Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [prep] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The continuous variable weight for height expressed as standard deviation score was adjusted for in the analysis of lung function . |
| 2 | Here are the charts , as voted for by the readers of the disk-magazine Remark : |
| 3 | Nothing fancy is looked for in the way of bait and tackle : it 's the basic hook , line and worm . |
| 4 | Finally , it seems also to be a taken-for-granted principle that in human affairs where there is order there is something corresponding to a rule to be looked for in the background of the actions which appear as orderly . |
| 5 | I think the public wants to know that all those people , and their families , who suffered in the war will be looked after for the rest of their lives . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Carol Barratt is going to be looked after for the rest of her life , and looked after well , whereas life for us is never going to be the same again . ’ |
| 7 | A WIDOW has left nearly £135,000 to an animal charity on the condition that her cats are well looked after for the rest of their lives . |
| 8 | Whatever plans the local authority may have the court will have in mind the underlying philosophy of the Act that " children are best looked after within the family with both parents playing a full part and without resort to legal proceedings " ( Guidance , vol 1 , para 1.5 ) . |
| 9 | That 's difficult , when you were brought up to believe you would be looked after from the cradle to the grave . |
| 10 | He had heard that forty pounds a year had been paid for a girl to be looked after in the asylum of Dr Perfect in West Malling . |
| 11 | Nearby , on a small , marshy , mosquito-ridden island called Mactan — the site of Cebu airport , and some of the region 's hundreds of guitar factories — there is a simple memorial ( looked after by a caretaker with the improbably contradictory name of Jesus Baring ) of which more later . |
| 12 | At Viceregal Lodge we were housed in palatial tents luxuriously carpeted and furnished , and were looked after by a host of servants . |
| 13 | These were looked after by the Board of Works — the lineal descendant of the Office of the King 's Works , which built many of the castles and palaces which its successor bodies , including Historic Scotland , now care for . |
| 14 | It employs 1,000 people now , just as it did in 1981 , but in the intervening years it has had to take on far more duties — most notably the upkeep of its building which was looked after by the government from 1816 to 1988 . |
| 15 | The Malvern Hills have been looked after by the Conservators for around one hundred and ten years.Now they 're asking Parliament for more powers.And it 's that request which has led to controversy . |
| 16 | The second period covers the time from May nineteen ninety until now when the plaintiff has been solely looked after by the parents with the greatest devotion , application , selflessness and skill superimposed on their natural love and affection for the plaintiff . |
| 17 | I think er the supporters like to be er looked after by the sort of their own people rather than er the the police force . |
| 18 | The men of the family always formed a very solid front to the outside world , and at times to their womenfolk , and as it had been the custom among their people for children to be looked after by the men on the mother 's side of the family , especially if a brother had no issue of his own , they did n't see why the sisters were making such a fuss . |
| 19 | We are being discriminated against through no fault of our own . ’ |
| 20 | But you may be able to complain to a tribunal that you have been discriminated against on the grounds of sex or race , even if the company concerned never offered you a job . |
| 21 | She claimed that she had been discriminated against on the grounds of sex contrary to the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 . |
| 22 | However , it has also been argued that women are discriminated against by the agents of the law , just as they are in other areas of life . |
| 23 | It was on the King 's suggestion to MacDonald that the Cabinet considered including in the Speech from the Throne in October 1930 a plea to ‘ all sections of parliament ’ to ‘ unite ’ in treating unemployment ‘ on national as distinct from party lines ’ . |
| 24 | She had come from across the county in Southend . |
| 25 | Its fast technique for assessing samples drilled from beneath the sea for oil companies is a commercial winner , and a go-ahead team under Dr John Bather is having to expand to keep pace with the demand . |
| 26 | It was voted upon as a whole on 16 October , and taken up again after a week 's break on 25–27 October . |
| 27 | The paper was to be voted upon by the board on May 4th . |
| 28 | Both had the broadly similar functions of recording , in different ways , payments into and out of the Exchequer of Receipt ; but from the middle of the sixteenth century the older office , the Clerkship of the Pells , was being encroached upon by the Writer of the Tallies . |
| 29 | Under sail the yacht can be enjoyed from behind the wheel in the spacious cockpit , or when the weather gets nasty there is a second steering station with complete instrumentation and controls under the dodger . |
| 30 | After that he is more specific , and begins to refer to Caesar in this context , saying that himself and Brutus were born equal to Caesar in health and intelligence , yet Caesar is now looked upon as a man of such importance . |