Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] and [noun] " 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 | I remember going to Government House with Pop to lunch with the Wavells who had divided their house for wounded and men on leave , and had heard of our soldiers in Maymyo and in Poona . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A ROW has broken out between private and council residents over plans for a traffic calming scheme . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Between eight and 14m working days are lost in Britain each year as employees are forced off sick by their hangovers at a cost of more than £700m in lost production . |
| 12 | Three Intel Corp 80860s , seven Transputers and a 33MHz 80486 CPU provide the core of the workstation which has between eight and 32Mb of memory . |
| 13 | Thematizing place and time adjuncts is less marked in some languages , such as Spanish and Portuguese , than in English . |
| 14 | Yeah if you write about that and Kelly can write about her grading . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | For most applications , this is of low significance , but there is a more involved method of making the tube which brings the wall to a constant 1mm over the same variation of outside diameters , from 6.35 through 7,7.5 and 8mm . |
| 19 | The reconciliation between economic and amenity interests in mineral working is an obvious matter for planning authorities . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ He is saying that where there is not a straight fight between Labour and Conservatives , people may wish to vote tactically . ’ |
| 25 | Bristol North West : barometer seat signalling national outcome that has changed hands between Labour and Conservatives six times in 12 general elections . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The continuing electoral hegemony of the Conservatives rested not only on the division of the anti-Tory vote between Labour and Liberals , but also on the fact that large numbers of manual and white-collar workers , benefiting from the rapid growth of new industries , services and housing in the Midlands and the South of England , felt that they had good reason to be grateful to the Government . |
| 28 | Even more striking , 75% either oppose all territorial concessions or demand an election or referendum before making any , and 69% — with little difference between Labour and Likud voters — want all the Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria to remain permanently under Israeli rule . |
| 29 | Israel had been in political crisis since March 15 , when the previous ruling coalition between Labour and Likud collapsed in disagreement over how to proceed with the Middle East Peace process [ see pp. 37303-04 ] . |
| 30 | Strong party ties were forged , and a polarisation forced between Labour and Tory/Liberal . |