Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [adj] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simply Duncan , when are we going to get in there and negotiate before we start losing membership for reasons other than redundancy ? |
| 2 | Very few women left the trade before retiring age for reasons other than marriage , ill-health , or care of a relative . |
| 3 | The courts will not take the incidence of future inflation into account in calculating the dependency , but if it is established that the deceased would have increased his income in the future for reasons other than inflation ( eg because he would have been promoted if he had remained in his job or because he would probably have attained higher and better paid skills or a better paid job if he had lived ) this might give grounds for increasing the multiplicand . |
| 4 | It was gently suggested to her that in future , for reasons other than decency , she should wear a pair of bikini pants when sunbathing . |
| 5 | In the case of the RUC , domestic disputes are routinely attended for reasons other than law enforcement . |
| 6 | ‘ Unless it was for reasons other than cricket , one can not see an England team without his presence , ’ he said . |
| 7 | SHEAN DORL Gazing at one 's reflection for reasons other than vanity |
| 8 | Braverman goes further and suggests , with Marglin , that management will also endeavour to develop methods of working that involve operators in fragmented , or short cycle time , tasks for reasons other than efficiency . |
| 9 | It excludes intermediate awards ( the Certificate and Diploma ) and those students who have extended the course for reasons other than failure ( Table 2.2 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ It remains too early for visitors other than family and very close friends . |
| 11 | So far , tropical moist forests provide little more than 10% of the total wood used as solid wood and pulp , but as temperate forests become depleted or increasingly under pressure of the ‘ environmental ’ lobby to be managed for functions other than production , attention will inevitably be focused on the tropical resources . |
| 12 | As well as this , the trend over the past few years has been towards greater accountability from business in the form of information about matters other than profit and loss . |
| 13 | In that case the court was considering applications for judicial review by four prisoners serving sentences of imprisonment for life imposed in the discretion of the trial judges for offences other than murder ( manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility , false imprisonment of and sexual offences with boys , and arson by two of the appellants ) . |
| 14 | Couples stay together for any number of reasons other than happiness : questions of money , children , accommodation or idleness , depression , habit , fears above all : fear of what the neighbours will say , fear of loss of status — fear of going without sex being chief amongst them . |
| 15 | The laws of the state are not necessarily those of the church , nor of religions other than Christianity which are now represented in Britain . |
| 16 | A number of empirical studies of the volatility-volume relationship based on studies of futures other than index futures is summarized in Table 8.3 . |
| 17 | Some of the studies of futures other than index futures are summarized in Table 8.4 . |
| 18 | The first part of this research will develop a novel statistical methodology , which combines census , electoral and survey data , so that we can evaluate the relative importance of three possible causes of the polarisation : the changing social structure of the population in different regions ; the impact of the growth of parties other than Conservative and Labour ; and variations in voting behaviour between people in defined social groups but living in different regions . |
| 19 | At the back of my mind I was conscious of feeling very cold and of legs heavy as lead . |
| 20 | Studies of commodities other than index futures are summarized in Appendix 5 . |
| 21 | Moreover , as used in teaching machines or books , the method gave little scope for the use of senses other than sight , or of other media , or of the fruitful interaction between students and with teachers , which is the main justification of classroom teaching . |
| 22 | The first concerns the metallicity of the gas , the abundance of elements heavier than lithium . |
| 23 | A couple of years older than dad , she had lived in London for three decades , on and off . |
| 24 | We 're looking at sizes of nests bigger than dustbin bags , which service up to 25,000 wasps , which produce 4,000 to 5,000 Queens , which survive until next year . |
| 25 | Pollution , however , comes from a wide range of sources other than industry , such as domestic refuse and sewage , farming , mining , transport exhaust fumes and electricity generation . |
| 26 | But that list is very far from being exhaustive and does not touch on the much wider range of topics possible if aquarium facilities are available . |
| 27 | He contended that pleasure could only arise from the satisfaction of an impulse and that therefore there could be no pleasure , and no possibility of satisfying a desire for pleasure , unless there were impulses towards things other than pleasure . |
| 28 | The growth of imports has been over 11 per cent p.a. whereas export growth has only been 7.7 per cent p.a. , and if one considers exports and imports of goods other than oil products then the figures are 13 per cent p.a. import growth and 9 per cent p.a. export growth . |
| 29 | Once one has recognised the importance of features other than pitch , it is necessary to devise a framework for categorising these features . |
| 30 | Feminists have used Lacanian ideas to extend their specific understandings of differences other than gender . |