Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The amount which each farmer or other seller offers for sale at any price is governed by his own need for money in hand , and by his calculation of the present and future conditions of the market with which he is connected . |
| 2 | The tide flows strongly in favour of the populist , the valueless public library … the Library service has lost its soul and , desperately seeking some justification for its existence , veers between pop-marketing in imitation of the big chains — the McDonald 's and Burger Kings of the printed word — and trying to be a sub-branch of information processing . |
| 3 | Yet I doubt they have meat more than once a week — and I doubt he thinks about money from one year 's end to the other . ’ |
| 4 | The advantages to the reader are that he ‘ turns for help to the professional staff ; he learns to appreciate that his needs are not restricted by the limitations of the bookstock of one library . |
| 5 | It is usually to relatives that the peasant migrating to the city turns for help in the new and frightening environment . |
| 6 | He is advising on a draft bill for a new law to protect Britain 's archaeological heritage better , but he is the kind of academic to whom the government turns for advice on all kinds of matters , not just his own specialisations : last year , for example , he was responsible for the Report on the National Curriculum in art education in schools . |
| 7 | Escom GmbH , Peripherals Europe 's parent , signed an OEM agreement with Conner to buy disk drives for use in Escom products over five years ; separately , Conner said that it will open a new European logistics centre alongside its manufacturing facility in Irvine , Scotland . |
| 8 | So if the law was clear that in those circumstances they should have been on notice and should have therefore watched where the money was going , there would n't have been a problem and are we not saying that legitimate stock lending which I think is what is about is suggesting , if carried on properly on the market , would be all right , but if it immediately goes off market into the back doors and back rooms and people ca n't see what 's going on and the Financial Institutions take part in that , then they are doing something that un undoubtedly is probably going to cause loss to pension funds and should n't there be a clear law which makes them liable in those circumstances . |
| 9 | So if the law was clear that in those circumstances they should have been on notice and should have therefore watched where the money was going , there would n't have been a problem and are we not saying that legitimate stock lending , which I think is what Good is abou is suggesting , if carried on properly on market , would be all right , but if it immediately goes off market into the back doors and back rooms and people ca n't see what 's going on and the financial institutions take part in that , then they are doing something that un undoubtedly is probably going to cause loss to pension funds and should n't there be a clear law which makes them liable in those circumstances . |
| 10 | Within the family itself , each member contributes as part of the system , being in some way a member from birth through to death , so that the system has a long history . |
| 11 | Also included in the pack are specimen compensation fund covenants for completion by either a recognised body or an individual solicitor or registered foreign lawyer . |
| 12 | The great majority of molluscs have a minute , planktonic larval stage , a small ciliated object bearing no resemblance to the adult , that drifts as part of the plankton until ready to settle and assume its mature form . |
| 13 | But she 's very nice I think she goes through till about June . |
| 14 | We had all been promised that the National Lottery money would be additional to what we receive and that there would been linkage to the funds we will obtain if all goes well and the Lottery Bill goes through Parliament in the next few months . |
| 15 | Keith goes through right behind Babur . |
| 16 | Then Chola helped her carry it through to the inner room where the family sleeps for warmth in winter . |
| 17 | He plays off scratch in University golf , and looked like breaking 70 today . |
| 18 | In the experimental fiction of our day that is sometimes called ‘ post-modernist ’ these conventions — such as the omniscient and intrusive authorial narrator — are retained in exaggerated and parodic forms that remind one of the metafictional jokes of Fielding , Sterne , Thackeray and Trollope ( one thinks for instance of Muriel Spark and John Fowles in this respect ) . |
| 19 | But it is worth noting that though the problems this produces for validation of theory are still not resolved in the social sciences , some researchers comfort themselves with the argument that different theories may agree at least on common working definitions , while a significant body of methodological writers has learnt to love the thorny creature by arguing ( after Max Weber ) that the theory- or value-component is a crucial positive factor in social-science explanation . |
| 20 | that cries for blood like a late Edwardian |
| 21 | He said the Government had ploughed £22.4m into housing authority ( see corr notes ) grants for work in Darlington since 1979 . |
| 22 | In order to substantially reduce the agriculture/nature conservation conflict in the UK uplands , significant changes are proposed — differentiating 3 zones of handicap in the UK 's LFA ( apart from Article 3(5) areas ) and linking new levels of HLCAs and capital grants for drainage to these ( see Table 14 ) . |
| 23 | Capital grants for drainage under both AHDS and AHGS schemes in the LFA should be reduced to 30% of costs in the proposed ‘ mountain zone ’ and ‘ intermediate zone , , and to 22 ½%; of costs ( the level outside the LFA ) in the ‘ marginal zone ’ in order to reduce incentives to drain upland wetlands and species-rich wet pastures/meadows . |
| 24 | These days the Glaswegian goes for consistency in the first ten places while riding as an understudy to a leader like LeMond . |
| 25 | at the caravan we never walk , we always go in he even goes for paper in bloody car , him ! |
| 26 | Trust goes for slice of the American pie |
| 27 | The narrator , Richard Papen , longs for entry to the college 's charmed but destructive inner circle — a clique of privileged students fired by their classics professor 's admiration for the ancient Greek mysteries of bucolic visions and violence . |
| 28 | To avoid such problems , where a consent is needed , the normal practice is for the sale agreement to provide that the vendor will hold the benefit of such contract on trust for the purchaser and pay any sums which the vendor receives after completion to the purchaser immediately upon receipt ( see clause 8.2(a) of the standard sale agreement — Appendix III ) . |
| 29 | Sherman ( 1985 ) objects to the idea that Y-cells are irrelevant to spatial vision on the grounds that spatial vision persists after removal of the X-cell system . |
| 30 | Other investigators claim that endogenous prostaglandins may not be essential since gastric cytoprotection persists after pretreatment with prostaglandin synthesis inhibitors . |