Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the children with whom we work at school would not be accepted at the Petö Institute for reasons explained elsewhere in the report . |
| 2 | Again , for reasons stated above , this group was differentiated along gender lines , occurring in none of the female cases and 30 per cent of the male cases . |
| 3 | There is therefore opportunity for only a trickle of legislation from this source and , for reasons stated below , even less than that flows . |
| 4 | Without Ramsey 's knowledge , Fisher came to the decision that he could not want Ramsey to succeed him , for reasons given above . |
| 5 | 196 , for reasons given above , and supplies were probably limited by the early third century . |
| 6 | Frau Nordern and Omi beamed on Erika , Bodo banged the table with his fist , making the plates bounce alarmingly , Erika blushed , and , for reasons known only to himself , Paul went a fiery red , too . |
| 7 | She supposed it was equally possible that , for reasons known only to himself , Puddephat had been lying to Bridget . |
| 8 | The other bearers took the traditional view that the right thing to do was for Yussuf to get rid of her and find another one ; but for reasons known only to himself Yussuf was reluctant to do this . |
| 9 | For reasons outlined earlier in this chapter these do not usually consist of jobs , but rather of space ( which will be considered in the following chapter under the heading of land use and access ) and housing . |
| 10 | It is at its strongest when applied to production ; indeed , one can think of the Adornian picture of a totally administered , homogeneous , determining process as the ideal type to which the industry constantly aspires ( though , for reasons discussed above , this state is never actually reached ) . |
| 11 | TOM Courtenay fidgets in the chair , runs his fingers through hair grown long for his new stage role and chooses his words carefully before answering any question . |
| 12 | Providing authorities/hospitals would be paid for cases treated either on the basis of actual cost per case , or on some laid-down or agreed cost per case , and there seems little to prevent them behaving in the same manner as hospitals elsewhere where either ‘ Retrospective full cost reimbursement ’ or ‘ Prospective reimbursement ’ systems are in operation . |
| 13 | Mr Rutskoi has already had responsibility for agriculture taken away , along with his official Mercedes and doctor . |
| 14 | The carcinomas were divided into two groups — that is , squamous cell carcinomas of the oesophagus and adenocarcinomas of the lower oesophagus and stomach , and for distinctness called respectively oesophageal and stomach carcinomas . |
| 15 | Qaddafi himself , although he is prepared to naturalize immigrants to Libya , expresses strong reservations about states created largely by immigration . |
| 16 | A spokesman said : ‘ Less than half of our 1.35m junior accounts — that is , for savers aged less than 16 — have been registered for gross payment of interest . |
| 17 | The dedicated comic fan may argue that most publications mentioned so far were written mostly for males — what about comics written specifically for females ? |
| 18 | ‘ Why did he come to you rather than me ? ’ she asked , through lips grown strangely dry . |
| 19 | ‘ Perhaps you should be more sure of your facts before inflicting punishment for sins committed only in your own imagination ! ’ |
| 20 | This provision was , as the chapter itself states , analogous to the provision in chapter 21 of the same statute , that when the recipient of land devised for rent failed over two years to pay the rent or to fulfil the conditions required by the lord , that land should be recoverable by the lord . |
| 21 | This provided valuable winter fodder for animals taken indoors or kept in pens or crew yards over the winter , when the grass in the pasture had stopped growing . |
| 22 | For ears treated surgically there was no significant advantage of adenoidectomy alone over the baseline category of tube insertion alone . |
| 23 | There were worries that the combined Austin Rover/Ford operation would develop merely into an assembly plant for cars designed abroad . |
| 24 | I should also mention the mess left near the bridge on Gubberford Lane Scorton after work done recently to clean up the sides of the bridge . |
| 25 | Fasting breath hydrogen in control subjects was less than 12 ppm ( range 0–11 ppm ) and did not increase after sucrose given orally . |
| 26 | Many students obviously gained immense pleasure from physics , and real excitement in finding out about the world around them ; it was by no means seen entirely or even mainly — in terms of a job-qualification . |
| 27 | At the end of this period matters had by no means gone as far as this , for the growth of political parties in eighteenth-century England was curiously erratic . |
| 28 | The truth of these assumptions — that Britain is a particularly regulated economy where enterprise might flourish in the wake of decontrol — is by no means held universally . |
| 29 | De Marco inspected refugee camps in the West Bank and Gaza Strip , although his tour of the Jabaliyah refugee camp in Gaza had to be cut short after disturbances erupted there . |
| 30 | When the last payment was made on 12 February 1990 , it could not be said that the accountants would necessarily be benefited by a surplus of £2,310 to set against fees for work done earlier but unpaid . |