Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During or after such courses they may have acquired some additional external diplomas in organ-playing conducting , harmony and counterpoint . |
| 2 | Finally , the information found may lend itself to various forms of presentation , ranging from fact sheets to some kind of argument for or against various issues . |
| 3 | When the issue about state education was simply for or against comprehensive schools , I was absolutely sure where I stood : against , on principle , the principle being that it was wrong to destroy precious educational institutions of great antiquity and the highest quality — the grammar schools — in favour of some abstract egalitarian theory . |
| 4 | A number of other researchers have investigated this same data set ( see , e.g. , Pesando , 1975 ; Carlson , 1977 ; Pearce , 1979 ; Figlewski and Wachtel , 1981 ) , but their conclusions are mixed and no decisive case for or against rational expectations emerges . |
| 5 | A fundamental change in the relationships between or among organizational parts . |
| 6 | Perhaps this debate wo n't be as lively and er as controversial as the one that er we arranged to have on the question of insider dealing but it is an important matter because auditing as I said , is not just as assistance to companies but it is a reassurance to the general public and the public at the moment are in need of grave reassurance that the insur that the er the financial services industry as well as industry generally , is being properly looked after and for these reasons er although we support er the orders before er the house tonight , we have no hesitation at all in ensuring that they are debated properly than not something that should simply go through on the nod . |
| 7 | where These solutions derived by Saint-Venant , apply only to small values of and to isotropic materials . |
| 8 | IRA , mourners told LOYALIST murder gangs are simply doing the work of and for republican terrorists , a bishop told mourners today . |
| 9 | ‘ I am assuming the responsibility for all of my co-workers , both for those things I was aware of and for those things that I discovered in the last few days since the name of Olivetti began circulating . |
| 10 | Similarly , the concern for the pollution of and from bodily secretions on a practical level worked to promote the integrity and productivity ( in human terms ) of the family unit — a matter of prime importance for a group concerned for its very existence and reproduction — whilst on a symbolic level , the exiles , concentration upon the unity , purity and integrity of the physical body well reflected their larger concern for the threatened boundaries of the body politic . |
| 11 | — presenting evidence in support of and against various positions which might be taken up with regard to the issue ; |
| 12 | He went on to say that the Head characteristically had ‘ preconceived ideas ’ and was ‘ somewhat biased towards and against certain individuals ’ and that the reviews were not likely to affect the Head 's preconceptions very much . |
| 13 | For instance , some sites in Roman Britain have a much greater proportion of third-than of fourth-century coins compared to other sites , and it has been observed that the former tend to be the prestigious settlements of old Roman veteran colonies or tribal capitals , whereas the latter are more likely to be smaller rural sites such as farms , forts or villages . |
| 14 | The first is that the effect of such an undertaking would be to impose an obligation on the council to indemnify Wickes against damage suffered by it , in the event of section 47 being held to be invalid as inconsistent with article 30 , irrespective of whether in such circumstances Wickes has a right to damages — i.e. , irrespective of whether the Bourgoin case is wrongly decided . |
| 15 | It is their contribution to hip hop — the voice of African America — and the work they do for and in black communities . |
| 16 | Feudal organizations provided historical precedents for and in some cases even the institutional forms for modern corporatism ( Maier , 1981 ; Kocka , 1981 ) . |
| 17 | Recognising that while there is a place for carefully programmed input , we endeavour to emphasise active independent learning through direct experience : for example through business enterprise , designing products for and in local companies , work experience , residential experience , community experience , family placements , recreational activities , which we hope will be recreative in the fullest sense . |
| 18 | Arguments and evidence for and against particular propositions are now abundantly available , both from the growing body of research and analytic study in primary education and from the cumulative experience of teachers . |
| 19 | Erm , the , all the arguments for and against organic dips have been considered this last nine months by the Veterinary Products Committee , and they 've come out with a report I think , that satisfies no one , because it does n't go either , either way in that respect at all , it 's called for more research and , and erm , development in that , in that sense . |
| 20 | Two of our patients developed infective omplications and we now use prophylactic antibiotics during and for 48 hours after the procedure . |
| 21 | The gauzy tides of swarming males , waiting for the females , rise and fall as if on invisible yo-yos . |
| 22 | Her body was squeezed as if between great trees . |
| 23 | B.P. has been likened to a honeycomb where groups worked as if in sealed-off cells . |
| 24 | No longer young myself , I feel as if in some respects I was never young . |
| 25 | The apothecary had assured him that anyone who took them would gradually weaken and die as if from natural causes . |
| 26 | In Chapter 2 and subsequently , I have stressed the enormous variations in context which exist in African schools , between countries , between urban and rural conditions , between and within individual schools , and the way that these various elements so critically affect the learning experiences a school offers . |
| 27 | These are the outcome of the flow of funds between and within different sectors of the economy , as well as between the short-term and long-term financial markets . |
| 28 | There is , however , an alternative approach based on the development of a new understanding of law , which no longer assumes that the legal system is uniform but realises that law is linked into complex processes of communication between and within different sub-systems of society , which in turn form and influence the substance of a particular segment of law . |
| 29 | A burst of frequency between 10 and 10 4 Hz is expected with a duration of several cycles and an energy release of between and in gravitational waves from a star core of mass M. The mass M is expected to be similar to that of the pulsars , which average around for the few cases where measurements have been made . |
| 30 | It has been suggested that there is not really a contrast between and , since only occurs in weak syllables and no minimal pairs can be found to show a clear contrast between and in unstressed syllables ( though there have been some ingenious attempts ) . |