Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [prep] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For one of the reasons given by people for not complaining is that it is a waste of time to do so . |
| 2 | Yorke found a great similarity of reasons given by staff despite the age/sex/type of schools canvassed . |
| 3 | Many examples of good rehabilitation practice have developed simply because medical teams have seen obvious need : cardiac rehabilitation , or the support given to people on long-term dialysis or those who have undergone organ transplants , are a few examples . |
| 4 | Leo Abse commented on the effects this legislation had on kinship ties when he recorded the support given by people in South Wales to his efforts to reform the divorce law during the 1960s : ‘ Welshmen who had endured the depression had no time for the unctuous pleas for the need at all costs to maintain the unity of family life ’ . |
| 5 | Elderly are warned on conmen builders Elderly people in Stockton have been warned about ‘ jobbing builder ’ conmen after a pensioner parted with £2,500 of his savings . |
| 6 | As Anne-marie de Waal Malefijt , from whom I borrow these examples , wickedly observes : ‘ If interpreters from similar cultural backgrounds can not agree upon the meanings of symbols , how different must be the symbolic meanings assigned by people with different cultural experience ! ’ |
| 7 | Those eating less for health reasons now represented 46pc of the total , whereas those stating financial reasons dropped to 18pc from 26p c in 1990 . |
| 8 | Beverley Allitt 's weight dropped from 13st to 7st before the start of her trial at Nottingham Crown Court and defence barrister James Hunt QC told the jury she is suffering from severe anorexia . |
| 9 | Beverley Allitt 's weight dropped from 13st to 7st before the start of her trial at Nottingham Crown Court and a defence barrister , James Hunt , QC , told the jury she was suffering from severe anorexia . |
| 10 | The tax break enjoyed by people with company cars distorts the market for new cars in Britain , putting private buyers at a disadvantage |
| 11 | In those years , the Communist vote dropped from 80% to less than 10% . |
| 12 | People want to read about real struggles in the sort of books written by people like Joanna Trollope and Mary Wesley . ’ |
| 13 | The food shortages suffered by people in Russia have been well publicised , but the effects of this on the country 's pets have been even more dramatic . |
| 14 | 3 By replacing the new technology allowance with a personal allowance staff who are currently on GS1/2 have had their earning capability curtailed by £300 per year or £6 per week . |
| 15 | The Host of the Unforgiven Dead , also known as the Sluagh , is the term used by people from the Scottish Highlands to describe the spirit world . |
| 16 | The Great Eastern was again chosen as the laying vessel , work beginning in July 1865 , and the attempt got within 966km of the Newfoundland coast before the cable sheared again . |
| 17 | Mid-weights sold to £147.10 for a Simmental 325kg at £478 . |
| 18 | Lighter sorts sold to £500 for a 360kg Belgian Blue . |
| 19 | Cows and calves sold to £1,060 for a Simmental third calver with a Charolais calf at foot and to £925 for a second calver Simmental with a Limousin calf at foot . |
| 20 | Mountain View , California-based , Clarity Software Inc , has cut a porting and distribution agreement with Sumisho Electronics Systems Inc in Japan , a deal valued at $500,000 in its first year : Sumisho , an affiliate of Sumitomo Corp , the giant trading company , will help Clarity translate Rapport — its Unix office automation software — into Japanese , then sell it locally . |
| 21 | Billy Graham like all such evangelists called for people from the congregation to make an immediate decision and to come out from the crowd ; and Ramsey wrote that the call for an immediate decision had danger because the mind could be stifled in the process and this could bring a later revenge in scepticism and indifference . |
| 22 | Symptoms attributable to the gastrointestinal tract were present in 56% compared with 59% in our study , although 14% of our group complained only of abdominal distension and flatulence . |
| 23 | It is in regard to erosion rates that perhaps the most dramatic progress has been made and in addition to world patterns of discharge , Walling and Webb ( 1983 ) have now reviewed earlier attempts to portray world patterns of sediment yield , some of which conflicted quite significantly , and have provided a revised map of global sediment yields based upon data from nearly 1500 measuring stations and pertinent to sediment yields from basins of 1000 to 10,000 km 2 in area . |
| 24 | Sales here were £95.8m compared with £55.9m in 1992 , while operating profit grew to £9m this time from £5m last . |
| 25 | According to one study based on data for 29 WFS countries ( Rutstein , 1983 , p.32 ) , among toddlers aged one year , this difference in spacing is associated with a 46 per cent higher mortality of those born less than 24 months after the earlier sibling . |
| 26 | Descriptive epidemiological study based on data from the Danish Cancer Registry . |
| 27 | In the first half of the year , the group made taxable profits of £42.3m compared with £40.4m in the corresponding period last year . |
| 28 | The enlarged Group made £1,371,000 profit before tax in the six months compared to £1,886,000 in the same period last year . |
| 29 | Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp still out-invests the New Common Carriers by a considerable margin however : $16,480m total investment compared with $3,672m in total by all New Common Carriers . |
| 30 | The figure compared with 55pc in June . |