Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And some housekeeping tasks under DB2 3.1 such as reorganisation of the database are expected to take less time . |
| 2 | And some housekeeping tasks under DB2 3.1 such as reorganisation of the database are expected to take less time . |
| 3 | The commodities produced in the new international division of labour are , above all , to be exported and imported either by trade between merchants on the world market or by transfer ( as semi-finished parts of finished articles ) from one branch of a multinational corporation to another branch . |
| 4 | His appointment as lieutenant of the Tower in June 1660 placed him in a position vital to the maintenance of order in the City . |
| 5 | The Autoglide can even be used on trackless doors of the canopy variety , which account for 80% of the garage doors installed in the UK , and which conventional garage door openers can not cope with The Autoglide works on a cable principle , with an advanced electronic control box . |
| 6 | For our answer we have made an arbitrary assumption that he uses his car for 80% of the time for business and that half the repairs etc. relate to that car . |
| 7 | Like any other young couple they teamed up for outings to the beach , for barbecues with friends , or visits to the cinema . |
| 8 | That 's entrance for look at the back . |
| 9 | If a customer 's circumstances change adversely for reasons beyond the customer 's control , the finance company will look sympathetically at the circumstances and will try , subject to any restrictions placed upon it by the Consumer Credit Act 1974 , to reach an accommodation with the customer to pay off the outstanding balance in a practicable manner . |
| 10 | A claim for group relief will be accepted outside the statutory two-year time limit where one of the following can be demonstrated : the Inland Revenue contributed materially to the failure to submit a timely claim ; for reasons beyond his or her control , a person vitally concerned in the making of a claim was not available at a crucial time ; for reasons beyond the claimant company 's or its agent 's control , the need for the claim could not have been perceived before the time limit expires , and the claim was made as soon as reasonably possible in all the circumstances . |
| 11 | These include situations where there are competing bids , or where the acquisition is prohibited by the merger control authorities , or where a condition of the bid announced in the offer document is not fulfilled or , exceptionally , where the bid may not be put into effect for reasons beyond the control of the parties to the bid . |
| 12 | Scotland was an unhappy country in the late seventeenth century , partly for reasons beyond the control of politicians or merchants ; the climate grew steadily harsher , for these were the worst years of the ‘ little ice age ’ that ran from 1500 to 1850 and must have had some general effect of encouraging emigration from Europe . |
| 13 | Paragraphs 474–489 of the Latey Report make it clear that doctors felt difficulty in accepting the consent of someone under 21 ( the then age of majority ) to medical treatment , even though parental consent might be unobtainable or , for reasons of the minor 's privacy , undesirable . |
| 14 | Similar divisions among the nobility , and the confusion into which it seems to have thrown the English leaders , might well explain why national armies were raised infrequently and achieved little , especially if there was dispute over the best policy to adopt , for reasons of the sort outlined above . |
| 15 | While the employers tended to cast around for reasons outside the work process when they wished to disparage women workers , unionists spoke more often of the low level of women compositors " skill . |
| 16 | In case of doubt , or where results may be not representative of the product capability for reasons outside the scope of the trial , such as staff sickness with certain cleaning tasks not being carried out , a typical situation may be set up and a specific cleaning operation carried out reproducing typical use conditions . |
| 17 | On one occasion , lashing about for reasons after the event , Raskolnikov cries out ‘ I simply wanted to dare , Sonya , that was my only motive ’ ; and next to ‘ I just did it ’ this must be reckoned his least untrue account of himself and his deed . |
| 18 | She turned away from the road and started treading her way through pebbles towards the ocean . |
| 19 | Depressed production , costly for Leyland at the time , is good news for investors now because it has endowed the Stag with scarcity appeal . |
| 20 | Thus far , the effective popularisation of basic Keynesian arguments would help strengthen a socialist case for the social planning of investment as in the interests of workers , both immediately ( in terms of employment prospects and living standards ) and in their capacity as savers for the future . |
| 21 | If a settlement is not reached this week , Virgin has said it will sue BA through courts in the United States where damages could run into tens of millions of dollars . |
| 22 | If the meticulous Davis was the last player one would expect to lose in such a manner , the six-times Masters champion retained his reputation for sportsmanship by the grace with which he accepted the verdict . |
| 23 | He had left Najaf in 1977 , finding asylum in France and a new operational base from which to beam his messages to the populace , such as calls for the creation of the revolutionary ‘ komitehs ’ that sprang up ‘ in many parts of the capital ’ and appeals to the army to desert . |
| 24 | Acting as midwife to the enterprise has been Alvar Gonzalez-Palacios who was assisted by Roberto Valeriani . |
| 25 | In a wider sense , we need to consider the effects of world issues such as damage to the environment by pollution of air , soil and water ; the rapidly diminishing rain forests ; wars , famine , and the nuclear threat . |
| 26 | Martikainen and Puttonen ( 1992 ) examined the correlations between returns on the stock markets of the UK , USA and the world ( the FT Actuaries World index ) , and returns on the Finnish FOX index and FOX index futures . |
| 27 | He asked for prayer about the journey to Jerusalem , knowing the tensions that existed between the Christians who had been of the Jewish faith , and those who were converted Gentiles . |
| 28 | He also issued a little book called Directions for Prayer in the Diocese of Bath and Wells which contained simple prayers to be taught by parents to their children . |
| 29 | For the moment though , the students will have to take a rest as Glenn jets out to do battle for glory in the world championships . |
| 30 | Predictably the Koreans were unable to sustain their bid for glory in the face of the New Zealand machine fielding sevens stalwarts Dallas Seymour , Pat Lam and Scott Pierce and featuring quicksilver North Harbour winger Glen Osborne . |