Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | For reasons best known to the fuel companies , the Gulf crisis never turned into an oil crisis , although petrol prices generally leap up and down quicker than a Tory backbencher during a Neil Kinnock speech if a dealer on the Amsterdam spot market so much as sneezes over his computer screen . |
| 2 | For reasons best known to themselves . |
| 3 | People , for reasons best known to themselves , regularly push wardrobes or pull pianos up the motorway that calls itself the tourist path . |
| 4 | Ramprakash , for reasons best known to himself , treated a Cambridge batsman , Marcus Wight , to a stream of verbal abuse and then had a stand-up row with his own captain , John Emburey , which allegedly continued later . |
| 5 | Four years later , like so many of his generation , he was sucked into the tragically wasteful conflict of the First World War , serving — for reasons best known to himself — as a soldier in the Canadian Army . |
| 6 | More irritatingly , for reasons best known to his ego , the last two untitled tracks are situated ten minutes into the abyss after the last listed track of the album . |
| 7 | For reasons best known to himself Halzman , the senior sonar operator , preferred not to discuss it over an open line . |
| 8 | This ex-rugger international has , for reasons best known to himself , tired of rambling on about the oval ball game ; as a consequence he has taken to bespattering the media with stories about his allegedly ‘ sexy ’ life and times in terms which strive risibly to emulate the writings of the greatest rock journalist in the world — just like practically everyone else in the media has been muscling in on my territory in recent times . |
| 9 | Obviously , in both of the instant cases the parties had chosen , for reasons best known to themselves , not to adduce any extra evidence of the sort provided by the tapes . |
| 10 | As you do n't seem to be responding to telegrams for reasons best known to yourself , I am writing to say that I am not coming home immediately . |
| 11 | There seems no point in saying that I love you in spite of everything because that only seems to irritate you for reasons best known to yourself and which you choose neither to explain nor comment on . |
| 12 | For reasons best known to himself Carr kicked the legs from under Murray , leaving referee Brian White with no option but to order him off . |
| 13 | For reasons best known to the RAAF at the time , they started cutting back on pilots and offered his course a transfer to the RAF . |
| 14 | For reasons best known to themselves , they attached great importance to the idiot 's efforts to fill his useless bath ( I think it was B ) and it seemed vital to their purpose that I too become involved with the whole farcical business and , what 's more , come up with some sort of an answer . |
| 15 | A psychological rationalization could be said to be a justification for a position , which is held for reasons not related to the justification . |
| 16 | Sweden has gone anti-nuclear in its power-generating policy and consequently vast hydro-power stations have been built in the northern lake areas for reasons better known to themselves , the Swedes made no provision for salmon runs so the huge lakes are now devoid of fish and the Lapps have left . |
| 17 | Yes , that , that 's , that 's very much part of it , but we want , you know history 's only , only made by people , it 's made by every , you know , all of us really , so you know , we 're asking for groups now to come to us and say , you know , ‘ we want to do a project on X to do with the motorway ’ , and we 'll be prepared to , you know , back it up as much as we can . |
| 18 | Collaboration is thus a mutual matter between animals well known to one another who have established a reciprocating relationship . |
| 19 | In a speech broadcast on television on Oct. 23 , shortly before polls opened , he called on voters to refrain from voting for parties not committed to Islamic values — a suggestion taken to be directed against the PPP . |
| 20 | However , the form of section 2(2) means that with regard to liability for animals not belonging to a dangerous species the position will be fundamentally the same as at common law , since the damage must be of a kind made likely by the characteristics known to the keeper . |
| 21 | The subjectivity of the assessment can be reduced by the use of verbal surveys , such as questionnaires not restricted to numerical measures ; and the dangers of providing conformist assessments can be overcome by the assurance of confidentiality , and by checks for systematic variations . |
| 22 | In a deliberate attempt to embarrass Tories and High Anglicans , he cited Charles II 's Declaration of April 1681 , which had condemned the then Whig-dominated House of Commons for arresting people for matters not relating to Parliamentary privilege , whilst in defence of the right of petitioning he cited the case of the seven bishops of 1688 . |
| 23 | In a statement on 14 May 1980 the DRA Government asserted that it was necessary ‘ in the process of a political settlement [ around Afghanistan ] to take into account the military-political activity in the region of the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf on the part of states not belonging to this region ’ . |
| 24 | Soviet spokesmen could argue that although the USSR had for decades proselytised the notion of a national liberation or solidarity ‘ front ’ of Third World states , aligned at least politically to the Soviet bloc , it had not created regional groupings or coalitions of states militarily tied to the USSR or the Warsaw Pact and it had supported the opposition of the non-aligned states to military blocs . |
| 25 | As the number of states contractually linked to the Soviet Union in this manner increased , it became apparent that Moscow hoped to construct a network of loose understandings on military security with Third World states and establish Soviet relations with them on a firmer institutional basis . |
| 26 | The statement of reasons merely referred to the current situation of the world market in fuel and declared that regard had been had to the bids received . |
| 27 | Similarly , studies of the international transfer of technology by multinational firms find that transfer costs ( and times ) vary inversely with the amount of host country R&D , its manufacturing experience , and with the number of projects already transferred to the host country ( see Mansfield et al. , 1982 , and Teece , 1977 ) . |
| 28 | A number of authorities also resorted to creative accountancy — technical accounting adjustments which maximize financial benefits in the authority 's favour-as a means of ‘ spending above the rate-capping spending level ’ . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , the modern law of contracts tenaciously clings to the liberal ideal of individual autonomy . |
| 30 | Unsurprisingly , the treatment of roads here had to be different . |