Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Years of moving from one home to another , having meals cooked for you , never having to think twice about leaving lights on or taps dripping is hardly the best preparation for surviving in a bedsit on a YTS wage of £29.50 a week ( trainees do n't qualify for income support ) . |
| 2 | The main reasons for writing to the Lancet are frustration that we have been discredited , that our grants depend on this work and also that all the evidence is in writing . ’ |
| 3 | There are other reasons for belonging to a choir . |
| 4 | Empirical evidence also began to build up , and Spooner ( 1972 ) , in a study of employers who had moved to the southwest found that more of them cited the attractive environment of Devon and Cornwall as reasons for moving to the area , than its labour supply , and Lonsdale and Browning ( 1971 , 267 ) found that manufacturing plants in 10 southern USA States were more orientated to rural than urban areas and that : ‘ manufacturing firms appear to be placing increased emphasis on rural and small town sites ’ . |
| 5 | He gave me two good reasons for moving to the city . |
| 6 | The dominating tendency of mental life , and perhaps of nervous life in general , is the effort to reduce , to keep constant or to remove internal tension due to stimuli ( the ‘ Nirvana Principle ’ , to borrow a term from Barbara Low ) — a tendency which finds expression in the pleasure principle ; and our recognition of that fact is one of our strongest reasons for believing in the existence of the death instincts . |
| 7 | Vice Chair , I have given the Council , I believe , many good reasons for electing to the office of Lord Mayor for this year . |
| 8 | From a brief and rather difficult passage in his judgment [ 1991 ] 2 H.K.L.R. 400 , 413 , it seems that Barnett J. was disposed to consider that the submission was correct , but it evidently served only to underline his reasons for concurring with the district judge . |
| 9 | Often they have understandable ( albeit incorrect ) reasons for acting in the way they did . |
| 10 | The next witnesses , on behalf of the CEGB , said that there were three main reasons for going for a PWR . |
| 11 | The heroes , the solid men of yeoman virtue , the good breeding stock , even the captain ( especially the captain ! ) — they all went down nobly with the ship ; whereas the cowards , the panickers , the deceivers found reasons for skulking in a lifeboat . |
| 12 | Since then financial markets concluded they have three good reasons for betting on a devaluation of the pound against the DM . |
| 13 | In trying to analyse the reasons for conferring upon the management of the company substantial power to run the company the law has relied heavily on a variety of conceptions of the company . |
| 14 | There are many good reasons for putting in a network , but a couple are compelling : resource sharing and specific functionality . |
| 15 | Commenting on his reasons for selling off the chain he founded in 1978 , Mr Weatherburn said that last year had been ‘ very difficult ’ , not just because of the stampede into remaindering by other companies ( see also Christmas in the Bookshops , page 27 ) . |
| 16 | Scott also suggested that in addition to carrying out some exercise or activity focused around one of the essential concepts , pupils should be given the opportunity for reflecting on the thinking processes they have gone through . |
| 17 | Taking things for granted or failing to seek new understanding indicates a lost opportunity for adding to the store of experience . |
| 18 | Together , drawing up a training plan which gives adequate opportunity for working as a group , as well as identifying individual training needs . |
| 19 | Only limited notes need to be given in the abbreviated accounts for filing with the Registrar : |
| 20 | Having had the opportunity through working at a hospice of attending many funerals I have grown used to seeing the shudders and worried looks that pass between grieving family and friends as they struggle to make sense of the words being read . |
| 21 | The general case for exporting for the good of the economy and for the good of individual companies has been covered , together with an overview of organisational and cultural issues . |
| 22 | The case for seeing through a glass darkly |
| 23 | A case for staying at The Lygon Arms . |
| 24 | You 're asked to support the general move , that we have set out from this report , and you 're asked to agree to St Clements and East Ward , and I think we 've heard Mandy and Phil acknowledge that there may well be a case for looking at an area of council housing , which we will leave them to do , and also to approve the set of objectives , which I particularly welcome , on page sixty-two and sixty-three , which will amount to a work programme , which I would have thought we were all very pleased to see . |
| 25 | The applicants in the main proceedings stated in that connection that there were ‘ traditional communities ’ of fishermen resident in the United Kingdom which there might arguably be a case for protecting by a requirement relating to the residence of the crew or ‘ operators ’ of fishing vessels . |
| 26 | He rejected calls by opposition politicians and the press for him to step down , and insisted that state and local elections scheduled for Dec. 6 would go ahead as planned , without a provision for voting on a reduction of his presidential term . |
| 27 | If the family finances have been badly affected by the patient 's stroke , you may have to go to work as well as making provision for caring for the patient . |
| 28 | However , there is a serious difficulty about adding to the number of MPs linked to the government . |
| 29 | Nails lit a cigarette , an excuse for staying in the warehouse . |
| 30 | Through some judicious editing of the contributions of Shinehead and Teddy Pendergrass , Kaye managed to shoehorn the material into two CDs , utilising the maximum 74 and a half minutes available on both ( the excessive running time provided a convenient excuse for dispensing with the need for a vinyl format ) . |