Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [subord] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Remarkably , it is commonly the sufferer himself or herself who breaks off social relationships and activities because of a feeling of not being properly appreciated or understood .
2 They should not be denied atoms and molecules because of a lack of primary school laboratories .
3 In general , regulation has become formal with more specific guidelines and rules than in the past , coupled with the abolition of many informal agreements such as the minimum commission system and single capacity of the stock exchange , and the interest rate cartel of the building societies .
4 Marks and Spencer is to stop selling organic fruit and vegetables because of a lack of demand .
5 The ambiguity was the product of two factors : unwillingness to pay for larger armed forces and doubts as to the policy of South Korea itself .
6 This was a position which also continued to express the preference of most abolitionists that government intervention be limited to policy guidelines to be rendered into detailed legislation and implemented by local assemblies and officials except in the Crown Colonies .
7 In a previous issue of JFIT News we announced that we were beginning to draft a proposal for a new Compound Semiconductor Advanced Technology Programme , and we asked for your views and ideas as to the scope of the workplan and the size of the budget .
8 To Sigouri was perhaps thirty miles and , although the rain kept away , it was dark and treacherous underfoot and they hardly spoke , men-at-arms or servants or principals , as they guided fresh horses across the grey soil of the Messaoria , splashing over burgeoning rivers ; imperceptible to silent villages , churches and monasteries except by a thud of hooves and the swimming spawn of their brands .
9 This subject has been debated many times over many years and , after much deliberation , it was felt less confusing to say ‘ Basket Only ’ rather than stipulate a specific number of items [ at least for the majority of our stores ] as this tended to cause confrontations between some cashiers and customers as to the quantity of items in the basket .
10 Or a a different type of livestock maybe better word cos i do n't know You ca n't really count chickens and pigeons as in the way of pets .
11 And then I have always fancied a little hall and stairs because at the farm the stairs came straight down to the front door .
12 By this time too there were economies in staff and publications because of the war : Gleanings and Memoranda , the Constitutional Year Book and other semi-partisan pieces of literature were suspended in 1917 for the duration .
13 I first became interested in alternative medicine and therapies because of the interest shown by Christians and others in Aromatherapy .
14 Derrida , of course , endorses this formulation , but stresses the principle of arbitrariness and differences as against the notion of the sign itself , since it risks degenerating into an entity and thus reverting to a metaphysical concept .
15 I think very often you do need professional help and it is n't possible to do it with family and friends because of the interaction that actually makes it worse .
16 The proportion of total employment coming from primary production and also from construction and services is , however , certainly much greater in the Highlands and Islands than in the rest of Scotland , and the share of manufacturing industry correspondingly smaller .
17 The moral commands of the Bible are presented more as main guiding principles and ideals than as a set of meticulously detailed regulations for daily living .
18 It was also apparent from the observational data that Easton 's section police are occasionally presented with difficult encounters between public and police because of the gender differences in police work .
19 This was the fate of deaf and dumb adults and children until towards the end of the sixteenth century , when Pedro Ponce de Leon , a Benedictine monk of the monastery of San Salvador near Burgos in Northern Spain , succeeded in teaching language to some deaf and dumb children , who had been entrusted to him for schooling by wealthy families , as deaf and dumb minors were legally incapable of inheriting their parents estates .
20 There 'd been months of preparation and delays because of the weather .
21 This stems not so much from the differences between conservatives and socialists as from the clash between British attitudessupported by the managements of some American multinational companies — and those of much of the rest of the Community .
22 Death was a respecter of persons , and chances of survival were better in the upper and middle-classes than in the working-class .
23 His response underlines how much more royalist than the king were some of his judges and how the dividing line between church and crown jurisdiction was under more pressure from the king 's subjects and agents than from the king himself or from any royal policy .
24 and jobs because of the way they look particularly if they happen to be
25 An assessment of any potential acquisition 's current value and recommendations as to the offer price and acquisition strategy to be employed
26 The need to avoid bad history is the reason the debate over the teaching of history in schools is so important : what is the proper balance between traditional concerns with royalty and battles as against the need to understand the great political movements of our time and the social and economic conditions which spawned them ?
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