Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | Partly for reasons of confidentiality , we are not able to describe this company 's environmental analysis activities in more detail . |
| 33 | Many necessary data sets were unavailable for reasons of administrative inadequacies , confidentiality constraints , cost or non-collection in certain countries ; |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | 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 . ’ |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | 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 ’ . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | 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 ) . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | The explosive charge used , for reasons of economy or verisimilitude , was an unexploded German bomb . |
| 45 | For reasons of his own , the Rev. Stainer voted for the introduction of the Oral Method . |
| 46 | The retreat began on 1 February 1746 , the Jacobites splitting , for reasons of private convenience and internal politics rather than on sound military grounds , into three columns , all making for Inverness . |
| 47 | For reasons of guilt , greed or fear , he had agreed to talk to her . |
| 48 | The Trust welcomes photography in the grounds of its properties , but for reasons of conservation and security and to avoid inconvenience to other visitors , we regret that we can not allow photography of any kind inside our historic buildings . |
| 49 | ‘ A double agent can be tripled ’ — or , presumably by the same token , quadrupled or quintupled — since he does n't necessarily know where one stage ends and the next begins , particularly in the case of a Russian who has left the pre-Glasnost USSR not for reasons of ideology , but for the chance to work out his physical theories on an up-to-date computer . |
| 50 | Where densities need to be even higher for reasons of land availability or cost , the combination of traffic segregation with an attractive living environment is more difficult still to achieve , for it usually implies construction of grade-separated routes for pedestrians and motorised traffic . |
| 51 | The reluctance of monarchs to summon Parliaments ( except when necessary , for reasons of self-interest , to do so ) was an important feature of the constitutional struggle of the seventeenth century and an important element in their downfall . |
| 52 | They subscribe to it not for reasons of caprice , but because eminent judicial authority has reiterated the notion over the years . |
| 53 | Kevlar ( DuPont ) has fallen out of favour for reasons of safety . |
| 54 | Ceauşescu 's distancing himself from his fellow countrymen , whether for reasons of security or hygiene , meant that his daily life involved him in regular contact with relatively few people . |
| 55 | Our man 's gone walkabout for reasons of his own . |
| 56 | Between the two parties stood the King , at heart a conservative but at times favouring the Reform party for reasons of domestic or foreign policy . |
| 57 | For reasons of continuity from the old , a fundamental unit of data in the new hyper-medium is a document . |
| 58 | The Arrowana has representatives in South America ( Osteoglossidae ) , Africa ( Heterotis ) and Southern Asia/Australia ( Scleropages ) , but for reasons of cost and availability , we will only be concerned with the South American species . |
| 59 | It seems a strange and very unjust decision to pick Jim Courier for reasons of his present ranking but who bears no comparison in performance as a Davis Cup player and , even more surprising , as he has actually refused to play for the US team recently . |
| 60 | A dish in any Pacific city east of the longitude of Mexico City — Lima , say , or Quito , or Santiago — will be cranked down in the direction of an equally low point on the eastern horizon — for just as American naval vessels involved in exercises off the Pacific coasts of Peru , Ecuador or Chile are regarded as being part of the US Atlantic Fleet , so communicators , for reasons of pure geometry , think of these countries ' capital cities as part of the Atlantic communications network . |