Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [art] [verb] [adv prt] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Authorities vary in how much residential care is available , and neighbourhoods differ in the amount of private residential homes and the take up of DSS funds to help pay the fees . |
| 2 | The work involves the legal processes of obtaining probate of wills and the winding up of a deceased person 's affairs so that the wishes expressed in those wills may be carried out . |
| 3 | The immediate cause was a mountain of surplus coal , generated by two mild winters and a slowing down of economic growth : coal stocks had quadrupled from 7 to 31 million tons since 1957 . |
| 4 | Developments in antislavery — both the spread of local associations and the splitting off of the Agency campaign — were portrayed as only occurring when they were functionally necessary and productive of minimal conflict . |
| 5 | Through their series of public meetings and the springing up of local action groups , the campaign returned to each individual farmer and landowner the decision as to whether the companies could even prospect . |
| 6 | Thus , shortly after the Electricity Act received the royal assent , in September 1947 , Attlee appointed Gaitskell as Minister in his place , and it therefore fell to him to carry through the Government 's work of nationalisation by completing the appointments to the Boards and the working out of the new relationship of Ministry and BEA . |
| 7 | The factors which lie behind the removal of trees and hedgerows , the erection of new and imposing farm buildings and the ploughing up of downland and heath were listed in Chapter 3 : increasing mechanization , increasing labour costs , the introduction of more intensive livestock systems and the drive towards maximizing crop production on an expensively priced capital asset . |
| 8 | However , as foreign ambitions and the dragging on of the war in China increased the threat of Japanese action in neighbouring territories , the implications for European colonies and nationals , as well as for the broader Asia — Pacific region , forced the industrialized West to take notice . |
| 9 | It was all over bar the peeling off of clothes and the mopping up of mascara . |
| 10 | Presidents , naturally , do not want to be seen to condone the taking of drugs ; the public temper is for stiff penalties and the locking up of offenders , not tender care . |