Example sentences of "and the [noun] [prep] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The injection works in up to 85 per cent of cases , and the tablets in up to 70 per cent of patients . |
| 2 | And I should explain , the microphone in the middle of the table and the man over here with the tape recorder is tape recording this meeting |
| 3 | Or else we assume that the aeons during which the improbable state lasts , and the distance from here to Sirius , are minute if compared with the age and size of the whole universe . |
| 4 | She came to a point where she could see far over the town , she had instinctively gone up following the fleeing daylight , and the mist over there under a sky that was greyish and purplish and darkening again , became apparent because it was being lit up from those distant buildings and streets , the points of light vibrating through the moisture . |
| 5 | The sale of the Express Group by Fleet Holdings ( ex-Trafalgar House ) to United Newspapers in the mid-1980s , the sale of the Telegraph to the Canadian Conrad Black , the re-launch and closure of the Evening Standard ( 1987 ) , the launch and demise of the London Daily News and the purchase of Today by Murdoch ( 1987 ) amongst other recent changes , have all the appearances of companies engaging in long-term strategic planning rather than political machination on behalf of any specific political faction . |
| 6 | Opposing proposals to import a further 5 million tonnes of coal , he presented evidence that this was both unnecessary given the trends of productivity and costs within British Coal , and damaging to long-term energy policy since it would lead to pit closures and the sterilization of up to 150 million tonnes of coal reserves . |
| 7 | W we were putting the er kitchen and the display in there for the week . |
| 8 | The Moroccan Interior Ministry had on Jan. 2 warned of an environmental catastrophe of " tragic proportions " and the loss of up to 100,000 jobs in the fishing and tourism industries . |
| 9 | In the final days of the occupation the Iraqis were alleged to have perpetrated a reign of terror within the city , including random killings , rape , the destruction of many public buildings and the seizure of up to 5,000 Kuwaiti citizens who were believed to have been taken to Iraq as hostages . |
| 10 | You can annotate a task , write down who 's responsible for seeing it through , and the names of up to three people who are involved . |
| 11 | On Aug. 21 a meeting between Kenyan president Daniel arap Moi and US officials resolved tensions which had arisen over what the Kenyan authorities had perceived as the lack of proper consultation about the US operation , involving as it did US military aircraft overflying Kenyan airspace and the arrival of up to 300 US military personnel . |