Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During and after the depression years he taught in an educational settlement at Dowlais near Merthyr Tydfil . |
| 2 | Its lineage reaches back , via the accusations against the Hollywood ‘ talkies ’ and the earliest silent movies , through and beyond the Music Halls at the turn of the century when directly similar complaints were voiced , towards the cheap theatres and penny-gaffs of early Victorian England when it was commonly alleged that the portrayal of the daring exploits of Jack Sheppard and Dick Turpin caused young people to imitate their crimes , and then back towards the eighteenth century 's disapproval of popular amusements such as fairs , interludes , public shows and minor theatres . |
| 3 | In 1920 it was acquired by George Bateman , brewer of Wainfleet and he installed his brewery in and around the mill premises . |
| 4 | BPX-A and the Prudhoe Bay field 's other operator , ARCO , are working closely with both the Fish and Wildlife Service and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game ( ADF&G ) to monitor movements of bears in and around the oil fields . |
| 5 | They were formed where gases and liquids from the deep molten rock — the magma of the earth — escaped and cooled in long thin cracks in and around the granite batholiths . |
| 6 | I have checked with our Information Services manager and he tells me that Wimpey did not take any photographs of military airfields prior to or during the war years . |
| 7 | Donor and acceptor compounds are differentiated by the direction of the electron transfer to or from the carbon layers . |
| 8 | We noted the grim approaches ; incessant traffic noise in narrow streets ; parked vehicles hemming in the pavement ; rubbish dumps on waste land nearby ; the absence of green playing spaces on or near the school sites ; tiny playgrounds ; gaunt looking buildings ; often poor decorative conditions inside ; narrow passages ; dark rooms ; unheated and cramped cloakrooms ; unroofed outside lavatories ; tiny staff rooms ; inadequate storage space with consequent restrictions on teaching materials and therefore methods ; inadequate space for movement and P.E. ; meals in classroom ; art on desks ; music only to the discomfort of others in an echoing building ; non-soundproof partitions between classes ; lack of smaller rooms for group work ; lack of spare room for tuition of small groups ; insufficient display space ; attractive books kept unseen in cupboards for lack of space to lay them out ; no privacy for parents wishing to see the head ; sometimes the head and his secretary sharing the same room ; and , sometimes all around , the ingrained grime of generations . |
| 9 | " Buyers should be made to pay a sustainability premium for the products over and above the market prices , " said Malaysian Primary Industries Minister Lim Keng Yaik at a meeting of the International Tropical Timber Organisation . |
| 10 | The range of key values , divided by the number of addresses to be generated ( the calculation is shown on page 161 ) , will indicate the potential improvement , over and above the synonym percentages predicted by the Poisson distribution , that can be aimed for . |
| 11 | The implication is — again drawing on the ‘ children 's single-sex peer groups ’ argument — that all-women talk might be a kind of bottom line for descriptions of women 's speech styles ; this is the ‘ natural ’ case , existing prior to and outside the power effects observable when women talk to men . |
| 12 | Where it was strong , it kept men and women on the land , in so far as the land could give them a living , or sent its excess population along the well-beaten traditional tracks of seasonal migration , like those which took the smallholders of central France to and from the building sites of Paris . |
| 13 | It did not but the lowing herd wound its way to and from the milking sheds , and left the world to darkness and to us each night . |
| 14 | There are certain types of expenditure that are illegal ( for example , paying an elector to exhibit an election poster or paying for voters to be taken to and from the polling booths ) , and separate committees to promote a candidate are not permitted . |
| 15 | changes in income due to movement of people on and off the community charges . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , these amps suffer from a form of distortion known as ‘ crossover distortion ’ which occurs at and near the zero crossings of the output signal . |