Example sentences of "and [prep] a [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Richards said he approached the Independent Tribunal Appeals Services in Nottingham , and as a result residents of Kinmel Bay and Rhyl would now have their cases heard in Colwyn Bay , reducing travelling time from around 50 minutes to 15 minutes . |
| 2 | The companies often preferred slaves to white skilled labour and as a result slaves aspired to skilled positions which were later denied to them as freedmen . |
| 3 | What other reasons might account for this urban rural wage differential , just generally higher er standard of living er just cost , just prices er yeah , the cost the cost of living may well be higher and as a result employers have to pay higher wages , |
| 4 | There also lay embedded in the system the inequality of paying not for the job but for the qualifications : degrees received a year 's extra increment and as a result earnings differentials rose . |
| 5 | As it takes some time to get the system going and prepare the animal for recording , any one experiment can run for many hours , and as a result neurophysiologists tend , even more than any other lab scientists I know , to be erratic nightworkers and ( at least when they are graduate students ) not well cut out for normal social relations . |
| 6 | Sudden death associated with exercise is a major cause of death in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy , and as a result patients with the disease are recommended to avoid strenuous exercise . |
| 7 | Even the races which lacked talons — whom Alexei considered human in origin — baulked at contact with mutated species , and as a result mutants tended to live in deserted or out-of-the-way parts of the country , effectively quarantined from the rest of civilisation . |
| 8 | All duvets need covers to keep them clean and as a result designers have had virtual carte blanche in producing happy and aesthetic designs for the covers . |
| 9 | Now because the government has a , plays a much bigger role in the economy the government will be in charge of what you might think of as industrial employment so er a lot of manufacturing , heavy industry er mining so on and so forth will be run as a national as a national industry , right and er wages in that nationalized industry will not be er set at market levels but will be set at , by some institutional mechanism that wo n't reflect demand and supply or reflect the rent seeking and rent server rent preserving behaviour of civil servants and government quangos er so on and so forth but you must bear in mind that the government sector will er the public and semi public sector in developing countries is vast in comparison to er to develop the countries and as a result wages set in er in the government sector er will erm will be the driving force for all industrial employment , so what with wages and industrial employment . |
| 10 | The problem is that more and more heat is being kept back by a blanket of gases surrounding the Earth ( including Carbon Dioxide and CFCs ) and as a result temperatures around the world are gradually increasing . |
| 11 | The University collaborates with colleges of further education in extending the opportunities presented by Foundation Studies courses to all parts of the province and as a result courses are offered at Magee College and at Newry , Enniskillen and at three locations in Belfast . |
| 12 | ‘ School governors have been given increasing responsibility in recent years , but they have n't been adequately prepared and as a result children have n't been properly protected against abuse by teachers , ’ NASWE general secretary Sue Allen told delegates . |
| 13 | Fists were thrown and for a while things began to get very ugly . |
| 14 | For a tank up to 15″ high you need at least two tubes , and for a tank 18″ high at least three tubes . |
| 15 | Cecilia forced herself to show an interest in Daphne 's son and Daphne 's garden and after a while things grew easier . |
| 16 | The main social security policy changes in this period were the introduction in 1965 of earnings-related supplements to sickness and unemployment benefits and of a redundancy payments scheme . |