Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [prep] the [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the start of the year , several firms were steeling themselves for the tough , face-losing decision to pull out of some markets — or out of the securities business altogether . |
| 2 | Creggan grew nervous and glanced over his shoulder and up towards the trees above . |
| 3 | Obtain the support of the most senior person in the Company and also of the Trades Unions . |
| 4 | Donna sat in the sitting-room , glancing endlessly at the sheets of paper they 'd picked up from the bank that day and also at the notes Ward had left . |
| 5 | Erm , er , the funding for that project which I understand has a total cost in excess of a hundred and sixty thousand pounds , has been met from a variety of sources , er , primarily local , but with a contribution from the County Council through the Leisure Services Committee , and also through the Resources Management sub-committee , and in a , indirect sense , in that the , the , the land transferred to the County Council from the District Council for a particular sum , when the project did n't go ahead , the land went back to the District , and had appreciated in value in the intervening time . |
| 6 | This is often the case with a continuous production plant , but we also find it in hospitals and also in the police force . |
| 7 | No problems here : Catherine Cookson 's The House of Women ( Corgi ) is her first of two this year ; Clive Cussler is back with his improbable Dirk Pitt in Sahara ( Grafton ) ; and Alexander Ripley 's Scarlett ( Pan ) comes into A format and straight into the Giants section : all are great . |
| 8 | A. Anyone carrying out work in the Village has to sign in and out at the Wardens Lodge . |
| 9 | Bobbing lanterns wove in and out of the goods trains in the College Rail Yard . |
| 10 | Dent to Brigflatts and back by the Dales Way |
| 11 | On the surface these remarks appear to be true , and even between the lines immorality occurs regularly . |
| 12 | The church ran primary education , and even among the intellectuals Orthodoxy was not without vigour : the early twentieth century brought remarkable conversions to Christianity among Russian Marxists . |
| 13 | Elizabeth Wills reported first on the local Mothers ' Union , now in abeyance , and then on the Scramblers group and deanery synod matters , while the final report came from Doris Martin on flower arrangements . |
| 14 | Whinfield served as an assistant director of chemical research in the Ministry of Supply during World War II and then joined ICI in 1947 , first in its plastics division and then in the fibres division , which brought him worldwide travel , including a visit to the USSR in 1961 as a guest of the USSR government . |
| 15 | This was a consistent finding in all the research reported in this thesis , it seems to reflect the fact that even simulated driving tasks are highly engaging and quite unlike the tasks psychologists usually ask their subjects to perform . |
| 16 | Apart from being a guideline , and not a rigid rule , it is evidence that changes in interest rate expectations are being held , but perhaps behind the scenes approval from the Bank of England has not been forthcoming . |
| 17 | Part and parcel of both was his confrontation of the USSR on all fronts , but especially in the arms race . |
| 18 | In this case the testator has provided for that , but only with the words acceptis centum . |
| 19 | By this time , I think the fact that Prost was not only good , but better in the results department , was the least of Niki 's worries . |
| 20 | You can decree an end to the Cold War , but not to the arms manufacturers like Boeing . |
| 21 | We need to remind ourselves of the variations between different types of employer , different types of job and different types of qualification ; but also of the difficulties employers may have in understanding the meaning of more than a very few qualifications . |
| 22 | It is likely that LEAs will offer guidance to governing bodies not only on the general framework of recruitment , selection and promotion procedures , but also on the equal-opportunities aspects of appointments . |
| 23 | Karen Rowbottom from Cobham branch was cruelly deprived of the winner 's title again this year , not only in the singles but also in the doubles final — virtually identical to her results for each of the last four years . |
| 24 | Chanel has published advertisements of Claudia Schiffer wearing long dresses , but out of the studios Miss Schiffer also wears short skirts . |
| 25 | Neither Bayer nor MAN was in the same desperate straits as AEG ; but even in the electricals firm 's case capital spending fell sharply as a percentage of sales only in 1982 . |