Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 17.48 ( i ) Pupils should have opportunities to write in a range of forms including a number of the following : notes , diaries , personal letters , chronological accounts , pamphlets , book reviews , advertisements , comic strips , poems , stories , playscripts. ( ii ) Building on experiences of a range of different stories that they have read and heard , and/or through discussion of their work with the teacher or their peers , pupils should learn to handle the following elements of story structure with increasing effectiveness : an opening , setting , characters , events and a resolution . |
| 2 | Moreover , the claimant who has been successful in a case like the one in which the SCC judgement was rendered can bring an action for compensation of any additional financial damage sustained and/or for compensation for injury to feeling . |
| 3 | These are deposits of sterling held by overseas authorities as part of their official reserves and/or for purposes of intervening in the foreign exchange market in order to influence the exchange rate of their currency . |
| 4 | At the beginning of October , the State Education Commission issued a statement calling on all provincial education departments and universities under its jurisdiction to forbid students to ‘ engage in business on or off campus for the purpose of getting rich ’ ( CD 7. 10. 1988 ) . |
| 5 | Whenever — as off Alaska recently , or off Brittany in 1978 , or at Chernobyl , or at Bhopal — complacency leads to catastrophe , the immediate reaction is the same : ban the trade-offs . |
| 6 | Were you on duty at home or off duty at home ? |
| 7 | With the widespread use of the telephone for both business and pleasure letter-writing is in danger of becoming a lost skill and probably the only letters which are kept in the home are those between sweethearts or between members of a united family . |
| 8 | Not only is maternal age interrelated with parity or birth order and , through parity , with family size but the latter also with another demographic variable , i.e. the intervals between successive births ( or between pregnancies or between termination of a pregnancy and the next conception ) . |
| 9 | A semantic relation may be set up either within a sentence or between sentences with the consequence that , when it crosses a sentence boundary , it has the effect of making the two sentences cohere with one another ( Halliday and Hasan 1976 ) . |
| 10 | Certain kinds of circumstances which are produced within or between groups of people . |
| 11 | Guy ( 1980 ) has concluded from his study of final stop deletion that the individual follows the group norm very closely ; but since we know that scores for different linguistic variables are not distributed within or between groups in a comparable way , we can not conclude that all variables will behave in the same way as the syllable-final alveolar stop . |
| 12 | Writers often refer to uneven development between sectors , for example , or between firms within a sector . |
| 13 | To assess the impact of more differentiated media sources we can look for differences between their different audiences : differences between readers of highbrow or lowbrow papers , for example , or between readers of right-wing and left-wing papers . |
| 14 | Co-operation can work well between libraries of the same type or between libraries of different types , depending upon extent of joint needs , and practical factors such as proximity and location . |
| 15 | for delivering it from one part of his premises to another part of his premises , or for delivering it from his premises to the premises of , or between parts of premises of , another manufacturer or repairer of or dealer in mechanically propelled vehicles or removing it from the premises of another manufacturer or repairer of or dealer in mechanically propelled vehicles direct to his own premises ; |
| 16 | The reliability of a test is measured by correlation between the test scores , obtained at two different times , between different forms of the same test or between samples of questions in different parts of the same test . |
| 17 | We do n't have a in our business as many other retailers do where for instance after Christmas may be and other such things to clear we do n't have that , so there is n't any merchandise that 's been sold since Christmas that has been sold because we do n't want it to be in the inventory post year end it 's it 's just generating trade by being discount price left so therefore to a certain amount your question would be has the post Christmas and it was pre Christmas no material difference we 're very satisfied with the gross margins since Christmas we have n't had to take any extraordinary measures to generate this erm this level of sales increase that 's being achieved at constant margin a flat margin |
| 18 | Ehrlichman and Weinberger criticise the emphasis that has been placed on the first eye movements occurring after a question has been asked and the consequent ignoring of movements which occur prior to or during presentation of a particular item . |
| 19 | Finally , patients irradiated in the course of frequently repeated diagnostic examination or during treatment of their diseases by radiotherapy can be studied . |
| 20 | RIVER DEE : High water levels but when normal , Chester end usually best early morning or during night for large roach and bread in Eccleston area . |
| 21 | Probably many of us have treasured letters containing gems of spiritual guidance which have come to us when the writer could not , or during times of personal need or crisis . |
| 22 | Such an approach enables active work to go on at all times , including those when no change of placement is contemplated or during periods of waiting for a suitable placement to become available . |
| 23 | An important advantage of this arrangement is the need for as small a portion as possible of this vital protection system to be inoperative in the period immediately following a fire or during periods of maintenance but , there is a further consideration . |
| 24 | It would thus lie possible for studies to be pursued either full- or part-time , before or during employment as a church musician . |
| 25 | Appendix 4 to the 17th Report of the House of Lords Select Committee on the European Community states that ‘ Parliament does not require to be consulted before or during negotiations on a treaty or before a text is initialled ’ . |
| 26 | The rarity of p53 gene mutation in adenomas and its prevalence in carcinomas , suggests that p53 mutation is one of the late events in the adenoma-carcinoma sequence , occurring either at the adenoma carcinoma interface or during progression of established cancers . |
| 27 | We therefore interpret magnetizations of high unblocking temperature and high to moderate coercivity found in undeformed parts of the granitic intrusions ( Tsm and Ttp ) as having been acquired just before or during mylonitization of structurally higher rocks . |
| 28 | The tubers should not be chilled during grading or during transit to the processing plant . |
| 29 | And so she settled down quietly into our family life for over a year , until one of the aunts , Aunt Kate , came to see us , and after that there was talk between our parents — children always know these things , having good ears — about it perhaps being best now for Grandma to be going back to her little house in Hampshire . |
| 30 | In the MEDLINE system , for example , the user can interactively ask for instructions at the beginning of the search , or for assistance during the search , when part of the original instructions are given as requested . |