Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The commodities produced in the new international division of labour are , above all , to be exported and imported either by trade between merchants on the world market or by transfer ( as semi-finished parts of finished articles ) from one branch of a multinational corporation to another branch . |
| 2 | The only conflict about housing land in Cramlington during the preparation and revision of the Northumberland Structure Plan was about releases in relation to total numbers . |
| 3 | Although you are all for outings with a pack , you will have to be content with your lot for now . |
| 4 | Like any other young couple they teamed up for outings to the beach , for barbecues with friends , or visits to the cinema . |
| 5 | But there was no fail-safe way to dress for outings in Roman 's company . |
| 6 | But they 'll take stage victories , not the big prizes , and may often be deployed as super-domestiques to younger and more eager men . |
| 7 | The ‘ Auxiliary ’ section has three jacks : ‘ Tuner ’ , which can be used either for plugging in an electronic tuner or as a non-effects direct out ; ‘ Phones ’ which is self-explanatory ; and ‘ Mastercontrol ’ , a special socket for use with a volume pedal — very useful for electro-acoustics without onboard volume controls , or even violins or mandolins . |
| 8 | Religion is presented as a response ‘ everywhere to one and the same need ’ : the need for rituals of fertility . |
| 9 | World-wide co-operation in the matter of the venereal diseases was first formalized by the Brussels agreement of 1924 when the signatories undertook to provide a free treatment service for seamen of all countries who were found to be suffering from infection . |
| 10 | The Atlantic Agreement called " upon the Seamen of all the world for service … to demonstrate practical appreciation of freedom won " , and the American Shipping Act of 1915 had established for seamen on foreign ships a " a right to quit " while in US ports from March 1916 . |
| 11 | The mother was knitting something for seamen from coloured string . |
| 12 | It is difficult to compare the success of different systems , for reasons including the following : |
| 13 | The MCC voted by a large majority to retain termly modules for reasons including greater flexibility in module size and length and more frequent feedback to students on their progress . |
| 14 | These include situations where there are competing bids , or where the acquisition is prohibited by the merger control authorities , or where a condition of the bid announced in the offer document is not fulfilled or , exceptionally , where the bid may not be put into effect for reasons beyond the control of the parties to the bid . |
| 15 | If a customer 's circumstances change adversely for reasons beyond the customer 's control , the finance company will look sympathetically at the circumstances and will try , subject to any restrictions placed upon it by the Consumer Credit Act 1974 , to reach an accommodation with the customer to pay off the outstanding balance in a practicable manner . |
| 16 | A claim for group relief will be accepted outside the statutory two-year time limit where one of the following can be demonstrated : the Inland Revenue contributed materially to the failure to submit a timely claim ; for reasons beyond his or her control , a person vitally concerned in the making of a claim was not available at a crucial time ; for reasons beyond the claimant company 's or its agent 's control , the need for the claim could not have been perceived before the time limit expires , and the claim was made as soon as reasonably possible in all the circumstances . |
| 17 | A claim for group relief will be accepted outside the statutory two-year time limit where one of the following can be demonstrated : the Inland Revenue contributed materially to the failure to submit a timely claim ; for reasons beyond his or her control , a person vitally concerned in the making of a claim was not available at a crucial time ; for reasons beyond the claimant company 's or its agent 's control , the need for the claim could not have been perceived before the time limit expires , and the claim was made as soon as reasonably possible in all the circumstances . |
| 18 | Scotland was an unhappy country in the late seventeenth century , partly for reasons beyond the control of politicians or merchants ; the climate grew steadily harsher , for these were the worst years of the ‘ little ice age ’ that ran from 1500 to 1850 and must have had some general effect of encouraging emigration from Europe . |
| 19 | Announcing the sad news for concert-goers , Steve May , arts development officer at Colchester Borough Council , said the event had been cancelled ‘ for reasons beyond our control ’ . |
| 20 | The stabilization fund was to ensure continued financing for investment and research programmes and support for enterprises " experiencing during the period of transition to market relations difficulties for reasons beyond their control " . |
| 21 | Mobutu said that presidential elections , which should have been held before the expiry of his term of office at midnight that day , had not taken place " for reasons beyond our control but inherent in the dynamics of the process of democratization " . |
| 22 | For reasons beyond his control , the new tsar found himself at war with Persia just as he was coming to terms with the Turks . |
| 23 | He said : ‘ If for reasons beyond your control the profit potential of the capital resources can not match their apparent value there is a good chance that that value will diminish , be it through capital taxes , excessive borrowing or revaluation to realistic levels . |
| 24 | But this tip for reasons beyond my knowledge has gone so there 's nothing to be done about it and erm er the last test I had the guy who conducted it said , You 've already got the heart off an average sixty year old who has n't had a heart attack . |
| 25 | The press apparently had expected Steffi 's invincible reign to last for several years — when last year Graf had a bad year ( by her standards ) the men and women of the press understandably searched for reasons for it — and voiced them . |
| 26 | I can look for reasons for what I did and call those reasons excuses ; what he did to Alice , how he bullied Mother , how I hated him . |
| 27 | Those who do their best but , for reasons for which they may not be to blame , are not temperamentally suited to deep involvement in the special problems of the elderly , may have other talents for caring . |
| 28 | John Daubney is no fool and has sought the solution because he , like many others , looks for reasons for unexpected noises occurring at 3 a. m. in the morning . |
| 29 | For reasons to be examined below this belief commonly expresses itself in a belief in a defeasible obligation to obey the law . |
| 30 | This is partly because , for reasons to be discussed later , we shall be confining ourselves to a certain class of creative person , viz authors : it would therefore be presumptuous of us to extrapolate from our conclusions to other forms of originality . |