Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Notes for Guidance were distributed together with the Parliamentary statement , indicating how individual schemes were to be prepared with the object of creating ‘ institutions which can be developed as comprehensive academic communities offering a wide range of disciplines and catering for full-time , sandwich and part-time students at all levels of higher education ’ . |
| 2 | Riders for health is a good example of what can be achieved through good planning . |
| 3 | Other reasons for depopulation were also examined during this period . |
| 4 | Of course , the reasons for survival are anything but simple — that is why natural selection can build up animals and plants of such formidable complexity . |
| 5 | Some people think that having reasons for faith is an insult to God , as if we were desperately grubbing around for make-shift reasons to believe in him . |
| 6 | In many cases several reasons for admission were stated ; clients are classified above by the prime reason as stated by the development officers . |
| 7 | The romantic days which have seen the bold David McTaggart striding the Pacific main in the Greenpeace ketch Vega to challenge the French bomb testers at Moruroa atoll may be passing simply because , in that particular case , the military reasons for testing are passing . |
| 8 | We repeat , a study of absentee pupils is required , not just of attendance rates , if reasons for non-attendance are to be uncovered and combated . |
| 9 | Today the reasons for dispersal are of course internal , apart from the general rise in costs , and are similar to those given for dispersals in private institutional lending libraries . |
| 10 | The pursuit of analytical insights into the reasons for cutting is probably unhelpful ( Simpson 1976 ) . |
| 11 | An awareness of the way in which the reasons for erosion are connected has implied the necessity for inter-disciplinary study . |
| 12 | On the awkward leg some of the worst reasons for tacking are : ‘ It 's about time I did one . ’ |
| 13 | The most significant reasons for deforestation are the spread of shifting cultivation , increasing plantation agriculture and large-scale ranching , logging , mineral extraction and road and dam construction . |
| 14 | All functions scored reasonable marking between 3 and 4 , but book selection and acquisition obtained the lowest average marking at 3.14 — the main reasons for dissatisfaction being given as lack of currency , inaccuracy of cataloguing-in-publication data , and lack of comprehensiveness . |
| 15 | Although there had been brief conflicts between England and France in the reigns of Edward I and Edward II , the reasons for war were now much more substantial than they had been in 1294 or 1324 , and the will to war on the part of the king , if not yet on the part of most of the nobility , was much more apparent . |
| 16 | Reasons for closure are shown below . |
| 17 | The commonest reasons for referral were for examination of the chest , spine , and limbs and joints and referrals for these fell by 9.4% , 17.5% , and 13.5% respectively . |
| 18 | Reasons for referral were classified as , dysphagia , non-cardiac chest pain , gastro-oesophageal reflux disease , connective tissue disease , and other . |
| 19 | The reasons for referral were : dysphagia ( 50.4% ) , non-cardiac chest pain ( 23.1% ) , gastro-oesophageal reflux disease ( 14.2% ) , connective tissue disease ( 11.2% ) , and other ( 1.1% ) ( Figure ) . |
| 20 | The reasons for referral were either at the patient 's request because of an unwillingness to undergo an operation ( 70% ) or because the patient was a high operative risk ( 30% ) . |
| 21 | Certainly , one of the prime reasons for powerlessness is lack of obedience . |
| 22 | The most common reasons for rowing are money , sex and children , with annoying habits running a close fourth . |
| 23 | Their reasons for study are various and include simple personal interest and skill acquisition in connection with present or possible future employment . |
| 24 | The reasons for non-referral were not given in the notes . |
| 25 | The reasons for violence were disappearing and with them went the appeal of films like Drive , He Said . |
| 26 | As regards environmental scanning for general planning purposes , the major reasons for scanning being carried out can be divided into : |
| 27 | The reasons for failure are more likely to be due to people problems , which may show themselves by the lack of cooperation when the information system is being developed and a resistance to the changes that occur when the application is implemented . |
| 28 | One of the reasons for failure is the need to measure more background variables , chosen to meet the needs of decision-makers ; critics of NAEP think that more effort should be made to find out the needs of such decision-makers . |
| 29 | The Regional Council refused planning permission for the development in November of last year , and among the reasons for refusal was the lack of justification for the commercial development , and the harm that would be caused to this particular part of the Green Belt . |
| 30 | Among the principal reasons for refusal was that extra vehicles would ‘ restrict the free flow of traffic in Hollyhurst Road . ’ |