Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 institutions or through local authority inservice programmes .
2 There is seldom any serious political analysis either of the ruling class(es) and how they express their interests through the state and its institutions or of ‘ civil society ’ where the conservation is supposed to happen .
3 Those who need personal assistance to enable them to live in their own homes have too often been consigned either to institutions or to enforced dependence on their families .
4 One might expect it to lead only to a rather vague pantheism which could make no real place either for religious institutions or for specific doctrines and formulations .
5 There would seem to be ample justification for preventive interventions aimed at reducing feelings of helplessness , if it were possible , and of enhancing feelings of self-esteem for women raised in institutions or for other reasons experiencing a marked lack of care in childhood .
6 Although only small minorities of the whole elderly population aged 65 or over live in institutions or with younger relatives , the proportions among the over 80's in these types of ‘ supported ’ households are much higher .
7 There is a steady flow of applications both from students with educational experience at an appropriate level in the past and from current students either at other institutions or on non-modular courses at Oxford .
8 This enabled them , for example , to classify ‘ deviance ’ and to separate different types of deviant into distinct forms of institutions or into different sections within institutions .
9 It also encouraged them to resist any change whatever in local institutions or in elections for community representation , except with the specific approval of the Jordanian government and the PLO itself .
10 Under the Act the Poor Law acquired the responsibility of visiting and supervising , in institutions or in their own homes , children who had been the subject of cruelty proceedings .
11 Family size is shrinking as mothers no longer need large numbers of children to work either down the mines or in the factories ( the machine would take anybody to work for it at first ) or to ensure that a few would survive ; high infant mortality rates are now becoming a thing of the past .
12 Lung complaints from working in foul , damp mines or from inhaling the sulphurous fumes from the smelting mills were widespread .
13 Individual workers were allowed between Jan. 23 and 25 to exchange notes at their workplaces ( there were special provisions for people on sick leave or vacation ) for lower denomination notes or for new Rbs50 and Rbs100 notes to the value of their average monthly wage in the past year , up to a maximum of Rbs1,000 .
14 She wanted to be more than an outsider in ‘ La Felicità ’ , more than a vague summertime nuisance for whose sake the family had to go travelling , someone only to be communicated with by notes or as a new source of rent .
15 In cases of death the cause was established either from the case notes or from the Registrar of Births and Deaths .
16 An additional initiative available is to advertise the opportunity either in the Financial Times or on the Accountants Business Network ( ‘ ABN ’ ) .
17 Some applications companies may also be enamoured by the possibility of using the NetWare Loadable Module to support demo licensing , which replaces ‘ cripple-ware ’ by a full copy of the application that will only run a limited number of times or for a limited length of time .
18 Items that do not respond to immediate cleaning are placed in to soak , rather than holding up progress , and dealt with later during slack times or at the end of a session .
19 Important parts of the job could be carried out at break times or through telephone calls .
20 Precautions have to be taken to avoid the possibility of excessively long search times or of failure to retrieve records held in a direct file .
21 At other times or in other lessons non-computer-assisted learning will take place .
22 the likelihood of the damage or of its being severe was due to characteristics of the animal which are not normally found in animals of the same species or are not normally so found except at particular times or in particular circumstances ; and
23 Consideration was given to measures such as encouraging car pools , creating a rapid transit system , prohibiting vehicles at certain times or in certain areas , and imposing a smog tax on vehicles .
24 One was a spontaneous mêleé of the kind that tends to erupt at pub closing times or in dance halls .
25 Visitor attractions at off-peak times or in off-season periods are unlikely to have any significant effect in reducing peaks , but they may help to spread the loading on staff time .
26 This demand may be generated through a pre-agreed schedule of transmission times or by a specific design need or crisis .
27 But the good research worker is not wooed by skilled writing , by particular ideologies or by any other obvious bias , no matter how tempting they may be .
28 ‘ Ordinary kids ’ ( their own classification ) aimed at apprenticeships or at clerical or personal service occupations .
29 You can claim other defences as well : for example , if you need the blade or point for work , or if it is necessary to carry it for religious reasons or as part of any national costume .
30 It would also be a defence for a person charged to prove that he/she had the article with him or her for use at work ; for religious reasons or as part of any national costume .
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