Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Gearbox and clutch failures account for 16pc of claims , steering and suspension problems 9pc , and electrical and fuel-system faults , 16pc . |
| 2 | McAllister was touted as MOTM by Sky 's reporter . |
| 3 | In 1753 , for example , Provost William Christie of Stirling sought Lord Milton 's intervention with Lord Loudoun on behalf of his son-in-law , Ensign Gunning , who wished to purchase from Charles Elphinstone his commission as Lieutenant of Stirling Castle , or if that was not permitted , the commission of the Ensign of the Castle . |
| 4 | Edmund of Lancaster , loyal to the end , was to play a major part in the Anglo-French diplomacy of the 1290s and died represent-ing his brother as lieutenant in Aquitaine at Bayonne on 5 June 1296 . |
| 5 | Ernst & Young has been the exclusive distributor for KnowledgeWare in Europe since 1986 , but the company now has direct distribution operations in most European countries including Belgium , Denmark , Finland , France , Germany , Italy , the Netherlands , Norway , Portugal , Spain , Sweden and the UK . |
| 6 | IAN IRONSIDE 'S reward for his defiant display for Middlesbrough against Newcastle is a first team call-up tomorrow against Aston Villa . |
| 7 | The 1920s and 1930s are just as notable for resistance to incursions from the peripheries of the discipline , as for the rise of Scrutiny . |
| 8 | The first decade of annexation ( 1910–20 ) witnessed the most rigorous phase in which draconic punishments were enforced for resistance to Japan . |
| 9 | Selection for resistance to mastitis and good fertility at the same time as selection for milk yield and quality is proving effective in the dairy cattle population of Norway . |
| 10 | Procyclic trypanosomes were electroporated with linearised plasmid DNA and selected for resistance to phleomycin ( 17 ) . |
| 11 | Genes - for resistance to antibiotics , for example — can be swapped between micro-organisms of completely different species naturally , in the wild . |
| 12 | ‘ However , it is recognised that , even with a totally effective referral system for donation of organs following death , there will not be sufficient organs for the people needing life-saving transplants . |
| 13 | Its proprietary VME environment accounted for 80% of operating system sales , 65% of information management revenues and 40% of its application business . |
| 14 | By 1989 , it accounted for 80% of profits of £71.4 million . |
| 15 | Although the price of a dishwasher may seem expensive , the costs of actually running the machine can work out to be far less than for washing-up by hand . |
| 16 | The only conflict about housing land in Cramlington during the preparation and revision of the Northumberland Structure Plan was about releases in relation to total numbers . |
| 17 | But there was no fail-safe way to dress for outings in Roman 's company . |
| 18 | Once this point has been reached there will be a rapid reduction in the number of non-reproductive males , and the large units will be broken up into a number of smaller ones , in part through takeovers and in part through fission of units containing followers . |
| 19 | The ‘ Auxiliary ’ section has three jacks : ‘ Tuner ’ , which can be used either for plugging in an electronic tuner or as a non-effects direct out ; ‘ Phones ’ which is self-explanatory ; and ‘ Mastercontrol ’ , a special socket for use with a volume pedal — very useful for electro-acoustics without onboard volume controls , or even violins or mandolins . |
| 20 | Religion is presented as a response ‘ everywhere to one and the same need ’ : the need for rituals of fertility . |
| 21 | Before playing for Northants the cheerful James had played for Wellington in New Zealand . |
| 22 | It was Gibbon 's opinion that Trajan 's conquest of Dacia was maintained for reasons of prestige , and that it contributed to the weakening of the empire . |
| 23 | None the less , it is clear that research in the polytechnics will continue to grow , if only for reasons of prestige , and the same trend is discernible in some of the colleges of higher education . |
| 24 | A refugee is ‘ a person who , owing to a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race , religion , membership of a particular social group or political opinion , is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or , owing to such fear , unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country ’ , according to the United Nations 1951 Convention and 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees . |
| 25 | So for reasons of logic and fairness you ought to say his or her . |
| 26 | For reasons of flexibility , technical merit , and overall lower cost , we recommend purchase of the following equipment from Audio-Visual Consultants : |
| 27 | The preliminary draft of Article 1 did in fact contain , in the English text only , an explanatory gloss to the word ‘ evidence ’ as ‘ including the taking of statements of witnesses , parties or experts and the production or examination of documents or other objects or property ’ ; its eventual omission was for reasons of style rather than of substance . |
| 28 | Perhaps we should not look for too deep a political explanation : ostracism was for the man whose leadership had been rejected — which might happen for reasons of style rather than content — and whose disapproving presence was an obstruction and a reproach . |
| 29 | Market research data shows that buyers choose Clio above other superminis for reasons of style , equipment , comfort , spaciousness , manoeuvrability and publicity . |
| 30 | For reasons of simplicity ( and ornithological necessity ) the whole of Chichester Harbour is considered as being within Sussex for the purpose of wildfowl and wader counts . |