Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [vb -s] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it 's a spur coming off that runs into the er But I do n't think it 's a proper imme immersion heater circuit . |
| 2 | The primary responsibility for that lies with the Glasgow Development Agency . |
| 3 | Inevitably , a book such as this harps on the pitfalls faced by executives . |
| 4 | Pedulla 's stated aim is to produce an instrument which will sound ‘ alive ’ even at flat tone settings , and credit for this goes to the Bartolini powerhouses and Pedulla 's tone-shaping circuitry . |
| 5 | The reason for this stems from the parallel and/or pipelined architecture . |
| 6 | The reason for this stems from the relationship between national insurance and income support rates , and the rules about eligibility for the latter . |
| 7 | A possible reason for this relates to the paradoxical finding that a level of activation of the NMDA receptor system , which is itself inadequate for producing LTP , can result in a subsequent impairment in the ability to generate LTP r28–30 . |
| 8 | The evidence for this relates to the observed length scales of the vortices ; the length of the vortices ( l 1 , in Fig. 21.21 ) is of the order of the total boundary layer thickness , whereas the cross-section ( l 2 ) is of the order of the viscous sub-layer thickness . |
| 9 | Support for this comes from a more recent analysis of local education authority expenditure by Howiek and Hassani . |
| 10 | One of the most astonishing pieces of evidence for this comes from a study of two hundred and sixty eight female prisoners in the U S these are all convicted criminals . |
| 11 | Evidence for this comes from the fact that the ambivalent expression does not seem to be confined to a limited range of situations , in which individuals find themselves on public display , especially to an audience from a higher social class or more advanced educational attainment . |
| 12 | Support for this comes from the finding that faecal protease activity , largely derived from bacteria , is increased threefold in colitis . |
| 13 | Perhaps the blame for this lies with the politicians . |
| 14 | The reason for this lies with the majority of match anglers being brainwashed into using gossamer-fine line and tiny hooks , no matter what the species or situation demands . |
| 15 | Part of the responsibility for this lies with the innate friendliness and courtesy of the peoples of Burma , and behind that the long record of the Buddhist tradition . |
| 16 | Much of the blame for this lies with the Americans who shied away from disarming Somalia 's bandits and instead took guns from soft targets : small businessmen and relief-agency bodyguards . |
| 17 | Part of the reason for this lies with the decentralised nature of the party membership records but it has also been conventional political wisdom that Conservative party members play an insignificant role in the determination of the party 's policies . |
| 18 | The reason for this lies in a theory called secondary reinforcement which says that the praise will become associated with the more powerful extra reward and take on some of the strong reinforcing properties of that reward . |
| 19 | One crucial reason for this lies in the way only one element of Marxist work on the state is used by pluralist critics . |
| 20 | The reason for this lies in the fact that the physics depends neither on the states alone nor on the observables alone but upon their interrelation . |
| 21 | The reason for this lies in the limitations to which I have already referred . |
| 22 | The reason for this lies in the response of a polymer to an alternating stress . |
| 23 | Indeed , Williams then goes on to discuss the propriety of treating children against the wishes of their parents , and states that ‘ the legal authority for this rests on the doctrine of necessity . ’ |
| 24 | Speaking in Moscow Tun Razak denied that he had arrived to obtain the official approval of the USSR for the neutralisation of Southeast Asia ‘ because the responsibility for this rests with the countries of Southeast Asia themselves , acting on a collective basis ’ but he hoped that ‘ according to the extent of progress of the countries of Southeast Asia on this path towards our goal the Soviet Government will show sympathy and understanding towards us ’ . |
| 25 | The physiological explanation for this resides in the greater affinity of sulphate reducing bacteria for H 2 compared with methanogenic bacteria ( Ks of Desulfovibrio vulgaris , 1 µmol.1 - 1 ; Ks of Methanobrevibacter smithii , 6 µmol.l - 1 ) . |
| 26 | His passage through darkness , marked by the ‘ woman in black ’ , burdened women , the bent heads of sorrowing men , convulsed roots and empty chairs , leads from death to the growth that one frosty crisis after another nips in the bud — in fact to the Baby in Cradle he had pictured while in The Hague and been unable to keep faith with . |
| 27 | One aspect after another yields to the open sesame of the envy theory . |
| 28 | ‘ Part of that refers to the ways in which people fall short in their living , which is what we call sin , so it is not simply about that . |
| 29 | Well he does n't bother to mention that the king also had an official welcome at Carfax , which was the normal place , what was known as the Penniless Bench , which was at the end of St Martin 's Church , only the of that remains at the moment , now , erm and then was presented with the traditional gift of gloves by the mayor , and the not very generous sum of £520 , and just about the same time , Alderman Nixon and 12 others who agreed with him disappeared smartly from Oxford , and were n't to be seen for the rest of the war . |
| 30 | Oh over eighty pounds , but then a lot of that goes on the horses with the Fox favourites . |