Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 61 | She was quite calm and serious and , for reasons of her own , she intended to bury the jewel box . |
| 62 | For this reason and for reasons of space , the discussion here will be confined to the way in which the coins themselves can be used to reveal information about their date or mint . |
| 63 | The police , for reasons of economy of control rather than from partiality , accepted , tolerated , even encouraged the solemn formalities of stateless justice ; the Zuwaya equally did not reject due process of courts and judgements : these were not exclusive . |
| 64 | You would have to be a professional cobbler-up of sit-coms to give much credence to the available scenarios , but just in case , I suppose they are that : a ) the tests were so incompetently performed that even a baboon 's sample would have produced the same reading as was clocked by the three athletes identically ; b ) the three runners were having a joke at the testers ' expense ; c ) the German trio was deliberately testing the vigilance of the drug monitors at a relatively out-of-the-way venue , for reasons of their own ; d ) that the samples were not urine at all but a draught of refreshing Lucozade , tested in error . |
| 65 | In July 1663 , Richard Baxter left London for reasons of health and went to live in Acton , which was then a village six miles west of the capital . |
| 66 | Richard Baxter , for reasons of conscience , declined the offer . |
| 67 | We reserve the right in any circumstance to cancel your holiday , and , in this event , we will return to you all monies you have paid us or will offer you an alternative available holiday to purchase , or comparable standard , in no case , except for reasons of war etc. ( see Important note above ) , will your holiday be cancelled less than 8 weeks before the scheduled departure date . |
| 68 | The second letter is difficult to place since Leapor is responding to a gentleman whose comments on her work are relayed by someone else , or to whom she refers in the third person for reasons of politeness . |
| 69 | Another way in which the new narrative extends the range of traditional realism is by re-creating modes of spoken speech , not for reasons of costumbrism or authenticity , but to portray a society through the way in which it expresses itself orally . |
| 70 | They offer little , if anything , to the promotion of hygiene and where , for reasons of hygiene or product quality , disinfection is necessary it should always be carried out separately after cleaning . |
| 71 | The drug , called ‘ compound X ’ for reasons of wartime secrecy , was given in doses which Gilman later described as ‘ a most fortunate guess ’ . |
| 72 | Far away from the usual round of interviews for reasons of record promotion , he was etching his personality into the minds of the readers . |
| 73 | The condition of the books in my list suggests that Vaisey is right and that , at least as far as English printed books are concerned , the justification of dispersal for reasons of ‘ preservation ’ is to be discounted . |
| 74 | Where there was evidence to show that such a decision had been taken for reasons of national security , this would be accepted to ‘ preclude judicial investigation of [ the ] particular … grievance ’ . |
| 75 | True , she had had a pleasant bed-sitting room , and Mrs White had cooked for her and always been welcoming , but on some cold summer evenings , sitting in her Lloyd Loom armchair by a gas fire , turned low for reasons of economy , Agnes had experienced some bleakness . |
| 76 | Until Mick had objected for reasons of safety , I had even planned to camp half a mile from the soldiers . |
| 77 | ‘ The less-favoured farming areas shall include mountain areas , in which farming is necessary to protect the countryside , particularly for reasons of protection against erosion or in order to meet leisure needs ; they shall also include other areas where the maintenance of a minimum population or the conservation of the countryside are not assured . ’ |
| 78 | This is stolen from her in turn by Squeers , who has been bribed by Ralph Nickleby , for reasons of his own , to recover the document . |
| 79 | Partly for reasons of confidentiality , we are not able to describe this company 's environmental analysis activities in more detail . |
| 80 | Many necessary data sets were unavailable for reasons of administrative inadequacies , confidentiality constraints , cost or non-collection in certain countries ; |
| 81 | The Scottish Roman Catholic bishops had insisted that Masses be broadcast live and held this demand long after other services were recorded for reasons of economy . |
| 82 | Nearer to home , the London Letter reported the elevation of Disraeli to the peerage ‘ for reasons of health ’ , also that ‘ the number of lunatics in England and Wales on the first of January last was 64,619 , being 1123 more than in the previous years . ’ |
| 83 | Having been a College of Further Education for years , subsidence below the main tower has caused the building to be closed for reasons of safety . |
| 84 | The second ( not so relevant today ) has , for reasons of sentiment or expediency , been to adopt arms similar to , but not technically identical with , a feudal protector or ally . |
| 85 | But it should be kept in mind that the home visit , for reasons of either vocational guidance or after-care , was intended to do more than simply attend to the school-leaver , who was urged to ‘ put your shoulder to the wheel ’ in order ‘ to reduce to a minimum the number of inefficient citizens ’ . |
| 86 | However , they did not seek to achieve these ends merely for reasons of age prejudice , though this was always an important consideration ; indeed , many of the other reasons grew out of this prejudice . |
| 87 | For reasons of simplicity ( and ornithological necessity ) the whole of Chichester Harbour is considered as being within Sussex for the purpose of wildfowl and wader counts . |
| 88 | I do n't know what was the reason in this case , but in any event when ops were cancelled like this , late in the day when it was getting dark , for reasons of safety the armourers waited for daylight before de-bombing the aircraft . |
| 89 | Each new proposal by CSM to improve its machinery for ‘ promoting the collection and investigation of information relating to adverse reactions ’ has , according to Professor David Finney of Edinburgh University , a member of CSM , been ‘ refused , or delayed indefinitely , for reasons of cost ’ ( Times , 21 August 1982 ) . |
| 90 | At this point , the family probably can not yet afford a high quality modern house , but for reasons of status it still decides to move into a sub-standard , ill-constructed house built with modern materials , a house that turns into an oven during the summer and generates demand for electrically-powered cooling devices . |