Example sentences of "[prep] and [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your personality , your way of doing things , your way of helping someone to dress , how you listen to them — all these can make it a Home where the residents feel secure , looked after and treated with dignity , as explained below : |
| 2 | Despite his many sales of things from Douglas Cooper 's collection , a substantial amount of art remained , much of it in Switzerland , where it was looked after and catalogued by Billy 's curator , Dorothy Kozinski . |
| 3 | Milton Keynes has been running a befriender scheme where persistent offenders are looked after and advised by adults … it was working … but yesterday closed because of a shortage of cash … |
| 4 | I am very concerned about women , their rights and how they are looked after and protected at work . |
| 5 | Lying in bed and being looked after and enveloped in love , by day and by night . |
| 6 | This method of bandaging provides a firm grip that is less likely to slide of and fall in festoons during the ensuing bout . |
| 7 | From the 1860s , however , growing numbers of those who had no desire to question or to alter the nature of the economic system became uneasy about the prevailing diagnosis of the causes of and cure for poverty . |
| 8 | 9–6 CRITICISMS OF AND LIMITS TO REDISTRIBUTION |
| 9 | The six evils were : ( i ) prostitution and the use of brothels ; ( ii ) the production , sale and dissemination of pornography ; ( iii ) the abduction and sale of women and children ; ( iv ) the cultivation and consumption of and trafficking in drugs ; ( v ) the organization of gambling ; and ( vi ) the use of feudal and superstitious beliefs to swindle and harm people . |
| 10 | To be aware of and adhere to policies ( e.g. for patient safety ; for disposal of refuse ) . |
| 11 | Decibel is an oral character in the sense that she is part of a play , but she has nevertheless been conceived of and written by Perry . |
| 12 | Souter 's relative anonymity also meant that his nomination received a muted reaction from most pressure groups — particularly those in favour of and opposed to abortion — most of whose spokespeople suggested that they would await a fuller disclosure of the judge 's views before commenting upon the suitability of his appointment . |
| 13 | As President of Haringey AC , Ron Pickering showed his love of and feel for grass roots athletics by building the club from obscurity to greatness , partly through encouraging young black athletes to realise their potential . |
| 14 | Indeed , Frank Field claims that the Child Poverty Action Group , which since its foundation in 1965 has consistently and somewhat single-mindedly campaigned for the extension of and increases in family allowance , was positively hindered by the latent opposition of women to the scheme ( Field , 1982 ) . |
| 15 | Sometimes it is manifested in an exaggeration of previous dependency when problems arise ; sometimes , with strangers , excessive expectations of and need for support arise from these earlier relationships ( 'My husband waited on me hand and foot . ' ) |
| 16 | There was a rapid increase in the output of journals and books and in the range of and demand for newspapers . |
| 17 | Consider Figure 7.2 in which the logarithm of the absolute price level , p , is measured on the vertical axis and the logarithms of the supply of and demand for output are measured on the horizontal axis . |
| 18 | Along the horizontal axis are measured the supply of and demand for labour in the ith market , and respectively . |
| 19 | Hence , no matter how competitive labour and commodity markets are ( Keynes assumed perfect competition in the former and allowed for a high degree of competition in the latter ) , imbalances between the supply of and demand for labour would not be rectified through spontaneous variations in the real wage rate . |
| 20 | Only when some convincing reason can be adduced for believing that both employers and workers not only misread market signals , but also misread them in the opposite direction from each other , will it be plausible to infer that both the supply of and demand for labour will rise with the general rise in prices and money wages . |
| 21 | One reason is that current account flows no longer dominate the supply of and demand for currencies , and that capital transactions have assumed a greater relative importance . |
| 22 | Prospecting is the searching for and calling upon customers who , hitherto , have not purchased from the company . |
| 23 | Russell Barkley suggests , for example , that , for children aged four and five , three tokens are appropriate for jobs like getting dressed without a fuss , clearing up the table , putting away toys , getting ready for and staying in bed . |
| 24 | When this loss is allowed for and expressed in terms of an annual ( negative ) return over the holding period , it is possible to derive a redemption yield comprised of both running yield minus annualised capital loss . |
| 25 | The eagle stared back at him proudly and without fear and Mr Wolski wondered how long he would be here in captivity , staring out at the same things year after year , his great wings never feeling the power and support of the wind , his talons never arcing forward and down as they did what they had been made for and struck at prey . |
| 26 | And because it is always uncertain whether a new system of regulation can be smoothly established when the old one breaks down , the regulationist approach does not share world-system theories ' perspective of inexorable capitalist expansion in which all developments are seen as functional for and planned by capital as a whole . |
| 27 | For many older people this taboo is unhelpful and leads to difficulties , including an inability to prepare for and come to terms with the realities of old age , with physical and mental decline , and ultimately with death itself . |
| 28 | God 's love for and claim on man are worked out through a judgement and condemnation which disclose a profound alienation and estrangement between man and God , a contradiction in which man has attempted to break away from the tie with God , so that God 's claim on him has become a consuming fire . |
| 29 | Hence we should ‘ [ understand ] the significance of Christ as embodying values and ideals which also are sought for and valued by feminists ’ . |
| 30 | Third , the goods produced by bureaus are public goods in the sense that they are unlikely to be provided if charged for and offered for sale . |