Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] and [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first important step was to separate the purchasing and providing functions and devolve services such as personnel and finance to units . |
| 2 | An old market stance will yield Comparatively recent ones such as pennies and groats from about the time of William IV . |
| 3 | The Table gives the indings which , for cases and controls after 1976 , includes 540 cases of motor neurone disease , 1370 of multiple sclerosis , and 240258 controls . |
| 4 | But she was still meditating for hours and waiting for the voice of the flat to inform her of its favoured colour scheme . |
| 5 | But Pappy , who was always so willing to engage with her for hours and talk about school work or play chess , only patted her on the shoulder and fobbed her off with platitudes when the question of her mother came up . |
| 6 | I had nightmares about scrums and tackles from a very early age and refused to play as a linesman , in case I got involved in violence . |
| 7 | Now Emperor Clocks gives you the opportunity to own a classic timepiece that will stay in your family for generations and give to your children and your grandchildren the same precious memories . |
| 8 | ‘ I pay enough tax on my first job ’ , Mike said , and did n't accept the connection between taxes and help for the unemployed . |
| 9 | Wilcoxin signed rank test was used to compare pre with postoperative figures and the Mann-Whitney U test to analyse differences between subgroups and controls in symptom scores and results of function tests . |
| 10 | POLICE should abandon ‘ fashionable management theories ’ which blur traditional relationships between ranks and return to the hierarchical principles of leadership , a senior officer said yesterday . |
| 11 | The lumbering carts and chariots are protected by outriders mounted on giant wolves who patrol the area in front of the advancing tribe , probing for enemies and scouting for small settlements to loot . |
| 12 | There was no significant difference between cases and controls in oral contraceptive use : 12 of the 16 hypertensive women had recorded use of oral contraceptives compared with 13 of the 16 controls . |
| 13 | To eat hot dogs off sticks and run through sand . |
| 14 | ( d ) Solicitation for proxies and voting by proxy holders |
| 15 | The British Mountaineering Council is expanding its customised insurance cover for climbers and mountaineers with three new policies to choose from . |
| 16 | Dust is drawn in through vents and collected in filters . |
| 17 | To determine the origin of the cloned IRS-PCR products , amplification products were used as probes and hybridized to Sfi I partially digested GM06318 DNA ; all 7 products tested hybridized to a fragment between 600 and 670 kb in size and multiple smaller fragments ( data not shown ) . |
| 18 | Of course Nick likes — we both like — you to come for walks and talk to us . |
| 19 | Terry Venables has been keen on the 23-year-old for months and armed with over £2million from the Stewart sale , is set to move in on the £1.2m-rated player . |
| 20 | They queued patiently for lifts and ascended through a " Titanic cobweb " to find a choice of Parisian , Alsatian , Russian and Anglo-American restaurants on the first level and a bird's-eye view of the Seine sparkling beneath . |
| 21 | In areas of rocks of varied resistance incised meanders may be preserved in resistant rocks such as limestones and destroyed in areas of weak rocks such as clay : this is more or less as expected since the downstream sweep of the meander belt would destroy the spurs in clay regions . |
| 22 | … as a musician , you can make the course around the kids , providing that you 're offering them listening experiences from a wide range of music , and they can understand the difference between styles and approaches to composition . |
| 23 | That , that 's her main , she used to sort of look after things and baby-sit for us in the evenings . |
| 24 | They took £60 in cash from the one-legged war veteran but Coulton , 18 , learned how Mr Simpson kept his back door unlocked for visitors and returned in September to burgle the house again . |
| 25 | They need oiling and flouring for cakes and soaking for jellies . |
| 26 | Remember that demand , leading to overload and pressure , is a function of the disparity between duties and wishes on the one hand and limitations on the other . |
| 27 | The plaintiff will be the tenant and the landlord the defendant , but if head lessors or mortgagees are likely to be affected they should be added as defendants and served by the lessee , or else notice should be given to them that they may apply to be joined if desired . |
| 28 | I AM curious to know how so many of our caring , hard working and underpaid MPs find time to write books , serve as directors and appear on radio and TV shows unconnected with politics . |
| 29 | The General shouted for litter-bearers and retired to his tent in a bad mood for a bath and a change of clothes . |
| 30 | If , as we suspect , it is to be found by removing old slate tips in Gwynedd , we would want to register our considerable concern at the impact on these tips , most of which have lain undisturbed for decades and contribute in varying degrees to the local landscape , as well as on the rural road network and communities . |