Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 The upper line shows the least-squares regression for insectivores and frugivores , the lower one that for folivores ( from Clutton-Brock and Harvey 1977 ) .
2 The children not adopted stayed in the original creche until they reached the age of 6 , when they were transferred to two other institutions for boys and girls respectively .
3 There are , within the teaching profession , as well as in the community at large , diverse views about aims and goals .
4 The display system uses STEP presentation objects to display geometrical objects through PHIGS and PEX .
5 Having completed his course , he found that there were few vacancies for horticulturists and he is once again on the dole .
6 RSRE has vacancies for graduates and professionals in a number of expanding programmes involving the following key technology areas : Digital electronics , Communications systems , Radar and Electro-optical Sensors , Microwave circuits , Real-Time Signal Processing , Software Engineering , Modelling and Simulation , and System Engineering .
7 In this vision of rapid warfare there was still a place for great fortresses to provide temporary protection for frontiers and strategically vital areas during the crucial , disorganized days at the beginning of the campaign while the armies were assembling .
8 Mr Leigh wants more protection for footpaths and bridleways .
9 In pre-summit manoeuvres , European trade union leaders also warned of the ‘ danger of social strife ’ if the 1992 market arrived without proper social protection for workers and criticised France for allowing the Charter to be watered down in a doomed effort to win Mrs Thatcher 's support .
10 The marine group called for the creation of a national network of protected marine sites , in response to a present lack of adequate statutory protection for habitats and species below the low water mark .
11 Skin protection for hands and arms is standard and of late protective goggles , visors , masks or other facial skin and eye protection are being adopted .
12 He also instructed his parish priests in a letter , leaked to the Irish Times , to have the bishops pastoral Marriage , the Family and Divorce distributed to every home in the archdiocese along with special bidding prayers invoking divine protection for marriages and the guidance of Holy Spirit ‘ at this critical time of decision for families and our country ’ ( Irish Times , 17 May 1986 ) .
13 ‘ The barriers had ceased to be an effective protection for Names as those losing their shirts on marine syndicates are only too painfully aware , ’ he said .
14 ‘ The barriers had ceased to be an effective protection for Names as those losing their shirts on marine syndicates are only too painfully aware , ’ he said .
15 I would support strongly a bigger Government grant for acquisitions because there are many good uses to which it could be put .
16 Among the other revisions it proposed , the Department of Trade and Industry argued that the automatic grant for buildings and machinery that was available through regional development grant was to disappear .
17 Just as camouflage is used by both sides in the contests between hunters and hunted , so is the technique of baiting .
18 In many contests between insects and their fungal parasites the insects do not fare well .
19 with much of his time fragmented by preparation for lectures and classes .
20 This small but central incident might serve as a model for Del Giudice 's representation of knowing — the broad sweep , an outline superimposed on a subterranean reality ; the naming of things in a concentrated and satisfying way ; these as the preparation for meetings that are both intellectually passionate and composed , without possibility or need of further elaboration .
21 In the UK there is no universal practice of cross-cultural preparation for employees that are to be sent to live and work abroad , even within the individual employing companies .
22 They descended a flight of steps , entered a classroom block by a side-door and began to thread a route through corridors and passages busy with bustling knots of purple-blazered schoolboys .
23 To identify the complex yet crucial inter-relationships between customers and their characteristics demands sophisticated statistical and marketing knowledge .
24 Brian Hand An installation of slide , video , found objects , text and image — all used to ‘ explore origins , coincidences and inter-relationships between concepts and phenomena ‘ normally ’ not felt to be related within Irish history . ’
25 But I mean you do n't want to er start working in the mines for peanuts or anything do you , you want it to be a good job such as everybody else .
26 Making notes for lectures as usual .
27 You can fill out your outline when you revise your notes for essays or exams .
28 Notes for Nephews and Nieces : 5
29 Notes for Nephews and Nieces — 6
30 Notes for Nephews and Nieces — 7
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