Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] the [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Some of these fungi , Phurmomyces for example , are known to occur only on or between the tarsal claws at the tips of the insect 's legs . |
2 | Creatinine clearance values varied widely but did not differ significantly between the two treatment groups ( mesalazine=90 ( 47–172 ) ml/ min , sulphasalazine=85 ( 48–153 ) ml/min ) or between the treatment groups and the healthy colunteers ( healthy volunteers=79 ( 34–180 ml/ min ) ( Fig 1 ) . |
3 | There were no significant differences between the two treatment groups ( albumin/creatinine ratio : mesalazine=0.91 ( 0.23–4.55 ) mg/mmol , sulphasalazine=0.84 ( 0.24–7.95 ) mg/mmol ; transferrin/creatinine ratio : mesalazine=7.4 ( 1.1–94 ) µg/mmol , sulphasalazine=17.6 ( 1–229 ) µg/mmol ) or between the treatment groups and healthy volunteers . |
4 | No significant differences were found between the two treatment groups ( α 1 -microglobulin/creatinine ratio : mesalazine=132 ( 3–1070 ) µg/mmol , sulphasalazine=193 ( 6–2237 ) µg/mmol ; NAG/creatinine ratio : mesalazine=187 ( 49–1360 ) mU/mmol , sulphasalazine=202 ( 64–650 ) mU/mmol ) or between the treatment groups and healthy volunteers . |
5 | Changes in proposed greenbelt boundaries affecting a given area , and occurring at the consultative draft stage of local plans and or pre-map stage and the formal deposit of those plans , and or between the deposit copies and proposals subsequently issued by county and local planning authorities by way of desired changes to deposit copies , militate against , and may totally inhibit in relation to that area , emergence within the meaning of the national doctrine most recently propagated in paragraph er within erm paragraph thirty two of the revised version of P P G number One . |
6 | I have checked with our Information Services manager and he tells me that Wimpey did not take any photographs of military airfields prior to or during the war years . |
7 | If you go in the loo there 's well for months or during the summer hours counting how many moths was on the window sill and flies , you know , they sort of got more each week when you went and the cobwebs it 's wonderful ! |
8 | Parliament could , either directly or through the Local Authorities , implement what the public as a whole demanded . |
9 | When time is money that can be a considerable saving , or as the planning documents predicted , there was ‘ a considerable improvement in cash flow ’ . |
10 | ‘ As I looked at the magnificent vehicle I could not help thinking of the historical ‘ Experiment ’ of the Stockton and Darlington Railway , or of the Exhibition excursions of 1851 , when the GW nailed rough boards across their permanent way trucks at Didcot to accommodate their third class passengers ! |
11 | While in 1920–1 Eliot admired both Edward Wadsworth 's drawings of industrial landscapes and Picasso 's primitivism , he found himself living the life of Thomson or of the city clerks he had read about in Conan Doyle , Davidson , Conrad , and elsewhere . |
12 | The nationality , domicile and residence requirements , with all their unfairnesses and anomalies , could not be the least burdensome way of ensuring the survival of the quota system or of the fishing communities . |
13 | We noted the grim approaches ; incessant traffic noise in narrow streets ; parked vehicles hemming in the pavement ; rubbish dumps on waste land nearby ; the absence of green playing spaces on or near the school sites ; tiny playgrounds ; gaunt looking buildings ; often poor decorative conditions inside ; narrow passages ; dark rooms ; unheated and cramped cloakrooms ; unroofed outside lavatories ; tiny staff rooms ; inadequate storage space with consequent restrictions on teaching materials and therefore methods ; inadequate space for movement and P.E. ; meals in classroom ; art on desks ; music only to the discomfort of others in an echoing building ; non-soundproof partitions between classes ; lack of smaller rooms for group work ; lack of spare room for tuition of small groups ; insufficient display space ; attractive books kept unseen in cupboards for lack of space to lay them out ; no privacy for parents wishing to see the head ; sometimes the head and his secretary sharing the same room ; and , sometimes all around , the ingrained grime of generations . |
14 | They were like astronauts landing on the moon and finding footprints in the dust , or like the mountain climbers in Jules Verne who , having at last reached the summit of what they take to be a virgin Himalayan peak , find a sign saying : M. Durand , Dentist , 14 rue Caumartin , Paris . |
15 | In front of , or behind the expense envelopes ? |
16 | They journey from plain to forest , or along the river valleys and mountain passes , where they buy , sell , or steal things that they can re-sell to other Orcs and Goblins later on . |
17 | They move about from plain to forest , or along the river valleys and in between the mountain passes where they buy , sell or steal things that they can re-sell to other Orcs or Goblins later on . |
18 | The owls were living in short grass plains and the pellets were collected from kopjes , which are small hills rising over the plains , or along the cliff edges of Olduvai gorge . |
19 | The sequences cloned from the marsupials are the only Y-located sequences detected either with the human SRY probe or with the marsupial sequences themselves . |
20 | Charts for intarsia and so on can be printed in colour if you have a colour printer , otherwise you can choose to print them either in shades of grey , or with the code numbers / letters that you allocated to the colours when you designed the pattern . |
21 | After that he may feel more ready , together with other residents , to get in touch with suitable ethnic minority organisations in the area or with the Community Relations Council . |
22 | It was so pitifully easy for the customers : the temptation so hard to resist , to pick up a bar or two of chocolate from the counter , a packet of tea from the shelf , even a bag of flour , as my aunt came from behind the counter , passed through to the kitchen , down the steps into the old still-room to draw vinegar from the cask , or paraffin from the tank ( its pump rattling up-down , up-down ) , or across the yard for corn or toppings , or up the back stairs for some item kept on the little landing ; so that the shop began to make small profit or none at all . |
23 | ‘ You see you have to have a situation in schools where in the end teachers — and this gentleman is a visiting teacher — can give reasonable orders to people just as you do in a home . |
24 | Anyone interested in that idea , or in the turning systems for schools can contact him at The Croft , Brough , Thurso , Caithness , Scotland KW14 8YE , ( 0847 ) 85605 . |
25 | Marketing terms such as " segment " , and " audience " are all par for the course and everyday jargon if you work in advertising or in the specialist companies serving the industry . |
26 | At all times , parents approached for their support , whether at home or in the school environs , were placed under no pressure and were perfectly free to refuse . |
27 | For example , changes in the rate of taxation of company profits , or in the capital allowances which can be set against tax , are believed by many to significantly affect levels of investment . |
28 | The Museum 's Education Service provides a direct teaching service for pre-booked parties with sessions taking place in the interactive gallery Magician 's Road , in the lecture theatre or in the Museum galleries . |
29 | Magician 's Road , in the well equipped lecture theatre or in the Museum galleries . |
30 | It matters very much to the people of Coventry whether they live in Warwickshire or in the west midlands . |