Example sentences of "and [prep] [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have travelled thousands of miles on and off road and have never had any problem ( other than the occasional nail ) with Michelin tyres on cars or Land/Range Rovers so can recommend them from experience . |
| 2 | So began a relationship on and off stage that gave the audiences some of the finest Tiller work . |
| 3 | The procedures which voluntary bodies like ourselves have to follow to obtain small amounts of funding are so intimidating that one wonders whether the effort is worth while , because funding is only the beginning — we have to organise the supply of materials , hire or loan of equipment , payment for purchases , as well as getting the volunteers on and off site and ensuring the work is carried out properly . |
| 4 | The reader will already be sensing the close relationship between play and story-making ( ‘ storying ’ ) , and between play and reading stories and poems . |
| 5 | My first natural impulse was to shout , to get help from whoever had come : and between intention and voice a whole stream of thoughts suddenly intruded and left me silent , open-mouthed to call out but unsure of the wisdom . |
| 6 | Recent research paints a more complex picture of contradictory teacher attitudes varying within and between schools and provoking a range of responses from black male and female students ( Mac an Ghaill , 1989 ; Foster , 1990 ) . |
| 7 | as few barriers as possible between people , and between people and work ; maximum of four levels of management hierarchy ; |
| 8 | Where the book scores is in its revelations about attitudes towards opera management and about deals that went on behind the scenes . |
| 9 | Out of habit the Brigadier treated everybody as though they were local National Service boys who had grown up in the village and so knew every blade of grass as well as he did but who might be a bit hazy about certain family backgrounds and about things that had happened before their time . |
| 10 | We have taken all reasonable and proper steps to ensure that proper arrangements have been made for all the holidays which are advertised in this brochure and for excursions as described above and that the suppliers of the various services which will be provided to you as part of the inclusive holiday are efficient , safe and reputable businesses , and that they comply with the local and national laws and regulations of the country in which they provide those services . |
| 11 | And for agencies that supply some goods or services for purchase there are the consumers who pay for individual units of collectively provided goods . |
| 12 | The quantity of finds depends on the type of site being excavated , and for sites that produce a large quantity of finds , the tasks of washing and marking them can be lengthy . |
| 13 | It had been a choice between bearing what he had or running back to Aber where he was privileged and protected , and for Harry that had been no choice at all . |
| 14 | As a result , ‘ county matters ’ were now confined to applications for mineral and related development , for cement works , and for development that straddled the boundary of a national park . |
| 15 | We will relax controls on local authority capital receipts , especially for new council building , for houses built in cooperation with housing associations , and for renovation and repair work . |
| 16 | We must fight for greater tolerance , and for legislation that protects against anti-gay discrimination , to ensure that something like Section 28 will never be brought into the rest of Europe . |
| 17 | These concerns clearly were not shared by Mrs Thatcher who welcomed the announcement of the second phase of the Washington development in September 1986 : ‘ This is good news for the North East and for Britain and makes Nissan a fully-fledged UK car manufacturer and a major exporter . ’ |
| 18 | Y the power comes from muscle contraction , it 's needed for movement , management , balance and agility and for lifting and handling objects . |
| 19 | In 1907 he contributed £30,000 to the establishment of a hospital for early treatment of mental illness , and for research and teaching in psychiatry , resulting in the 1914 foundation of the Maudsley Hospital , and an annual lecture in his name . |
| 20 | The results also show a significant difference in accuracy before and after adaptation when wearing prisms . |
| 21 | Good works sold both above and below estimate or did not sell at all , and the determining factor may have been a lone telephone bidder working against the reserve . |
| 22 | It would shift the balance of community research away from energy projects — which at present take up 63 per cent of the Commission 's research funds — and towards schemes that promote industrial competitiveness . |
| 23 | It is a story of courage and of improvisation that made a nonsense of the enemy 's numerical and material superiority . |
| 24 | The cost of producing every barrel of oil , and of finding and developing every new barrel of reserves , are key performance measures because they directly affect our profitability . |
| 25 | In doing that , we should beware of too much partisan debate , of playing the race card and of charges and counter charges that sweep away reason . |
| 26 | These are , first ( as I have mentioned in chapter 1 ) , a tendency to focus on patterns of change alone with little or no attention to stable patterns of language through time ; second , a tendency to unidimensionality , that is , an inclination to think of the history of a language as the history of a single homogeneous variety and of sound-changes as proceeding in straight lines ; and third , as noted in chapter 2 , a tendency to impose theoretical and ideological orthodoxies on ( sometimes rather sparse ) data that might often be open to alternative kinds of interpretation . |
| 27 | All aspects of this alternative are being examined , ranging from training content and method for workers , relationships between professionals and communities , the process of identifying health needs and of managing and evaluating programmes and organizational forms and processes . |
| 28 | Now in fact what that means for me is that actually we 're all programmers — we always have been — but we have n't been used to explaining it in quite the way that computers need us to explain it , and of course that goes back to this question of understanding English that we were talking about last time . |
| 29 | They require very little attention — the only pruning needed is the removal of old barky wood , and of course that cut back by wind . |
| 30 | ‘ She never stopped chattering through the entire performance and of course that made everybody look at her . ’ |