Example sentences of "[prep] [coord] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have complained , above all , that they are not adequately reported by the federally owned media during or after the monthly meetings which they have held regularly since coming to power in October 1979 . |
| 2 | Viewers tended to be either for or against the main thrust of its argument ; few were able to take a neutral stance and discussions were often quite heated between students and their teachers , academics and party members . |
| 3 | Weaving or ‘ laying-in ’ on the knitting machine uses a main yarn which knits stocking stitch and a second yarn which is knitted in front of or behind the knitted stitches , forming a surface pattern . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm neither in favour of nor against the proposed golf-course , Mr Calder . |
| 5 | The only part to survive was a later addition to the original building , a warehouselike structure placed in front of and astride the main entrance . |
| 6 | It would , he explained , be a ‘ society of free people , a society of and for the working people , built on the principles of humanism , socialist democracy and social justice ’ . |
| 7 | Something which is called the best of and at the same time this barrier , so again be aware . |
| 8 | The anterior dorsal commissure passes in front of and above the central body . |
| 9 | Cottam suggested that he too should have been paid for his fortnight 's service , but the Governors replied that they were under the impression that " his services had been tendered on behalf of and as the personal friend of Mr. Hamilton " . |
| 10 | All figural cinema , or cinema which privileges spectacle over narrative or discourse , operates — as Mulvey suggests — largely on the model of and through the primary process . |
| 11 | Applying Kirchhoff 's current law to the unloaded network , the phasor node-pair potentials , and are found to be related by Substituting for in the second equation in terms of and from the first yields from which the transfer function is Consequently the ratio of potential-difference amplitude between output and input is When k = 1 this is the same transmission as provided by the Wien network of figure 8.8(a) . |
| 12 | When darkness fell and cavortings could be heard round the edge of the pond within the wall , and on top of and within the hollow shell of the Stocks Tree , my father worried , as old people will . |
| 13 | At £175 including VAT this is not a cheap sander , but you get what you pay for and for the keen d-iyer or woodworker , or even a tradesman , this is an excellent tool that should last a lifetime . |
| 14 | Since these considerations are permeated by sexual elements the implications for and of the sexual side of marriage are multifold and far-reaching . |
| 15 | We try and produce a wealth of information and research both for and about the voluntary sector . |
| 16 | The local Labour Party published a dossier of this record of disrepair and urged that other surveys be carried out " and the results published in an agitational way , as part of the wider demand for decent housing , run for and by the working class " . |
| 17 | But it was sent to the National Security Council and in the meantime Secretary of Defense Johnson , according to the internal ‘ History of the Indo-China Incident ’ prepared for and by the Joint Chiefs of Staff , had called upon the NSC to determine exactly how US security was threatened by the current situation in the Far East and to formulate tentative courses of action which were to be co-ordinated for the whole region and were to outline specific objectives to be attained . |
| 18 | This is not the moment to rehearse the arguments for and against the various options with which we may be presented in December , so I leave the House with two brief thoughts . |
| 19 | I shall now set out the case for and against the extended use of charging . |
| 20 | There may have been press briefings by regulatory bodies during and after the Blue Arrow inquiry which he said called into question their impartiality . |
| 21 | In-fighting characterized the ailing PCF before , during and after the 29th party conference , which coincided with the party 's 70th anniversary on Dec. 20 , 1990 . |
| 22 | Every spring Britain faces an avalanche of punditry before , during and after the not-so-great event . |
| 23 | Although population pressure is the most common attribute of these peasantries and pastoralists , there are many cases where declines in population through outmigration or apocalyptic disasters ( e.g. Latin America during and after the Spanish Conquest , Boserup 1965 : 62–63 ) have led to a coarsening of agricultural technology , a labour-saving cropping pattern , and an allocation of labour which can encourage soil erosion ( e.g. Bunyard 1980 for Palestine ) . |
| 24 | These definitions were consolidated further through public policies put into operation during and after the Second World War . |
| 25 | In the modern individual such a clearly defined and providential maternal version of the superego does not appear to emerge in quite the same way during and after the oral period , almost certainly because in individual history , unlike that of the culture , the oral period does not follow Oedipal resolution and therefore can not build on an already-existing superego . |
| 26 | He had evoked in extreme measure and focused upon himself many irrational , but none the less real and strong , feelings of selfless devotion , sacrifice , and passionate commitment to a national ideal — emotions which had developed enormous , elemental force during and after the First World War . |
| 27 | The company can expect to draw on the advice of many different specialists and institutions during and after the initial planning stage . |
| 28 | First , the winning of civil rights during and after the eighteenth century : in a number of important cases the courts developed the doctrine that the individual was free to do anything which was not made unlawful by a specific law ; and the corollary of this approach was that the state could not interfere with the civil and political liberties of its citizens ( in those days ‘ subjects ’ ) unless the government could persuade Parliament to pass legislation authorising the interference . |
| 29 | Purely from the point of view of meaning there seems to be a possible connection between and on the one hand and ( " edge , margin " ) and ( " inner region " ) on the other , both these latter terms being reasonable Turkish equivalents for one sense of the Arabic and . |
| 30 | This finding is somewhat surprising as there is little correlation between and over the whole sample period ( sample correlation coefficient = 0.2 ) . |