Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [conj] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Course abandoned the use of triple and quadruple modules at the time of the 1984 CNAA resubmission for reasons that had to do both with inflexibility for student programmes and with the risk of student failure . |
| 2 | In any event , the Act makes it clear that it is not unlawful for a teacher to inflict corporal punishment ( as defined in the Act ) where it is necessary ‘ for reasons that include averting an immediate danger of personal injury to , or an immediate danger to the property of , any person ( including the pupil concerned ) ’ . |
| 3 | But your question about ropes and tackle lifting the body is pure nonsense , man ! ’ |
| 4 | They have whetted a lust for sensationalism that has turned us into a nation of accident watchers . |
| 5 | When he discovers that Mary helps people , collects for Biafra and has protested against the Vietnam War , he is not happy because she suddenly reminds him of his mother . |
| 6 | The remarkable Anderson , in addition to playing rugby and cricket at area and county junior levels , competing as a decathlete for Birchfield and qualifying to coach nine sporting events , gained an impressive tally of educational qualifications culminating in a Master 's degree from the University of Leicester . |
| 7 | She dived towards it , anxious some other would-be caller should not beat her to it and begin on one of those endless conversations the French seemed to have , searching through her pockets for change and trying to recall the International dialling code and the number of the line which connected direct with Nick 's office , bypassing the busy switchboard , all at the same time . |
| 8 | In the end a strange combination of working-class agitation and pressure from outside of the state system together with an increasingly confident upper-class establishment inside the system anticipating the pressures for change and trying to contain them both served to encourage the Conservatives to pass the Reform Act , 167 . |
| 9 | Some of the EC 's other governments will soon have to start explaining why they deny their voters a remedy for recession that has proved so effective . |
| 10 | The traditional explanation is that the stripes act as camouflage and help to break up the shape of the animal , concealing its body from the eyes of hungry predators . |
| 11 | I still pray for Gary and continue to hope that he will eventually live up to the professions of faith that he has made . |
| 12 | ‘ What will sustain the reformers of Eastern Europe is that great yearning for freedom that has started them off . |
| 13 | — John Major , Foreign Secretary ‘ What will sustain the reformers of Eastern Europe is that great yearning for freedom that has started them off . |
| 14 | The third is a less tangible but no less striking phenomenon , the general feeling for freedom that has come over us all , an understanding heightened by the recent escape of millions of people by 1990 from the miseries of authoritarian rule and command economies . |
| 15 | After marinading , add 2–3 x 15ml/tbsp blackcurrant vinegar to the meat during cooking and sweeten to taste with a little blackcurrant jam . |
| 16 | Much later , bacteriophages were found to transfer genetic information , from one bacterium to another , so they became immensely important tools for geneticists and have played a fundamental role in understanding the functions of deoxyribonucleic acid ( see Chapter 11 ) . |
| 17 | These are supplementary aids to the legs and hands and can be used for correction and help to teach the horse to answer the aids more readily . |
| 18 | Dismissing the Pittencrieff bid , Aberdeen 's London-based managing director , David Hooker , said : ‘ We remain convinced that the smaller oil and gas companies should consolidate to add value for shareholders and expect to arrange a meeting with Pittencrieff in the near future . ’ |
| 19 | The rolling forest of Wensleydale that surrounded Bainbridge has gone now , with its deer and wild boar , but the horn that was blown at dusk every evening between Holyrood and Shrovetide to lead travellers out of the forest to safety still hangs behind the bar of the Rose and Crown , although it is blown now only at village weddings . |
| 20 | Mr. F.W. Dee ( Company Secretary at the Brewery and brother to found Harry Dee ) had been down to play for Henley but had to withdraw ‘ having arranged to play for Peppard ’ . |
| 21 | Convinced that niche marketing was the right approach to follow , they decided to build on their experience in audit , accounting and tax for companies with turnovers of £1m to £30m ; investigative work for institutions that have invested , or are thinking of investing , in such companies ; and general litigation support . |
| 22 | Poly(A) + RNA was isolated from normal human skin fibroblasts 2h after treatment with 100μM hydrogen peroxide for 30min and used to construct a cDNA library in λ gt10 ( ref. 27 ) . |
| 23 | People see that as good value for money and keep coming back for more ’ . |
| 24 | I have since given up ( well , almost ) drawing ‘ exploding monsters ’ for NME and have become their correspondent for anything weird , wonderful and , occasionally , musical . |
| 25 | If , in the manufacturing problem of Section 9.1 , we specify goals of 25 on revenue ( as above ) , 30 for sales and 12 for exports and apply weighting factors w 1 , w 2 , w 3 > 0 to the resulting criteria , we arrive at P1 : maximise subject to . |
| 26 | He ruled the new generation with a rod , boys who had worshipped the hero as kids and tried to emulate him in their tennis-ball pick-up games — ‘ Bags I be Washy ! ’ |
| 27 | Positivism in turn can be seen as a set of ideas tending to reinforce the ideological domination ( or ‘ hegemony ’ ) of the bourgeois class at a yet later stage when it had become the ruling class in Europe : if criminal actions can be described as the result of mindless pathology rather than rational choice this both absolves capitalism of any blame for crime and helps to delegi-timize protest against the existing order ( Taylor et al. , 1973 : ch. 2 ) . |
| 28 | The Home Secretary and the Minister of State must face up to two facts : first , that their party is guilty of creating the conditions for crime and failing to tackle the root causes of crime ; and , secondly , that the police do not have the tools for the job . |
| 29 | If inflation is too much money pursuing too few goods , it does not follow that we must — as we have been doing in this country — reduce the supply of money all the time and thus have the disastrous consequences for industry that have occurred . |
| 30 | RAF Lyneham is geared for action and has had machinery in place since dealing with the return of the hostages last year … particularly Terry Waite . |