Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [conj] [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coronation Street , half past seven till eight , Rumpole from nine to ten so you can come out between eight and nine and ten and ele le le le eight and nine and ten and eleven , so you got time for couple between eight and nine and a couple between ten and eleven , how 's that ? |
| 2 | Given the divisions between Labour and Conservative and the unresolved question of which Whitehall department should have responsibility for the policy , this was a predictable response . |
| 3 | The growing gap between rich and poor and the splitting up of black families through racist immigration laws and practices , for instance , were criticised . |
| 4 | Many thinkers such as Owen , Fourier , Saint-Simon and Blanc saw the root of injustice as the competitive system of free markets , which led them to argue that the gulf between rich and poor and the exploitation of the one by the other , would not be abolished until some form of socialist state was established . |
| 5 | Such investigators as Rowntree , A. L. Bowley and L. Chiozza Money demonstrated that the disparity between rich and poor and the proportion of the population living in severe poverty changed little over the period . |
| 6 | Although DLOs have survived , Stoker ( 1988 , p. 186 ) notes that there was a 22.5 per cent fall in numbers employed between 1980 and 1985 and a 17.7 per cent fall in value of output over the same period . |
| 7 | Well that happened and er I was man and er they er brought me all the odd jobs that was going about and they used to go down the warehouse and er there was a fellow there , well a woman more than anything , know 'd where every thing was and in no time at all they showed me where the things were and er I er , young , it was in my memory , and in no time at all the men in the shop used to come and ask me to get them something from out the warehouse for this and that and the other . |
| 8 | of its manufacturing jobs between 1979 and 1989 and a further 3,600 jobs since then ? |
| 9 | The weaknesses of that scholarly approach are obvious — for example the lack of rationale for -ible and -able or the problems over deciding between -ease , -eese , -ese , -eze , -eeze , -ieze and -eize . |
| 10 | The pH remains between 7 and 7.5 and the water is moderately hard . |
| 11 | The main legislation relating to the care of children is the consolidating Child Care Act of 1980 , the Children Acts of 1948 and 1975 and the Children and Young persons Acts of 1933 , 1963 and 1969 . |
| 12 | Of those who do attend , many do not go until the age of eight or nine because the schools can not fit them in . |
| 13 | With a deficit of 552 and thirteen and a quarter hours left , obviously only the weather was going to save England , so there was not the least justification for the barrage of short balls that Holding and Roberts hurled at Edrich and Close . |
| 14 | Effectively , the group consists of experienced barristers between the ages of forty-five and sixty and the number of genuine possibilities — the short list — may be as small as half a dozen . |
| 15 | They were interviewed in groups of 2 or 3 although the researcher recorded individual responses for each question on the form . |
| 16 | Bitsy bitsy bitsy of this and that and the other . |
| 17 | Neither Catherine the Great 's Commission on Popular Schools of 1782 nor the education statutes of 1804 and 1828 nor the foundation of elementary schools by the Ministry of State Properties and the Holy Synod had succeeded to any great extent in promoting the cause of peasant literacy . |
| 18 | The financial crises of 1929 and 1931 and the following years ' dramatic collapse in trade and production helped to lay the foundations for the new industries and the new international trading blocs that began in the 1930s and 1940s , and for the new international financial system established in the 1940s . |
| 19 | But no , Jessie had to be something else ; Jessie had to be sent to the Secretarial School : no getting her hands sticky from the toffee hammer , breaking up the slabs in the long tins ; no weighing out a ha'p'orth of hundreds and thousands or a penn'orth of sugar baccy ; and as for the weighing out of the real baccy , of hard cut or shag or even serving the best cigars , oh no , oh no , her father was having Jessie do nothing like that . |
| 20 | Disagreement has tended to centre upon the issue of responsibility for the evident political incompatibility of left and right and the consequent unworkability of Republican democracy . |
| 21 | By 112 votes to 30 , the House of Assembly ( the white chamber of the tricameral Parliament ) passed the Repeal of Discriminatory Land Measures Act on June 5 , effectively nullifying the Land Acts of 1913 and 1936 and the Group Areas Act of 1950 . |
| 22 | In nightly theatrical TV rituals of social order and chaos , a stream of hero-policemen stand at the symbolic crossroads between peace and mayhem , and the detective and the chief officer now operate at the point where once the church and its priests declaimed on categories of good and evil and the resulting binary codes they produce . |
| 23 | Support can be seen in the upsurge of working-class activity that accompanied the strikes of 1978 and 1979 and the way that the union 's leader , Lula , became such a popular figure . |
| 24 | M M My Lords , i it is important that whatever is taught to a child between the ages of five and eleven that the child is able to benefit from it educationally if the child is , is overloaded as it were by being presented erm a curriculum that they simply can not manage , then that 's going to create confusion , but it 's also important to say that one of the erm er objectives of this whole exercise is to underpin all education , both morally and spiritually and I believe we 're doing a great deal to get that right . |
| 25 | This procedure is depicted above for the first three values of the repeated median smooth , shown in full in figure 9.9 : Thus 47 is the value to be smoothed , the skip mean 43.5 is the mean of 40 and 47 and the smoothed value 45.2 is the rounded mean of 47 and 43.5 . |
| 26 | The outcomes of these conflicting interests are enshrined in the Clean Air Acts of 1956 and 1968 and the Deposit of Poisonous Wastes Act 1972 . |
| 27 | He deduced that carbon had a combining power ( valency ) of four or two and a unique capacity for joining itself to other atoms of its own kind , the secret of the existence of millions of organic ( carbon ) compounds . |
| 28 | Dakletons have a crew of seven or eight and a patrol time of six hours . |
| 29 | Although two of its directors were killed during the fighting between 1975 and 1979 and the building suffered badly from neglect , most of the National Museum 's collection survived . |
| 30 | The DoT told the House of Commons transport committee that nearly 1300 joints had been replaced between 1975 and 1982 and a further 750 still had to be replaced . |