Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For reasons given in the next section , we remain sympathetically sceptical . |
| 2 | Since 1977 , for reasons suggested in the last chapter , there has been considerable concern among both politicians and the public with the utility of education to society . |
| 3 | In addition we are still receiving enquiries about prisoners featured in the first two series in 1988 and 1989 , and we have recently received a copy of a letter from Alattin Sahin , the Turkish prisoner of conscience in the 1988 , which someone has received on his release . |
| 4 | The audience for the BBC 's nine o'clock news doubled to 13m on the day war broke out , and that for ITN rose by a third . |
| 5 | ‘ But for clubs going from the fourth to the third sums between £50,000 and £100,000 are about the going rate so £200,000 from the second to the Premier does n't seem unlikely , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Protocols specified the level of " economic convergence " required for states to embark on the third and final stage of EMU . |
| 7 | I have to admit that I felt a strange sense of elation as I hit him again , in fact I plumbed the depths of bad taste by yelling , ‘ Never one around when you want one , is there , Jack ? ’ as Armstrong bounced for the second time . |
| 8 | The other Senate seat up for election went for the first time to the PAN , which won 17.7 per cent of the vote and secured 92 seats in the Chamber of Deputies . |
| 9 | This will allow more room in the main section of the fair where a number of innovations will be in evidence next year : a separate section for galleries exhibiting for the first time ; a section for photography and publishers and a more spacious layout of stands and aisles . |
| 10 | Companies such as Caterham come under the second tier and have to comply with national approval rules based on EC legislation . |
| 11 | In a sense , history is repeating itself in that the sequence of development in the past has also contained local ‘ boom ’ elements such as kelp gathering in the 19th century or the bulb growing schemes in the 1960's , both of which foundered in response to changes in external economic imperatives , although at the outset there were high hopes that unique local resources i.e. seaweed and disease-free sandy soils , would provide enduring employment opportunities . |
| 12 | The whole procedure is initiated by a demand for data arising at the first site . |
| 13 | The interior has been excellently restored after damage caused in the Second World War , though it has been done in a modern , simplified manner . |
| 14 | Surplus ACT carried forward is treated as ACT paid in the next accounting period ( s 239(4) ) . |
| 15 | Their discovery helped overthrow the medieval concept of the Solar System and a few decades later , by a method that I shall not describe , observations of Io led to the first determination of the speed of light , which until then was thought by many philosophers to be infinite . |
| 16 | The rate of progress made in the first 20 years was only achieved by the geologists being in the field most of the year . |
| 17 | Many ingenious hypotheses have been advanced to account for this supposed rise in NAIRU , the most promising of which is the notion of hysteresis discussed in the next section . |
| 18 | Within manufacture , the precise form of division depends in the first instance on the historical precursors of the capitalistic form of production in the given branch of industry — whether the ‘ manufacturer ’ ( a ) draws together previously separate trades into one workshop to produce a common product or ( b ) splits up a previously unified craft production process into its component tasks . |
| 19 | The Eighties ended with Mrs Thatcher being forced to concede increased pensions of £40 a week for widows of servicemen killed in the second world war . |
| 20 | The sale also includes a book containing some 145 watercolours and drawings of birds dating from the eighteenth century ( est. £100–120,000 ; $170–205,000 ) , a collection of natural history books , including John Gould 's ‘ Birds of paradise ’ ( est. £12–16,000 ; $20–27,000 ) and a section devoted to globes . |
| 21 | All was in vain ; the poor law functions of the Boards of Guardians were transferred to the County Council , and on March 29th 1930 the Board of Guardians met for the last time . |
| 22 | The total number of pieces of gum used in the first day should be gradually reduced over a subsequent period of ten days . |
| 23 | On the black walls of the tomb chamber were scraps of graffiti written in the eighteenth dynasty , a thousand years after the pyramid was built . |
| 24 | The promotion of private Acts of Parliament continued throughout the nineteenth century , and indeed beyond , bringing a bewildering and sometimes surprising range of services within the power of particular local authorities . |
| 25 | For example , a recent act of Parliament has for the first time enabled citizens to own and operate radio stations . |
| 26 | For example , a recent act of Parliament has for the first time enabled citizens to own and operate radio stations . |
| 27 | An Act of Parliament passed in the first year of his reign recited that great numbers of persons : |
| 28 | The first stage of Felix lased for the first time in August 1991 , and the second stage will be operational this summer . |
| 29 | However , the large number of castles erected in the eleventh and twelfth centuries ( Fig. 12 ) and the hundreds of new monasteries founded during the same period also became the administrative centres of their estates , even if only for brief periods . |
| 30 | Moving with them to north Africa , he was initially held in enforced inactivity behind the lines , a problem which he solved in characteristic style : ‘ The Battle of Alamein began on the 23rd of October , 1942 . |