Example sentences of "and [noun] of [adj] [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are , of course , some obvious practical benefits in the use of interviews and questionnaires in surveys ; the main one being that they are an economical way of obtaining data related to the behaviour and attitudes of large and sometimes scattered populations . |
| 2 | Recently such movements have involved up to 960 birds in one spring , and movements of 100 or more in a day are almost annual events ; 488 flying east off Beachy Head on 19 April 1976 is the largest single movement noted so far . |
| 3 | And I think as time 's gone on our party had just realized wit the stresses and strains of more and more right wing pressure to destroy workers rights and drive wages down . |
| 4 | The group is pressing on with the expansion and development of NET but really needs the embryonic United States economic recovery to develop swiftly if short term returns are to improve . |
| 5 | to control the keeping and use of explosive or highly flammable or otherwise dangerous substances , and generally to prevent the unlawful acquisition , possession and use of such substances . |
| 6 | ‘ controlling the keeping and use of explosive or highly flammable or otherwise dangerous substances , … ’ ; |
| 7 | Effect of a satiating meal on the concentrations of procolipase propeptide in the serum and urine of normal and morbidly obese subjects |
| 8 | you know , bits of this and bits of that but there again I think the family service ought to be a lot shorter than it is |
| 9 | For patients in surgical wards , fear of the unknown and anticipation of unfamiliar and possibly painful procedures will probably be the commonest causes of anxiety . |
| 10 | Add to the enlarged programme of prison building , the feeding and housing of more and more convicted prisoners , the costs of the exploding remand population , and expenditure on the justice system presents a stark contrast with the swingeing cutbacks of other areas in the public sector . |
| 11 | The Department of Transport 's current £17 million road building programme has faced severe criticism for its damage and destruction of fragile and internationally important areas such as Oxleas Wood in south-east London . |
| 12 | Complex social problems have to be tackled including homelessness , imprisonment , birth of an infected child and death of one or even both parents . |