Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | £5.95 During and after World War II Count Antoine Seilern , the Courtauld Institute 's major benefactor , assembled a collection of the work of Oskar Kokoschka . |
| 2 | ‘ If I throw names at you , ’ he said , ‘ give your reasons for or against . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | What is wrong with regarding an authoritative directive as one additional prima facie reason for the action it directs , which supplements , rather than supplants , the other reasons for and against that action ? |
| 5 | Jean-François Briant cuts sheets of steel into more or less identifiable natural forms , leaves with veins incised into openings , ears of corn , vegetable silhouettes which slide imperceptibly towards representations of objects as if at every fold and cut the metal allowed one to read into it fragments of history , of a previous life . |
| 6 | There is no discrimination for or against any candidate on the basis of sex , ethnic origin , social class , home location or whether they have a medical background . |
| 7 | There is no discrimination for or against any candidate on the basis of sex , ethnic origin , social class , home location or whether they have a veterinary background . |
| 8 | Could people be made to change their durable possessions as if by the whims of fashion ? |
| 9 | ( Example : Julian Symons 's widely anthologised short story as if By Magic , about a murder on the pier in which the killer is bound to have horribly bloodied his jacket but where no one can be seen in such a state . |
| 10 | We examine the case for and against . |
| 11 | Our man in court STEPHEN DALTON puts the case for and against to FAD-head ANDY SPEARPOINT . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | I shall now set out the case for and against the extended use of charging . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | A number of other researchers have investigated this same data set ( see , e.g. , Pesando , 1975 ; Carlson , 1977 ; Pearce , 1979 ; Figlewski and Wachtel , 1981 ) , but their conclusions are mixed and no decisive case for or against rational expectations emerges . |
| 18 | The group can easily become a network of support during and after the course . |
| 19 | The barons were politically partisan — mostly Conservative — and you expected your paper to play a vigorous part for or against Mr Churchill in the 1945 general election campaign . |
| 20 | In the little-known country of Academia , it is a well established fact that 1 in 10 undergraduates leave university during or at the end of their first year . |
| 21 | Where an officer of government in the exercise of his office obtains payment of moneys as and for a charge which the law enables him to demand and enforce , such moneys may be recovered back from him if it should afterwards turn out that they were not legally payable even though no protest was made or question raised at the time of payment . |
| 22 | Departments in Fife , Aberdeen , Strathclyde , Shetland and Dumfries and Galloway have all been subject to criticism and controversy regarding their handling of child care and protection during and since the late 1980s . |
| 23 | On one side a stream , full of watercress , hurried down to pursue its tunnelled course through and beyond the stableyard . |
| 24 | Kate watched her mother and Patrick as if in a trance . |
| 25 | Thus free enterprise — the pursuit of fair profit , the generator of wealth and employment , the backbone on which social welfare is possible — can be viewed , at least by corporate officials , as the primary ethic for and of an industrial society , and conformity to this neutralizes any obedience to the law merely because it happens to be the law . |
| 26 | She watched her mother walk out of the kitchen as if in a trance and a few seconds later Carla was nestled in her granny 's arms . |
| 27 | The company can expect to draw on the advice of many different specialists and institutions during and after the initial planning stage . |
| 28 | The prospect of violence is greatest where there is a roughly equal division of support for and against the strike . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's an international career coming to a close and one that people have been full of admiration for for over a decade . ’ |
| 30 | He saw the fingers tighten above the snatch of blade , he saw the legs ripple beneath the blanket as if in preparation for sudden attack . |