Example sentences of "[prep] and [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1990's , we may well be heading towards the classless society so sought after and well documented of politicians , yet the Royal Berkshire Club , built within the existing framework of a society which demands ever higher standards in its leisure facilities , remains a class act in its own right . |
| 2 | But why is it that Northern towns , like anywhere else , have their monumental civic buildings , public libraries and baths , named after and often founded by the old city fathers , local entrepreneurs , the class enemy ? |
| 3 | And as for all special schools there is an obligation to provide a scheme for local management of special schools with effect from April this year er we consulted there was a little bit of chasing which had to take place in which you can see in section four of the report but following that chasing , we now ascertain meeting schools on favourable proposals for or against and once a week that , a view of and also undertaking as you know . |
| 4 | The 1987 stock market debacle warned of and ultimately led to the worldwide slump of the 1990s . |
| 5 | ‘ The same lamb you put a rope round the neck of and then chased into the German minefield ? ’ |
| 6 | But unions were in fact composed of and certainly led by such men , though the bourgeois mythology saw them as mobs of the stupid and misled , instigated by agitators who could not otherwise have earned a comfortable living . |
| 7 | All our sketches are much approved of and highly complimented by our friends . |
| 8 | For an object to exist in an ontological sense is to exist in its own right and not merely as an object of thought , but it is not to exist independently of the conditions under which it may be thought of and identifyingly referred to as that particular object and no other . |
| 9 | He fumbled for and finally pounced on the right word , ‘ Of torihada in my legs . ’ |
| 10 | Thus sign ; the membership demand curve is negatively sloped for and positively sloped for , as shown in Fig. 1 . |
| 11 | There was nothing to rush for and nowhere to rush to . |
| 12 | They also agreed that if at any future date the majority of the people of Northern Ireland ‘ clearly wish for and formally consent to the establishment of a United Ireland ’ the appropriate legislation would be introduced into the respective Parliaments . |
| 13 | Christer Pettersson , who was sentenced for and then acquitted of the murder in February 1986 of the Prime Minister , Olof Palme , was on May 2 , 1990 , awarded 300,000 kronor in damages for the 10 months he had spent in custody . |
| 14 | Often such matters have never been previously talked about and instead left to fester in bad relationships , complaining , negative attitudes and lack of drive . |
| 15 | So look at your friends , see what they are a little vain about and then multiply by a factor of ten . |
| 16 | The shifty character was getting extremely agitated , waving his arms about and almost bursting into tears . |
| 17 | Nearer to the Buid , Morris has described the Melanau of Borneo as living in a ‘ highly diversified social environment in which many cultural and linguistic groups are interspersed with and closely related to one another ’ ( 1967 : 216 ) . |
| 18 | Somehow you can put up with and even smile at a stranger or workmate 's silly antics and daft behaviour , but when someone close to you starts rubbing you up the wrong way you 'll explode . |
| 19 | Economic policy was the core of Reagan 's programme and especial care was taken to ensure that those primarily responsible for economic matters were fully conversant with and totally committed to the president 's position . |
| 20 | A clash with Constantius II was inevitable and Magnentius prepared for this immediately by raising a large army with substantial aid obtained from and freely given by the provincials , especially those in Gaul and Britain . |
| 21 | It is at this point that the analogy between anorexia nervosa and hysteria , which Freud saw as separate from and possibly opposed to the obsessional neuroses , seems to break down , along with Dally 's separation of the two as different forms of the disease . |
| 22 | The injection of considerable sums of federal money into many American schools in the 1960s , together with the programmes and methodologies that resulted , arose from and sometimes led to the conclusion that change in education was primarily a matter of provision . |
| 23 | In the ommatidia they occur as proteinaceous granules in the pigment cells surrounding the crystalline cone and retinulae ; they are distinct from and sometimes masked by the ommochrome pigments that may also be present . |
| 24 | I was lucky in my tutors and my college , and like so many young men before and since fell in love with the place . |
| 25 | The Russians were interested in and finally converted to Christianity at the end of the tenth century and from this time onwards their ecclesiastical architecture was based on that of Constantinople while the churches were , in many cases , built and decorated by Byzantine craftsmen . |
| 26 | Many realise that the young and their families are caught up in and often complicit with a web of interacting forces which hold communities in their grip . |
| 27 | Kinsbourne ( 1975a ) argued that " both hemispheres draw upon and often compete for a finite amount of attention invested in the organism as a whole " . |
| 28 | Typical of artists to read nothing except what they happen upon and then to pontificate about life and art and the way the world is going . |
| 29 | For years the headscarf was frowned upon and sometimes banned on the ground that it encouraged dissent among children of different religions . |
| 30 | There is little , if any , analysis of why particular attitudes and behaviours have developed , of the ways in which cultures are related to and continuously reinforced by the wider structural position of particular groups ; the ways in which cultures can be a rational response to the social position of groups at a particular time . |