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

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1 Some of the main distinguishing characteristics of X- Y- , and W-type ganglion cells in the cat retina
2 A study carried out in the mid-1980s in a South London day hospital and in local day centres examined the ordinary , everyday needs and specific treatment requirements of attenders .
3 Its riveting concerns for the work place — and specific work places at that — prevents the connecting up of work experiences , issues and social structure ; it prevents a true political practice .
4 The FI and RI categories represented the largest proportion of information needs within the EPH , and specific question lists of the other categories were not prepared at this stage .
5 Allan Wells ' training consisted of speedball training and gym circuits , hill running , bounding and specific sprint training on the track .
6 This is an approximate calculation so we can assume that the density and specific heat capacity of the reaction mixture are the same as that for water .
7 Tests in use today for personnel selection include both multiple aptitude batteries like the Differential Aptitude test which provides the kind of profile described above , and specific aptitude tests like the General Clerical Test which concentrates on one group of skills .
8 The 429 page report includes a thorough and specific recovery plan for every endangered species .
9 There were also smaller groups of higher and lower caste people from these areas and in addition there were people from the villages of Sylhet , a district of Bangladesh .
10 It has also been noted that influential local people use the provision of school facilities , extra classrooms , libraries , more teachers and lower teacher/pupil ratios as a way of enhancing their own status and prestige .
11 There is usually a clearly seen demarcation between upper and lower sausage-shaped groups of glands , which has aptly been named the ‘ sign of the groove ’ .
12 The machine incorporates new , more integrated and lower cost technology into the same symmetric multiprocessing architecture as the Series 400 and is designed to be cost-effective for between 40 and 400 active users .
13 Alternatively , the drafter can use separate , bracketed , numbers for sub-clauses and lower case letters for individual paragraphs within sub-clauses .
14 Produce legible upper and lower case letters in one style and use them consistently ( not randomly mixed within words ) .
15 Upper and lower case variables of the same name are different .
16 The Yorkshire outfit have been producing some good results in their own division , and have lost only one of their eight league games so far , but we saw the big gulf in scoring power between some of the first and lower division clubs in the county competitions and York look to be facing something of a Mission Impossible .
17 The obvious differences include the presence of definitive shale interbeds , the slightly higher clay volume and lower overall porosities within the Barren Measures ' sandstones .
18 My pensioners were pretty damn cross this time , what with council tax and VAT on their fuel , and lower interest rates on their savings .
19 The new breed of thrusting , entrepreneurial leaders will spread under a regime of ( relatively ) high pay and lower job security through mechanisms such as Performance Related Pay and fixed term or rolling contracts .
20 Computer People Group Plc saw lower profits for the year ending December 31 than were expected at the interim stage due to a drop in recruitment revenues in the UK and lower volume sales of consultancy services in the US .
21 Beck already has sites in Paris at the hotel des Arts on rue Berryer and in London in the south block mezzanine and lower ground floors of Somerset House overlooking the Thames embankment .
22 The selection of alcohol-free and lower alcohol drinks for the adult , discerning drinker is increasing .
23 We 've seen him playing Julia Roberts ' husband , a sexually repressed and obsessive wife beater in Sleeping With The Enemy .
24 Nice thought to give honourary life membership for former chairman Michael Hill and that elder statesman of the Press-box , Eric Hill , once Fimblett 's partner at the top of the order .
25 The National Government in its first three years thus operated on the curious basis of the Prime Minister depending to an unusual extent on the second man in the Government , and that second man in turn depending to an equally unusual extent upon the second man in his own party .
26 The Dunedin study ( quoted by De Melker as confirming that children with persistent effusions at a young age have problems with learning , language , and development until at least the age of 7–9 years has now produced follow up data ( reported at the international symposium on otitis media with effusion , Fort Lauderdale , 1991 ) to age 16 which shows that these educational and developmental problems continued , and that reading age in untreated patients remained two years behind their treated controls .
27 Orem , Utah-based WordPerfect Corp says its WordPerfect 6.0 for MS-DOS will be released on June 28 and that customer demand for it is already reaching record levels : the latest beta version will include drag-and-drop text , scrolling Button Bars and separate set-up options for the text mode and graphics mode ; the thing will be $500 .
28 Roy Colvin and lady captain , Joan Gough , both attended the end-of-term prize-giving at which young Coulter , an A-level student at Wallace High , paid special tribute to Alan McMaster , juvenile convenor , and that livewire duo of Watson-MacDonald incorporated .
29 It is therefore inevitable that our Poundians will be exceptions , and that majority opinion for the foreseeable future will be more or less hysterically hostile to Pound .
30 There should be full public consultation at all stages of hydrocarbon licensing , exploration , commissioning , production , decommissioning and site rehabilitation ; and that public access to monitoring data be a mandatory requirement .
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