Example sentences of "and [noun] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ADAM & EVE database , which forms the basis for all the analysis , is the result of long-term research into the frequency and coverage of words in the language . |
| 2 | Ministry officials were also accused of giving conflicting evidence , leaving doubt as to the accuracy and reliability of reports of infection . |
| 3 | It is not usually preceded by long and bitter quarrels between parents and need not affect the child 's eye view of dependability and reliability of parents in their relationship with the child . |
| 4 | The aim of verifying the accuracy and reliability of records and documents ( by examination and testing ) is to obtain support for the expression of an opinion on the financial statements . |
| 5 | NORMAN YARDLEY was an extraordinarily gifted games player who rose to become captain of Yorkshire and England , later becoming a regular BBC commentator and chairman of selectors . |
| 6 | IRELAND 's New Zealand tour marks the end of Ken Reid 's tenure as manager and chairman of selectors with Noel Murphy taking over the reins of office on Reid 's retirement . |
| 7 | Cleveland 's passenger transport sub-committee yesterday decided to write to the headteacher and chairman of governors at any school where there are continuing problems . |
| 8 | The most comprehensive international survey of the functions and activities of employers ' associations is Windmüller and Gladstone ( 1984 ) . |
| 9 | Black people in particular were wary of the motives and activities of whites who wished to know more about them . ’ |
| 10 | Since the newcomers are dependent upon them for neither employment nor housing , they are not inhibited by a web of economic and social ties from expressing their opposition to the opinions and activities of farmers or landowners hitherto considered locally omnipotent , Middle-class and well-educated , they even compete with farmers and landowners for positions of authority and local responsibility , disrupting or threatening to disrupt the customary hierarchy of dominance and status in the village . |
| 11 | It insists to the last on the existence and activities of opponents to Judas Maccabaeus , including the former High Priest Alcimus . |
| 12 | The decision was a gesture of sympathy and solidarity with the views and activities of employees , their unions , the union leaders and representatives in an industrial dispute which had arisen after the transfer of newspaper production to Wapping , a consequential strike and many subsequent dismissals . |
| 13 | By ‘ male-oriented ’ I mean that it exhibits a focus on , or a direction towards , the interests and activities of men in a gender-differentiated society . |
| 14 | In his report on the Hillsborough disaster , Lord Taylor , now Lord Chief Justice , said : ‘ The presence and activities of touts have a grossly anti-social effect , leading both directly and indirectly to disorder . ’ |
| 15 | My twin sister is a nurse and I suppose all the blood and thunder of things took me a different way . |
| 16 | Transparency and communication must be emphasised to re-establish the perceived independence and honesty of scientists as we move into newer and more complicated areas of technology . |
| 17 | ‘ Guidelines for Teachers and Lecturers of Students with Special Needs ’ is intended to help teachers and lecturers who wish to deliver modules to students with special needs , whether these arise from a learning difficulty , a sensory impairment or from some other reason . |
| 18 | Its systems are in use at 69% , 47% and 83% of sites using those respective technologies , although many have machines from two or more suppliers . |
| 19 | However , most of the civil servants in the top category were at the lower end of the pay scale , with 82% of men and 83% of women in category 1 earning between £18020 and £27065 . |
| 20 | The former includes submissions on Finance Bills , the annual ‘ anomalies ’ paper and notes of meetings with the Inland Revenue on procedural matters . |
| 21 | None of these major issues figures in Krashen 's scheme of things , so he presumably does not regard them as having any relation at all to the learning and teaching of languages . |
| 22 | The RVH is recognised as a centre of excellence in research and teaching of doctors , nurses and para-medical staff . |
| 23 | The final alleged change — that of growing equality within the family-is perhaps the most controversial and the one which is most challenged by contemporary feminist writers who argue that the family is , and continues to be , the major unit sustaining the exploitation and subordination of women . |
| 24 | They show that the aspect of the ideal which is concealed is the isolation and subordination of housewives . |
| 25 | Feeding and nutrition of horses is one of the few areas where independent specialist advice is quite difficult to find even though feeding is one of the most important aspects of horse management . |
| 26 | Digestive physiology and nutrition of marsupials by I. D. Hume , Cambridge UP , pp 256 , £25 |
| 27 | Ian Hume 's Digestive Physiology and Nutrition of Marsupials is the first in a series of Monographs on Marsupial Biology edited by Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe . |
| 28 | This chapter looks at the efforts of philanthropists and defenders of women 's rights to expand the range of employment for both working-class and middle-class girls who needed to earn a living . |
| 29 | You 're coming over so that we can discuss the demand that the women 's movement is making for free contraception and abortion on demand , and the strategy that our local women 's group might develop in struggling for that at a local level , how we relate to other women and groups of women in the area , how the abortion issue relates to other ones . |
| 30 | Operations centre around computer clubs and groups of enthusiasts who can not resist the challenge of copying something designed to be uncopiable ( see Box ) . |