Example sentences of "and [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Considerable stress is laid on the accessibility and approachability of the landlord organisations , especially given that most tenants stated a preference to speak rather than write to housing staff about their problems . |
| 2 | Bowers calculates that , of the £5950 that the NCC pays , £500 goes in compensating for grants not received and £3150 in consumer subsidies that the farmer missed out on . |
| 3 | The mid-1960s were the watershed of postwar society , and the creativity and anarchism of the period left nothing untouched . |
| 4 | The Diary of Bulstrode Whitelocke , 1605–1675 and Contemporaries of Bulstrode Whitelocke , edited by Ruth Spalding ( Oxford University Press for The British Academy , 1990 ) |
| 5 | Suger and Odo of Deuil between them established the norms for the house 's long tradition of royal historiography ; of these the chief was that whatever the Capetians did should be presented in the most favourable light possible . |
| 6 | In their hands shone the emblems and harness of sanctity : gold rood glimmered , and monstrance and thurible ; and the Crucifix from St Sophia itself rode the night like a ship on their shoulders . |
| 7 | The raid on Culquha Farm , Ringford , near Castle Douglas , brings to more than £30,000 the value of sheep , cattle and horses stolen in Dumfries and Galloway over the last 12 months . |
| 8 | Having just read the article on Dumfries and Galloway by Barry Ward , I was both delighted and slightly amused . |
| 9 | The dry , cloudy weather will still be with us at the start of the night , but some patchy , light rain will creep into the Borders and Dumfries and Galloway by the end of the night . |
| 10 | The early years in Tennessee were hard and the family was frequently hungry , but in 1868 Frances , who from her earliest childhood had been a compulsive inventor of romances , sold her first two stories to Godey 's Lady 's Book , raising the money for paper and postage by selling wild grapes . |
| 11 | This , as should by now be clear , is a crucial distinction in this argument , for it underpins ( along with the public/private distinction utilised by Wolfenden ) many of the conflicts and disagreements over morality and the ‘ proper ’ role of the criminal law during this post-war period . |
| 12 | In fact , though , a vast amount of ink continued to be spilled in arguments over taxonomy , and disagreements over how to classify particular groups still reflected differing philosophical positions on the significance of natural relationships . |
| 13 | He and his mother had had many arguments and disagreements over the past few years . |
| 14 | More time should have been given to expert uncertainties and disagreements about the nature of the disease ( reviewed as recently as last October by Solomon Snyder in The Lancet . |
| 15 | After 3 years , he resigned because of interference from and disagreements amongst Navy Department bureaucrats . |
| 16 | Cultural differences and disagreements in strategy emerged , however , some delegates favouring the linking of indigenous issues with wider political causes and others favouring protests by indigenous people alone . |
| 17 | In many cultures this leads to an asymmetry between ways of offering agreements and disagreements in talk : agreements are given more immediately , are more frequent , and are given openly , while disagreements are relatively infrequent and are hedged about with hesitations and excuses : see Pomerantz ( 1984 ) for an extended discussion . |
| 18 | Though there are variations of this view , and disagreements among its adherents , we may validly characterize it as sentence linguistics , because it confines its inquiries to what happens within sentences . |
| 19 | In this way the homosexual writer is granted a dubious measure of liberal pity ( ‘ if only he had n't lived in such a repressive world ’ ) while at the same time the heterosexual critic distances the threatening possibility that a homosexual writer might have a great many insights into the codes , mechanisms and ideologies of heterosexuality itself . |
| 20 | But too many of them have been weaned on the habit of chopping up the New Testament into bits ( sorting out the sources , contemporary themes and ideologies of Aramaic Palestine or the Hellenistic world ) so that they can no longer see the scriptures as a sacred text aflame with the divine drama . |
| 21 | But I do want us to realise that evil today has to be faced in a far more fundamental and crucial theatre of war : it is in the processes and ideologies of the modern world itself that we find the destructive , impersonal and heartless force of the Dark Power . |
| 22 | ‘ New Directions in Scandinavian Design ’ looks at the latest developments while ‘ Ethics and Aesthetics : design agencies of Scandinavia ’ examines the role and ideologies of Scandinavia 's design agencies and their achievements in the promotion of good design and better living and working environments . |
| 23 | The economically equitable assumptions behind changes in the property law often , for instance , came into conflict with inherited beliefs about the proper division of labour in the family and ideologies of femininity — and the latter usually won . |
| 24 | These views rest on different assumptions about the power and ideologies of trade union officials and the aim of this research is to try to establish how powerful are local trade union officials in their relations with shop stewards , and what sorts of ideologies inform their behaviour in these relationships . |
| 25 | It is argued that differences in the political agendas and ideologies of the British and Spanish governments lie behind the variable pressures — and opportunities — for industrial relations change experienced by railway management . |
| 26 | Turning to feminist analyses , their strength lies in exposing the effects of gender relations and ideologies on women as producers and consumers of health care . |
| 27 | The timing of the political programme was significantly different in Britain and Spain , however , reflecting the different ways in which economic forces have become translated into political strategies and ideologies in the two countries . |
| 28 | To these self-appointed custodians of public morals it was even more appalling that those very classes who should in theory be the hope and backbone of republicanism were equally infected by the general tone of light-mindedness : |
| 29 | The film is sentimental , but is saved by some smashing performances , in particular the statuesque Geena Davis as down-to-earth Dottie Hinson , star player and backbone of the team , who completely overshadows kid sister , Kit ( Lori Petty ) . |
| 30 | They are the ribs and backbone of the Black Land , and the army is its muscle . |