Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [prep] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Oxford Regional Health Authority introduced ‘ the 80/20 rule , ’ under which fundholders agreed to contract for 80% of their hospital services budget in the first year to go to the same hospitals as in the preparatory year , leaving them free to move the remaining 20% if they so wished . |
| 2 | The stabilization fund was to ensure continued financing for investment and research programmes and support for enterprises " experiencing during the period of transition to market relations difficulties for reasons beyond their control " . |
| 3 | Announcing the sad news for concert-goers , Steve May , arts development officer at Colchester Borough Council , said the event had been cancelled ‘ for reasons beyond our control ’ . |
| 4 | Mobutu said that presidential elections , which should have been held before the expiry of his term of office at midnight that day , had not taken place " for reasons beyond our control but inherent in the dynamics of the process of democratization " . |
| 5 | For reasons beyond his control , the new tsar found himself at war with Persia just as he was coming to terms with the Turks . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ If for reasons beyond your control the profit potential of the capital resources can not match their apparent value there is a good chance that that value will diminish , be it through capital taxes , excessive borrowing or revaluation to realistic levels . |
| 7 | But this tip for reasons beyond my knowledge has gone so there 's nothing to be done about it and erm er the last test I had the guy who conducted it said , You 've already got the heart off an average sixty year old who has n't had a heart attack . |
| 8 | We 've seen this week that there 's a demand for products from our region in the States . |
| 9 | They were popular preachers and evangelists — Diego de Cadiz , a Capuchin revivalist preacher , attracted audiences which fought for scraps of his clothing . |
| 10 | Honestly , Ethel , she sounded really mad , wittering on about beetles up her pyjama leg and suchlike . |
| 11 | Originally intended as an outlet for the excessive number of seconds that were still being produced ( both flawed material and finished items ) , it was selected mostly because of its convenient location for Bernard on his route from London to Clogau . |
| 12 | Taylor was educated at home and at a private day-school , and as apprentice to his father . |
| 13 | Ray Doyle had bowed to Jack Stone 's pleading request for protection for his family . |
| 14 | On 5 June he is said to have ignored a request from a Catholic merchant for protection for his family in the Mansion House ; and he stirred himself only when the Bank of England was reported to be in the mob 's sights . |
| 15 | And if you also apply for protection for your spouse or your whole family , you will receive a stylish Pocket Calculator as an extra free gift . |
| 16 | Petitions to the Admiralty for remuneration for his discovery brought nothing . |
| 17 | The two told how Pringle had called for Jason at his home in Geneva Road , Darlington , on Sunday afternoon and they had gone for a ride around in a van . |
| 18 | Kant , as we saw , held that the unity of the phenomenal world can be accounted for only if space and time are interpreted as forms of our intuition , not as properties of things in themselves , but that for this very reason we must accept that there is an extra-phenomenal as well as a phenomenal side to reality , with things in themselves being inaccessible to cognition . |
| 19 | It has had to cope with a double whammy of recession coupled with turbuence in the Lloyd 's insurance market which accounts for 50% of its business . |
| 20 | He payed without a murmur , but on being asked for 4d for his share of tea , exploded saying " Who in ****** hell has been drinking tea " . |
| 21 | An action was instituted — the only libel action where I acted for Harold Wilson which came to court — and I thought it wise to brief a member of the Opposition to act as counsel on his behalf . |
| 22 | He continued as chairman until his death . |
| 23 | In the city itself there is the Oskar Reinhart Foundation , which he set up for Winterthur in his lifetime , and which houses over six hundred works by Swiss , German and Austrian artists of the sixteenth , seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . |
| 24 | Basil realised that there was a whole lot more to education than training for livelihood with its over-emphasis on examinations . |
| 25 | Contrary to some popular images , normally this does not seem to be reversed in a significant way during the last years of life of the older generation , except perhaps where a person receives substantial personal care , but is not in a position to repay it through bequests after their death . |
| 26 | The UFC funds are allocated to the Universities for support of their teaching and research activities , whereas the Research Council money goes towards specific projects , reviewed by an internal assessment panel comprising subject specialists drawn from university departments . |
| 27 | When he did finally get to his feet his legs were unsteady and he had to stick close to the tables for support on his way to the door . |
| 28 | Although it is not certain that property qualifications were required for liverymen , several companies are known to have imposed minima for admission to their freedom . |
| 29 | Sunderland asked for a £50,000 facility fee for admission to their match with Middlesbrough . |
| 30 | A slightly older child was given the task of colouring in a picture for part of her correspondence lessons . |