Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason was that they could not resolve ambiguity between competing lexical interpretations on a word-by-word basis , and so had to maintain possible interpretations in a representation that was separate from the lexicon . |
| 2 | Peter Mandelson , Patricia Hewitt and a number of other Fabian commentators could have behaved more courteously by addressing the Liberal Democrats by their full name instead of calling them Liberals ; Tony Blair could have had the courage to name them at all , instead of subsuming them into a vague phrase about building common cause with other parties ‘ around the world ’ . |
| 3 | The phenomenon of modifiable taste aversion is often taken as one of the prime pieces of evidence for doubting general principles of associative learning . |
| 4 | However closely it cultivated its links with the labour movement , the UDC was not simply a device for maintaining Labour politics during the wartime political truce or for bringing individual ex-Liberals into the labour movement . |
| 5 | The Panel is proving its worth as a forum for the discussion of new procedures and for bringing practical information to the attention of Lending Services . |
| 6 | We are for bringing outside analysis to departments along with the office of the Minister for the Civil Service and the Treasury . |
| 7 | The matter was considered by the Court of Appeal in Britton where a youth had left pamphlets late one evening in the porch of the house of a single member of Parliament whom he believed to be responsible for bringing coloured immigrants into Britain . |
| 8 | The traditional style of regulation involved members ‘ clubs ’ and the ability of this system to work depended largely on maintaining a relatively small grouping of members through maintaining effective barriers to entry — the Stock Exchange being a prime example here . |
| 9 | The hon. Gentleman would be well advised to pay some regard to the settlement of next year 's budget , and to set arguments for including specific references to social cohesion in the Maastricht treaty in the context of the bargaining that that budget will involve . |
| 10 | The awards are made annually to choirs , choral , orchestral and concert societies who have shown enterprise in plans for including contemporary music in their programmes . |
| 11 | In this area , we have the possibility for including non-DOS machines on networks , by using the appropriate cabling and software . |
| 12 | ( Notice here that the ‘ causal relation ’ between the events is artificially contrived , and indeed the only basis for attributing causal status to the events is their temporal relation . ) |
| 13 | Sid was the exception , whistling happily about daring young men on flying trapezes , the sound throbbing through Alice 's headache and giving Emily very uncharitable thoughts . |
| 14 | Will police forces other than the transport police be responsible for administering certain aspects of the Bill ? |
| 15 | My thanks , too , to Andrew Brock , Kay Cummins , Ken Evans , Bill Field , Kin Overend , Derek Redford and Susan Smith for transforming bright ideas into groups of objects ready for photography ; my gratitude , finally , to Hafed Walda , for organising the photographic work . |
| 16 | The archbishop of Besançon was summoned through the bishop of Langres ( an intentional slight ) for allowing papal messengers to be captured ; the bishop of Speyer on the same grounds and also for sending one messenger to the gallows ; the archbishop of Tarentaise for crowning Philip ; and the bishop of Passau , who had probably been the draughtsman of the Staufen protest , had a long series of charges brought against him — he had not delivered two million marks to the king of Hungary , he had not paid back the money given him by Richard I for his release — indeed , his crimes were so great , the letter said , that he could have been punished without trial . |
| 17 | In October 1989 , after four years of dispute , the European Commission finally began its legal attack on the UK for allowing excess nitrate in the water supply of Norwich and Redbridge , and for illegal levels of bacteria and aluminium elsewhere . |
| 18 | Daniel Thwaites could find himself in HSE trouble for allowing unsafe practices in his competition — the gentleman should have been told to wear a hairnet . |
| 19 | Teachers were criticised for allowing bad behaviour in some classrooms . |
| 20 | By the twentieth edition synthesis had become a well-established mechanism for allowing detailed specification without resorting to exceedingly lengthy schedules . |
| 21 | There are numerous instances of volunteers being asked to do things ( such as administering electric shocks to other people ) which are really social situations deliberately created to test people 's reactions to authority . |
| 22 | Historic Scotland 's Events Unit is currently investigating the potential for using other properties in care as venues for open-air concerts . |
| 23 | The next most difficult aspects to understand about Chinese herbal medicine are the rationales for using specific parts of plants and the mixing of herbs to prepare a particular formulation . |
| 24 | Several Ahmadis are known currently to be serving prison sentences for using Muslim phrases of greeting . |
| 25 | Hunt , a part-time preacher , had also been under investigation for using state-owned aircraft for profit-making preaching trips , but was understood not to have ben charged in relation to this . |
| 26 | The basic methods for using essential oils for health and skin-care are to be found in Chapter 6 , but before choosing an essential oil for therapeutic or aesthetic purposes , it is important to follow the correct guidelines . |
| 27 | Stocks of petrol were low , and late one afternoon cars passing the orderly room were stopped by an irate major-general , who berated us for using valuable petrol at such a time of crisis . |
| 28 | What controls should exist for using genetic knowledge in insurance and employment ? |
| 29 | The results provide a strong argument for using physical information in a pattern recogniser . |
| 30 | There are substantial precedents for using interactive media in training . |