Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [noun sg] and [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Perhaps the answer lies in diversity and in that the very existence of different organizational structures in different countries is a very positive attribute and that when diverse arrangements exist within a single country this also may be highly desirable . |
| 3 | He told delegates : ‘ After all the Tories have taken , the end result is a country which can not pay its way , which lives on tick and with the highest interest rates of the advanced world . |
| 4 | Gender inequality starts at home and at school — we still have n't got the message through . |
| 5 | There was no significant difference between the 5 8 Co counts at baseline and at 4 hours . |
| 6 | ‘ He bats for average and for power , ’ Stewart said . |
| 7 | The judgement depends upon perspective and on the definition of success employed . |
| 8 | A procedure for the righting of wrongs which depends on peace-making and on the payment of enough compensation to make the peace hold , implies a different notion of justice from that embodied in a penal code in which offences are offences against the state . |
| 9 | In both conditions the fear is qualitatively different from normal anxiety , has sudden onset , and occurs without warning and for no apparent reason . |
| 10 | During the temperature and pressure increases through burial and during migration of pore waters , many previously-stable minerals , or minerals which were deposited and buried too rapidly to become in equilibrium with surface temperatures and pressures , are brought into a regime where they are unstable in the prevailing conditions . |
| 11 | It increases with income and with the passage of months during the tax year . |
| 12 | Crete plays a full part in this and , as we shall see in the next chapter , in the revival of monumental art , but around the end of the seventh century goes into decline and for the rest of antiquity is an artistic backwater . |
| 13 | It turns with ease and with a light touch , the ancient iron-bound door moves . |
| 14 | Infra-red systems work in any light and on most types of subject , but accuracy reduces with distance and with subjects which reflect poorly . |
| 15 | Changes in the organisation of inheritance , the importance assigned to primogeniture , shifts in the rules of exogamy and in the permitted degrees of marriages , in the construction of family forms in ideology and in welfare practices , the class differences in family and household patterns , the shaping of sex and gender divisions : all have to be taken into account in the organisation of sexuality . |
| 16 | However , the criminal law is not fixed and static , it varies over time and from area to area . |
| 17 | But universality would be surprising because not only the context of emergence but also that of the dissemination and use of knowledge varies over time and from social location to social location . |
| 18 | While pressure-group influence varies over time and from issue to issue , such groupings must now be seen as an integral part of local public administration . |
| 19 | However , it remains possible that people do see the support which they give to elderly relatives as part of a two-way pattern which stretches over time and across generations , and where they themselves will benefit ultimately from the support of someone in a younger generation . |
| 20 | The definition of what constitutes an institution varies across time and between different countries . |
| 21 | Conditions included similar curbs on spending and on public-sector wage increases as in previous agreements . |
| 22 | In the store room next to the kitchen were a long table and shelves always covered with all sorts of provisions ; large earthenware jars full of confits of pork and goose , a small barrel where vinegar slowly matured , a bowl where honey oozed out of the comb , jams , preserves of sorrel and of tomatoes , and odd bottles with grapes and cherries marinating in brandy ; next to the table a weighing machine on which I used to stand at regular intervals ; sacks of haricot beans , of potatoes ; eggs , each one carefully dated in pencil . |
| 23 | It is knowledge that derives from scholarship and from research . |
| 24 | It seems she saw her father five or six times a year and her grandfather less often than that , though the old man used to send her substantial cash presents at Christmas and on her birthday . ’ |
| 25 | The procedure initially connects to LIFESPAN and from the LIST_OF_CONTENTS , it constructs a TREE of packages whose root is that specified in ROOT_PACKAGE_DETAILS . |
| 26 | This chapter focuses on manufacturing and on the current state of that part of the economy which once made the UK the workshop of the world . |
| 27 | Dry with no rattling is Spongia and it may follow Aconite if the croup continues after midnight and into the next day . |
| 28 | The Trident programme remains on time and within budget . |
| 29 | The fleece comes in rust and in the same sizes as the jacket ( above ) . |
| 30 | The Labour party believes in service and in spending money wisely on providing that service . |