Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , Sara did not want to be bound by a rigid time-table for meals , which Lizzie expected and insisted on . |
| 2 | Paradoxically , then , reduced citation visibility for authors could result in middle authorship continuing to be regarded as an earned ( and hence valued ) privilege rather than as a right , a favour , a payback , or an inconsequential bagatelle . |
| 3 | Pottering down to the library to exchange Colin Thubron for Jonathan Raban or dropping in to the Jacaranda Tree for a mushroom omelette , everything can seem orderly and secure . |
| 4 | Also titled Howard Carter : before Tutankhamun ( British Museum Press , £12.95 p/b £9.95 for visitors to the museum during the period of the exhibition ) , it is an anthology of Howard Carter 's writings illustrated by his own photographs , drawings and paintings . |
| 5 | More compact shires usually focused on a single centre of the order of two or three thousand inhabitants with wealth to match : Leicester had a good 2,000 or more , including a leading burgess worth £600 ; in a smaller , poorer county , Nottingham was both smaller and less prosperous . |
| 6 | The upper line shows the least-squares regression for insectivores and frugivores , the lower one that for folivores ( from Clutton-Brock and Harvey 1977 ) . |
| 7 | I 'd be eating fried X-rays for breakfast . ’ |
| 8 | The trade ban between Montreal Protocol countries and other nations in products containing CFCs does not come into force until 1999 , which leaves quite a lot of room for quick expansion and sales . |
| 9 | The Tinos is a two person backpacking tent worth £55 in the shops . |
| 10 | They each win a Hogan lightweight backpacking tent worth £150 . |
| 11 | It is interesting to note how Trade Indemnity , which has been an active user of this Z-Score approach for many years , used the technique as part of its overall risk assessment procedures to provide advance warning , allowing it to reduce exposure to MCC to a nominal sum by the time it failed . |
| 12 | It is best to use a kicking technique as part of a larger , integrated move , combining all the basic techniques that the beginner has learned . |
| 13 | PETER Einstein , director of network development for MTV Europe , has announced the appointment of Tony Wawryk as satellite music and television ( SMATV ) hotels manager . |
| 14 | The rowan tree ( Sorbus aucuparia ) or in Gaelic , which stands in the corner of the kitchen garden or just beyond the house or byre , has protected the home , the family and the cattle from witches and fairies for centuries , and has endured after many a homestead has been deserted . |
| 15 | Standard is selling most of its continental commercial banking operations to WestLB for £100m . |
| 16 | Earlier this year BICC paid £106million for BRIntec in the US . |
| 17 | Even if higher order descriptions of geometric associations ( ie detail entities , surfaces or solids ) are declared then associativity between objects is first performed on the relevant enveloping boxes ( or " local spaces " ) before deciding whether or how to proceed to the higher level of association . |
| 18 | Institutions for change |
| 19 | We will play our full part in the design and discussion of monetary institutions for Europe . |
| 20 | These include greater competition between financial institutions for deposits . |
| 21 | In approaching institutions for help , the appearance of subservience can help people who are clearly powerless . |
| 22 | The term ‘ supervision ’ is used here to mean the monitoring of financial institutions for investor protection , prudential regulation , and structural regulation purposes combined . |
| 23 | In practice the polytechnics were initially mainly second-choice institutions for students unable to obtain entrance to universities , but as their reputations grew and they launched courses different from or not available at universities , they attracted more able students . |
| 24 | The children not adopted stayed in the original creche until they reached the age of 6 , when they were transferred to two other institutions for boys and girls respectively . |
| 25 | But he simply does not come to grips with the genuine political and cultural difficulty of establishing effective institutions for research in applied sciences , such as agriculture and medicine , which can not be seeded entirely by individual commitment and talent . |
| 26 | DC & CA had received requests from external institutions for labels to be made . |
| 27 | During this period , a significant expansion in the existing supply of institutions for children occurred in Flanders , the Netherlands , and the United Kingdom ( Lammertyn and Antoons , 1990 ) . |
| 28 | The House of Lords Select Committee on the EC has welcomed the proposed Directive on the Freedom of Management and Investment of Funds held by Institutions for Retirement Provision . |
| 29 | It is to be hoped that NAB 's more open approach will enable it to win consent from the public sector institutions for difficult and unpalatable decisions , though clearly some of its deliberations , concerning the possible closing of institutions for example , will have to be conducted in private . |
| 30 | However , the first half of the nineteenth century witnessed a revolution in social practice in many Western societies : deviants and dependents were increasingly segregated into institutions — mental hospitals , prisons , reformatories , poorhouses and other such closed purpose-built institutions for control , treatment and punishment ( Rothman , 1970 ; Foucault , 1977 ; Cohen , 1979 ; Melossi and Pavarini , 1981 , Scull 1984 ) . |