Example sentences of "and [prep] [det] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as being one of the founders of the Automobile Club de France and the Aero Club de France , Salomons was the first director of the City of London Electric Lighting Company and for many years treasurer and vice-president of the Institution of Electrical Engineers . |
| 2 | This is a highly unusual feature , and for many years palaeontologists have interpreted cephalapsids using the lamprey as the model . |
| 3 | Historically and for many years marina charges were too low . |
| 4 | Sedgwick , born in Dent in 1785 and for many years Professor of Geology at Trinity College , Cambridge , and a friend of Wordsworth and Darwin , describes the galleries of Dent vividly and delightfully in his book , A Memorial To Cowgill Chapel 1868 : ‘ The galleries were places of mirth and glee and active happy industry for there might be heard the buzz of the spinning wheel and the hum and the songs of those who were carrying out the labours of the day . ’ |
| 5 | Great brier hedges grew up around the Palace , and for many months Ireland had no ruler . ’ |
| 6 | Whatever the reason for the sharing of the horse , the two men kept their transaction-secret and for many months Kilpatrick was thought to be still the sole owner . |
| 7 | Tessa had turned on the little light on the bedside table , but otherwise the room was in darkness , and for some moments Bob stood by the door , twisting his head backwards and forwards , trying to take the situation in . |
| 8 | Workshops were established in Isfahan , Kashan and Tabriz , and for several decades Persia was the most important and influential centre of artistic excellence and learning in the East — comparable to Renaissance Italy in the West — whose most profound and abiding expression was to be found in the carpets it produced . |
| 9 | John Storey , two , was rushed to hospital critically ill with stomach and throat burns and for several days doctors fought to save his life . |
| 10 | The Platinum Award has become a regular feature of Edinburgh College of Art 's jewellery curriculum and for several years students from the section have made it to the finals — frequently winning at least one of the prizes . |
| 11 | Comparatively speaking the level of oil dependence is low , at 42% in 1983 but the picture is distorted by the high level of coal consumption in South Africa ( one of the largest energy consumers ) and for most countries oil dependence is high . |
| 12 | And of all fighters Hotspur could remember holding at the end of his own sword , this was the bonniest . |
| 13 | I mean they were n't aluminium so they blew off I used to wear one of those and er , you know , for safety , you see , but er anyway I survived the survived the war and but wh it 's amazing really when I look back how we d how we managed because we had such nice people in there , as I say and like these actors Jack Claude Cecily . |
| 14 | But roughly speaking , I , a figure worth remembering is that ninety decibels and above can cause permanent damage and under all circumstances situations above this level should be avoided . |
| 15 | There are many opportunities for disabled people to join in team or individual sports , and within some sports people with handicaps can participate with able-bodied people . |
| 16 | There are three basic types of fibreboards : mdf ( or medium density fibreboard ) , hardboard , and softboard ( often called insulating board ) , and within these categories boards may also vary in size , grade , properties and finish . |
| 17 | With boys in unskilled employment , the intention was not so much to impart skills , ‘ as to retain [ them ] at an impressionable age and to mould and discipline their character ’ , and in such cases specialization or technical training would be out of place . |
| 18 | In advanced breast cancer , chemotherapy has been shown to improve both quality of life and conventional endpoints , and in such circumstances treatment can readily be advised . |
| 19 | All three are — or , in the case of railways , have become — essentially light catering markets ; and in such markets profitability , the watchword of the times , calls for selling made-up products like plate meals or filled rolls , rather than retail lines like chocolate bars where the scope for mark-up is obviously small . |
| 20 | The region suffers high unemployment , rural as well as urban deprivation , and in many areas schools struggle to keep children on beyond the age of 16 . |
| 21 | Many northern cities , including New Delhi , were paralysed by rioting students and in many instances curfews were imposed and the Army called in to restore order . |
| 22 | Eventually the local authority associations agreed a self-denying ordinance and in many authorities councillors do not seek access to records on individuals . |
| 23 | A plan to stop news broadcasting by Lebanon 's 42 private ( and in many cases militia-controlled ) television stations was outlined by Information Minister Albert Mansur and Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Michel al-Murr on Jan. 9 . |
| 24 | As one senior manager said : ‘ Employees now expect managers to take decisions on a commercial basis and recognize that their interests as employees — and in many cases shareholders — demand it . |
| 25 | By the twelfth century he valued it as much as the source of money ; and in many cases knight service was commuted in practice for a money payment — for what in England was called scutage . |
| 26 | Dismissing the myth that recycled paper is sub-standard , Papersave is offering finishes as fine as watermarked business papers , and in many cases prices are cheaper than for ‘ virgin' paper . |
| 27 | Undoubtedly , the WFS data are affected by both sampling and response errors , and in many cases infant mortality rates for maternal ages under 20 and over 40 are based on too few cases ( less than 500 births ) . |
| 28 | Normally at least one parent remained in the home , or if not , close by ; and in many cases aunts of the parents ' generation were involved in caring . |
| 29 | Thousands of fires were reported to be burning , and in many cases firefighters were attacked while attempting to bring them under control . |
| 30 | No , indeed , and in many cases people erm if the case is relatively straightforward , an ordinary moating case , they do perfectly well doing it themselves because the Court would assist them with the procedure , the Clerk of the Court would assist them with the procedure , and every effort would be made to assist an unrepresented defendant with the procedure as it goes along . |