Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Regular spot checks for specific-lesson truancy and for pupils leaving school before the end of the school day |
| 2 | In doing that , we should beware of too much partisan debate , of playing the race card and of charges and counter charges that sweep away reason . |
| 3 | We had at least seven other buck sergeants and maybe a staff sergeant crewing airplanes which had been returned to us two or three month after the deal and at times we had as high as twenty aircraft in the squadron , that according to the er roster that you were only supposed to have twelve , but er nobody seemed to say anything about it and we did n't get any extra men , but there was at least six or seven men doing the work of master sergeants getting paid for , getting buck sergeant and staff sergeant pay for which I 'm very grateful . |
| 4 | Out of the above ideas several factors emerge that are common both to accounts of perception and to strategies for enhancing appraisal . |
| 5 | The infusion alone can be taken internally ( sweetened with honey ) and is good for the complexion , poor circulation and for ulcers . |
| 6 | It consists of notes and coin ( both in circulation and in banks ' tills ) , and the operational balances that banks hold in the Bank of England . |
| 7 | The table also indicates the increasing importance of the large areas of open water created by gravel extraction and for reservoirs to wintering surface-feeding species . |
| 8 | The evidence includes observations that RVI in these cells is dependent on the presence of Na + , Cl - , and HCO 3 - and furthermore , can be inhibited by amiloride and by DIDS . |
| 9 | Fowler argues that the analyst should attend particularly to the social function of linguistic structures in literature ; texts should not be viewed as self-contained systems but as process , ‘ the communicative interaction of implied speakers and thus of consciousness and of communities ’ ( p. 94 ) . |
| 10 | I have spoken so far in an ordinary way of episodes of consciousness and of experiences , occasionally of modes and states of consciousness , and also of sensations , moods , perceptions , desires , thoughts , intending , deciding , and so on . |
| 11 | He selected his staff by personal recommendation and from men nearing the end of their careers in other public services , the army and navy , the home and overseas police . |
| 12 | ‘ One hears a great deal about interference from boards of directors in football and of managers not being allowed a free hand to run their teams . |
| 13 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what steps he intends to take to ensure that British firms are able to obtain political risk insurance with speed and on terms that enable them to compete on equal terms with their international competitors . |
| 14 | The polemical and ideological edge to this debate must be borne in mind : not all those engaged in it were in favour of increased public spending , due to fears about its effects on investment and on incentives ; and in some quarters it was passionately felt that the ageing of society was socially , economically , and even politically undesirable ( Thane forthcoming ) , and hence that its dangers should be emphasized . |
| 15 | First , they have argued that the gradual increase in peasant investment and in levels of consumption both of food and consumer goods in the countryside suggests that , abjectly poor though many were , on average peasant living standards may have been rising rather than falling in the decades immediately prior to the revolution of 1905 . |
| 16 | Much of the work centred on the complex biology of the malaria parasite and on improvements in the methods of testing potential antimalarial drugs . |
| 17 | Some have tested host responses towards real or model cuckoo eggs with different degrees of mimicry in areas where the host is sympatric with the parasite and in areas where the host has ( presumably ) never been parasitized . |
| 18 | Most political analysts think Peru 's main problem is that it is deeply divided , by race , by geography and by extremes of income . |
| 19 | Some are in a state of imminent collapse and in others , side passages branch off in all directions and shafts can suddenly appear at your feet dropping down hundreds of feet into the darkness . |
| 20 | These wards had a separate nursing staff ; separate and usually more lavish facilities in the way of private rooms and different food ; and the patient was attended by his own general practitioner and by consultants of his own choice , with a proviso that normally the consultant would need to be attached to the hospital concerned . |
| 21 | Within a few hours the 126-member Slovene delegation walked out in protest over this defeat and over votes on amendments to the draft congress declaration , which had thereby rejected clear commitments to human rights and to closer ties with West European organizations . |
| 22 | These observations are in my view equally applicable to the revenue and to sums by way of principal or interest retained by them . |
| 23 | Besides notice to the clients , information as regards mergers and takeovers will be required to be given to the Law Society and to the Solicitors ' Indemnity Fund , to the Inland Revenue and to Customs and Excise — just as upon the starting up of any new firm . |
| 24 | Both houses are elected by universal adult suffrage and for terms of no longer than four years . |
| 25 | The allegations state that he received money from the contract for the restoration of Milan 's Underground and for repairs to the dam in Valtellina which burst in 1987 with much loss of life . |
| 26 | Although she was anxious to be able to travel on the underground and in aeroplanes , she felt that the problem which caused her the most inconvenience was her inability to go into any large shop or department store without experiencing extreme panic . |
| 27 | A further point is that departmental officials ( and client groups ) might feel threatened by the policy implications of performance measurement , as might ‘ a Cabinet of ministers committed to a party programme and to ways of winning the next general election ’ ( Lee , 1984 , p. 5 ) . |
| 28 | These peptides are produced by bacteria normally found in the human bowel and in patients with ulcerative colitis . |
| 29 | Mercer retreated in the face of noisy opposition and within months of his takeover bid was having to justify his own club 's financial record . |
| 30 | They knew the effect of interest and class , and how in some cases these were the whole mould of mind and in others far otherwise . ’ |