Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [subord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact it usually turns out to be owned by a used-car dealer and staffed by elderly women who used to work next door at the cake shop and who know as much about mountaineering as goldfish know about pre-Cambrian pottery . |
| 2 | There is also likely to be a continuing need for support after alcohol withdrawal has been successfully achieved . |
| 3 | The lateral extensions of its body enable it to remain aloft with only a small expenditure of energy using the water for support as gliders use air . |
| 4 | They value their architects more for their business demeanours than for their designs , and choose them from a limited number of established companies , more valued for reliability than originality . |
| 5 | Timber was used for building where stone was rare or expensive to transport but , for important building in abbeys , cathedrals and castles , the same style and stone material was employed whether in London or elsewhere . |
| 6 | In vitro , sulphate reducing bacteria compete with methanogenic bacteria for hydrogen when sulphate is present . |
| 7 | As Appendix II , and indeed the main survey results , make clear , it is not necessarily low income which makes credit at the same time both an obvious refuge and an unduly heavy burden — though in the main survey we found that in general people on low incomes were more likely to say that they were worried about money than people on high incomes . |
| 8 | And people who had bought their most recent non-routine purchase on credit — especially on HP or mail order — tended to worry more about money than people who had bought for cash . |
| 9 | Her only comments at dinner afterwards as she gorged herself on tournedos , raspberries and cream and St Emilion were that Shylock was almost as beady about money as Alejandro and that Bassanio was a wimp . |
| 10 | Our results suggest that DNA binding to a sequence over the transcription initiation site is not sufficient for autoregulation as protein VT2 specifically interacts with the HSV-1 IE-3 consensus site yet evidence from transfection assays ( 17 ) and also the recombinant HSV-140 virus ( 13 ) suggests that intact 140k fails to repress this IE-3 promoter . |
| 11 | They had been about to leave for Mass when Una had suddenly taken ill . |
| 12 | It could then be argued that ventriloquy is a better metaphor for fiction than criticism , because in criticism there are object texts which are not voiceless . |
| 13 | That there is precisely all this debate about fatherhood because feminism has made it problematic ? |
| 14 | TNC is as much about assessment as curriculum , and quite properly so . |
| 15 | Occhetto , leader of the PCI since 1988 , narrowly failed to secure the necessary 274 votes for election as secretary of the PDS in the first round of voting by the new party 's national council on Feb. 4 , mainly due to the absence of 132 members . |
| 16 | Remember the bit in Citizen Kane when Orson Welles stands for election as congressman , but is felled by a ‘ Kane in Love Nest ’ scandal ? |
| 17 | Few , however , are led by politicians who are quite as equivocal about racism as Germany 's chancellor , Helmut Kohl . |
| 18 | He stated that he would not stand for re-election as majority whip in the Senate , nor would he seek re-election to the Senate when his current term expired in 1992 . |
| 19 | Mr Canavan , who is fighting for re-election as MP for Falkirk West and has been a prominent member of PLCND , said : ‘ I have always been proud to be a member of CND and will continue to campaign vigorously for unilateral nuclear disarmament within the Labour Party . |
| 20 | For instance where machinery or surfaces , through lack of space or layout limitations , must be used for both cooked and raw meats disinfection should take place after each use with raw meat and before changing to cooked meat . |
| 21 | A less common type is some act or omission of the seller u nder the contract which lays the buyer open to legal action from third parties ( for instance because goods which have been negligently manufactured injure a third party while they are being used by the buyer ) . |
| 22 | ‘ there may be particular agents , such for instance as auctioneers , by whom a pledge would be such a departure from the ordinary course of their business as to put the pledgee upon notice . ’ |
| 23 | So er for instance if Bolton and Notts County er at the end of their group matches both have seven points and both have scored eight goals but Bolton have conceded two and Notts County have conceded three , then Bolton will go through on goal difference . |
| 24 | The two may interact with one another — for instance when countries try to control capital outflows in order to maintain a given exchange rate . |
| 25 | Even if it were possible to use all the shares in the index in an arbitrage transaction , for instance when F > ( S - D ) ( 1 + r ) and short selling shares is not required , arbitrageurs often choose to use an alternative approach . |
| 26 | It has been shown that ‘ critical points ’ are reached ( for instance when car ownership achieves a certain level ) at which key elements of urban structure are transformed . |
| 27 | A biting wind gusting to 30 knots threatened to blow the fragile , 15-ft fibreglass hydroplane off course as Lady Arran made two runs over a measured kilometre . |
| 28 | Gina was anorexically thin , more through meanness than design ; she only ate when other people provided . |
| 29 | In LBOs , creditors are often also shareholders , making them less likely to jostle for advantage when times get tough . |
| 30 | Certainly better value for money than donkey Deano . |