Example sentences of "[prep] [coord] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Mr. Gow : While recognising the undoubted right of all members of the General Synod to deeply held views for or against the policies of the present Government , would it be helpful if my right Hon. Friend were to point out to the General Synod that its reputation would be enhanced if its members , when in Synod , devoted more time to matters spiritual than to matter political ? |
2 | Social groups , or cliques , may act collectively for or against the interests of their company ; the like-mindedness which arises in all members of the group strengthens their collective attitudes or actions . |
3 | Whether these groups work for or against the interests of the company depends to some extent on the type of supervision they get . |
4 | At its most conventional , the use of word pairs is a substitute for creative poetic activity , whereas the parallelism of greater precision is a subtle relationship between or among the lines of poetry that can only be designed in by a relatively sophisticated artist . |
5 | In spite of occasional feelings to the contrary , usually described as good or bad luck , the physical world is neither for nor against the actions of the individual ( except in the robotic sense of Le Chatilier 's principle which states that whenever a constraint is placed on a system in equilibrium , the equilibrium is altered in such a way as to annul the efforts of the constraint ) . |
6 | All of these took place on the eve of or during the decades of greatest activity in antislavery . |
7 | But Attlee and others believed that Britain could not act without the support of or against the wishes of the United States . |
8 | In terms of and subject to the limitations of and for the purposes of this Section the Corporation will indemnify any person who is using such Caravan with the permission of the Policyholder provided that |
9 | He would be well advised to insist on a written indemnity in that respect to cover both intentional and accidental holding out , and , as regards the latter , to cover his accidentally holding himself out as a partner so long as that is done in the course of carrying out his duties for and in the interests of the firm . |
10 | Origination by Brookland Litho Services Ltd Assay is produced for and by the employees of the Johnson Matthey Group |
11 | A second strand in research of the 1960s was a consequence of the increasing focus upon processes which gave indications of the magnitude of human activity and also led to the inauguration of research investigations specifically designed to measure the magnitude of man by comparing man-modified and unmodified areas or by measuring one area before , during and after the effects of man . |
12 | Thus it was possible to investigate processes in a small drainage basin before , during and after the effects of building activity and urbanization ( Walling and Gregory , 1970 ) . |
13 | Communication problems : there also appeared to be problems with communication between and within the branches of both departments . |
14 | Whilst the Memoirs inevitably loom large in the background of any attempt to study de Beauvoir , biographers are now reading against and between the lines of her own narrative in producing new , though not necessarily less selective , versions of her life . |
15 | ‘ Well , what 's the window for but for the bairns at Christmas , because the grown-ups rarely stop and look at it . ’ |
16 | Title documents are documents of title and certificates evidencing title to the following types of investments and which are in the possession or control of the firm in connection with or for the purposes of its investment business : |
17 | I 'm not prepared to accept that any more than I am prepared to accept the hogwash that we heard from Bob Morgan and his Liberal Democrats , because of course it may be extremely comfortable for him to be acting like a beached dolphin on the shores of Abu Dhabi , but the fact of the matter is , of course , that the Liberal Democrats , with or without the backs of their envelopes and cigarettes packets , are extremely unlikely to be making any national legislation , so they are quite comfortable in being able to observe how others might or might not do it . |
18 | ‘ Except as provided by the subsequent provisions of this Part of this Act — ( a ) no person who under or for the purposes of this Act receives information relating to the business or other affairs of any person ; and ( b ) no person who obtains any such information directly or indirectly from a person who has received it as aforesaid , shall disclose the information without the consent of the person to whom it relates and ( if different ) the person from whom it was received as aforesaid . |
19 | 2 Construction of pipes The right to construct and to maintain in on under or over the Premises at any time during the Term any Pipes for the benefit of any other part of the Centre or any Adjoining Property This is not a standard right and could be highly disruptive . |
20 | The plaintiffs , A and others , who were customers of the defendants , obtained an injunction before Morland J. on 13 August 1990 restraining the defendants from delivering up or disclosing to the United States court or to third parties otherwise than in connection with and for the purposes of the business and trading of the plaintiffs , any documents relating to the plaintiffs ' accounts with the defendants , and ordering the latter to return to its London branch certain documents which had been removed from the jurisdiction . |
21 | The [ defendants ] whether by [ themselves , their ] servants or agents or otherwise howsoever be restrained until trial or further order from : ( a ) delivering up or disclosing to the grand jury in the County of New York empanelled in the matter of the People of the State of New York v. John Doe ( B Bank ) or , without the prior consent of the plaintiffs , delivering up or disclosing to any third party otherwise than in connection with and for the purposes of the business and trading of the plaintiffs or any of them , all documents and information contained therein held by [ these defendants ] at [ their ] branches in London or elsewhere within this jurisdiction concerning or relating to the plaintiffs ' accounts with the [ defendants ] or any of them or otherwise relating to the business of the plaintiffs or any of them ; ( b ) without the prior written consent of the plaintiffs ' solicitors herein , removing from the jurisdiction of this court any of the documents referred to in subclause ( a ) hereof or any copies thereof . |
22 | The trade-off involves assigning relative values to periods of time in different health states , such as those with and without the side-effects of the treatment and with greater or lesser symptoms from the disease . |
23 | This is why Leonard describes this as an adversary model of social work , in which practitioners ‘ work the system ’ with and in the interests of clients ( Leonard , 1976 , p. 262 ) . |
24 | Workers in some specialist agencies may be more directly concerned with families as such , while the community worker is likely to work with and in the interests of whole families in the day-today situation . |
25 | By contrast , when maximum participation is used , the observer is with and among the subjects of observation , as in the case of the interview situation where questions are asked and answers given . |
26 | Lay the yarn under and over the needles in the desired pattern . |
27 | Colberg galled him most — the officer 's gentlemanly aplomb helping him to swim like an eel under and between the weapons of a thousand angry people . |
28 | 6.1 As respects all information as is directly or indirectly communicated to it by another Party ( hereinafter called the supplying Party ) under the terms of this Agreement or otherwise in connection with the Project ( including technical information or otherwise relating in any manner to the business or affairs of such other Party ) the recipient Party hereby undertakes to the supplying Party that it will until five years after Completion or abandonment of the Project treat the same as ( and use all reasonable endeavours to procure that the same be kept ) confidential and will not disclose the same to any other person without prior written consent of such other Party in each case except to the extent that it is reasonably necessary in or for the purposes of the exercise of the rights and licences granted to it pursuant to this Agreement . |
29 | The 1989 regulations are similar to the 1987 regulations in several respects ; for example , it is the topography of a semiconductor which is protected being , by regulation 2 , a design which is either : ( a ) the pattern fixed , or intended to be fixed , in or upon ( i ) a layer of a semiconductor product , or ( ii ) a layer of material in the course of and for the purpose of the manufacture of a semiconductor product , or ( b ) the arrangement of the patterns fixed , or intended to be fixed , in or upon the layers of a semiconductor product in relation to one another . |
30 | The Practical Translation strand consists of advanced exercises in translation , from and into the languages of specialiSation , designed to highlight theoretical aspects of translation discussed concurrently in the Theoretical Perspectives strand of the course . |