Example sentences of "and [prep] the [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Increasin increasing , it 's not just a question of support , it 's a committed partnership , and as the boundaries between public , private and voluntary sectors , become less rigid , these partnerships will continue to grow . |
2 | R A Y N E R , and that 's your head of department in case erm , so if you look in that book in chapter four , right , there 's er agricultural trade and the GATT , if you look er , if you read that chapter , it 'll give you all the information you need to know about erm , agricultural trade , erm , how it 's changed , what the costs , there are a lot of estimates of the costs of agricultural protectionism , and as the benefits to liberalization of er , of trade , and also it gives er , a view of erm , er the Uruguay round of GATT . |
3 | And as the years from retirement lengthen , it seems more and more tenuous to group men in terms of long-past work , let alone women who since marriage may never have been in paid work at all . |
4 | They try to maintain a rough balance across the liquidity range , but the precise composition of assets will vary as interest rates on the various assets vary , and as the demands for liquidity vary . |
5 | SPORT reflects the ills of society and , in the current climate of moral torpor , perhaps we should not be surprised by declining standards of behaviour both on and off the fields of activity . |
6 | Thus these issue networks provide a kind of intellectual community in specific policy fields which to some extent transcends traditional political boundaries between Congress and the executive and between the layers of government in the American federal system ( this is examined in more detail in chapter 16 ) . |
7 | The town boasts several fish and chip shops and between the hours of noon and two queues stretch out to sea . |
8 | And between the shores of waking and slumber lay sharp reefs of nightmare . |
9 | The information about the difficulties of conveying the intended meaning of language , and about the problems in memory and attention experienced by many people with schizophrenia , has been combined with neuropsychological knowledge to suggest the possibility of a dysfunction of one of the two hemispheres of the brain , probably the right side ( Cutting , 1985 ) . |
10 | This raises questions about how such an ability develops , about whether young children ( and certain groups of adults ) have the ability , about the age at which it normally develops , and about the effects of culture and education upon that development . |
11 | Shoplifting , undetected female crime and the social interior of women 's prisons are no longer completely uncharted territories ; we know more about the career of the prostitute and about the characteristics of delinquency in girls . |
12 | The kind of service devised was shaped by a number of different beliefs about community care , about the services available , and about the needs of dementia sufferers . |
13 | For information on other forms of cancer induced by tobacco use , see Factsheet No. 12 in this series and for the effects of pipe and cigar smoking on the lungs , see Factsheet No. 13 . |
14 | 2.45 Lord Guest thought that the dependency of £4,000 awarded by Lyell J was on the high side , but could be justified when allowing for possible future increases in earnings and for the effects of inflation . |
15 | There is no need for the Bill and for the hours of debate that will accompany it . |
16 | I know perfectly well what responsibilities I have for the Home Office and for the actions of Home Office officials and the Minister who handled the case , and I know my own responsibility in this matter . |
17 | In this book , and for the purposes of translation , it makes more sense to take a broader view of cohesion and to consider any element cohesive as long as it signals a conjunctive-type relation between parts of a text , whether these parts are sentences , clauses ( dependent or independent ) , or paragraphs . |
18 | Yet reference for the purposes of judicial review and for the purposes of construction are indistinguishable . |
19 | The business carried on by the company was one entire business and for the purposes of Case I there was only one trade . |
20 | ‘ That the Dawson International Executive Share Option Scheme 1993 , the provisions of which are summarised in the Appendix to the letter to members of the Company dated 16th June 1993 , to be constituted by the Rules produced in draft to this meeting and for the purposes of identification initialled by the Chairman hereof , be and is hereby approved and the Directors be and are hereby authorised to do all acts and things which they may consider necessary or expedient for implementing and giving effect to the same including making such amendments to the Rules as may be necessary to gain the approval of the Inland Revenue . ’ |
21 | 5.133 of the Act makes the licensing board the authority in Scotland for the grant or renewal of bookmakers ' permits , betting agency permits , and betting office licences under the Betting , Gaming and Lotteries Act 1963 , and for the grant , renewal , cancellation , and transfer of licences and for the purposes of Schedule 9 under the Gaming Act 1968 . |
22 | Capellan hands directed the operations , Capellan machinery accomplished the construction , but it was by and for the humans of Earth , her nearest neighbour , that the great work of habilitating Mars was undertaken . |
23 | The Ethiopian famine of 1984 — 5 was a more severe relation of the Ethiopian famine of the 1970s yet the latter was consigned to a memory which is rarely mined for information and for the lessons of history . |
24 | And through this kind of general interest in history , which is not started in academic circles , but elsewhere , and through the interests of adult education works and working groups of various kinds in history , and through some of the best history taught in schools , we 've really broadened our notions of , of , of what history is , and one of the most lively recent developments has been erm the idea of history workshops , where people themselves recall erm what has happened over the course of their own lifetimes , using oral history , tape recorders , and things of that kind . |
25 | They are continuing factors in the life of the Church through the experience Christians have of the Spirit , and through the sacraments of water ( baptism ) and blood ( the eucharist ) which seem to be alluded to here . |
26 | Clare was set to watch sheep and geese on Helpston heath as a child of seven , and spent years of his childhood , and of his later life , wandering over the heath and through the patches of woodland that survived in the parish . |
27 | When the Court was in residence at the Tuileries the child spent some hours every day with both his father and mother , usually in the Empress 's study , and during the periods of residence at Compiégne , Fontainebleau or Saint Cloud , he was with them most of the time . |
28 | A second strand in research of the 1960s was a consequence of the increasing focus upon processes which gave indications of the magnitude of human activity and also led to the inauguration of research investigations specifically designed to measure the magnitude of man by comparing man-modified and unmodified areas or by measuring one area before , during and after the effects of man . |
29 | Thus it was possible to investigate processes in a small drainage basin before , during and after the effects of building activity and urbanization ( Walling and Gregory , 1970 ) . |
30 | The aim is to relate pollution levels before and after the changes to health statistics . |