Example sentences of "and [prep] [noun] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Although this circumstance continually brings an unwelcome number of new soldiers of fortune into the field and into competition with the already existing individual capitalists , it also reinforces the supremacy of capital itself , expands its base and enables it to recruit ever new forces for itself out of the substratum of society . |
| 2 | While it is conceivable that bribes can be used to secure the sale of a better and cheaper product , the more general effect is to shift the balance of business away from the most efficient producer and in favour of the most corrupt producer . |
| 3 | The office culture consists of a kind of folklore involving ‘ the selective preservation of the ideas that have proved worthwhile ’ ( Shibutani , 1961:465 ) , in part about ‘ normal ’ cases and in part about the most ‘ difficult ’ problems and the ‘ worst ’ offenders . |
| 4 | IBM Corp yesterday stepped up its pitch for OEM business , most strikingly offering an enhanced version of the 9371 microprocssor-based Personal/370 Adapter/A co-processor , so that designers can build 370-compatibility into workstations via a co-processor.The company 's Entry Systems Technology — Personal Systems business unit is also offering some of IBM 's handwriting recognition products to third parties , including technology that recognises both script and block capitals ; and in addition to the currently available PenPoint version , ThinkWrite will be available this year in versions that run under OS/2 and Windows for Pen Computing . |
| 5 | The decline in hospital orders and the rise of prison sentences are traceable formally to the practice of modern psychiatrists of recommending fewer hospital orders , and in reality to the more restrictive policy on admission to special hospitals being pursued by the DHSS , and also to the higher proportion of defendants who are declared to have ‘ recovered ’ by the time of the trial . |
| 6 | They noted that asylums had a tendency to provide employment on farms and in workshops for the most competent and socially organized patients and there were some remarkably successful asylum farming ventures ; for example , in the early twentieth century Cane Hill Hospital became famous for its herd of pedigree pigs . |
| 7 | He obtained his freedom in 1610 , and thereafter built a successful business as printer and publisher , despite being frequently at the centre of political and religious controversy and at odds with the more established members of his company . |
| 8 | He ended up in fact with a high-spirited beauty , the Polish princess Clementina Sobieska , who was smuggled out of Austria and across Europe in the most romantic circumstances , although George I ungallantly offered a £10,000 dowry to any other suitable candidate who would marry her first . |