Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alkaline bile secretion is known to contribute significantly to duodenal protection against acid injury to a similar ( if not greater ) degree than pancreatic secretion and stimulation of biliary bicarbonate secretion during or before feeding would seem to be of physiological benefit . |
| 2 | the separate insertion of a single page into a book either during or after binding by pasting one edge . |
| 3 | Do n't sprinkle it on to your food during or after cooking . |
| 4 | Blackening , during or after cooking , is caused by a chemical reaction between iron , present in the tuber or in some regional water supplies , and chlorogenic acid , which exists naturally in the potato . |
| 5 | Another way of setting viewing tasks is to have some form of worksheet for the student to fill in during or after viewing . |
| 6 | But does anyone have any strong feelings either for or against changing the time , and for or against nine thirty . |
| 7 | By an attitude is meant any way of being in favour of or of disfavouring ( of being against ) something . |
| 8 | Although they would , as fourth-rank tensors , have 81 components each the symmetry of and of reduces the number of independent components to 36 . |
| 9 | Aerospace officials , however , are hoping to change the government 's mind by pointing to the new activist policies of and by citing evidence that the US government is spending considerably more than the three per cent of turnover accepted as a limit under a trade agreement signed with the European Commission last July . |
| 10 | This raises the interesting question of whether by having different expectations the experiences were in fact different . |
| 11 | But that was what he was being paid for and after hearing Mobuto at the United Nations he was now more determined than ever to ensure his safety . |
| 12 | The outcome turned on the block votes of union delegations at opposite ends of the conflict ; for and against establishing a separate body . |
| 13 | My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State is to announce today that he is appointing Ernst and Young management consultants to undertake an independent study of the case for and against relocating the Department of Energy 's petroleum engineering directorate to Aberdeen . |
| 14 | There are arguments both for and against having a test : |
| 15 | There are contested arguments for and against charging for social services , which resemble the more general argument about markets we reviewed in Chapter 3 . |
| 16 | Arguments for and against capping the fund have already been discussed in preceding sections . |
| 17 | This is quite untrue , for bream roll both during and after feeding , as well as before feeding . |
| 18 | • During and after sunbathing , Evian keeps your skin soft and moist . |
| 19 | The three athletes , who had been accused of tampering with a urine test in South Africa in January , were restored to competition after the three-man commission , who held a 14-hour hearing stretching over two days in Darmstadt , declared there had been ‘ holes in the chain of evidence ’ during and after testing by South African anti-doping control officials . |
| 20 | He looked round anxiously , as if for bugging devices . |
| 21 | So set the carriage as if for stocking stitch ( without the sinker plate of course ) and pass the carriage across the needles . |
| 22 | A high-backed iron chair caged with copper filigree and equipped with adjustable iron helmet , as if for crushing the occupant 's skull , stood vacant . |
| 23 | ‘ AT THE tail-end of 14 years in power our rump of a Conservative Government can think of nothing but half-hearted socialist measures , as if through introducing socialism by the back door it will somehow ease its own exit by the front ’ — Commentator Auberon Waugh . |
| 24 | Sometimes , although she chided herself for the thought , it seemed as if in trying to be unselfish and giving him what he wanted , she had allowed herself to be turned into a sacrifice . |
| 25 | She dropped Wexford 's hand , recoiling as if in taking it she had done something indecent . |
| 26 | Then Bob smiled as if in dawning realization . |
| 27 | It is as if in looking at something , the poet discerns an eternal substance that is hidden behind the manifest sense impressions . |
| 28 | A red man alone in the midst of his enemies , helmetless , red hair flying over his red plaid , mouth red as if from drinking the blood that flowed from wounds on his cheek , his hip and his right elbow , airy as a dancer , careless and crazy with excitement , yelling , singing , laughing and cheering , Lachlan was fighting six men together and winning . |
| 29 | The girl behind the counter was Mediterranean in her appearance , with a big shock of dark curly hair out of which she peeped as if from hiding . |
| 30 | Modigliani … had the beautiful features of an Italian prince but he was tired and dirty … as if from having unloaded in the port of Genoa . |