Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun] [subord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But last night other umpires stressed that Oslear had not been sacked as chairman because of his battle to support Lamb . |
| 2 | No equivalent figures are given for Cramlington because of the irrelevance of the information given for Cramlington before the late 1970s . |
| 3 | When it was reported that a considerable number of young children in the house were not eating their breakfast , which consisted of porridge and bread , he recommended that , for children under sixteen , the same diet should be given for breakfast as for supper . |
| 4 | The choice between these two often depends on the type of experiment ; more successful techniques for velocity measurement have been developed for air than for water , whilst flow visualization is generally more successful in water than in air . |
| 5 | The definition of ‘ consecutive ’ or ‘ non-selected ’ asthmatics was strictly adhered to by excluding from the study all those referred for investigation because of gastrointestinal signs or symptoms . |
| 6 | It had long been a controversial issue and its approval had been delayed for years because of worries about the environmental consequences and the cost of the project . |
| 7 | In a three way contest almost as many people had voted against Reagan as for him and in only a few states , mainly in the South , had he performed significantly better than Gerald Ford in 1976 . |
| 8 | Polynesian holy water , used for purification and sanctification , for driving away demons and diseases , was simply sea water , as saturated with divinity as with salt . |
| 9 | With binoculars , few of the globulars can be resolved into stars except at their extreme edges . |
| 10 | This tripartite intervention left a legacy of resentment in Japan , a bitterness at being unable to retain concessions fairly won in war except with the sanction of other powers . |
| 11 | To begin with , it is an outstanding solvent : more different kinds of atom , ion ( charged atom ) and molecule can be dissolved in water than in any other naturally occurring material . |
| 12 | Also , it was expected that ability would be more lateralised in men than in women . |
| 13 | Bush had still to convince the US Congress , however , to release the US$94,000,000 in economic and military aid which it had frozen in July because of doubts about the government 's commitment to an anti-drug programme and because of persistent reports of gross human rights abuses by the military . |
| 14 | Williamson was also attracted to Mosley because of his positive views on British agriculture . |
| 15 | Most German people were not attracted to Nazism because of its anti-semitism . |
| 16 | He says the developer estimates 80 jobs being created , with more employers being attracted to Darlington because of the standard of healthcare available . |
| 17 | It is just as important to ensure that the contact names , addresses and phone numbers are included on captions as on releases . |
| 18 | It was to be the largest march ever organized by the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign , with profuse pre-publicity , and an obliging media reaction — talking of ‘ revolutionary threats ’ , and Home Secretary James Callaghan being quizzed on television as to whether the gathering should be banned . |
| 19 | No one could say how long the elderly woman had been lying lifeless in her home , but the authorities told reporters she had apparently not responded to calls since before Hallowe'en . |
| 20 | There is a real element of truth in it if we conclude , as I think we must , that in those who have failed to come to terms with the demands of a civilized existence any representative of that existence can be seen as an incitement to protest , especially if , as in the case of the police , that representative has only too obvious a. resemblance to the forbidding father of early childhood with whom the individual has not come to terms because of chronic irresolution of the Oedipal dilemma . |
| 21 | It appears to broaden the categories of non-consent so that , for example , fraud is not merely confined to fraud as to the nature of the act or husband impersonation , as it is at English common law . |
| 22 | Her sister , Khieu Ponnary , is married to Pol Pot , and was influential in the 1975 government , but is now understood to be confined to hospital because of mental illness . |
| 23 | He was substituted at Coventry because of a toe injury . |
| 24 | Deeply fond of her parents , she was educated at home until aged fourteen . |
| 25 | He was not expected at Bramshill until after luncheon and had planned to take his time over the journey to north Hampshire , visiting churches at Sherborne St John and Winchfield and lunching at a pub near Stratfield Saye before arriving at Bramshill in time for the usual courtesies with the Commandant before his two-thirty lecture . |
| 26 | In the USA , the educational market is dominated by Apple while in Australia , Apple and BBC microcomputers are used . |
| 27 | An auction of antique silver and paintings amassed by Marcos while in power , was held on behalf of the Philippines government in New York on Jan. 10-11 . |
| 28 | Quite forbidden by Otto because of the gases . |
| 29 | Is the Minister aware that not only juveniles but adults are committing crimes while on bail and that many crimes now being committed by adults while on bail involve firearms ? |
| 30 | Electric lighting too , though disliked by Haussmann because of its coldness and considered by him as suitable only for illuminating building works at night , was nevertheless used for decorative purposes . |