Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [conj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We then set out to look for contacts that come from sources other than the usual lake fish . |
| 2 | Baldwin contemplated all this at Aix , and made up his mind both to go for protection and to put at risk the first independent Conservative majority for two decades . |
| 3 | The area of the interface is about 650 2 , which is at the lower end of the range observed for molecules that exist as dimers . |
| 4 | It is found along with fossils of planktonic organisms and it is possible to explain the change in growth between coil and trumpet as a change that happened when the larval shell settled on the bottom . |
| 5 | The first important step was to separate the purchasing and providing functions and devolve services such as personnel and finance to units . |
| 6 | Many companies and organisations throughout the world turned to AEA for consultancy and help during the past year . |
| 7 | Anxiously we watch the skies for change and listen to the weather forecasts ; words like ‘ high pressure areas ’ , ‘ occlusions ’ , ‘ fronts ’ and ‘ anti-cyclones ’ intersperse the conversation when birdwatchers foregather . |
| 8 | assess the need of the carer for support and help in the tasks being carried out on behalf of the vulnerable elderly person and in providing care ; |
| 9 | It suggests the unmet need of so many women for support and help in redefining their role and purpose when the all-consuming daily tending of another is no longer required . |
| 10 | This Act , which was concerned with definitions of mental disorder , the administration of hospital and community services and the procedures for admission and discharge to and from hospital , became the statutory basis of the Mental Health service . |
| 11 | Lyons could legitimately maintain that scribal records have some potential , according to the institutions in which they are developed and used , for reliability as defined in that culture or even as defined by him . |
| 12 | Marble can be sawn or broken up for building or burned for lime , and a great deal has certainly gone that way ; but the melting down of bronze for conversion to tools , utensils , armour , coin , is far more tempting . |
| 13 | The toss up was between Swindon and Fuerstenfeldbruck near Munich , where they already have a business centre . |
| 14 | It is a security device for banking or shopping by telephone . |
| 15 | Speaking at the Velo-City conference in Nottingham , Roads and Transport Minister Robert Key said local councils would be expected to include plans to improve facilities for cyclists when bidding for government funding for transport schemes . |
| 16 | There is evidence ( Garside , 1988 ) that ministry officials were influential in their advocacy for a radical , new approach , arguing the merits of large reconstruction schemes such as Kingsway and Aldwych in London and Corporation Street in Birmingham . |
| 17 | An old market stance will yield Comparatively recent ones such as pennies and groats from about the time of William IV . |
| 18 | motor vehicles owned by the Secretary of State for Defence and used for the purposes of the disposal of bombs or explosives |
| 19 | motor vehicles owned by the Secretary of State for Defence and used by the Royal Air Force Mountain Rescue Service for the purposes of rescue operations in connection with crashed aircraft or any other emergencies ; and |
| 20 | The Table gives the indings which , for cases and controls after 1976 , includes 540 cases of motor neurone disease , 1370 of multiple sclerosis , and 240258 controls . |
| 21 | But she was still meditating for hours and waiting for the voice of the flat to inform her of its favoured colour scheme . |
| 22 | But Pappy , who was always so willing to engage with her for hours and talk about school work or play chess , only patted her on the shoulder and fobbed her off with platitudes when the question of her mother came up . |
| 23 | The secretory effect of cholera toxin in our study probably continued for hours as evidenced by the stool output after the experiment . |
| 24 | The front engine will be used only for take-off and climb to cruising altitude , around 20,000 feet , Mazzucchelli predicts — and then shut down , though it will be kept heated in case an emergency re-start becomes necessary . |
| 25 | The steering committee has applied to Durham County Council and eight district councils for funding and hopes to be up and running next month . |
| 26 | I had nightmares about scrums and tackles from a very early age and refused to play as a linesman , in case I got involved in violence . |
| 27 | as in Tarrow and Suleiman. that in so far as group interests are expressed or mobilised through institutions that survive in the long term . |
| 28 | In his own interest , an outgoing partner should take steps to regularise the position by requiring that he be replaced as lessee and insisting on an indemnity against future liabilities of the firm generally ; and the partnership agreement ( Clause 25 ) should give him those rights . |
| 29 | Now Emperor Clocks gives you the opportunity to own a classic timepiece that will stay in your family for generations and give to your children and your grandchildren the same precious memories . |
| 30 | Patients may be admitted to the ward for investigations that need to be carried out under local or general anaesthetic , e.g. the removal of a small piece of tissue for examination under a microscope ( a biopsy ) or the internal inspection of an organ such as the bladder ( a cystoscopy ) . |