig and his gown , we got , oh what happened ? |
| 16 | A petition of the 1660s referred to the entire dependence of many local people on the trade , particularly ‘ ye constant imployment of at least 50,000 lusty able workman ready for defence of your Majesty and ye Nacion in case of general needs ’ . |
| 17 | He sat in shirt-sleeved , patriarchal majesty and his spreading , black waistcoat ( the shiny back of it cracked in long lines ) was strung with an impressive gold watch-chain , of the style favoured by Victorian pit-owners . |
| 18 | From this episode Hopkins evoked a magnificent description of that wild night ; but he also provided his own elucidation of God 's dealing with His creatures : God had shown forth both His majesty and His compassion . |
| 19 | The peers also consulted the judges on occasion and when they did so in 1614 over the long-debated matter of the right of the King to tax through ‘ impositions ’ without Parliamentary approval , Coke took the view that the judges should not be required to give an opinion ‘ on the ground that they were expected in judicial course to speak and judge between the King 's majesty and his people , and likewise between His Highness 's subjects , and in no case to be disputants on any side ’ . |
| 20 | For the next ten minutes the line hummed as Forbes recounted how the Iranian exile and her daughter had been seized in the middle of the morning rush hour . |
| 21 | Their heads were impaled on Charles Bridge as a warning to others and their families were sent into exile and their lands given to Ferdinand 's Habsburg supporters , mainly Germans . |
| 22 | Don Juan was in exile and his supporters in Spain did not have the military or political support necessary to effect a successful coup . |
| 23 | Mr. Tecks submitted that the European Court of Justice authorities , cited below , show that the crucial words refer to obligations which have their basis in contract or in a closely similar nexus such as that existing between an association and its members , so that the matters in question must be contractual or closely akin to contractual . |
| 24 | Mr. Beazley relied particularly on the Peters case , which he submitted shows that there does not have to be an actual contract in order to bring the case within article 5(1) ; but the relationship in that case between the association and its members was a consensual relationship which was manifestly very closely akin to an actual contract and in no way comparable , in my judgment , to the position here where there is no contract . |
| 25 | As was discussed during the morning , it is in fact a source of grievance to the Association and its members that banks are not obliged to — indeed are barred from — using the Annual Percentage Rate formula in the context of overdrafts . |
| 26 | Mr Grant said that his association and its members had contributed quite a lot of money for advice over a number of years . |
| 27 | LORD WRIGHT : I think the jury should be directed by the judge that the respondent Association had a legal right to put the person 's name on the stop list , so long as they did so in order to promote the trade interests of the Association and its members and not with intent to injure , and so long as the money , fine or penalty demanded was reasonable and not extortionate . |
| 28 | Such changes are always difficult to work through and additional constraints would be very frustrating for the association and its members . |
| 29 | The Back Pain Association and its work |
| 30 | The former is published quarterly in the United Kingdom by the Library Association and its coverage includes not only most of the main social science journals but also serious weekly magazines , such as The Economist and New Society , and also The Times , the Guardian and other such popular publications ; the latter is an American publication covering everything from books to articles and reports on all sorts of economic and social affairs published worldwide in the English language . |