Example sentences of "[prep] and [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the top of the backswing , note how the left shoulder has turned and is now in front of and slightly underneath the chin . |
| 2 | The leaves are turned , alternately , towards and away from the centre of the mosaic , as in the scrolls of mosaics B and C , North Hill . |
| 3 | Another part of Colette 's method of making round , making substantial , is her habit of moving backwards and forwards , towards and away from the object . |
| 4 | It is then stayed athwartships by wire and fixed for and aft by an aluminium alloy strut which clamps onto the backstay . |
| 5 | ‘ I have a lot to thank Nigel Mansell for and obviously as an Englishman I know what sort of pressures there will be on me . |
| 6 | As a matter of fact er as the years went by we got this benevolent fund and we used to give all the old w as a mat we got a pension fund I know it do n't sound much now , but at that time like during and just after the War we paid twelve and sixpence a week pension to all everybody who 'd retired from the union after they 'd done time , and we also gave them extra grants and took them on er you know outings until a time I said , Well we 're spending all this money on outings , we could buy a bungalow at the seaside and let them all go you know pensioners go in their turn free . |
| 7 | At that time , during and just after the war , Highgate was an area in which a number of scientific and academic people lived . |
| 8 | Though punctuated by frequent flash-backs to the period before , during and just after the war , temporal progression in the present is clearly marked by the development of two narrative lines which weave their ways in and out of the novel . |
| 9 | East London during and just after the war is lovingly portrayed , with an eye and ear for detail which strike a nostalgic chord . |
| 10 | Having mastered all aspects of the department 's work , Oldman rose rapidly through its senior ranks during and just after the war . |
| 11 | In the chemicals and electrical engineering industries multidivisional enterprises such as ICI and Associated Electrical Industries carried out large investment programmes — the chemicals industry stimulated by the removal of German competition during and shortly after the war combined with a world shortage of chemicals , and electrical engineering stimulated by the rapid growth of electricity generation under Citrine ( Shonfield , 1958 ) . |
| 12 | The films give an increasingly wide berth to messy problems like sexuality and violence and , whereas Ealing 's films during and immediately after the war had interrogated what was happening to England , many or those made in the 1950s just do n't seem interested . |
| 13 | They had built up the industry on cheap labour , and their only answer to the challenge of foreign competition was to attempt to cut back the limited improvements in wages and hours which had been secured during and immediately after the war . |
| 14 | A far larger number of sets were in use than licence figures would suggest , but during and especially at the outset of the campaign for independence the number of newspaper readers exceeded that of radio listeners . |
| 15 | It is the failure to do so that often makes such programmes both unrealistic and ineffective to participants both during and certainly after the event . |
| 16 | ‘ There are two sets of stairs into and out of every gallery , ’ Paxton explained , ‘ So that if we get too many visitors it does n't get too congested as people move around . |
| 17 | Even in the early 1960s , though Piraeus is less far away over the water than Dover is from Calais , taking a car to Aegina meant winching it into and out of a caique . |
| 18 | Some very useful aids are rails for baths or toilets and hoisting machines for lifting people out of bed , from a chair or into and out of a bath . |
| 19 | With the junction-box system , the cable runs into and out of a succession of junction ( connection ) boxes , and separate cables run from the box to the rose and its light . |
| 20 | The cable of a junction box system runs into and out of a succession of junction boxes . |
| 21 | Partnerships would be fed with , and themselves would feed , to and fro , data , experience and insights into and out of a web of reliable intelligence . |
| 22 | Some less obvious conditions , such as arthritis of the shoulder , can make it very difficult to get into and out of a car . |
| 23 | If we are prone to hyperventilating during panic attacks , and otherwise at times of increased anxiety , we must learn techniques which help us to breathe more slowly and deeply , from the stomach rather than the chest , and we may also need to rebreathe our own air , breathing into and out of a paper bag , or cupping our hands close to our mouth to catch and rebreathe the exhaled air . |
| 24 | It consists of a table , as typically shown in Table 3.1 , setting out , period by period , the forecast flows of money into and out of the company . |
| 25 | It consists of a table , as typically shown in Table 3.1 , setting out , period by period , the forecast flows of money into and out of the company . |
| 26 | It provided for the unimpeded movement of foreign exchange and gold into and out of the country by both Philippine residents and overseas investors , and removed the requirement that foreign exchange earned abroad by Philippine-based commodity and service exporters be sold to Manila-based banks . |
| 27 | In an open economy like the UK , with an absence of exchange controls , movements of sterling and other currencies into and out of the country can be very large , leading to large fluctuations in the money supply . |
| 28 | The WWF reported that some live animals are smuggled into and out of the country in oil drums , plastic bags and even cigarette cartons . |
| 29 | Both had the broadly similar functions of recording , in different ways , payments into and out of the Exchequer of Receipt ; but from the middle of the sixteenth century the older office , the Clerkship of the Pells , was being encroached upon by the Writer of the Tallies . |
| 30 | In the Snowdon National Park a local Sherpa bus service was started experimentally in 1976 as a means of getting visitors into and out of the Park and reducing the volume of private cars ( Mulligan 1979 ) . |