Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the yield on 30-year Treasury bonds at 8.25% and that on three-month bills at 6.6% , long- and short-term interest rates are now lower than they were at the end of the two previous deep recessions , in 1981 and 1973 . |
| 2 | R.4 provides that only solicitors with practising certificates and RFLs may be directors of a recognised body , and that at all times at least once of the directors shall be a solicitor . |
| 3 | A slightly more realistic approach recognizes that firms have life-cycles and that during different stages in their life-cycles they grow at different rates . |
| 4 | To return now to the mother-and-child-on-beach situation , this relationship , and that between other individuals in the group , can be a fruitful source of additional story-continuity ideas . |
| 5 | Again from the Judicial Statistics 1989 , the table now looks like this : From these figures we can see that a high proportion of the cases disposed of in 1989 were personal injury actions ( 9,820 out of 12,859 ) hence the attention paid to this category of cases , and that in such cases for every 49 writs issued in 1989 , one case was determined by trial . |
| 6 | The facts that much farmed land falls short of its potential and that in large areas of Africa population levels are low , do not alter the fact that innovators in the tradition of Chipimbi continue to succeed in achieving important increases in productivity . |
| 7 | Suspicion fell on the 11-plus exam and research showed there was a large margin of error and mis-selection and that in some parts of the country it was easier to get into grammar school than in other areas . |
| 8 | If the Government are re-elected — God forbid — is it not a fact that privatisation would come in 1992 and that in 1993 contracts for the supply of coal to the power stations would be awarded ? |
| 9 | A few years earlier it had been calculated that if the populations of modern cities continued to increase in the 20th century , so would the horse-traffic , and that by 1960 cities like New York , London , and Glasgow , would be 100 feet deep in horse manure . |
| 10 | Eyeing her new-found companions sitting at her other side , and who were avid listeners to their conversation , he resumed wryly , ‘ And that within five minutes of you arriving anywhere you had the entire population at your feet , knew their life histories , their problems … ’ |
| 11 | The programmes will be subject to review with the passage of time but no substantial additions to them will be made for the first six years ( except for changes required because of matters outside of governing body control and except for minor alterations to equipment ) . |
| 12 | The trackwork is in good order and except for minor repairs to boundary fences , the railway 's own winter maintenance concentrated on locos and rolling stock . |
| 13 | If it is written by one person there can be no objection to an occasional " I " , and if by several persons to the use of an occasional " we " . |
| 14 | In some regions , difficulties arose because some of the colleges comprising RMCs were offering considerably more management education than others , because of status difference between institutions , and because of internal stresses within colleges , some of which accorded management education a higher priority than others . |
| 15 | Trade unions fell into the second of these groups , but , because of their large and fluctuating membership and because of certain provisions in the Trade Union Act 1871 , it was assumed that it was impracticable to bring actions against them so as to make their funds liable . |
| 16 | Bush had still to convince the US Congress , however , to release the US$94,000,000 in economic and military aid which it had frozen in July because of doubts about the government 's commitment to an anti-drug programme and because of persistent reports of gross human rights abuses by the military . |
| 17 | The Government has been anxious to find a slot for such legislation but has not acted yet , partly because of a full parliamentary timetable and because of technical difficulties in defining which types of weapons should be outlawed . |
| 18 | Although the 114 deputies represented an absolute majority in the 180-member Kosovo Assembly , the Assembly itself had been summarily closed by the Serbian authorities on June 26 , following a decision of the Serbian Assembly to declare a situation of " special circumstances " in Kosovo because of the ongoing strikes in numerous factories , and because of alleged attacks against ethnic Serbians in the province . |
| 19 | Turbulence arises in a society because of an accelerating but uneven rate of change , and because of unpredictable connections between the increasingly interdependent parts . |
| 20 | Advise Arthur , Bert and Charlie as to any rights of action they might have in tort against Chartist plc and as to any defences with which they might be met . |
| 21 | But because of increasing restrictions over the past few years we have now bought a rack to carry the bikes on the back of a car . |
| 22 | But because of increasing restrictions over the past few years we have now bought a rack to carry the bikes on the back of a car . |
| 23 | Most of the problems that are arising are not just because of the Trusts but because of other things like for instance the contracting process that is proposed , the t the changing in the financing that is incorporated and of course the general under-funding which there is within the N H S. These are far more important problems in the long term . |
| 24 | This all sounds highly desirable and there are without doubt major savings to be made , but as with all investments in information technology a cautious approach is recommended . |
| 25 | But as with other types of deviance , pollution is not a simple , self-evident notion . |
| 26 | Overseas securities grew markedly after the removal of exchange controls in 1979 largely at the expense of UK company securities , but as with overseas investments by investment trust ( see next section ) have fallen away slightly in recent years . |
| 27 | But as for all things in life , moderation is the key-word . |
| 28 | But as in all aspects of forecasting the greenhouse world , the task of prediction is clouded by uncertainty . |