Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are essentially two views about understaffing in prisons . |
| 2 | yeah , you get a subsidized grant for going to London , yeah , so you get like more than normal |
| 3 | The fortunate pre-school child will have considerable preparation for reading from book activities in the home and at the play-group , and by visiting the public library . |
| 4 | How suitable , as a preparation for teaching in secondary school , is a degree course in which the student 's reading is almost entirely confined to imaginative literature and which entails no systematic study of any other register in the foreign language … |
| 5 | In order to see things as the Trobrianders saw them , he joined their communities , learned their language , and lived among them as a member , noting and recording his observations in preparation for writing about them later : |
| 6 | He may start sitting like this in preparation for moving into the supine lying position ( on his back ) or , more rarely , into the prone lying position on his stomach . |
| 7 | This showed a girl removing her clothes in preparation for going to bed . |
| 8 | Early experience in exploring the environment at home should precede this , and will not only be stimulating as an activity in its own right but a helpful and positive preparation for coping with the wider and more varied situation of school . |
| 9 | Grosskurth suggests such a policy should include not only housing provision , but an adequate preparation for coping with independent living after years of dependent living in institutions . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | WE TUMBLE straight back on the enormo-bus after the gig and travel for five hours to New York in preparation for playing at the NY Academy two nights later . |
| 12 | On the three-day , residential course held on December 4–6 at Pendle 's training centre in the heart of the beautiful Yorkshire Dales , you 'll learn preparation for returning to a changed work environment : Assertiveness Training , Personal Development plus two basic sales training sessions . |
| 13 | Reassessing the skills you bring back to nursing or health visiting can be a worthwhile preparation for returning to practice , even if you feel a poor judge of what skills might be most needed in the future . |
| 14 | These personal responses to discussions of parental figures should be recognised by social workers in preparation for working in this area . |
| 15 | Well , at least you ca n't lose remission for escaping from a loony bin . ’ |
| 16 | A speech by the prince about caring for the terminally ill sounded so close to his wife 's concerns she could have written it herself . |
| 17 | He says : ‘ Although I 've played next to no club rugby , I 've got lots of big match experience through playing in all the age-group teams England now run . ’ |
| 18 | At this plenum Gorbachev was highly critical of the CPL leadership , declaring its action " illegitimate " and invalid and condemning its first secretary Algirdas Brazauskas for compromising with nationalist and separatist forces . |
| 19 | The Oriental equivalent to chutneys , sambals are strong relishes for serving with Oriental foods , often based on amazingly hot peppers . |
| 20 | It is important to identify your personal reasons for wanting to be slimmer and feel healthier . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | The reasons for belonging into class II may be numerous : you can not formulate the problem , you can not solve the resulting equations analytically , the computer you have access to is not big enough , etc. , etc . |
| 23 | There are other reasons for belonging to a choir . |
| 24 | However , there is very strong reasons for thinking about colour coding . |
| 25 | However , British people probably have reasons for reacting to black immigrants in this way . |
| 26 | The proper officer then sends copies of the application and affidavit to the creditor , who is to give reasons for objecting within 14 days , failing which , an order is made by the proper officer in the terms asked ; the proper officer still adjudicates ( the staff have means guidelines ) even if objection is taken , until the creditor , within 14 days of such adjudication , asks for reconsideration , when , the proceedings being transferred to the debtor 's home court , the application is finally determined by the district judge . |
| 27 | He gave me two good reasons for moving to the city . |
| 28 | 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 ’ . |
| 29 | The proportion of the workforce covered by medical records ( the source of our data ) is probably greater than on most sites because a visit to the medical centre was one of the few legitimate reasons for breaking off work , so often made irksome by harsh weather . |
| 30 | I 'll give my reasons for voting against this budget . |