Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] and [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Rally of the Guinean People , the Guinean Party of Progress and the Union for the New Republic announced on Oct. 8 the formation of an opposition alliance , the Front for Struggle and for Government ; the main aim of the front was to press for the postponement of legislative elections scheduled for November , in order that a national conference could be held beforehand . |
| 2 | In the debate about restoration scripture could be quoted both for rigour and for mercy . |
| 3 | Le Monde of Feb. 3 described the " sudden conversion " of Modrow ( who had previously stressed that reunification was not on the agenda ) as a response to rising popular pressure for reunification and to the continuing exodus of East Germans to West Germany . |
| 4 | The novena was organised by the Our Lady of Pity Sanctity of Life Group , and was a response to the desperate need for prayer and for education of life issues . |
| 5 | Some smaller carnivores such as mongooses are colonial , social , and highly altruistic , using group burrows for protection and as a refuge from which they then forage . |
| 6 | But for once I was grateful he was around , both as company for Mum and as an irritant for Auntie Jean . |
| 7 | In the press conference accompanying the 1988 launch , the Prime Minister made a statement reiterating this argument : Action for Cities was not about new resources nor new policies , but about co-ordination and about building on apparent strengths ( Platt and Lewis , 1988 ) . |
| 8 | Where the extreme view differs from more moderate views is in playing down — or even ignoring — crucial differences between the contexts of learning that obtain for oral and for written language , and between the language modes themselves . |
| 9 | This , in turn , will cause us to address the broader issue of whether there is , in a more general sense , a genuine , causal association between insanity and at least some forms of creativity ; and , if that is so , what it can tell us about the underlying qualities of psychosis and of the creative process . |
| 10 | This impatience led to an overestimation of the potential for change and to premature and ill-fated attempts to force its pace . |
| 11 | On the surface , the Conservative victory of 1979 seemed to blunt the case for change and in a 1981 Commons debate on the British constitution the minister of state at the Home Office boldly put the case for no change , arguing that " this is a time when we should stand up for our great tradition of parliamentary democracy … |
| 12 | Once we accept that fact , we can relax and enjoy the relationship , knowing that , because we are not tying them down , they are all the more likely to remain our friends and even to continue to come to us for support and for advice . |
| 13 | But in reality the amount and type of support which kin give each other varies with the particular historical circumstances within which family relationships are played out , so that looking at patterns of support at different points in time means that one is not comparing like with like in quite significant ways : there is variation both in people 's need for support and in the capacity of relatives to provide it . |
| 14 | Peloponnesian and Cretan sculptors work at first not in marble but in local limestones ; later sometimes in marble imported from the Cyclades , but the softer and more readily available stone is long used everywhere for building and for architectural sculpture . |
| 15 | The policy of austerity and a strong franc , which he had so staunchly defended for the best part of a decade ( and which had earned him such praise abroad ) , was being blamed within France for recession and for the record level of unemployment ( it broke through the symbolic 3m mark the day he handed over the reins of government ) . |
| 16 | A disinfectant is a chemical product used for disinfection and despite the association of the term with hospitals , toilets and drains disinfection is a vital part of modern food practice . |
| 17 | His knowledge of Scotland , its people , and its countryside proved to be invaluable when talking about whisky and from an early age he became an acknowledged and accomplished voice of the industry . |
| 18 | Living on income support is for many a very negative experience — the intrusive questioning about income and about personal relationships ; the difficulties of queuing with young children ; the problems when benefits are delayed or lost ; the lack of control over income as more and more direct deductions are made — all these and more contribute to the difficulties of bringing up children alone on a low income . |
| 19 | At the end of the garden were the two chicken houses , a run for daytime and to the right the sleeping quarters with a tiny window about a foot square . |
| 20 | Its skull — two metres long — was well developed , with three strong pointed horns useful for defence and for stripping some of the remaining shorter fronds , resembling the cycads used in Florida as indoor pot-plants . |
| 21 | I am sure that the hon. and learned Gentleman knows the considerable steps that have been taken by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence and by the Minister of State for the Armed Forces to deal with the aftermath of that tragic incident . |
| 22 | For many of these people , anxiety about money and about arranging credit can powerfully reinforce the general tendency to stick to credit arrangements they are familiar with , and avoid searching out new and perhaps better-value alternatives . |
| 23 | women are not sexy skinny women are not sexy , really skinny women we have to be like the Madonna type woman and I think that the , the , its about money and its about co , its about the consumer and about money and about making money from an image that somebody somewhere has seen as the normal perfect woman and the norm can be any thing it could be whatever you want it to be . |
| 24 | erm lots of advertisements produced by Tampax , erm about worry and off days and this was because during that time menstruation was one of these taboo subjects that people did n't talk about . |
| 25 | Libraries ( and for that matter separate collections of audio-visual software ) have to be organized for retrieval in ways that allow the user fullest access to their subject content ; these methods are not understood by instinct and have to be revealed through teaching and through use . |
| 26 | The Second World War , a war fought for freedom and against a Nazi dictatorship notorious for its racist policies , was something of a turning-point in this unhappy tale of race relations in the USA . |
| 27 | We had the G A T talks held up for a lengthy period simply because the French wanted even more cash for agriculture and of course they got it and it 's rather silly when we 're spending two hundred and fifty million pounds a week on dumping and destroying food . |
| 28 | However , we recognise that the countryside is also a place for conservation , for bird lovers , for agriculture and for a whole range of people . |
| 29 | Berisha told reporters that he had informed Genscher that Albania 's most urgent needs were for aid for agriculture and for help in solving transport problems . |
| 30 | Further , the growth of Federal expenditure , in support for agriculture and in the expansion of the aerospace and defence industries ( see above ) have all favoured the South . |