Example sentences of "the [noun] [prep] and [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The attitudes of and between parents begin to impress themselves on it simply because they are parental attitudes , not because they are understood .
2 Such a suggestion makes sense when a comparison is made between the accounts with and without these verses .
3 The war meant the stationing of men and women of the Army and the RAF in and around Portadown .
4 Even before the discussions during and after the Delors Report ( April 1989 ) , the French had largely accepted the German demand .
5 ( Williams however in such a poem beautifully weaves the syntax of the sentence into and over his verse-lines — which is not a resource that most imagists were aware of . )
6 We examine the case for and against .
7 Our man in court STEPHEN DALTON puts the case for and against to FAD-head ANDY SPEARPOINT .
8 Finally , although the committee went to great lengths to argue the case for and against integration , have they not indeed simply rationalised the status quo ?
9 I shall now set out the case for and against the extended use of charging .
10 The present verdict of many ethologists would be that the case for and against the olfactory and magnetic theories remains finally undecided ; but the evidence does suggest that the ‘ sun arc ’ hypothesis is false .
11 My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State is to announce today that he is appointing Ernst and Young management consultants to undertake an independent study of the case for and against relocating the Department of Energy 's petroleum engineering directorate to Aberdeen .
12 It 's the fairest way of ensuring that those affected by each route are able to what the case for and against that route is . ’
13 But it was the rise over and above the increase in real incomes which caused most grief for inflation and the payments balance .
14 Also to the drivers , who not only drove with such care that the passengers were n't inconvenienced in any way , but also doubled as bike handlers to get the bikes on and off the trailer , inevitably a dirty job .
15 The people of Augsburg , for example , could read in their local press on 18 September 1942 that the fate of the Russians in and around Stalingrad was sealed ; the hour was near ‘ in which the city of Stalin with its surrounded great Soviet armies and with enormous quantities of war material will be doomed to destruction …
16 Although many patients refused pH recording , this figure seems reliable , as only one patient with defective wrap was not studied and the incidence of reflux symptoms was equal in the groups with and without pH measurement .
17 When late in 1972 Richard Leakey announced he had dug up the skull , thighbone , and parts of the lower leg of a human that were more than 2 ½ million years old , thus , if correct , disproving man 's direct descent from Australopithecus , many anthropologists seated in leather armchairs in universities not immediately adjacent to East Africa swiftly challenged Leakey 's conclusions , this despite the fact that they had not examined the bones in question , the strata in and near which they had been found , the animal bones found in the same strata , or indeed anything .
18 " Buyers should be made to pay a sustainability premium for the products over and above the market prices , " said Malaysian Primary Industries Minister Lim Keng Yaik at a meeting of the International Tropical Timber Organisation .
19 We have to examine the reasons for and against the directive and judge whether it is justified in order to decide whether its mistake , if it is not justified , is large or small .
20 The immediate aim was to open the roads to and from the temple to untouchables , but it proved to be a symbol of the movement to eliminate discrimination against untouchables in all spheres of life and a pointer to the need to abolish the caste system .
21 But the rigour of the criminal law is relaxed in her favour by the provision of the same Act that , on a charge against her for any offence , other than treason or murder , it is a good defence to prove that the offence was committed in the presence of and under the coercion of her husband .
22 Due to the conformation of the breed ( big feet on short legs ! ) it is vital to remove some of the hair under and between the pads , and under the ‘ thumb ’ pad on the forelegs .
23 You are not authorised to have access to any other areas of the Reserve other than the route to and from the hide .
24 number of days per institution and then the weighting over and above that is on the number of pupils , mm .
25 The 1989 regulations are similar to the 1987 regulations in several respects ; for example , it is the topography of a semiconductor which is protected being , by regulation 2 , a design which is either : ( a ) the pattern fixed , or intended to be fixed , in or upon ( i ) a layer of a semiconductor product , or ( ii ) a layer of material in the course of and for the purpose of the manufacture of a semiconductor product , or ( b ) the arrangement of the patterns fixed , or intended to be fixed , in or upon the layers of a semiconductor product in relation to one another .
26 Some twenty years ago I wrote a guidebook to the walks on and around the three peaks of Ingleborough , Penyghent and Whernside in Upper Ribblesdale , supplementing the text with over two hundred pen-and-ink drawings .
27 That pleasure will be for the peoples in and around the Pacific and Indian Oceans .
28 The guards in and around the prison deliberately provoke the political prisoners .
29 The speeches by and in support of the hon. and learned Member for Leicester , West raised important questions of principle that govern three important matters : first , the need for open justice ; secondly , the provision of proper opportunities for the defence in criminal proceedings to deploy the case on which the defence relies ; and thirdly , the issue on which we focused most , the effect of the existence of those rights on third parties who necessarily can play no part in the proceedings and who consequently have no immediate opportunity to defend themselves or their reputations .
30 The detector was recording neutrons all right , but they could n't be sure if there were neutrons coming from the cell over and above those coming from natural sources , such as cosmic rays and general radioactive ‘ dirt ’ around the lab .
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