Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 For that reason , the model adopted in medical education where the student is continually asked to articulate his or her experience and give reasons for acting in a certain way is particularly valuable .
2 ‘ Perhaps not , and he may have had sentimental reasons for going to the little hut , but I want to be sure .
3 Other reasons for returning after a long period away include :
4 In my judgment the Secretary of State , if he sets a tariff period which exceeds that recommended by the judiciary , is not under an absolute obligation to give reasons for departing from the judicial view .
5 reasons for applying to a particular institution
6 reasons for applying to a particular course
7 We have seen , then , that the historical reasons for charging in the social services are diverse and often contradictory , but a case can still be made for charging on a priori grounds .
8 During the last few years , Yugoslavia has been running a substantial surplus in its trade with the Soviet Union because , while there has been a sharp fall in the quantity of oil imported from the Soviet Union , as well as a fall in its price , the Yugoslavs have been unable to find other products worth buying from the Soviet Union .
9 Cut out long thin strips for trimming around the top edge of the boat and fix on with a dampened paint brush .
10 ( i mean the way he have sticked with specially dino shows us that — dino himself who expressed wishes for playing at the international level himself when he joined leeds — i guess he is a farther away now : the likes of Shearer , Wright ( a flop in the internationals ) , Cole ( hey there is one that puts them in the net ) and Ferdinand will have no problems keeping him out … )
11 My plans for flying around the beautiful Nelson and Marlborough Sounds area happened to be frustrated by the fact that Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands was visiting nearby .
12 There was never any mention of further plans for parachuting after the first operational disaster , and the correspondents agree that he was away in the desert .
13 ‘ We will also keep a better check on rider 's allowances so we do n't have a situation like the one where Adrian Maguire lost several wins through riding with the wrong allowance , ’ said Michael Caulfield of the Jockeys Association , who are involved in the new system .
14 The conflicting demands of efficient service provision , democratic involvement , and local historical or community traditions led to different proposals for dealing with the perceived shortcomings of the existing local government system .
15 When we examine animals with nervous systems that were built with conditional rules for dealing with the external environment , the business of predicting how they will respond on the basis of knowing how they were made becomes impossible .
16 Some USM companies do feel neglected by the financial community , but the easing of the rules for transferring to a full listing may assuage them .
17 Applying Shirk 's concept of ‘ adaptive behaviour ’ ( Shirk 1982 : 5 ) , their enthusiasm for a number of major student ‘ tides ’ such as going abroad to study , doing business and having love affairs , can be viewed as strategies for escaping from the depressing reality of everyday life in contemporary China .
18 Many small businesses do not have the production levels to warrant a full container of their products for exporting to a single destination .
19 MORE tea , vicar ? is not the sort of thing I expected to ask minutes after arriving in a Swiss ski resort .
20 He was released 22 hours after sentencing under a special amnesty declared by the President , Seku Torre .
21 Drying time : wearable within five hours after drying in a warm room — however the waistband took a little longer to dry .
22 New guidelines for dealing with the sexual abuse of adults with learning difficulties have been published by the Scottish Society for the Mentally Handicapped .
23 The text sets out guidelines for coming to a true sense of priorities in the self , not unlike those in Rolle 's Form , and then examines three ways in which man can contemplate God : in nature ( which shows us our place in creation ) , in Scripture ( which teaches the faith ) and on " God self " .
24 Blackwell Retail , which used to produce its own catalogue , broke with tradition this year and took Books for Giving for the first time .
25 Olschewski had no worries about competing in the difficult personal computer market , saying ‘ We are not concerned about unit numbers , but about quality .
26 In marked distinction to the solicitors ' branch of the profession , the pupil barrister may not earn any money during the first six months of pupillage and there are only limited opportunities for earning in the second six months of pupillage .
27 Languages can be learned ‘ at home ’ , where there are few opportunities for mixing with the native users of the language ( such as evening class french ) or they can be learned in a second language situation , either in the country in which that language is native or in one 's own country where the language is used for a specific purpose ( such as learning English in parts of Africa where it is used as the commercial language ) .
28 The Armed Forces Supreme Court sentenced 26 non-commissioned army officers to terms of imprisonment of between six and nine months for participating in the abortive military coup of Dec. 3 , 1990 [ see p. 37913 ] .
29 Six months after returning from the Soviet Union , Nizan spoke at the International Congress for the Defence of Culture of the possibilities in the current socio-political climate of establishing a genuinely human society freed from class divisions and class oppression .
30 He also had to be pulled away from the stands after getting into a shouting match with a fan .
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