Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The following month Najib conceded that the Marxist authorities of the DRA were ready for contacts with supporters of Zahir Shah to promote a settlement . |
2 | Hair ban : Kuwait is to enforce an Islamic ban on men working as hairdressers for women in beauty parlours . |
3 | We 're not talking about individual members saying I wan na go here or I wan na go there , we 're talking about groups of memberships within these sorts of branches . |
4 | There is a considerable degree of variation between authorities in terms of their expenditure in each of these areas , and of the levels of provision achieved . |
5 | A third aim is to suggest possible hypotheses directed towards explaining differences between housewives in attitudes to housework and the housework situation . |
6 | Cedric Downes had himself been on the phone for about five minutes , trying frustratedly to contact British Rail about times of trains to London that day ; yet he could have had little notion of the irrational and frenetic impatience of the man who was trying to contact him ; a man who was betweenwhiles cursing the incompetence of British Telecom and bemoaning the cussedness of the Universe in general . |
7 | Correlations between pairs of measures across the 40 junctions were calculated for each subject individually , the 30 correlations obtained in each case were then averaged using Fisher 's z transformation ( Silver and Dunlap 1987 ) . |
8 | Edward laughed politely , slid from Carnaby 's grip and edged towards the group by the window , who were talking about hedges in tones of some desperation . |
9 | City workers calling for improvements to conditions in the factories |
10 | A survey was commissioned to cover both raw data such as the proportion of women barristers at each stage of their career at the Bar , and also qualitative data such as attitudes towards careers for women barristers . |
11 | It was comparatively rare for cases of assaults against females to receive sustained coverage and , indeed , there were only three cases where at least one newspaper covered the case on three or more separate days . |
12 | David Pratley was left for hours without checks on his condition even though the prison knew he was a suicide risk . |
13 | I could sit for hours on buses without worrying about how much time I was wasting . |
14 | A CASUALTY department where two pensioners died after being left for hours on trolleys in a corridor was condemned yesterday by a Government-ordered inquiry . |
15 | ‘ I do n't mind lobbyists , I 'd just rather they called themselves by their proper name as they do in Washington , rather than wittering on for hours about relationships with opinion-formers . |
16 | Of course during the er during the course of this year we will be considering prototypes which will enable those young people to reach that high level of qualification but he will be aware that under the national training and education target there are some of those targets which are directly related to the points that he has raised and the important priority for this government is to ensure not only that we have young people training to an even higher level but through programmes like investors in people , that we encourage every member of the work force and those er who are primarily unemployed at the present time , to train to even higher levels of qualifications . |
17 | Requests for copies of items in the bulletin should be made to Fred Penfold or Anne Elliot . |
18 | Although the Fisher/Clark thesis does not entail the post-industrial argument , the two accounts offer a similar explanation for shifts in patterns of demand . |
19 | There have also been changes in the length of a ‘ generation ’ and the overlap between generations in families as a result of changing patterns of marriage and family formation . |
20 | During his three-day visit at the head of a 20-member delegation , Chissano met Rawlings for discussions on issues of mutual concern , including the peace initiatives in Mozambique and Angola . |
21 | In the afternoon he will go to Capitol Hill for discussions with members of Congress . |
22 | Many functionalists argue that this integration is based largely on ‘ value consensus ’ , that is on agreement about values by members of society . |
23 | Differences between subgroups of subjects for each continuous variable were compared using two tailed Student 's t tests and analysis of variance where appropriate . |
24 | A matched pair of front fog lamps can be substituted for headlamps in conditions of fog or falling snow . |
25 | It was decided to build a separate memorial to the airmen who were lost in WWII during operations from bases in the UK and North West Europe , and who have no known grave . |
26 | For accounts of mires in Lewis , see Goode and Lindsay ( 1979 ) , Hulme and Blyth ( 1984 ) and Hulme ( 1985 ) . |
27 | Those responsible for programmes of visits in the three Overseas Groups then reported on visits made since last October . |
28 | The correlations for subtests of groups of items on a particular topic were mostly between 0.6 and 0.8 , although two were 0.4 and 0.5 respectively . |
29 | But in moving to a second order analysis they looked at the relations between groups of signs in discursive systems . |
30 | While at one level a functional difference was probably intended , the relationship between groups of buildings at certain sites strongly suggests that there is a social distinction cutting across the functional dimension . |