Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the children with whom we work at school would not be accepted at the Petö Institute for reasons explained elsewhere in the report . |
| 2 | Frau Nordern and Omi beamed on Erika , Bodo banged the table with his fist , making the plates bounce alarmingly , Erika blushed , and , for reasons known only to himself , Paul went a fiery red , too . |
| 3 | She supposed it was equally possible that , for reasons known only to himself , Puddephat had been lying to Bridget . |
| 4 | The other bearers took the traditional view that the right thing to do was for Yussuf to get rid of her and find another one ; but for reasons known only to himself Yussuf was reluctant to do this . |
| 5 | Erm , it was not possible to get your views in , as it were , personnel terms rather than financial terms on that er report , but er as it were on your behalf , we supported the Treasurer 's er recommendation for reasons set out in paragraph one four , and if I can er explain that for you a little little more , de-regulation could mean , that each employing authority has it 's own scheme of superannuation , or not , and if not would simply leave employees in a position of taking them off the state scheme S E R P S or going for a personal pension . |
| 6 | For reasons outlined earlier in this chapter these do not usually consist of jobs , but rather of space ( which will be considered in the following chapter under the heading of land use and access ) and housing . |
| 7 | But it would not guarantee markets for products made out of old paper or plastic . |
| 8 | Providing authorities/hospitals would be paid for cases treated either on the basis of actual cost per case , or on some laid-down or agreed cost per case , and there seems little to prevent them behaving in the same manner as hospitals elsewhere where either ‘ Retrospective full cost reimbursement ’ or ‘ Prospective reimbursement ’ systems are in operation . |
| 9 | Qaddafi himself , although he is prepared to naturalize immigrants to Libya , expresses strong reservations about states created largely by immigration . |
| 10 | The dedicated comic fan may argue that most publications mentioned so far were written mostly for males — what about comics written specifically for females ? |
| 11 | Most accidents happen as kids run out in the road without looking , alright . |
| 12 | ‘ For kids brought up on rock , Sinatra is torture . |
| 13 | ‘ Perhaps you should be more sure of your facts before inflicting punishment for sins committed only in your own imagination ! ’ |
| 14 | Several other light buoys have been extinguished after boats tied up to them and accidentally damaged their cables . |
| 15 | Vehicle excise duty — the tax disc — paid by the owners of 23 million cars , was increased by £15 a year to £125 for licences taken out in Post Offices and vehicle registration offices from today . |
| 16 | Straight holding and in vitro injection pipettes are appropriate for manipulations carried out in a manipulation chamber . |
| 17 | Salts can be described as a collection of ions held together by their mutual electrostatic attraction . |
| 18 | The range of values taken on by the variable is divided into a number of classes before the map is drawn . |
| 19 | For the time being UNESCO is unable to send a cultural mission to Iraq to investigate the situation , although it has had a team of experts lined up since July of last year . |
| 20 | Aluminium cleaners : There is a wide range of products formulated specifically for cleaning aluminium cladding and vehicle bodies . |
| 21 | Current ideas of the structure of water visualize it as being composed of a random network of molecules linked together by hydrogen bonds ( Figure 7 ) , some of which are strained or even broken , but with a general structure not unlike that which is found in ordinary ice , also known as hexagonal ice to distinguish it from its variant form , cubic ice , which is formed at lower temperatures . |
| 22 | Water is therefore no longer seen as a simple collection of individual water molecules , but as a complex random network of molecules linked together by hydrogen bonds and forming extensive three-dimensional structures which are continually changing and reorganizing . |
| 23 | Last May British Customs officers seized a shipment of comics brought in by Titan , and recently comics shops in London have been raided by police . |
| 24 | Mazmanian ( 1976 ) , in his evaluation of projects carried out by the Corps of Engineers , and Gilbert and Specht ( 1977 ) , in their classic evaluation of the Model City programme between the years 1967 — 71 , appear to reach a similar conclusion : participation helps process but not goal attainment . |
| 25 | Lorryloads of blooms rolled up to the Bel Air mansion where Liz , 60 , lay in bed , surrounded by her doctors . |
| 26 | These attempts represent a shift in ‘ intent ’ from left to right in the matrix of agendas shown earlier in figure 1.7 . |
| 27 | Goodenough 's group confirmed that the emotional content of dreams could be affected by pre-sleep stimulation ( in this case , a film entitled subcision — explicitly showing a series of operations carried out on the penis as part of a tribal aboriginal initiation rite ) . |
| 28 | Another guest speaker , Dr Nawal El Saadawi , the Egyptian novelist , doctor and relentless critic of Arab human rights abuses , attacked the hypocrisy of policies carried out around the world in the name of human rights , democracy and justice . |
| 29 | To that rule there is an exception created by the Consumer Protection ( Cancellation of Contracts Concluded away from Business Premises ) Regulations I987 . |
| 30 | This provision was inserted by reg 9 of the Doorstep Selling Directive ( 85/577 ) implemented by the Consumer Protection ( Cancellation of Contracts Concluded away from Business Premises ) Regulations 1987 ( SI 1987 No 2117 ) ( as amended ) . |