Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] and [prep] " in BNC.

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1 We examine the case for and against .
2 Our man in court STEPHEN DALTON puts the case for and against to FAD-head ANDY SPEARPOINT .
3 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 ?
4 I shall now set out the case for and against the extended use of charging .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 . ’
8 The group can easily become a network of support during and after the course .
9 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 .
10 On one side a stream , full of watercress , hurried down to pursue its tunnelled course through and beyond the stableyard .
11 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 .
12 The prospect of violence is greatest where there is a roughly equal division of support for and against the strike .
13 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 ) .
14 to assess the degree of convergence or divergence of input provision between and within classes of education authorities over the period 1975-84 ;
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 Both in these positions and as Chairman of the Wellcome Trust for 22 years , he had great influence on the development of medical research during and after the war .
19 Platelet factor 4 has a very short half-life ( Musial et al , 1980 ) compared to β-thromboglobulin , which therefore makes it less sensitive for the detection of the ‘ in vivo ’ platelet-release reaction , but it is a useful measure of artefactual in vitro secretion during and after blood sampling ( Kaplan & Owen , 1981 ) .
20 The criticisms were not specific : British people were not well enough trained in comparison with people from some other countries , their training did not take sufficient account of what employers wanted , there was too little emphasis on the connection between the launching of new enterprises and the training of people in readiness for and in order to follow the consequences of those launches — and the absence of collaborative management in the past had led to poorly organized training .
21 As a result during and since the 1960s , sociology degree courses have increased considerably , sociology has found its way into schools , sociologists have been increasingly recognised and consulted by various organisations , from national government downwards , in research programmes , policy planning etc. , and some sociologists have also found fame in the national media .
22 We see why Marx felt it important to attack Smith 's generalised conception of the division of labour , and to insist on the different conditions governing the division of labour between and within commodity producing enterprises .
23 What is it a study of and to what end ?
24 New and tougher codes of procedure for selecting and appointing architects , covering fee tendering with and without design input , will emphasise value for money and the importance of careful assessment , giving due weighting to quality as well as price .
25 A tallish centre cast very much in the old and ideal New Zealand mould , de Glanville tackled well , covered expertly and had genuine zip into and through the gap .
26 Viennese action with and without the check
27 She went to England in her teens ( 1917 ) to work under the dark genius of Sickert , and from him went on to France , where first , and briefly , she learnt from Andere Lhote , and then commenced a lifetime study with and under Albert Gleizes .
28 Prophete spent his exile in and around his deanery of Hereford until , after the revolution of 1399 , he was recalled at once to become one of the most active attenders on the royal council , doubtless to contribute bureaucratic flair to a government badly needing to prove its administrative competence .
29 At the International Geographical Union meeting in Montreal in 1972 the Arid Zone Commission was succeeded by a working group established to study desertification in and around arid lands with J.A .
30 It is the task of managers , across the phase gaps , to organize feedback from and into their own spheres of work .
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