Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun] [prep] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Public house licence " which authorises the sale by retail of alcoholic liquor for consumption on or off the premises . |
| 2 | It was held that they were entitled to do so on the basis that a public house licence authorises the holder to sell by retail alcoholic liquor for consumption on or off the premises and an off-sale licence authorises the holder to sell by retail alcoholic liquor for consumption off the premises . |
| 3 | There may however be some value in spending more on administrative and other support for staff in and out of the classroom . |
| 4 | Beneath me the Thames lassooed and pulsed like a human brain , sending signals , slipping veil after veil as if a heavier liquid had been sent to slide across its face of water , leaving no doubt that rivers are living things . |
| 5 | Firstly , there is the traditional method of the offer for sale by tender where the Bank of England offers a large amount ( usually not less than £1 billion ) of newly created stock for sale at or above a specific minimum price . |
| 6 | A report published today by the Audit Commission says local authorities are fighting a losing battle to bridge the gap between supply of and demand for rented accommodation . |
| 7 | We have seen a shift from the utopianism of the 1960s to a culture of nostalgia and , as with the more dystopian elements in postmodernism , the exhibition and the books which accompany it look backward in a search for appearances as if they were compensatory fantasies substituting for a forgotten dream . |
| 8 | As a trade depot and naval base , Calais was to serve as an entrepôt for trade in and out of England , and as a back door , which armies might and did use , into France . |
| 9 | Partly because it is not routinely recorded , relatively little is known about cohabitation and the extent to which it may become an ordinary setting for childbearing before or instead of marriage . |
| 10 | Policy remains in the hands of people who do not have disabilities and who are frequently so far on the other side of the experiential divide between people with and without disabilities that ‘ objective policies ’ — that is , those which ignore the experiential divide — simply serve to reinforce the notion of disability rather than the values and abilities of those who are different . |
| 11 | Kylesku was the vital key for travellers to or from the far north , the alternative being a thirty-mile detour to the east . |
| 12 | There has been little investigation , however , as to how the metastability of hepatic bile changes in the gall bladder of patients with or without cholesterol gall stones . |
| 13 | The following summary of the chronology of approval of and recruitment to Fields illustrates the steady development of the Oxford Polytechnic Modular Course since September 1973 : |
| 14 | Following South Africa 's reintroduction there has been a great deal of discussion about whether the ban on Mike Gatting and his fellow ‘ rebel ’ tourists should be lifted . |
| 15 | My hon. Friend the Minister knows full well that , under the rating system , local authorities had a great deal of discretion about whether to charge on empty properties . |
| 16 | Horses on which large sums of money are bet , such as the Grand National or the Derby , they are horses that the bookies pay a great deal of attention to and the overround that they calculate — they offer odds in such a way that you ca n't , by judiciously placing your bets , guarantee to win , and the overround is erm a thing that you can calculate which expresses , if you like , the average percentage in favour of the bookie on that race . |
| 17 | ‘ But the machine saves a great deal of time in that it automatically produces statistics and its print-outs clearly show patterns in the absences . |
| 18 | There is , surprisingly , still a good deal of uncertainty about whether animals — and if so , which animals — can solve problems of this kind . |
| 19 | Consequently there is a good deal of uncertainty about whether the newcomers to the countryside have wrought a deterioration or a revitalization of the village community . |
| 20 | In Dar es Salaam and elsewhere during 1967 and 1968 , one occasionally heard mention of Mwafrika as if it still existed , only to discover that what was being referred to was actually Uhuru , the official daily paper of TANU , This confusion was understandable : the Mwafrika of 1965 bore no relation to what people remembered of the old one , but the pattern set by the earlier Mwafrika and Zuhra seems to have been continued after independence by Uhuru and Ngurumo . |
| 21 | Is not the Minister aware that it has been known for some time that four times as many women as men suffer the chronic pain that comes from the loss of movement in and the fracture of hip joints ? |
| 22 | The texts seem to have been composed as a result of work in and on language . |
| 23 | The winning American margin — 11½–4½ — was chiefly the result of finesse on and around the greens . |
| 24 | There is also the preparation and circulation of papers before and afterwards , the arrangements to notify people , ensuring that rooms are booked and tables are laid out properly and so on . |
| 25 | It is important to remember that the late Dr. Schumacher 's book Small is Beautiful is subtitled A study of Economics as if People Mattered . |
| 26 | As yet , no coherent policy has emerged , only a confusion of purpose over whether to impose greater restrictions or offer more choice . |
| 27 | Residuals can tell us about the general level of variability of data over and above that accounted for by the fit ; we can judge atypical behaviour against this variability , as measured , for example , by the midspread of the residuals . |
| 28 | Mr Cunningham began : ‘ Jilly Cooper 's latest chronicle of life in and about the chintzed-up Cotswolds village of Paradise , Rutshire ( Pop : media yobs , polo-players , helicopter owners , a poofy vicar , a malapropic cleaning woman and the odd ennobled jam-maker ) is pretty nasty and usually brutish . |
| 29 | Between the date of Meehan 's conviction and his appeal a month later , Nicky told me , he had an astonishing piece of luck in that there had come into his possession a tape-recording of an interview with Griffiths taken some time previously for a programme the BBC had made at Gartree prison . |
| 30 | He was the forerunner of the modern professor of materials in that he wrote , with F. M. Lea , The Chemistry of Cement and Concrete ( 1956 ) . |