Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [vb base] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main discussion and disagreements have centred around the appropriate policy for dealing with mergers . |
| 2 | The US v Europe rivalry is understandable — and excesses have happened in England . |
| 3 | of the Winchester Group 's issued share capital — was of good character and otherwise suitable to manage the marketing of investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and also whether he was a fit and proper person to be appointed as a company representative ; ( 2 ) a letter dated 18 October 1990 directing the chief enforcement officer to undertake the said investigation ; ( 3 ) correspondence relating to the Winchester Group passing between the Chief Executive and the general manager of Norwich Union since 15 October 1990 ; ( 4 ) a copy of a letter dated 12 October 1990 from Abbey Life to the Securities and Investments Board relating to the connections between the Winchester Group and Mr. Randhir Singh , a former Abbey Life appointed representative , now awaiting trial on mortgage fraud charges ; ( 5 ) a copy of a letter dated 31 July 1990 from the Winchester Group offering Mr. Singh the position of recruitment officer . |
| 4 | Over the past year Roadcare and Inroads have competed against each other for various trophies in different sporting events . |
| 5 | The woods and roads have vanished like chalk wiped from a blackboard ; of the villages nothing remains but grey smearsm … |
| 6 | Apart from the immense raft of organisational and personnel change caused by the merger , this was ascribed to the fact that all the units were still directly managed , which caused conflicts of interest and confusion of role . |
| 7 | Strict parameters and rules do need to be built into the system early on , whether it is the children or the teacher who sets them . |
| 8 | Now that the problem has been identified , federal and state health ministers have agreed in principle that this type of service should be a federal responsibility and discussions have started on the practicalities . |
| 9 | There is a disagreement about whether Marx 's classic account of capitalism , Das Kapital , was an idealised statement about how a perfectly functioning capitalist system ought to function or whether it was a statement about how such societies , economies and states do function in practice . |
| 10 | Objects like cannonballs and planets try to move on a straight line through space-time , but because space-time is curved , warped , rather than flat , their paths appear to be bent . |
| 11 | ‘ It is certainly a polygon , and our historians , experts and researchers have come to the conclusion that it has 24 sides and is 100ft in diameter . ’ |
| 12 | Over the 12 months to 31 October this year , 209 lawyers have joined the Crown prosecution service and vacancies have fallen from 17.4 to 10.8 per cent . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't really think we can necessarily say that it must be vitamin E that is a protective factor , but what we can now say is that fruit and vegetables seem to protect against heart disease , ’ says Professor James . |
| 14 | Many towns and cities have suffered in the recession . |
| 15 | As road transport has improved , changing from horse-drawn waggons to motorcars and lorries , the larger market towns and cities have grown in size much faster than the small ones . |
| 16 | Governments and cities have seized on recycling as the best way to reduce the amount of rubbish going to landfills or being incinerated . |
| 17 | But recent price cuts have sparked sales and debts have halved to Pounds 66m . |
| 18 | Through creative and complex interactions between voluntary and state agencies , new processes and institutions have emerged in Australia to foster health favouring change within an active civil society . |
| 19 | The third was connected with a new awareness of history , of the fact that human societies and institutions have developed through long centuries and have taken on many different shapes at different times and in different places — an awareness which was especially sharply focused by the work of Gotthold Lessing . |
| 20 | In the light of these considerations it is perhaps not surprising that new social divisions and conflicts have arisen in the English village in recent years , nor that the local population has preferred to turn in upon itself in the face of these changes . |
| 21 | Houshold rubbish and builders waste strewn around some of the most picturesque parts of the forest . |
| 22 | e ) Groups of teachers and employers have worked on issues relating to recruitment tests . |
| 23 | Women are paid less than men , and employers do benefit from this . |
| 24 | Clutch , gears and brakes continue to operate with car-like ease , a factor appreciated by ladies and leisure drivers . |
| 25 | Other two-syllable words such as adverbs and prepositions seem to behave like verbs and adjectives . |
| 26 | Holography … may do to visual image reproduction what lasers will do to data storage and computers have done to data processing … |
| 27 | In stark contrast , strikes and disputes have soared in Greece and Spain , with 939 days lost in Greece from 1987 to 1991 , a 72pc rise compared with the previous five years . |
| 28 | Agnes is stretched out on her back , and images keep passing through her head : that strange , kindly man is visiting them again , the one who knows all about them and yet has not heard of the Eiffel Tower . |
| 29 | How well public sector employees perform in providing the goods and services their customers and clients want depends on the system of incentives and sanctions within which they operate . |
| 30 | The couple have now moved on to the more complicated use of silks , and subjects have varied from masterpieces such as The Old Mill and The Haywain to a girl skating on a lake and a Victorian winter scene . |