Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An example from German would be : Because two ( or more ) changes are involved , something more than a simple substitution drill is required for mastering these features . |
| 2 | If nothing else , leadership is about building this basis ( Bartolme , 1989 ) . |
| 3 | Subsequent chapters of this book will provide us with plenty of reasons for doubting that claim . |
| 4 | There are grounds for doubting this opinion . |
| 5 | However , the district did not provide a favourable context for realising these opportunities . |
| 6 | Since then , the hon. Member for Clydebank and Milngavie ( Mr. Worthington ) has made a persuasive case for including such provisions in the Bill . |
| 7 | If there is to be a single offence of serious sexual assault , there are arguments for including all cases of obtaining sex by fear or threats within that . |
| 8 | My only reason for including this story is to record the short but pithy comment of Canada 's leading humorist who , when we had paused to take in the scene , turned to me and said , ‘ I do n't think it 's a bit funny ! ’ |
| 9 | Second , there may be various political reasons for including these areas in a comprehensive analysis for accounting purposes . |
| 10 | However , Mesa Engineering 's prime motive for including these sockets is to enable the TriAxis to link up with one of their new Switch-Track power amps ( eg. the Strategy 500 , the Simul 395 Stereo or the Simul-Class 2.90 ) . |
| 11 | So well no yeah , is it worth seeing this guy ? |
| 12 | For that reason , they reject solutions such as encouraging more women into science ; as Spender puts it |
| 13 | Synod will divulge a degree of flex no , quite seriously , a degree of flexibility and we 're grateful both to Eileen and er , to John for allowing that degree of flexibility to take place . |
| 14 | It is sometimes argued that the main reason for allowing such matters as provocation to reduce murder to manslaughter is to avoid the mandatory penalty for murder . |
| 15 | ’ … there is a strong case in the national interest for allowing these resources to be developed unless there are overriding environmental considerations . ’ |
| 16 | There is little excuse for allowing these situations to drift ; and it is in preventing such situations that professional practice based on research parts company from common sense and rules of thumb or the use of ‘ hunches ’ . |
| 17 | Extending the requirement for leave to appeal It was to be hoped that in the context of forthcoming legislation , consideration would be given to extending the requirement for leave to appeal across the board , both because there was no justification for allowing any appeal to proceed if it had no prospect of success and because the present dividing lines between those in which leave was required and those in which it was not , was quite illogical . |
| 18 | He criticised the WEA for allowing some branches to be ‘ swallowed up by the vortex of gentility ’ , failing to engage in serious study and neglecting their mission to manual workers : he wanted such branches closed . |
| 19 | In the late 1980s it has seemed that social workers and their agencies have been caught in a political crossfire between being criticized on the one hand for allowing some children to suffer unnecessarily , sometimes to the point of death , at the hands of their parent(s) or guardian(s) , and on the other hand of intervening unwarrantably into other families and removing their children inappropriately . |
| 20 | She was annoyed with herself for allowing this man to overhear her secret thoughts . |
| 21 | So I 'll just say thank you to the management of the Seraglio for allowing this conference to take place in such pleasant surroundings , and to you ladies for giving up your weekend to be here . |
| 22 | But there are other even more fundamental reasons for allowing this appeal , and they are concerned with the judge 's actions and decisions which led up to his discharge of the jury . |
| 23 | I agree with both the judgments that have been given and with the reasons given in those judgments for allowing this appeal . |
| 24 | Gouzenko had obvious reasons for perpetuating this myth and was always astute enough to embroider his story with whatever facts the listener wanted to hear , eventually becoming so vain that even he did not know what was truth or fiction . |
| 25 | Compact provides a mechanism for articulating these needs through Partnership between Education and Industry . |
| 26 | They have a predisposition for using such feelings . |
| 27 | However , there is good precedent for using such methods to investigate the mechanisms underlying altered responsiveness and particularly loss of awareness of hypoglycaemia . |
| 28 | Its limitations are the lack of information on temporary workers employed on open-ended contracts and casual workers , on occupations of temporary workers , on employers ' reasons for using such labour and on associated wage and other costs . |
| 29 | Generally , whether computer records fall under this rule depends on the information contained within the record and the purpose for using such information as evidence . |
| 30 | An eight-page colour booklet gives hints and recipe ideas for using each spice . |