Example sentences of "[prep] [subord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , very much sought after because of its most attractive foliage . |
| 2 | He was carrying Stair 's silver-topped cane , given to him to look after because in his drunken state Stair could no longer remember to keep it with him . |
| 3 | The Roadmap describes the multimedia support package it is after as including a framework , driver , file systems , application interface and communications . |
| 4 | What 's the difference between except for the paper . |
| 5 | In such a phase , there may be little interpersonal gratification for those who care and are cared for except at the level of the meeting and satisfaction of basic human needs , unless there is a kind of ‘ love bank ’ in the carer from earlier days . |
| 6 | The text ends with the words ‘ for although at strict law the heirs should be held by no action to build a monument , none the less they are compelled by pontifical or imperial authority to observance of the last wishes [ of the deceased ] ’ . |
| 7 | Kylie has managed to maintain her sense of humour because she more than anyone understands that in her business it is better to be written about than to be ignored . |
| 8 | ( These days people are often less committed to the actual firm they work for than in the past . |
| 9 | A Chief Whip is in a special position to be able to understand the many strains in the lives of colleagues that are unheard of beyond the bounds of Westminster , and often unheard of except within very small circles in this place . |
| 10 | That is , he was more often issuing summonses on behalf of than against overseers . |
| 11 | Well er when I er , when I er , I could n't remember much what it was now , but whatever the union fee was , when I started on me own to be er satisfied of cos of circumstances I might need money , you know , I thought it would say the union fee was a shilling , I had to pay one and six half as much as whatever it was and I did do . |
| 12 | Voters had limited information about the policy positions of the parties and often supported a party in spite of its policies instead of because of them . |
| 13 | We are operating within a of because of the government this Council is erm nett cuts of all its services of four point two million reduction of four point er two million and the policy system . |
| 14 | Because of because of the because of the erm er ups and downs that 's all . |
| 15 | So you can use them for because of because of it 's cos you can draw it out you can make wires out of it . |
| 16 | I mean she 's still you know less bothered about the older ones but it 's very sort of because of the school work and Saturday jobs and |
| 17 | Thus it is proposed that they will understand the directional component of the meaning of because in connection with the distinction between cause and effect ( viz. the causal direction ) , before they understand the directional component of its meaning in connection with temporal order . |
| 18 | For instance , some sites in Roman Britain have a much greater proportion of third-than of fourth-century coins compared to other sites , and it has been observed that the former tend to be the prestigious settlements of old Roman veteran colonies or tribal capitals , whereas the latter are more likely to be smaller rural sites such as farms , forts or villages . |
| 19 | Other women came and went in his life after that , including Jan Parsons who would never have been heard of but for the sex-video scandal . |
| 20 | On the question of whether as adviser he had been privy to confidential information , he said : ‘ Any ( management ) buyout is party to information other buyers wo n't have . ’ |
| 21 | Causation in fact deals with the question of whether as a matter of fact the damage was caused by the breach of duty . |
| 22 | Differing values and influences over generations of childrearing in the English speaking world have included concepts of religious morality , medical morality , natural development and natural needs , individualism and the ‘ fun ’ morality , added to which there is now the parental dilemma of whether to be friend or authority ( Newson and Newson , 1974 ) . |
| 23 | Can he give any indication of whether at that meeting he expressed the British Government 's support for the United Nations human rights sub-commission report in relation to the expressions of concern about the violations of human rights in Tibet , and what proposals did he make to help the many thousands who have been refugees from Tibet in the past 30 years ? |
| 24 | The judge was therefore at fault in considering that there was no need for him to pay explicit regard to the public interest in freedom of expression guaranteed by article 10 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms ( 1953 ) ( Cmd. 8969 ) in seeking to resolve the uncertainty or ambiguity in the common law ; ( 7 ) in failing , as did Browne J. in the Bognor Regis case , to have proper regard to the public interest in freedom of expression and to the question of whether in a democratic society there really was a pressing social need to extend the ambit of the law of defamation to enable a governmental body to sue in respect of presumed ( and not actual ) injury to its governmental reputation ; ( 8 ) in failing to take into account the acceptance by the English courts of the fact that where a governmental plaintiff sought to invoke a private law right to interfere with freedom of discussion about the workings of government , the court 's approach would ( because of the competing public interests involved ) differ from that in a private dispute between citizen and citizen . |
| 25 | The first is that the effect of such an undertaking would be to impose an obligation on the council to indemnify Wickes against damage suffered by it , in the event of section 47 being held to be invalid as inconsistent with article 30 , irrespective of whether in such circumstances Wickes has a right to damages — i.e. , irrespective of whether the Bourgoin case is wrongly decided . |
| 26 | This brings to the fore questions of the planning and design of production systems , and poses the question of whether in a democratic society , the people who will be most affected by technological change will be able to influence its conception and implementation . |
| 27 | This raises the interesting question of whether by having different expectations the experiences were in fact different . |
| 28 | One possibility is that the tendency to use both is restricted to reducing strain induced by unfavourable syntactic constructions ( i.e. verb-with as against and ) . |
| 29 | 3.3.1.2 remove or tamper with the Trade Marks or other means of attribution or identification used on or in relation to the Licensed Products 3.3.1.3 use the Trade Marks in any way which might prejudice their distinctiveness or validity or the goodwill of therein 3.3.1.4 use in relation to the Products any Trade Marks other than the Trade Marks and the trade marks of and MacEnglish as set out in Schedule 2 B or used by in the Territory any Trade Marks or Trade Names so resembling the Trade Marks or Trade Names of as to be likely to cause confusion or deception . |
| 30 | In the event of my dying before remarriage , I DEVISE and BEQUEATH all of my real and personal estate whatsoever and wheresoever not already disposed of as to my freeholds in fee simple and as to my personal estate absolutely to the issue of my union with JACQUELINE MYRTLE MITCHELL , the property to be held in trust for the said issue , the trust allowing monthly sum of not less than FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS to the said JACQUELINE MYRTLE MITCHELL to pay for the upbringing of the said issue , this arrangement to cease on his or her attaining the age of twenty-one years , whereupon a quarter of the remaining estate — whether in freehold property , stocks , shares or chattels shall be granted in perpetuity to the said JACQUELINE MYRTLE MITCHELL , and the remainder to be granted to the said issue . |