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 | Since then , the hon. Member for Clydebank and Milngavie ( Mr. Worthington ) has made a persuasive case for including such provisions in the Bill . |
| 12 | If there is to be a single offence of serious sexual assault , there are arguments for including all cases of obtaining sex by fear or threats within that . |
| 13 | It may be possible to devise a system for including greater objectivity into descriptions , and Dr Peacock has been very helpful in laying down guidelines , which it is hoped will be published before long , but this is only a step in the right direction towards a fuller understanding of manufacturing processes , marketing and distribution , and the size and historical development of each industry . |
| 14 | In this area , we have the possibility for including non-DOS machines on networks , by using the appropriate cabling and software . |
| 15 | Second , there may be various political reasons for including these areas in a comprehensive analysis for accounting purposes . |
| 16 | ( 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 . ) |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Will police forces other than the transport police be responsible for administering certain aspects of the Bill ? |
| 19 | For that reason , they reject solutions such as encouraging more women into science ; as Spender puts it |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | This view , it appears , is too simple-minded : a baby does not become a different kind of adult for being bottle-rather than breast-fed , for being weaned early rather than late , for encountering one kind of attitude rather than another at some particular time . |
| 22 | Synod will divulge a degree of flex no , quite seriously , a degree of flexibility and we 're grateful both to Eileen and er , to John for allowing that degree of flexibility to take place . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ’ … there is a strong case in the national interest for allowing these resources to be developed unless there are overriding environmental considerations . ’ |
| 27 | He criticised the WEA for allowing some branches to be ‘ swallowed up by the vortex of gentility ’ , failing to engage in serious study and neglecting their mission to manual workers : he wanted such branches closed . |
| 28 | Teachers were criticised for allowing bad behaviour in some classrooms . |
| 29 | By the twentieth edition synthesis had become a well-established mechanism for allowing detailed specification without resorting to exceedingly lengthy schedules . |
| 30 | Compact provides a mechanism for articulating these needs through Partnership between Education and Industry . |