Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [prep] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The tournament is always won by Americans or Germans in both men and women 's games .
2 Golden plover are a widespread breeding bird in the summer , and whether this is a gathering of locals or birds from further north , I have no way of knowing .
3 The calves are reared for beef , veal or replacements for either dairy or suckler herds , and the best of them can gain about 1,154g/day .
4 Periodic acid Schiff staining showed that most Barrett 's mucosa and all the gastric mucosa contained neutral mucin ( red colouration in cytoplasm ) while some areas , especially those composed of intestinal mucosa , contained acid mucin ( blue colouration in cytoplasm ) or glands with both acid and neutral mucin ( purple colouration in the cytoplasm ) .
5 To these can be added management lists , or forecasts of how people were likely to vote on a particular measure , and marked election return lists , which record gains and losses for a party .
6 The Bank of Scotland had frozen the overdraft of Monktonhall Mineworkers Ltd some weeks ago when it emerged that debts of about £1.7 million had accrued .
7 Laws without strong enforcement are words without deeds , and the tragic truth is that courts in both England and the United States have displayed a general unwillingness to mete out harsh punishment to those found guilty of cruelty to animals and an even greater reluctance to render guilty verdicts in the first place .
8 But the optimism of workers at Rover 's Cowley plant in Oxford and the Stratton St Margaret site in Swindon turned to anger 18 months ago , when the European Commission announced that sweeteners worth almost £45m that helped clinch the deal , were illegal and would have to be paid back .
9 Arguing that elements of both capitalism and Western culture were necessary to growth and prosperity , the article warned : " If we unanalytically fear " capitalist influences ' and return to the old road of the closed door , this could really shake the socialist foundation . "
10 Mechanisms must be set up to ensure that commissioners in both health and social services receive feedback about needs assessment .
11 It is estimated that changes at both Broughton and Filton have already saved £100,000 a year in transport costs .
12 Some theoretical papers suggest that changes in both volatility and volume are caused by the arrival of new ( private ) information , and that there is no causative relationship between volume and volatility .
13 He sometimes claimed Jewish blood , sometimes denied it , and there is evidence that feelings about how Jews had been treated under the Nazi regime troubled him after he had settled in Germany .
14 In particular , they felt that enterprises in both Britain and Germany were having to cater for increasingly small market niches rather than for homogeneous mass markets .
15 Despite the fact that representatives of both Korea and Taiwan appeared at the public hearing on the issue to argue their case , Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt is expected to grant the request for certification .
16 This includes consideration of the context and type of discourse , of the intentions and attitudes of both speaker and listener , and of various processes of inference used in deriving meaning from sounds , forms and contexts .
17 I am aware , from a number of visits to Scotland , of the fine museums and galleries in both Edinburgh and Glasgow .
18 The question of social ranking entered into numerous informal interviews and discussions with both Shetlanders and incomers .
19 The styles and values of both employees and managers currently support a job design philosophy that has its roots in work study and industrial engineering practice , and it flies in the face of conventional wisdom to believe that jobs can actually be designed rather than simply be the result of technologically determined requirements .
20 Such conditions may well apply in other parts of the world where the relative availability and skills of both surgery and sclerotherapy may differ .
21 With fixed assets close to £1 million and capital and reserves of over £868,000 , there can be little doubt as to the commercial nature of the Dart Valley Railway Plc .
22 The Mukasas have a £45,000 endowment mortgage and savings of about £7,000 .
23 There are remains of basins and columns in both tepidarium and caldarium .
24 This suggests that ( like general deterrence ) instrumental denunciation can not justify any particular level of severity of punishment ; nor can the penal system ( as is sometimes fondly imagined ) ‘ give a lead ’ to public opinion about the rights and wrongs of how people should behave .
25 Sewel 's study ( 13 ) into the economic and social effects of centralised education in the rural areas of the Highlands and Islands found that ( a ) the structure of secondary school provision was not a crucial factor in migration , although the types of organisation most favoured by parents were the local two-year comprehensive school and the all-through comprehensive , located in the West , and ( h ) expectations and aspirations of both parents and pupils tended to be influenced by general social and economic conditions rather than specifically educational considerations .
26 The Company supplied all churches and chapels in both Wolverton and New Bradwell with free gas , coke and water ( with the exception of the Salvation Army , because it made street and public house collections ) , until nationalisation .
27 She considers the strengths and weaknesses of both positions and shows how the epistemological and political questions are intertwined with each other .
28 Accommodation can be arranged at local bed and breakfasts for about £15 per night .
29 Technical sales literature often contains important data such as circuit diagrams and explanations on how improvements have been effected .
30 1 He shot down once and for all the established accounts of British politics ; they were " quite wrong " as descriptions and explanations of how things worked .
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