Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither have we overlooked the youngsters — in fact we have created the ‘ Acorn Club ’ for the sole purpose of entertaining them with exciting excursions and activities while you relax elsewhere . |
| 2 | Various aspects of the parties ' life , resources , and activities will be helpful to them in the conflict , but many of these are resources and activities that they will have possessed or engaged in or wished to posses or to engage in in any case , even if they did not take part in the contest . |
| 3 | Her parents felt that she was being difficult and kept presenting her with toys and activities that she could not do . |
| 4 | The situation might be improved if young girls were allowed to develop sexual feelings and activities when they reached puberty . |
| 5 | It does not lend itself to detailed cost investigation of departments and activities because it does not indicate where the overheads are actually consumed . |
| 6 | It does not lend itself to detailed cost investigation of departments and activities because it does not indicate where the overheads are actually consumed . |
| 7 | Mrs Czermak received only a few cuts and bruises but her victim was killed instantly . |
| 8 | I 've written her notes and notes and notes and she 's never answered one of them . |
| 9 | After 5 days in Rotorua we went south to Taupo , a disappointing touristy place except for a lovely walk to the Huka Falls beside the crystal-clear , swirling waters of the Waikato River , and a visit to Cherry Island ( in the river ) where you are warmly greeted by numerous tame animals and birds as you roam around . |
| 10 | In the short text the account of the Crucifixion and the meditator 's awareness of his own sin come to a climax in an outpouring of lyrical prose which has been printed as verse though it seems more effective if the surge of the rhymes and the alliterative cadences rise within the very structure of the prose like great waves to break in the bitter realisation that it is the meditator 's sin which both nails Christ to the cross and blocks the free expression of love in himself : All the internal rhyme , play on words ( ) and alliteration , which intensify the sense of the meditator 's awareness of both the creative power of God " king of " and the impotence of all his own functions , are lost in the long version which omits much of the intense self-disgust present in the short : The emphasis on Christ as the source of life and creativity is similarly highlighted in the short version in the skilful use made of rhyme , cadence and monosyllabic , strong-stressed ends of sentences to graphically convey the moment when he dies and the created cosmos fails : These effects are lost in the prosaic longer version : In both versions the meditator contemplates the appalling inversion of the created order with its lord suffering greater deprivation than the foxes and birds as he hangs " in eyre " ( 88. cf.101 ) with nowhere to lay his head — a reference to Matthew 8:20 traditionally used to emphasise the poverty of God embraced at the Incarnation . |
| 11 | Before the arrival of the sex shops that dominate the area today , Soho , with its small shops and delicatessens and its cast of well-known proprietors , characters and cranks , had a village quality . |
| 12 | Talking to members of the Education Area about their researches , I was struck by the constructive relationships that they built up with the schools and groups that they studied . |
| 13 | Other connections between the psychic worlds of individuals and groups and their political relations have been traced out systematically by Guntrip . |
| 14 | ‘ There was no Albert Bridge then , ’ recalled Ben Bellaser , ‘ to span the river and ride over the ancient town with its oppressive grandeur , and the moon was rising and lighting up the shore and houses as they rose one over the other in terrace fashion against the dark blue starry sky ’ . |
| 15 | Sidney Lee states that when Lambarde was presented to Queen Elizabeth I she complained to him that Shakespeare 's Richard II was played forty times earlier that year with seditious intent in streets and houses and she viewed it with suspicion . |
| 16 | We really need to go round markets and houses and you can say , ‘ Is this the thief ? ’ |
| 17 | This £15,000 investment makes small carpet samples about eighteen inches square for use by Architects and Specifiers when they ‘ approve ’ a design specially created for their clients . |
| 18 | And on the Friday night we was fetching bottles and sticks and everything and we hid them ready . |
| 19 | It is when ageist attitudes become part of the rules of institutions , govern the conduct of social life , and blend imperceptibly into everyday values and attitudes that they have a drastic effect on the way older people lead their lives . |
| 20 | Mystical experience never arrives out of the blue ; it is always influenced by the religious milieu of the mystic , even though he may want to transcend the beliefs and attitudes that he found there . |
| 21 | Intonation enables us to express emotions and attitudes as we speak , and this adds a special kind of ‘ meaning ’ to spoken language . |
| 22 | What a revolution there would be in our behaviour and attitudes if we were to stick to those two principles ! |
| 23 | Aberdeen 's latest figures are flattered by £201,000 of exceptional gains from the sale of Australian interests and investments as it cleared the decks for expansion in the UK which , it says , would cut overheads and increase liquidity . |
| 24 | Two minutes later she was tapping on his office door , clutching to her bosom the file of notes and sketches that she had been working on with such enthusiasm all week . |
| 25 | Theoretically , halls should be easy to design , since there is generally little to purchase in the way of furniture and accessories unless you are blessed with the luxury of a wide , spacious and well-lit area . |
| 26 | it 's just about dark and Harriet 's hair flies out and glimmers as she moves her head . |
| 27 | But 20 per cent of its hops are now in the form of oils and essences and it is a growing sector . |
| 28 | you ca n't really , there 's no point in childminding and nannies because your earnings |
| 29 | I am sure that , despite his letter in your May issue ( Arm 's length or arm 's twist ) John Mallet really understands as well as the next man that , when I wrote in my letter of 10 March in The Times that ‘ we do not apply the arm 's length principle to the national museums and galleries ’ , I was saying no more than that there is no funding body between the Office of Arts and Libraries ( now the Department for the National Heritage ) and the national museums and galleries as there is between the Government and the subsidised theatres and performing arts bodies . |
| 30 | H. S. Cowper , writing on Hawkshead in 1897 , refers to pentices and galleries and their uses for spinners and weavers , and The Royal Commission on Historic Monuments , Westmorland , 1936 , and Walton 's Survey , 1956 , mention a few galleries . |