Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] is " in BNC.

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1 Though golf should be subjected to the same criteria as other sports , and a bit of enthusiastic reaction is part of that , it must retain its decorum if its special flavour and reputation for sportsmanship under duress is not to be undermined .
2 Perhaps the major requirement for change on Switchboard is a combination of the overt needs of the callers , and the needs of a group of self-interested and highly-motivated volunteers who find a reason to stay in the organization .
3 A unique solution to a request for change in position is thus not achievable without imposing other problem constraints .
4 Important though changes in people 's expectations are , the most obvious force for change in industry is technical advance .
5 The primary reason for admission to ICU is chosen from a number of diagnoses .
6 In 1773 when raw silk was difficult to obtain , the owner of a throwing mill in Sherborne wrote : … having discharged many of my hands which are either starving , or are become burdensome to the town , others are incessantly crying for a little work and could they obtain but a morsel of Barley-bread they are happy , they very often go days with little or no nourishment … the continued cries of the poor people complaining for want of the necessaries of life as well for want of employment is shocking indeed … and what is worse the overseers are not so bountiful to the necessitous as I could wish .
7 But the requirement of leave need not be too burdensome for applicants if an expeditious procedure for cases of emergency is provided ; and the question of time-limits could be dealt with by making it clear that a short time-limit should be imposed only if public works would otherwise be held in undue suspense .
8 English painters who complain about the persistence of green should imagine a landscape that for hours on end is the bright colour of Heinz tomato soup , spiked with the burnt black twigs of the wattle bushes and bottlebrush trees .
9 2 ) the Campaign for freedom of Information is trying to promote a bill which would give patients the right to see their own medical records .
10 The data suggest that the protentiation of pancreatic toxicity of cyclosporin A observed during coadministration of indomethacin is not the result of suppression of endogenous pancreatic eicosanoid biosynthesis , but more likely results from altered cyclosporin A pharmacokinetics which may be caused by an interference of indomethacin with the hepatic cytochrome P-450 dependent monooxygenase involved in cyclosporin A metabolism .
11 One of the attractions for DEC of course is the thought of volumes without the usual investment .
12 The range of activities recommended for programmes of study is drawn up in general terms and , for the most part , gathered in clusters to enable schools to match their particular planned activities to our specifications .
13 But actually in between , I 'd forgotten the in between bit of course is while all this pandemonium 's going on , the neighbourhood did n't realize she was moving , or perhaps one or two did .
14 The argument that high taxes reduce the flow of private savings for investment in industry is only important if one believes that the ownership of industry should be in private hands .
15 A note of warning is necessary here , as the Revenue can sometimes seek to deny the £30,000 exemption under s188 where a departing executive is also a vendor shareholder , on the basis that the sum paid as compensation for loss of office is in reality attributable to the sale of his shares , and they may also challenge the deductibility by Target of such payments , especially if these are effectively funded by a reduced acquisition price for Target .
16 When a claim for loss of cash is received the Policyholder should be asked to provide evidence of the existence of the cash e.g. cheque stub , bank book , bank statement/print-out , etc .
17 Tunstall 's main thesis is that the evidence for concentration of ownership is very weak if one charts ownership across all media fields rather than simply restricting it to the press , radio and television .
18 The idea of being marooned at Balmoral for months on end is her vision of purgatory .
19 Over the next two nights Mike Rowbottom looks at the story of the famous car plant … which after years of uncertainty is enjoying a new lease of life .
20 This idea of unequal benefit links crucially to the point that competition for influence over behaviour is itself very far from free and equal .
21 Thus , for carbon dioxide , The relative molecular mass expressed as grams per mole is called the molar mass ( see chapter 4 ) .
22 Probably the most common area for abuse of headship is the decision-making process .
23 Winter visitors disperse quite rapidly in April and May , and little through passage in spring is shown by the counts in Fig. 2 , except in 1973 and 1974 when a marked movement occurred in the second half of February .
24 A degree course scheme for honours in Physics is typical :
25 However , they will only do this if they have a chance of hitting an adventurer — if a spell such as Zone of Sanctuary is in operation , for instance , the Skeletons will bide their time .
26 As we see , the most important effect of moisture on wood is to cause it to swell .
27 All the scenery of states of motion is in place and the caste of observable quantities assembled .
28 Eventually the motional voltage reduces and the rate , of change of current is again zero , causing a change in the comparator state .
29 The rate of change of acceleration is a constant .
30 Evidence of change in progress is often provided by systematic differences in apparent time of the kind shown in table 5.2 ; that is , differences between generation cohorts .
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