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

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1 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 .
2 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 ?
3 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 .
4 The company can expect to draw on the advice of many different specialists and institutions during and after the initial planning stage .
5 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 .
6 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 ) ) .
7 Even before the discussions during and after the Delors Report ( April 1989 ) , the French had largely accepted the German demand .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 Feudal organizations provided historical precedents for and in some cases even the institutional forms for modern corporatism ( Maier , 1981 ; Kocka , 1981 ) .
14 Two of our patients developed infective omplications and we now use prophylactic antibiotics during and for 48 hours after the procedure .
15 Gravitational influences between and within bodies in space are detected as perturbations and periodicities which , over millions of years , can actually mould planetary surfaces .
16 Figure 21.15 shows distributions of and of its components , , and across a boundary layer .
17 The simple fact that pianos with and without checks existed side by side in the Vienna of Mozart , Haydn and Beethoven also shows that at least two different schools of playing the piano co-existed around 1800 .
18 Fisher 's exact test was used to determine the differences in proportions of H pylori positive and negative subjects with and without atrophy in old subjects .
19 This was also true when only old subjects with and without atrophy were compared : sham fed acid output : 5.4 ( 1.4 ) ; 9.4 ( 1.2 ) ; p<0.04 ; maximal acid output : 18.9 ( 4.0 ) ; 31.8 ( 3.35 ) ; p<0.02 ; peak acid output : 25.1 ( 5.3 ) ; 44.1 ( 5.0 ) ; p<0.02 .
20 The results reported in this section look at the percentage of correct words with and without substitutions .
21 The guards in and around the prison deliberately provoke the political prisoners .
22 Intense Kurdish guerrilla activity in Kurdistan appeared to take place in late September and October 1989 , during which time the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran ( KDPI ) claimed that its fighters had killed 172 Iranian troops and Revolutionary Guards in and around the city of Mahabad approximately 550 km west of Tehran .
23 Golfers , with bags of clubs over shoulders , boarded tramcars which would take them to many of the numerous golf-clubs in and around the city .
24 While variation in the ordering of tales is not merely possible but can be a critically rewarding way of reading the fragments in and around the middle of the sequence of the Canterbury Tales , the fragments at the beginning and end ( fragments I and X , and , generally , II and IX ) are solidly fixed in place , challenging the reader to interpret them as and where they stand .
25 Local leaders of the ruling Ba'ath Party and members of the security force were immediate targets for demonstrating crowds , and in addition fighting broke out between rival army units in and around the city .
26 GUIDED WALKS in and around Northampton
27 This was particularly so in the early months before and after vesting day , and the concentrated pattern of working which was then established proved very resistant to change in later years .
28 The more common response was a temporary lull in the onslaught of behavioural difficulties for a few months before and after adoption .
29 That pleasure will be for the peoples in and around the Pacific and Indian Oceans .
30 There , he and his fellow students ‘ often gave more time to books than drawing ’ , and his life became an attractive combination of early-morning reading , architectural work in the day , and evenings playing the violin with his father at festivities in and around Bockhampton .
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