Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Years of moving from one home to another , having meals cooked for you , never having to think twice about leaving lights on or taps dripping is hardly the best preparation for surviving in a bedsit on a YTS wage of £29.50 a week ( trainees do n't qualify for income support ) . |
| 2 | On the three-day , residential course held on December 4–6 at Pendle 's training centre in the heart of the beautiful Yorkshire Dales , you 'll learn preparation for returning to a changed work environment : Assertiveness Training , Personal Development plus two basic sales training sessions . |
| 3 | Well , at least you ca n't lose remission for escaping from a loony bin . ’ |
| 4 | There are other reasons for belonging to a choir . |
| 5 | For that reason , the model adopted in medical education where the student is continually asked to articulate his or her experience and give reasons for acting in a certain way is particularly valuable . |
| 6 | Although it seems that the luminosity of the centre can be provided by the central star cluster , there remain compelling reasons for searching for a possibly dormant massive black hole . |
| 7 | The next witnesses , on behalf of the CEGB , said that there were three main reasons for going for a PWR . |
| 8 | The heroes , the solid men of yeoman virtue , the good breeding stock , even the captain ( especially the captain ! ) — they all went down nobly with the ship ; whereas the cowards , the panickers , the deceivers found reasons for skulking in a lifeboat . |
| 9 | Other reasons for returning after a long period away include : |
| 10 | reasons for applying to a particular institution |
| 11 | reasons for applying to a particular course |
| 12 | Since then financial markets concluded they have three good reasons for betting on a devaluation of the pound against the DM . |
| 13 | There are many good reasons for putting in a network , but a couple are compelling : resource sharing and specific functionality . |
| 14 | Together , drawing up a training plan which gives adequate opportunity for working as a group , as well as identifying individual training needs . |
| 15 | Having had the opportunity through working at a hospice of attending many funerals I have grown used to seeing the shudders and worried looks that pass between grieving family and friends as they struggle to make sense of the words being read . |
| 16 | The case for seeing through a glass darkly |
| 17 | The most basic case for charging is the general case for pricing in a competitive economy ( Seldon , 1977 ) . |
| 18 | The applicants in the main proceedings stated in that connection that there were ‘ traditional communities ’ of fishermen resident in the United Kingdom which there might arguably be a case for protecting by a requirement relating to the residence of the crew or ‘ operators ’ of fishing vessels . |
| 19 | So I think there is a case for going for a fixed-rate . |
| 20 | He rejected calls by opposition politicians and the press for him to step down , and insisted that state and local elections scheduled for Dec. 6 would go ahead as planned , without a provision for voting on a reduction of his presidential term . |
| 21 | Before 1099 he had made no difficulty about acting in a contrary sense . |
| 22 | At Purley on 4 March 1989 , five people were killed and 87 injured after a crash , and a BR internal inquiry blamed the train driver for going through a red light . |
| 23 | ‘ I remember how ‘ Monsewer ’ Eddie Gray used to do a sketch about diving into a letterbox , while one of the funniest people was a taxi driver I knew who used to put a mask on and squirt people with a water pistol . |
| 24 | The aim was to ‘ fill the viewer with a feeling of deep gratification for belonging to a race whose Führer is fundamentally solving the Jewish problem ’ . |
| 25 | If so , there is much rethinking to be done , for the theoretical paradigms that have dominated the last twenty years have nothing resembling an adequate critical framework for dealing with a factor as flagrantly nonabstract , as defiantly corporeal , as embarrassingly tangible as this . |
| 26 | There is always a trivial algorithm for searching in a finite space — just list all nodes , and examine them in turn . |
| 27 | Highland cut its own output of new whisky for blending by a quarter . |
| 28 | The Richmond Fellowship , for example , provides hostels , run as small communities , which offer a secure environment and an opportunity to regain confidence in social relationships and an enthusiasm for living to a limited number of mentally disturbed adults and young people . |
| 29 | He did this on the advice of his father , who shared his misgivings about travelling on a passport in that name . |
| 30 | On the question of the dinner circuit , in addition to the point mentioned above , I was very fortunate in that my firm at the time gave me financial support for travelling to a number of dinners . |