Example sentences of "[n mass] and [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The helicopter was scrambled from Wiltshire Police Headquarters and within minutes was in pursuit . |
| 2 | When money ran short , whether through neglect , illness or even death of the breadwinner , women would resort first to kin and to neighbours . |
| 3 | The importance of these earnings to elderly kin and to neighbours was a major factor accounting for working class women 's apparent lack of interest in crèches . |
| 4 | The cost to AC/ACG members is £45 and to non-members £16 . |
| 5 | Mortality is random , but dependent on lifestyle ( for example mobility pattern ) ; instantaneous death rates for juveniles are d jm , d jf and for adults are ( for males and females , respectively ) . |
| 6 | It works on all writeable media and across networks on SCO , Sun , HP and Addamax systems . |
| 7 | In Britain , the national orientation of the broadcasting media and of newspapers is important . |
| 8 | SCOTVEC members described recent improvements in training and deployment of subject assessors , in opportunities for centres to enter National Certificate data via electronic media and in procedures for certificating students . |
| 9 | Polish women assert their right to participate in media and in churches |
| 10 | We are frequently reminded by the media and by professionals of various kinds of the size of the increase which is to be expected in the number of those aged over 75 or 85 years by the end of the century . |
| 11 | UDCs , and perhaps the LDDC in particular , have tended to receive favourable evaluations from many sections of the media and from developers . |
| 12 | However , the relationship is more complex than simply that between overall numbers of people and of dwellings ( i.e. structurally distinct physical living areas ) . |
| 13 | Watching the sleep of other people and of animals confirms that sleep can be quiet , with deep , slower breathing , or apparently eventful with body movements and even sounds being made . |
| 14 | Mr Blunkett said the party was refining an alternative which would be fair between people and between areas . |
| 15 | In Chapter 3 it was argued that pre-colonial society was indeed authoritarian , and that this expressed itself in a great stress on the conformity of the individual , and on a hierarchy of relationships between young and old , between chiefs and people and between men and women . |
| 16 | Through a broadly based consultation process headed up by Planning and Coordination , Standards have been agreed by the Social Work Committee for the Inspection of Homes for Elderly People and for Children , Child minders , Full Day Group Care and Part Day Group Care . |
| 17 | ABOVE Archaeologists are becoming more aware of the need to provide access on excavations for tourists , local people and for representatives of the funding bodies . |
| 18 | Clashes between students on the campuses of the country 's universities worsened during August and September , leading to the deaths of an estimated 11 people and to injuries to a further 200 . |
| 19 | between Catholics and Protestants , did much damage to people and to places in the Pyrenean region , Pau included , and Jeanne d'Albret 's army commander , Montgomery , who recaptured Pau from the troops of King Charles IX , achieved an especially nasty reputation for the reprisals and pillagings he carried out . |
| 20 | They undoubtedly deserve them for being flexible enough to listen to the people and to bodies like the Royal Fine Arts Commission and for thinking up the innovative scheme itself . |
| 21 | Our philosophy is based on partnership and participation , working with people and with organisations to create and manage activities through which managers acquire skills and understanding , confidence and capability . |
| 22 | With the exponential explosion of human populations in the last hundred years the natural resources on which such societies traditionally depended have been under increasing pressure both from the indigenous people and from foreigners who had little thought or concern for practising sustainable harvesting . |
| 23 | Often found to be needed in vigorous , robust , healthy , rugged people and in children : they come down suddenly with a violent illness , a raging fever etc . |
| 24 | This analysis shows up a further difference between choices of means and of ends ; the former start from facts publicly testable by objective criteria , the latter from the look and feel of things tested privately and subjectively , by assuming in experience or imagination the relevant viewpoint in the fullest awareness available , and discovering how one does respond . |
| 25 | The digest was circulated to all staff and to governors together with a questionnaire asking for comments under headings such as : organisation of the curriculum ; aims of faculties/subjects ; core and options in years 4/5 . |
| 26 | In the first century of its existence the Royal Veterinary College was inadequately provided with staff and with funds , and was mostly concerned with diseases of the horse . |
| 27 | He said that there is regular demand for shots of Sydney , and therefore it would be worth my while making a detour to extend my portfolio , I asked him to give me a list of potentially commercial sites in the city , based on his experience of sales and of demands . |
| 28 | Consequently due diligence forms a larger and more important part of share sales than of asset sales and in terms of legal costs can be an expensive process . |
| 29 | Among the children of a Woolwich school evacuated to somewhere in Kent the average weight of the boys has increased during the last month by 2½ lb. and of girls by 3½ lb . |
| 30 | Biological processes are already used extensively at sewage works and on farms to convert domestic and agricultural sewage into biogas . |