Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Participants analyse examples of student writing and speech and , after discussion of the reasons for errors of different types , the session considers strategies that they may use to help students overcome these . |
| 32 | Gyford ( 1985b , p. 27 ) goes so far as to suggest that local government reorganization was one of the reasons for moves to the left outside London , where older councillors were replaced not by the hoped for technocrats waiting in the wings , but instead often by representatives of Labour 's new left . |
| 33 | ‘ It seems after he decided to pull me off , he looked back and decided on different reasons for things over the years to stir up our relationship . ’ |
| 34 | ‘ There are , of course , all possible reasons for lights in the night sky , the aurora borealis being the most famous . |
| 35 | Any disagreements between members of the two Houses and the official records are carefully looked into and such is the integrity of the record that any attempt to alter it , except for errors , would undoubtedly result in a national scandal . |
| 36 | In particular , the refusal by GPs to treat heroin users and the deep disagreements between psychiatrists about how to respond to users will be highlighted . |
| 37 | And this also involves , crucially , the identification of areas where there are disagreements between agencies over objectives or methods . |
| 38 | There are disagreements between councillors of the same party just as there are disagreements between those of opposing parties . |
| 39 | Coins do have considerable advantages over other objects as sources of information . |
| 40 | For the visual computations algorithmically defined by Ullman do not depend on high-level processes capable of identifying ( recognizing ) objects as members of a specific class : the system does not need to know that an object is a fish , or even that it has the 3-D shape that it has , in order to know that it is an object . |
| 41 | They typically selected novel objects as referents for novel words , and appropriate referents for familiar words . |
| 42 | The Minoans also regarded certain inanimate objects as incarnations of a deity . |
| 43 | The Committee of London Clearing Bankers told us that in recent years the banks have been opening an increasing number of accounts for customers in the middle to lower income groups . |
| 44 | This prohibits any requirement for separate accounts for branches of companies incorporated in other member states and substitutes provisions compelling disclosure , in the member state in which a branch operates , of the affairs of the company ( or , where it is a subsidiary , of the group to which it belongs ) . |
| 45 | In the more restricted circumstances in Britain , where such households are smaller and contacts between women in different households in some respects more difficult , women lose something of this support network although they may gain a greater degree of independence in their interactions with men . |
| 46 | Only 12 per cent believed that roads through sites of natural beauty or historical interest should be built as planned . |
| 47 | Only 12 per cent believed that roads through sites of natural beauty or historical interest should be built as planned . |
| 48 | HIGH-KICKING Frankie Vaughan presented a video camera to Boys ' Clubs between appearances at Darlington Civic Theatre . |
| 49 | Often these sorties would result in a skirmish with the pigeons , who presumably saw the ducks as invaders on their patch . |
| 50 | Plessey plc was the eighth most important corporation in Table 5.7 , and continued to consolidate its activities through mergers in the 1980s before themselves falling prey to takeover activity in 1989 . |
| 51 | In the light of this we briefly consider rules and laissez-faire approaches to mergers as alternatives to that of pragmatic cost-benefit . |
| 52 | The French duties on wheat , for example , rose steadily from 1881 to 1897 and behind them French agriculture improved its methods and cultivated new products as specialities for urban and foreign markets . |
| 53 | It derives from the author 's experience of working for the Agricultural Training Board in an area in the North of Scotland where family and part-time farmers predominate but has been put on a wider footing by detailed investigations of attitudes and needs in eleven counties in England , Wales and Scotland , and by less detailed investigations during visits to Norway , the Federal Republic of Germany and France . |
| 54 | A problem with this point of view is that there is in fact no evidence of descent groups having ever existed without these two levels and it seems difficult to treat all documented cases as transitions from a stage for which there is no evidence . |
| 55 | Because syntax is embedded in discourse , entirely different forms might have similar functions ( i.e. be used as equivalent ways of doing or saying the same thing ) ; for this reason it is sometimes difficult to specify a principled way of knowing where to stop counting particular forms as variants of a variable . |
| 56 | In fact , Darwin initially distinguished only six of Gould 's eventual 13 separate forms as members of the finch family . |
| 57 | Despite this view of the dependence of writing on speech , some linguists and educators have , apparently paradoxically , used written forms as models for spoken forms . |
| 58 | Not surprisingly , Alexandria provided a natural haven for Jews from the Holy Land — for commercial reasons during periods of stability , as a refuge in times of upheaval and war . |
| 59 | Equipped with this rule and with knowledge of what are important events , the animal seems to be well set up to acquire the ability to use initially meaningless environmental cues as predictors of what will happen , and initially haphazard acts as instruments for controlling the environment . |
| 60 | Scientists have known for some time that fusion reactions between nuclei of deuterium and tritium are more likely if the nuclear spins line up in the same direction . |