Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [noun pl] and [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Produce likely to go off , such as some fruits and vegetables , are destroyed . |
| 2 | This subject has been debated many times over many years and , after much deliberation , it was felt less confusing to say ‘ Basket Only ’ rather than stipulate a specific number of items [ at least for the majority of our stores ] as this tended to cause confrontations between some cashiers and customers as to the quantity of items in the basket . |
| 3 | Within a few days they were ready to invite Poole to a dinner of roast pork and potatoes — cooked in the baker 's oven because the cottage had none that could be used — and at the end of January a letter to John Prior Estlin described with quiet enthusiasm the clear brook which ran before the cottage door , a pretty garden — ‘ large enough to find us vegetables and employment ’ — and an orchard lying beyond which was about to become home for some ducks and geese , as well as two pigs . |
| 4 | We marvelled again at the scenery of West Spitsbergen , its sharply tipped mountains of dark rock , the glacier-filled valleys between and the tiny strips of life-giving vegetation which made it possible for some birds and animals to exist . |
| 5 | A small party for some friends and relatives , and I wondered if you would n't mind giving Betty a hand with the arrangements . ’ |
| 6 | This evolution may itself have the potential to alter Britain 's geography , through providing built-in advantages for some occupations and places and relative disadvantages for others . |
| 7 | For most point to point is a good day out … an afternoon of country sport … the competition is keen … the racing hard and winning isn ’ t the be all and end all … for some horses and riders though this game is the first hurdle … a fence they have to jump to make the big time |
| 8 | For some farmers and landowners the major impact of the newcomers has therefore been political rather than social , for their arrival in the village has ensured that landownership is no longer the automatic passport to the political domination of the countryside that it was once considered to be . |
| 9 | IN A GRIM YEAR for the motor business , one of the few bright spots for some manufacturers and dealers has been the buoyancy of diesel cars . |
| 10 | Accurate drawing was required for some constructions and teachers were asked to supply rulers , protractors and compasses . |
| 11 | It 's claimed that for some men and women it 's like a drug they ca n't do without — and they end up like any other addict , ruining their lives , desperate for the next ‘ fix ’ . |
| 12 | Sir Patrick Mayhew must have been hoping for some winners and losers , as he considers how to kick-start his talks process . |
| 13 | Love has inspired more mystical utterances than any other human emotions ; for some saints and mystics , it has been almost the whole of religion . |
| 14 | For some policemen and women , their family is very important indeed , and , as a later chapter on stress demonstrates , the family can function as a tension release mechanism and an escape from police work , so that ordinary policemen and women tend to protect this preserve from infringement by outsiders , whether social researchers , senior police managers , the IRA , or the public . |
| 15 | For some congregations and occasions an informal , relaxed language is appropriate , whilst others will require one which has more formality and dignity . |
| 16 | Drugs charities have warned catching up may come too late for some clients and hostels . |
| 17 | But for some rebels and waverers they will become ‘ redundant ’ to the party organisation . |
| 18 | Erm the third one is we 've got a small amount of money out of , think again it 's out of TEED and , but it 's N Y T E C have got hold of it and it 's to do with further development of the Careers Service Tech Partnership , but it 's only a few thousand , it 's a very small n amount compared , I mean the bid that we 've put in for this Standards and Indicators is more like sort of thirty thousand . |
| 19 | ‘ A small minority of Members of Parliament after these weeks and months of debate have still been unable to tell us what they want , where they want to lead this country and who is going with them . ’ |
| 20 | For after all children and adults do not participate in exactly the same social relations . |
| 21 | After more days and nights than he cared to remember , he was perched on a ledge , perhaps halfway up , unable to move up or down . |
| 22 | After several twists and tilts , the sediment is not only disturbed and encouraged to leave the sides of the bottle , but the bottle finally achieves a fully inverted position ready for dégorgement . |
| 23 | As a good honours graduate , you will provide research assistance in the purification and characterisation of proteins as targets for chemotherapeutic agents , and assess interactions between such proteins and inhibitors . |
| 24 | The project will investigate how information about such expectations and values could usefully be made available . |
| 25 | It is through such activities and practices as those which characterise pupil-teacher interaction in the classroom that school knowledge is daily negotiated and reproduced . |
| 26 | All we in fact observe is that h is regularly followed by B. This consistent association leads us to connect the two in our own minds , to expect A always to be followed by B , and this we then express by saying that A is the cause of B and B the effect of A. This is all perfectly in order , and indeed it is through such links and associations that we build up an ordered and coherent conception of the world around us and make sense of our experience of it . |
| 27 | For the rape survivor the experience of the court interaction is likely to be primary and the media coverage is secondary ; thus for such women and girls , anonymity in the media may be a minor reform compared to others in which they have an interest . |
| 28 | For such elements and compounds , the bond dissociation enthalpy has twice the value of the enthalpy of atomisation . |
| 29 | The European Court further ruled in this case that Arts 48 and 59 of the EC Treaty do not prevent a member state from requiring that the exercise of the profession of auditor in that state by a person qualified to carry on that profession in another member state be subject to conditions which are objectively necessary to guarantee observation of professional rules concerning the permanence of the infrastructure in place for the completion of the work , the effective presence in the member state and assurance of the observation of professional ethics , unless respect for such rules and conditions is already guaranteed by a reviseur d'entreprises , whether a natural person or a firm , established and recognised in the state , and in whose service is placed , for the duration of the work , the person who intends to exercise the profession of auditor . |
| 30 | The rules defining the nature of their liability to third parties are contained in ss9 and 12 of the Partnership Act as follows : s9 Every partner in a firm is liable jointly with the other partners … for all debts and obligations of the firm incurred while he is a partner ; and after his death his estate is also severally liable in a due course of administration for such debts and obligations , so far as they remain unsatisfied , but subject … to the prior payment of his separate debts . |