Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [prep] [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was then thrown into a frenzy by a letter announcing the impending arrival of Lando Medici , the richest of American patrons who always paid for ponies in readies out of a Gladstone bag . |
| 2 | Head office managers often rely on obtaining information in face-to-face discussions with subordinates , and will happily assign large sums of money to travel budgets in order for meetings with executives abroad to take place . |
| 3 | Lightweight British-made frames are also available for tots from 18-months upwards from good opticians . |
| 4 | Lightweight British-made frames are also available for tots from 18-months upwards from good opticians . |
| 5 | So we 're already , there 's , there 's people , if we 're going at night time we 're going to go for houses without lights on . |
| 6 | The Edinburgh branch of the union faced particular problems from the start , then , with a sub-category of skilled , fully apprenticed but low-paid compositors in the trade well before any mention is heard of women , and with a division of labour between groups of compositors already well established . |
| 7 | This is because figures were usually calculated for groups of speakers rather than for individuals , a practice which seemed to fit in neatly with Labov 's theoretical position that the locus of systematic variation was the group rather than the individual . |
| 8 | The Foundation has also refined the Distributed File System to enable it to handle things such as groups of files instead of single lines of files , as well as getting rid of a number of Distributed File System bugs . |
| 9 | It has also refined the Distributed File System to enable it to handle things such as groups of files instead of single lines of files , as well as getting rid of a number of DFS bugs . |
| 10 | Correspondence between the optimized conformations and the NMR data of the CRE oligomer for steps with phosphates not resonating at low field . |
| 11 | We will encourage a new system of tax-free child-care vouchers for parents of children under five , given by employers and usable in workplace , local authority and private nurseries and for individual qualified carers . |
| 12 | What is perhaps most striking in the past three decades is the way in which social movements of very diverse kinds have become an accepted part of political life in the Western democracies , and to some extent have provided models for movements in countries where the expression of criticism , dissent and opposition through formal political institutions is virtually impossible . |
| 13 | It will be clear from the description of the functions of the Court of Appeal and House of Lords that they make law to meet the needs of cases arising before them and lay down guidelines for judges in courts below . |
| 14 | Parties are welcome on any day throughout the year but arrangements must be made in advance for visits on days when Didcot Railway Centre is not otherwise open . |
| 15 | We need to build further on the ideas we have covered so far , to look at longer stretches of discourse , to form a picture of discourses in totalities rather than in extracts . |
| 16 | Miller also pointed out that although his book was a dictionary for gardeners , all branches of agriculture were included , as well as timber production and cultivation of products by settlers overseas . |
| 17 | One advantage of this was that the employer or manager was often a part-time farmer/crofter himself and was therefore more understanding of requests for days off or late arrivals in the morning . |
| 18 | Firms in the defence support field have been briefed by the Ministry of Defence that up to £1.2 billion of contracts for jobs currently run by the armed forces will be offered to civilian firms from April . |
| 19 | It conforms to the detailed historical evidence which is available and the occurrence of mergers in waves instead of as a continuous process undermines the statistical assumptions on which the former analysis is based . |
| 20 | There were more hedges but fewer heaths ; in some parts less arable than ever before , in other parts more than ever before ; and the coming of the canals about the same time also introduced new varieties of birds to districts where they had previously never been known . |
| 21 | Walker 's most liberating pictures of femininity are the many watercolours of groups of women sometimes with children gathered by the sea . |
| 22 | For example , types of worker resistance which derive from spontaneous , unofficial initiatives on the part of groups of workers often benefit from a degree of tacit legitimacy , in the sense that those in authority may ‘ turn a blind eye ’ to various workshop practices . |
| 23 | true in the actual world iff true throughout a range of groups of worlds reasonably close to the actual world . |
| 24 | The other reason for the scarcity of mines in areas where sediments have overlaid the older rocks is that the tools with which geologists look for deposits a the main , useful only when the deposits are near to the surface . |
| 25 | But these attitudes to sex are often a reflection of attitudes to bodies generally , indicating the lack of joy in body experienced many years before . |
| 26 | Management is holding a series of meetings with workers today . |
| 27 | Intensive livestock methods increase the susceptibility of animals to diseases easily spread by humans , and visitors threaten good farm hygiene ; and the danger can easily be reversed — some farming operations , particularly spraying , threaten visitors . |
| 28 | Co-housing might seem to carry the ideological baggage of communes from decades past . |
| 29 | The criticisms from the CDP , and from a meeting of heads of institutions recently visited , together with some Council members , focussed on the quality and unclear roles of visits , over-concern with resources , the reporting process , and other issues , and the Council decided to review the position in these respects under the continuing discussion of the partnership scheme . |
| 30 | The effect of this was that Central Office , for all its generosity , did not have much control over the selection of candidates in places where the man selected might actually win , and this did not change much before 1914 . |