Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kinds of structure drills used for mastering the grammar of a language are : substitution ( frame ) drills ( these are non-differential ) |
| 2 | According to reports on Dec. 7 , the victim of the alleged rape , Farhana Hayat , had named Irfanullah Marwat Khan , a close adviser to the Sind provincial government and a son-in-law of President Ghulam Ishaq Khan , as responsible for instigating the attack against her . |
| 3 | He blames " European and American neo-XXXX colonialists " for instigating the complaints . |
| 4 | Children or young people were responsible for instigating the complaint and consequently social workers and police officers were highly dependent on children 's testimonies . |
| 5 | The choice of time for instigating the policy would be important here ; the cost of mortgage tax relief in 1988 has increased in annual terms from £5 billion to over £6.5 billion . |
| 6 | The Judge held that George was responsible for instigating the crime and jailed him for four and a half years . |
| 7 | The clear majority view in my group in Brussels is that though not perfect Maastricht takes us a step in the right direction , setting about building the sense of a community on the market place created by the nineteen eighty seven Single Act . |
| 8 | That one about building the house ? |
| 9 | In one extraordinary case in July 1988 , the reason the officer gave for doubting the name and address of the person arrested was that ‘ suspects usually gave false names and addresses ’ . |
| 10 | In 4.2 I gave reasons for doubting the existence or if not the existence the usefulness of infallible beliefs . |
| 11 | We give here the main reasons for doubting the validity of Urquhart 's population dose estimates , and for rejecting the conclusions of the accompanying contribution ‘ Looking for an increase in deaths from cancer ’ ( pB74 ) . |
| 12 | Surely , if you have serious reasons for doubting the police conclusions , you should approach them ? ’ |
| 13 | However , probably because of the demonstration that preceded the classroom observations , the children completely ignored the researchers and their equipment , and there were no grounds for doubting the naturalness of their behaviour . |
| 14 | He denounced the Republicans in the New York state legislature for bringing the state to the " brink of disaster " by blocking agreement on a plan to close an estimated $875 million gap in the current state budget and deal with a $3,600 million deficit for the coming year , but acknowledged that he could not contemplate campaigning in New Hampshire whilst his state faced such a crisis . |
| 15 | Yet on an island where even nature conservationists seem bent on taming every last acre , I think that the time may be ripe for bringing the word — and the kind of land it refers to — back into currency . |
| 16 | It was the start of a series of events that led finally to his fast exit from America , never to return , and many close to him believe to this day he was eventually ostracized by powerful Hollywood money for bringing the film industry into such disrepute . |
| 17 | ‘ Thank you for bringing the message . |
| 18 | The shipping company supplied the boat for bringing the goods ashore . |
| 19 | Instrumentation and instrumental techniques necessary for bringing the laws of the paradigm to bear on the real world will also be included in the paradigm . |
| 20 | We are grateful to this member for bringing the subject before us . |
| 21 | The whole br reason for bringing the scheme forward in the programme was associated with the waste management plant and it was n't er er a scheme which would have achieved that priority in its own right . |
| 22 | Its report , entitled Special Education Needs , contained important recommendations for bringing the education of handicapped pupils into line with that for ordinary children . |
| 23 | St Tuttston Bastian of Tankerville was the foundation stud dog of the Tankerville Kennels and was probably responsible for bringing the breed to the notice of the general public . |
| 24 | Psychological alienation provides Such with a narrative pretext for bringing the theories of post-Einsteinian science to bear on the way we conceive of ourselves as individuals in relation to other people . |
| 25 | Joe Johnson is the man responsible for bringing the gendarmes to Oxford Sandhills school . |
| 26 | Major 's administration may be remembered for bringing the community care changes into being , but this is another Thatcher legacy now being implemented in financial crisis . |
| 27 | It comes only days after Motorola lodged West Lothian 's biggest planning application , designed to accelerate its five-year timetable for bringing the plant up to full production levels and to pave the way for possible further expansion in the future . |
| 28 | Afterwards he critisised the NRA for bringing the prosecution . |
| 29 | At the hostel they were furious with us for bringing the police , they just wanted us out , literally , and we were out ! |
| 30 | Since the female is only on heat for a few days and the males are often widely scattered , these scents are vital for bringing the sexes together at the right time . |