Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am afraid that it has not been a success and that has certainly not been for want of effort from him but I think we just have to write that one off . |
| 2 | It could not have been for lack of qualifications , for Moira had served seven years on the BBC 's General Advisory Council and four years as a director of Border Television ; so one can only assume it was because of my Liberal Party connections . |
| 3 | It 's been for sale for ages has n't it ? |
| 4 | Jes said , I thought you 'd have been off rest of week . |
| 5 | Erm I 've been off work in excess of five years now er add my income has been very very small and whatever award I get will never go ahead and compensate me or my wife for what I 've been through . |
| 6 | It is rare in general practice to see dermatological problems that need sophisticated hospital investigations or intensive treatment ; most referrals are for assessment of skin lesions or for second opinions . |
| 7 | E1 buildings are for storage of goods and materials not specified as hazardous in occupancy E2 . |
| 8 | The Moneysaver tickets are for travel from Heathrow , Manchester and Birmingham airports to a choice of 14 Spanish destinations . |
| 9 | They are for use by instructors when the course is being used with groups of trainees and explain how to make use of particular text pages and handouts . |
| 10 | In the ninth century a German monk , Walahfrid Strabo wrote : No man can say , no man remember , how many uses there are for Oil of Roses as a cure for mankind 's ailments . ’ |
| 11 | Examples of such additional directions are for amendment of pleadings , further and better particulars , discovery by a defendant excused from this step under Ord 25 , r8 , more medical or other experts than Ord 25 , r8 allows , trial out of London or not at the trial centre for the District Registry in which the action is proceeding . |
| 12 | Besides being ‘ colourful ’ they advertise records which I presume are for sale in Liverpool shops and various events such as the wonderful ‘ Festival of Comedy ’ . |
| 13 | Let unc If we use this for iterative premultiplication of an arbitrary column , say the summing vector , successive columns are as show in Table 1 . |
| 14 | As they are about competence at work , they will include not only competences relating directly to the funeral service but also competences to do with working relationships or health and safety . |
| 15 | Groups of questions on similar tasks were prefaced by a statement of their nature ( e.g. " The next two questions are about change from 50p " ) . |
| 16 | The truth is that today 's pop — Whitney , Simply Red , Tina turner , George Michael , Anita Baker , Fine Young Cannibals , Percy Sledge , Ben E. King , The Communards , Gabriel , Erasure , The Christians — are about shame about pop . |
| 17 | Public relations is related to advertising in that both are about persuasion through communication . |
| 18 | But in fact , they 're as much about power over yourself and self-belief as they are about domination of others . |
| 19 | Atmospheric concentrations of CFCs are about one-millionth of carbon dioxide levels but their role in the greenhouse effect has increased dramatically in recent decades and they may contribute as much as 30 per cent of the greenhouse effect by the year 2015 . |
| 20 | This may well have been of benefit to individuals , but school board members were very conscious of their role as representatives of parents and the local community . |
| 21 | Yet every child care establishment I have worked in I have been of benefit to children , especially boys , who have had insufficient experience of a positive role model . |
| 22 | The ontological status of fictional worlds has been of interest to philosophers as well as literary critics . |
| 23 | In ‘ culture studies ’ , and quickly entering the more proper sociological study of culture , talk has been of modernity versus postmodernity , of modernism versus postmodernism . |
| 24 | Glycosylated haemoglobin is also a product of a nonenzymatic post-translational reaction , and its measurement has been of use in patients with diabetes mellitus as an indicator of the degree of hyperglycaemia during the preceding 8 weeks . |
| 25 | It should be clear how such findings are of relevance to theories about normal language processing . |
| 26 | Politicians are of course at fault . |
| 27 | 2807 's spares are of course at Tyseley , not Toddington . |
| 28 | In a world in which , for the most part , neighbourhood and class are largely coincident , the two definitions are of course at war with another . |
| 29 | Miss Heal also stated : ‘ All the above sources of financial assistance are of course in addition to the support obligations provided for in Part III of Ontario 's Family Law Act . ’ |
| 30 | The Family Law Reform Act 1959 , and the Legitimacy Act 1959 are of significance in considerations of legitimacy of birth which might arise . |