Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] and [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A relaxing oasis for professional and business men . |
| 2 | For Moody and Oceanis yachts we pay £120 per day , for Mirage and Cobra yachts £80 per day . |
| 3 | We can also point to the difference in degree of deviance between 4 and 5 , which is out of all proportion to any difference of meaning between complete and finish . |
| 4 | As Europe moves towards its goal of a common internal market , and as its institutions for political and security co-operation evolve , the link between the United States and the European Community will become even more important . |
| 5 | There followed discussion of current government funding policies in West Belfast which were perceived as deliberately channelling funds through church organisations for political and security reasons . |
| 6 | Thus , when in November 1947 a resolution was put to the United Nations General Assembly ( UNGA ) Committee for Political and Security Questions , calling for a reaffirmation of the December 1946 resolution , it failed to secure the two-thirds majority required for adoption . |
| 7 | Table 5.4b confirms the social-class divide between private and council households , and Table 5.4c confirms that the village is socially divided but that the middle class are far more open in their social activities , both socially and spatially . |
| 8 | A ROW has broken out between private and council residents over plans for a traffic calming scheme . |
| 9 | This requirement reflects the policy of risk spreading so that the Law Commission First Report on Exemption Clauses in Contracts No 24 , para 82 ( 1969 ) justify distinguishing between private and business purchasers on the basis of the : … ability of the business purchaser to take into account the likelihood of defects , to reduce their incidence by arrangements for re-examination and servicing ( which may be allowed for in the price paid ) and to make suitable dispositions , by insurance and in his costings , to cover the risks which he has to bear . |
| 10 | Thematizing place and time adjuncts is less marked in some languages , such as Spanish and Portuguese , than in English . |
| 11 | The urokinase type plasminogen activator/tissue type plasminogen activator antigen ratio showed no differences between normal and control mucosa independent of the origin of the tissue . |
| 12 | Further insights into the differential expression of alternatively spliced variants of tenascin will help us to understand differences between normal and tumor cell expression and function . |
| 13 | Gastric juice may be a significant source for the daily loss of iron since it is present in gastric juice at about 3.5 µM , but correlation with gastric acidity or comparison between normal and ulcer patients could not be undertaken because of contamination . |
| 14 | The reconciliation between economic and amenity interests in mineral working is an obvious matter for planning authorities . |
| 15 | A June visit resulted in a report particularly critical of the Academic Board 's lack of policy for the coordination of departments and for the planning and control of resources , and in July the College was informed of the Council 's concern about the relationship between full-time and sandwich courses . |
| 16 | Rather more surprisingly perhaps , Sun and Star readers ( taken together ) were at that time split fairly evenly between Labour and Conservative with the Alliance a fairly close third . |
| 17 | In the twenty years between 1960 and 1980 , the tenancy of Downing Street changed between Labour and Conservative four times , an average occupancy of only five years : the Great and Good were trying to produce policies which would be durable enough to survive the swings . |
| 18 | It is far harder to argue that it is fair to create an electoral system that will put the centre parties into a governmental position where they will be likely to hold an almost permanent balance of power between Labour and Conservative . |
| 19 | It profited handsomely from the division of the non-Conservative vote between Labour and Alliance , and from the exaggerating effects of the British electoral system ; compared to 1979 , a decline of 1.5 per cent in share of the vote had produced a trebling of the government 's overall majority in seats from 44 to 144 in 1983 and to 100 in 1987 . |
| 20 | Strong party ties were forged , and a polarisation forced between Labour and Tory/Liberal . |
| 21 | The College was itself uneasy about the lack of ‘ coordinated opinion ’ among three engineering boards which had recently visited it , and an Academic Board sub-committee considered that undue emphasis had been given to the question of policy for full-time and sandwich courses , ‘ to the detriment of more important issues involved in the preparation of courses of degree level ’ . |
| 22 | The ASI reads from sixty to 600 knots , To its left a twin-pointer rev-counter has needles marked G and D for gauche and droit , indicating similarly enormous numbers up to 25,000 rpm ( ten times a piston engine 's revs ) — and no , I never did work out which was which without stopping to translate . |
| 23 | The crystal ensures that the interval between reset and stop is stable and accurate . |
| 24 | This is still an unbalanced sharing since spoken language drives the interaction between deaf and hearing ; but it is a beginning . |
| 25 | Wonford House Hospital continued to be used for acute and rehabilitation services and though a mental health centre at Tiverton has been developed the schism between the old and the new has not been so marked . |
| 26 | Ever since I took over the tips section in the hallowed pages of ZZAP ! 64 , folks have whinged that most of the pokes are for Reset and Action Replay carts . |
| 27 | Work on women can not simply be added on to existing , flawed bodies of thought but requires a revolution in the ways in which we think about men as well as women , about work as well as the family , about political and public as well as private issues . |
| 28 | Economy detergent dispenser A dispenser with sections for normal and economy washes means you always use just the right amount of powder or liquid . |
| 29 | Peach is the colour for normal and combination skins . |
| 30 | This does not mean that national history and culture will not bulk large in the educational systems of particular countries , especially the smaller ones , or that they may not flourish locally within a much broader supranational framework as , say , Catalan culture today flourishes , but on the tacit assumption that it is Catalans who will communicate with the rest of the world through Spanish and English , since few non-residents in Catalonia will be able to communicate in the local language . |