Example sentences of "and [prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Speaking to 300 people at a national Labour Party rally at the Dolphin Centre , she vowed that a Labour government would set up 6,000 nursery and after school places in its first two years . |
| 32 | After a long campaign by " dry " organizations like the Anti-Saloon League ( founded 1895 ) and after wartime pressures for sobriety and wartime hostility to the brewers , who were mostly of German descent , three-quarters of the states had supported the Amendment . |
| 33 | On Sept. 1 it was reported that President Kakhar Makhkamov of Tajikistan had resigned after a vote of no confidence and after democracy demonstrations in Dushanbe . |
| 34 | Costa Rica and Venezuela issued cautious statements criticising the use of force , and despite phone calls from Mr Bush and the Secretary of State , Mr James Baker , there were signs Brazil and Argentina were preparing critical statements . |
| 35 | St Petersburg , on the other hand , had the highest concentration of large factories , and of metalworking factories in particular , and in 1914 the capital and its environs accounted for almost half the number of strikers in the Empire . |
| 36 | Let the general price level fall by 10% , leading to a fall in the price of kryptonite futures of 20% and of phlogiston futures of 5% . |
| 37 | Since Postan wrote in 1950 , the figures on which historians can base their opinions have been made conveniently available with the compilation of the Phelps Brown and Hopkins indices of the cost of consumable goods , and of building wage-rates in southern England , expressed in terms of these goods [ A.1 ] . |
| 38 | In this memoir he identified the arrivals of dilatational and distortional body waves ( P-waves and S-waves ) and of surface waves in seismic recordings , a finding which was further documented in a paper of 1900 and which laid the foundations for the instrumental study of earthquakes and of the Earth 's deep interior . |
| 39 | Nanking is a very green city with beautiful plane-trees lining the main streets , where ( as in all Chinese cities ) there is comparatively little traffic except for crowded buses and trolley-buses , and of course hordes of pedestrians and cyclists . |
| 40 | ( The name , ‘ wheat ear ’ , is derived from its earlier name , ‘ white-arse ’ ! – Wheat ears are birds of hilly country , of short turf and boulders , of bracken , and of rabbit holes in which they can nest . |
| 41 | The planktonic larvae are , in short , adapted to planktonic life ; those of echinoderms and of gastropod molluscs for example have bands of cilia ( whip-like projections of the cell ) to drive them along . |
| 42 | It was estimated that marketed production of maize had risen by 29.8 per cent ( to 78,400 tonnes ) , of cotton by 64 per cent ( to 31,400 tonnes ) and of cashew nuts by 12.1 per cent ( to 50,400 tonnes ) . |
| 43 | A shaikh kept a list of households and of adult men in his lineage . |
| 44 | My right hon. Friend set out the Government 's policies some time ago in a clear document that was fully backed by the CBI , which believes that we have the right policies to improve our competitiveness and to take advantage of lower inflation and of business conditions around the world as they improve . |
| 45 | There is widespread recognition that nearly all discussions of international peace and security over the last 45 years , and of policy implications for the UK , have been informed by the protracted global confrontation between the superpowers which has only recently , and so dramatically , crumbled . |
| 46 | Production of foodstuffs rose by 3.2 per cent and of consumer goods by 7.7 per cent , helped by a good grain harvest ( 211,100,000 tonnes ) and by 21 per cent and 11 per cent increases in the output of alcoholic drinks and sugar , respectively ; output of fish products fell by 4 per cent . |
| 47 | Paul is recognising the sensitive nature of children themselves and of family relationships as a whole . |
| 48 | A pilot study was undertaken first to identify and locate potential users who resided in the West Midlands and secondly to establish the employment and expenditure impacts of the Marina , Marina-related developments and of boat owners upon the local economy . |
| 49 | The importance of music press writers like Paul Morley , and of disc jockeys like Peter Powell ( or John Peel ) , is to make available a public language in which private musical judgements can be legitimated . |
| 50 | Delegates stressed the need for increased co-operation with eastern European countries , where the recent liberalization and the relaxation of border controls had offered drug traffickers the opportunity both of fresh markets and of trade routes into western Europe . |
| 51 | The ILP was specifically socialist " while many Labour unionists and politicians were essentially " labour " in that they regarded the protection of living standards and of trade unions as their primary reason for entering parliament . |
| 52 | They form much of the substance of living things : they are essential components of cell membranes , and of cell contents in general ; and the muscles of animals are made mostly of protein . |
| 53 | It was preceded by meetings of the IMF 's Interim Committee and of Finance Ministers from the Group of Seven ( G-7 ) industrialized countries and the Group of 24 ( G-24 ) developing countries . |
| 54 | Little tumuli of oyster shells in the oyster season , and of lobster shells in the lobster season and of broken crockery and faded cabbage leaves in all seasons encroached upon its high places . |
| 55 | Many commentators have urged governments to ‘ define priorities among the ultimate objectives , frequently incompatible among themselves , that must govern the activity of public enterprises in general and of railway enterprises in particular ’ ( CEFE 1984 : 37 ) . |
| 56 | On May 11 Sahnoun met with the chairman of the United Somali Congress ( USC ) , Gen. Mohammed Farah Aydid ( whose dispute with interim President Ali Mahdi Mohammed was the immediate cause of continuing instability ) , to discuss the possible deployment of UN observers and of security personnel in Mogadishu . |
| 57 | If this were so , it suggests the need for good quality pre-entry information and advice so that adults are aware of the academic demands of the courses and of progression routes to their preferred courses . |
| 58 | Because of his age and of coalition games of musical-chairs , he may nonetheless not win this post for which he has both the expertise and the gravitas . |
| 59 | These contrary results using implied volatilities may be due to the form of option pricing model used , or they may reveal a difference between ex ante and ex post prices in measuring price volatility . |
| 60 | The reader is therefore asked to absorb the various arguments for and against portfolio matrices throughout this chapter , but to reserve judgement on the issue until later . |