Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ( 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 12 | The group can easily become a network of support during and after the course . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | On one side a stream , full of watercress , hurried down to pursue its tunnelled course through and beyond the stableyard . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The prospect of violence is greatest where there is a roughly equal division of support for and against the strike . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's an international career coming to a close and one that people have been full of admiration for for over a decade . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | This approach tends to have a neutral effect on a decision about whether to be part of home or market production , avoiding women 's role being institutionalized as dependants . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | That levying of money for or to the use of the Crowne by pretence of Prerogative without Grant of Parliament for longer time or in other manner , than the same is or shall be granted is illegall . |
| 25 | to assess the degree of convergence or divergence of input provision between and within classes of education authorities over the period 1975-84 ; |
| 26 | Finally , I am somewhat dismayed at the proposition that patients might be tempted ( or should I say bribed ? ) into taking a decision for or against generic substitution . |
| 27 | This l.e.d. is the game 's ‘ Umpire ’ and gives a verdict for or against the batsman . |
| 28 | So Caterina the next day ran into Tommaso on an errand as if by accident and muttered to him ; she was twisting her limbs and quite red with fear , but he followed her as she ducked awkwardly into the church and knelt in front of the Madonna of the Spasm in the votive chapel . |
| 29 | As the aircraft continued over the wood it started to fly erratically , described by a second witness as ‘ swaying from side to side as if under the control of a novice ’ . |
| 30 | Kerr , 27 , has been transfer-listed by Millwall at his own request and plans to settle in the North-East during or after his playing career . |