Example sentences of "and [prep] [pron] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Confounding variables which may have affected urinary albumin excretion were similar within and between our two groups — that is , glycaemic control , weight , and protein intake ( as reflected by urinary urea excretion ) . |
| 2 | And for my two friends here ? ’ |
| 3 | And during his four years on the job he had the satisfaction of seeing all three major contracts renewed in competitive tender . |
| 4 | The 69-year-old president is well aware of the potential of Islam as a political tool , and during his 25 years in power has done his best to regulate the influence of Muslim politicians . |
| 5 | Selwyn was the smallest of the colleges of the University , also its students lived in , and during my three years the number of students never exceeded 150 . |
| 6 | Sulien Blount , on a piebald gelding , leading a brown cob on a rein , saddled ready for riding , and after him two grooms in attendance . |
| 7 | Figure 21.12 illustrates this by showing distributions of τ and of its two contributions measured in a zero-pressure-gradient boundary layer . |
| 8 | The Knot came into existence about November 1653 and throughout its six years of intermittent activity achieved less than nothing . |
| 9 | Across the aisle Lady Pemberley sat alone and behind her two grandchildren wriggled in charge of a governess whose long bony face and ill-fitting clothes reminded Alexandra powerfully of Miss Gracie . |
| 10 | Beyond the door was a slight recess blocked by a thick metal iron grille , and behind it four pairs of cruel red eyes gleamed in the darkness . |
| 11 | Over the marble mantelpiece was a huge oval gold mirror , with an eagle adorning it , and beneath it two gilt and delicate sprays of candle brackets . |
| 12 | Stornoway is a very busy Branch and with its two Mobiles the staff of 34 cater for our customers among the 25,000 or so Lewis and Harris residents . |
| 13 | It features seven place setting capacity and with its three programmes — pre-rinse , normal and superwash — you 're sure of sparkling plates , glasses and cutlery every time . |
| 14 | They returned six years later and purchased a corrugated zinc dwelling , and with their two sons became part-time islanders . |
| 15 | They returned six years later and purchased a corrugated zinc dwelling , and with their two sons became part-time islanders . |
| 16 | He then decided he could make a better biplane than many that he daily worked upon and with his four brothers ( Tom , Mark , Bob and Ed ) , they built the first ‘ Gee Bee ’ . |
| 17 | Basil 's paternal grandfather , Charles Rocke , brought his family up from Wrexham , North Wales , to London in the last quarter of the 19th century , and with his three sons started Rocke & Sons , leather factors , in Bermondsey . |
| 18 | A similar mood is found in London 's River : Pool of London , a gouache painting executed for London Transport in 1951 and from which 3,200 posters were made for use on the Underground ( Colour Plate XIV ) . |
| 19 | Returning to the question of reliability of numbers such as these in the absence of audit , the Post Office has addressed this question and in its 1990/91 Report and Accounts , alongside its performance measures ( ‘ quality of service' of the Royal Mail letter service ) is the following : |
| 20 | Its infant post-Communist democracy chose extreme PR , and in its late-1991 elections paid the price . |
| 21 | Polanski arrived in Hollywood from Europe on the back of a spoof horror film called The Fearless Vampire Killers , a parody of the horror genre , which he directed and in which twenty-three gallons of imitation blood were used . |
| 22 | My team , Guizhou Agricultural College , were beaten 24–16 by the Guizhou University in a game which attracted about a hundred spectators and in which ten tries were scored . |
| 23 | I became one of about 30 examiners out on the road , either on my own or with one colleague , and in my two year stint conducted 10 separate enquiries ( often involving more than one company ) . |
| 24 | Joe played in every remaining Southern League match in that 1907–08 season and in our three FA Cup ties — and he was only missing from the Palace defence by reason of injuries during the next seven seasons . |
| 25 | Brian Burke , ALP state Premier from 1983 to 1988 , was singled out by the report for particular criticism for having acted improperly both in dealing with political donations from businesspeople and in his 1987 handling of the rescue of an investment bank run by Connell.The report also criticized Burke 's successor , Peter Dowding , and the last Liberal premier of the state ( in 1982-83 ) , Ray O'Connor . |
| 26 | The methods outlined by Dr Barsamian during his address at an International Cancer Meeting ( held at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics , Freie University , Berlin ) in June 1989 , and in his two articles on the subject published by the American Journal of Biological Physics in 1988 , are hereby presented in a simple yet concise way . |
| 27 | Writers such as Robert Keohane , in his 1984 study After Hegemony , and Stephen Krasner , in his work on international regimes and in his 1978 book Defending the National Interest , argue that a modified version of Realism , or what Krasner calls ‘ structural Realism ’ , can help in explaining international economic issues . |
| 28 | And in his 36 years in the profession , this approach has landed him several of the hottest potatoes going : campaigning for the British Institute proposals from the Scottish side ; merging his firm Thomson McLintock with Peats ; introducing graduate intake only at the Scottish Institute ; working on the Likierman report on professional liability ; and , last but by no means least , heading up the then newly-formed APB at a time when , in the public view , auditing was becoming increasingly discredited . |
| 29 | And als , erm and on them three services is what we said a few moments ago , they got the choice of three different options . |
| 30 | There was no easy way to answer the bitterness in her voice , and Julia remembered what David had said about his mother 's probable feelings during the war and tried to imagine what it must have been like for Mrs Wallington , stuck in Scotland , knowing only a little but guessing all too much of what was happening to her own country — and to her two sons . |