Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the claims of the user organizations and of the trade unions were of declining standards and cuts in services ‘ by stealth ’ . |
| 2 | He added that people usually pale below the eyes and above the cheek bones , have many dreams including nightmares and hallucinations , suffer disturbed sleep especially at full moon , get up tired and listless , are prone to attacks of flu , and are driven to drink , drugs and heavy smoking . |
| 3 | This tree consists only of words that partake in compounds and at the leaf nodes are the indices relating to the disk address of the lexical information . |
| 4 | Backed by summary jurisdiction applied by local justices in the provinces and by the excise commissioners in London , its ability to secure conviction against evaders was , by eighteenth-century standards , astonishing . |
| 5 | This evidence that most men take the threat of AIDS seriously was backed up by comments made on the questionnaires and in the discussion groups . |
| 6 | Now because the government has a , plays a much bigger role in the economy the government will be in charge of what you might think of as industrial employment so er a lot of manufacturing , heavy industry er mining so on and so forth will be run as a national as a national industry , right and er wages in that nationalized industry will not be er set at market levels but will be set at , by some institutional mechanism that wo n't reflect demand and supply or reflect the rent seeking and rent server rent preserving behaviour of civil servants and government quangos er so on and so forth but you must bear in mind that the government sector will er the public and semi public sector in developing countries is vast in comparison to er to develop the countries and as a result wages set in er in the government sector er will erm will be the driving force for all industrial employment , so what with wages and industrial employment . |
| 7 | He continued to talk thus now , as they walked down the grand vista , away from the formal gardens and into the woodland rides , where classical figures loomed from the undergrowth and the serpentine rill wound away towards a distant temple . |
| 8 | Every spring the village looks very pretty , the aconites , snowdrops and crocuses flower in abundance in gardens and on the grass verges . |
| 9 | Amelia now spends weekends at home with her parents and during the week boards at the Lord Mayor Treloar College in Hampshire , from where she was nominated to join Dreamflight . |
| 10 | What appears to be one village ( and is marked as such on modern maps and on the road signs ) can in fact be seen to consist of no less than eight separate hamlets — Elston ( largely deserted , with a former chapel ) , Shrewton ( from which the village has taken its name ) , Maddington , Netton , Rollestone ( largely deserted with a redundant church ) , Homanton ( deserted ) , Addestone ( deserted ) and Bourton ( deserted ) . |
| 11 | My grandparents ' village was a small place off the main road , away from busy roads and with no mains services . |
| 12 | Springing was provided only on the bolsters and above the axle boxes giving a comfortable ride but a tendency to roll . |
| 13 | There is a proven gas source in the Westphalian A and B coals and along the basin flanks gas generative maturity post-dates traps formed during Cimmerian structural development . |
| 14 | ‘ Go and sit in the lounges of the luxury hotels and on the doorsteps of the flophouses ; sit on the Gold Coast settees and on the slum shakedowns ; sit in Orchestra Hall and in the Star and Garter Burlesk . |
| 15 | ( b ) Activities for school children Local authorities must provide appropriate care or supervised activities outside school hours and during the school holidays for children in need who are of school age ( s18(6) ) . |
| 16 | Poor things , with their cocktails , Ianthe thought , remembering her uncle 's scorn , some of their faces under the elegant hats and above the fur coats were kindly , even noble . |
| 17 | The desire to modernise the UKCC and the national boards , and to condition them for the 1990s is uncontentious and is supported by the Opposition , by the professional organisations and by the health unions . |
| 18 | You 've been brought up in a television age and you 've been particularly been brought up in an age of card cartoons and soap operas and in all of those you would er expect to see good being oppressed that 's part of the plot in every cartoon there is a plot in every soap opera , that the good the good people actually end up in difficult situations and the way that results in the cartoons and in the soap operas is usually find revenge or punishment . |
| 19 | This , I have argued , is evident both at the level of theoretical explanations and in the common-sense models of understanding which are deployed in the five statements I have quoted . |
| 20 | The water of the big lake chuckled gently against the soft banks and against the pontoon boats and the pipe . |
| 21 | This had forced the tubes inwards in places and as the head studs were dowelled at certain points along their length these areas would not pass through the constricted sections . |
| 22 | But World War I gave him the chance to stand on internationalist ground with an uncompromising fervour and personal courage that gave him a status denied to most of the others , whose work lay in the factories and in the shop stewards ' movement . |
| 23 | As an analysis of the nature of the child in the primary years and of the way children learn , the Plowden Report ranks as the most detailed study of the early years of schooling ever produced . |
| 24 | Delft also has several fascinating museums and many old and attractive buildings and in the summer months you can see the sights without walking , simply catch the horse drawn tram or take a cruise in the canals . |
| 25 | It was with a sickening sense of shock that his eyes fell at last on the heaps of bodies lying in the shadows of the dock buildings and beneath the pepper trees . |
| 26 | With my name heading the list , James Cran , Christopher Gill and others plunged into the terrace crowd , in addition to hunting along the corridors and in the committee rooms , in search of signatures from Conservative Members of |
| 27 | In city after city the focal points of the martyrs ' cults shifted from the suburban cemeteries to the splendid new churches , both in the suburbs and in the town centres ; the celebration of their memory was integrated into the normal eucharistic worship of the urban community . |
| 28 | These are the quantities with which physics deals and as the subject ventures into new regimes remote from common experience it must adjust its concepts to match whatever it finds there . |
| 29 | There are no unanimously agreed LAN standards , but if you want computers from different vendors to talk to one another , the chances are they can be hooked together , thanks to the efforts both of netware vendors and of the hardware manufacturers to make their products more ‘ open ’ . |
| 30 | The troubles of the law firms and of the finance houses are not unconnected . |