Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In deciding what words mean for the purpose of defamation , the intention of the writer or speaker is largely irrelevant . |
| 32 | I mean for the price of that bed , I mean you could n't go far wrong though . |
| 33 | When she got home , she felt for the first time in months the need to write a letter , to commit her thoughts and feelings to paper and communicate through the medium of paper and pen with someone . |
| 34 | ALL change for the up-line to a rosier future . |
| 35 | ‘ Too-much change for the sake of change . |
| 36 | It 's just change for the sake of it . ’ |
| 37 | And both these books pale before novels that contend for the mantle of Disraeli : those of Jeffrey Archer himself . |
| 38 | Apart from the elderly living alone , married couples predominate as the type of household containing elderly people in need of care … |
| 39 | Their BMW cars purr through the streets of the capital , La Paz . |
| 40 | Only the two letters of Anselm remain as the record of an extraordinary conflict between contradictory passions , in their own way as poignant as those of Abelard and Heloise twenty years later . |
| 41 | Doubts remain about the saga of four men who spent 118 days drifting atop their upturned trimaran after it had been flipped by a huge wave before being washed up on an island near Auckland . |
| 42 | It is expected to be operational with an office in Brussels early next year and although some doubts remain about the scope of the redefined Scotland Europa , the Council has agreed , in principle , to support the initiative . |
| 43 | Bones 1986b ) would help account for the existence of " London Jamaican " when there is no " London Bajan " , " London Trinidadian " or " London Guyanese " . |
| 44 | Other equally valid fits might also be obtained by allowing the 18-day decay to depart from a pure exponential ; it would then be possible , for example , to obtain a solution in which the two asymptotic increases account for the whole of the increase in rotation rate . |
| 45 | Various other tales account for the origin of the fairy godmother — one has it that , like the Italian witch Befana , a fairy godmother was actually looking endlessly for the Christ Child . |
| 46 | In what follows the interpretative dimension will come alive only on the next layer of the problem , where we ask whether social rules and institutions account for the performance of social roles , or vice versa , In other words , we think international institutions too fragile to permit a fully systemic answer on the highest layer and so incomplete that an answer which favours the international units must yield to curiosity about how these units work . |
| 47 | These calculations account for the enthusiasm with which some reformers embraced and recommended models for the development of self-regulation amongst slaves . |
| 48 | In each of the following situations , discuss whether the item would be included in the profit and loss account for the year to 31 December 1990 and at what amount . |
| 49 | Family influences help account for the languor of black kids at school and the regularity with which they underachieve . |
| 50 | No new procedure is without technical problems , which account for the phenomenon of the learning curve that occurs with all new technical treatments . |
| 51 | could in itself account for the presence of high cAMP values . |
| 52 | Does the extension in claimable hours alone account for the increase in the number of night visits ? |
| 53 | Could this increase in liver protein synthesis , however , account for the increase in whole body protein synthesis that Powell-Tuck et al reported in their series of patients ? |
| 54 | Account for the dominance of Prussia in Germany by 1867 . |
| 55 | Scrutiny of Table 7.1 reveals that hospital and maternity services account for the majority of funds . |
| 56 | Even though full-time workers still account for the majority of service sector jobs , the growth of part-time jobs does raise a number of questions about what type of ‘ service-based ’ economy is emerging in the UK . |
| 57 | Service industries account for the majority of employment in the economy , but the rate of growth varies between industries and some industries are contracting in employment terms . |
| 58 | As figure 4.3 shows , in 1984 , 41.5 per cent of fulltime women workers were to be found in clerical employment , while a very few further occupational groups account for the rest of most women in paid work . |
| 59 | Table 4.4 Recent trading history on MATIF , main contracts The Government Bond futures and options contracts account for the bulk of trading on the MATIF . |
| 60 | These observations account for the distinction of usage between make and cause quite adequately . |