Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] and [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 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 .
3 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 ?
4 We examine the case for and against .
5 Our man in court STEPHEN DALTON puts the case for and against to FAD-head ANDY SPEARPOINT .
6 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 ?
7 I shall now set out the case for and against the extended use of charging .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 . ’
11 The group can easily become a network of support during and after the course .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 On one side a stream , full of watercress , hurried down to pursue its tunnelled course through and beyond the stableyard .
15 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 .
16 The company can expect to draw on the advice of many different specialists and institutions during and after the initial planning stage .
17 The prospect of violence is greatest where there is a roughly equal division of support for and against the strike .
18 For example , if γ 1 is -1 then a positive aggregate demand shock in period t , will imply expected values for and for lower , ceteris paribus , by an amount - t .
19 The number of swallows in the 10 minutes during and after acid infusion , calculated from the number of detectable oesophageal contractions in the most cranial recording channel , did not differ significantly in group I ( 20 ( 3 ) ; 20 ( 4 ) ) or group II ( 18 ( 5 ) ; 18 ( 6 ) ) .
20 It has been suggested that there is not really a contrast between and , since only occurs in weak syllables and no minimal pairs can be found to show a clear contrast between and in unstressed syllables ( though there have been some ingenious attempts ) .
21 Even before the discussions during and after the Delors Report ( April 1989 ) , the French had largely accepted the German demand .
22 to assess the degree of convergence or divergence of input provision between and within classes of education authorities over the period 1975-84 ;
23 This involves students in the examination of conflicts between and within societies , and draws on the insights of political scientists , historians , social scientists and philosophers in looking at the origin and nature of such conflicts and the means of resolving them .
24 Recognising that while there is a place for carefully programmed input , we endeavour to emphasise active independent learning through direct experience : for example through business enterprise , designing products for and in local companies , work experience , residential experience , community experience , family placements , recreational activities , which we hope will be recreative in the fullest sense .
25 The exercise is principally an informational one : it ensures not only that the minister is informed of local views for and against a proposal but also that those views are tested in the inspector 's enquiry , and fully considered in the subsequent report by the inspector to the minister .
26 For example , ‘ work from a specifically feminist perspective ’ — such as What She Wants — merits support ; ditto black arts ( still without an adequate definition in Arts Council-speak ) and arts for and by disabled people .
27 These are the outcome of the flow of funds between and within different sectors of the economy , as well as between the short-term and long-term financial markets .
28 You acknowledge that KPMG Peat Marwick has entered into this Agreement as agent for and on behalf of the Vendors and that the Vendors are entitled to enforce in their own name any and all provisions of this Agreement .
29 He had evoked in extreme measure and focused upon himself many irrational , but none the less real and strong , feelings of selfless devotion , sacrifice , and passionate commitment to a national ideal — emotions which had developed enormous , elemental force during and after the First World War .
30 Since 1914 millions of Russians had been on the move — four to five million away from the advancing armies of the Central Powers ; at least twelve million fleeing into exile during and after the Revolution ; the largest land army in the world manoeuvring , dying , and deserting from the longest front-line in history — to give the major examples alone , with very approximate numbers .
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